Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-11-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Jan. 12-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
=. Assoeiation show at Denver, Denver; s,oot
Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
Association at Colorado Springs,
i915.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Fire destroyed three business build
Ings at Ouray, entailing an estimated
loss of about $4,000.
Verdicts of guilty were returned in
the District Court at Boulder against
two of the striking miners arrested on
charges OF picketing.
More than $50 Colorado men, actual
road builders, convened in Pueblo,
new organization.
Teachers in Denver grade schools
are demanding an increase in then
salary scale and threaten to strike if
their request is refused.
Lewis S. Tutte, sixty-seven years
old, former Denver police official and
at one time acting chief of the de-
partment, committed suicide at his
home in Denver
Mrs. Norma Phumphrey, sentenced
to nine-months' term in the Denver
county Jail for killing her husband.
Charles Pumphrey, has been made
'trusty" at the jail
The Wild West carnival of the FIRE.
mont county Cattlemen's Association
was held at Canon City. Public of
ticers and business houses closed dur
ing the afternoon.
Colorado Progressives, who closed
their two days conference in Denver
with banquet, went on record as op-
posed to any plan of amalgamation
with the Republican party.
man whom Edward Donahue had
befriended, giving him clothes, food,
shelter and job, turned on his bene-
factor and at the point of a revolver
robbed him of s55 near Broomfield.
Negotiations for a peaceful surren-
der of arms by both sides were begun
by General John Chase and his aides
and militia officers, working under
the direction of Governor Ammons.
George b. Hawkins of Monte Vista
threshed forty-one acres of oats on his
place one-half mile east of the Expert
mental farm, which weighed out nine
ty.six and one-third bushels to the
acre.
Robert Harris, who received
death sentence for the killing of Mar
shals ]. B. Craig and Jacob Ripper of
Rocky Ford on the night of July A.,
1911, was granted a new trial by the
Supreme Court.
With a new president, Alfgred Lam
born. of the Stanley hotels, Estes
Park. Colorado, and a retiring one.
Charles b. Hamilton of the Oxford
hotel, Denver, the Rocky Mountain
Hotel Mems Association concluded its
annual convention.
Statements given out by officers Of
a centralized light and power compa-
ny of Salida which company also, ac-
cording to reports, owns a power
plant in Monte Vista, is about to close
a deal which carries with it a CON
tract to furnish electric current for
operating one of the largest mines in
Chaffee county.
The monthly report of mines and
smelters OF the Cripple Creek district
shows that SS,61S tons were turned
out with a gross bullion value of ST.
26O.624 in October. During the month
dividends were paid amounting to
S176,1S5.O4. These were distributed
as follows: Portland. 100000; Golden
Cycle, $4,000; Vindicator. $4,000;
Mary Mckinney, S26,ls5.O4.
Secretary of the Interionr Lane. in
communication to State Engineer
John L. Field, announces his willing
ness to submit the differences exist
ing between the state and the govern
ment, relative to irrigation matters, to
a committee of three compet~st en-
gineers. This is the proposal Field
made by Secretary Lane during the
latter's visit in Denver recently.
For all state. city, county and
school purposes, the taxpayers of Den
yer will pay $4,000 less in 1914 then
they paid in 1913 if the valuation of
s3O9,S5S,44O certified by Commissioner
of Finance Clair ]. Pitcher stands In
the courts. The city council fixed the
levy for the purposes named at 14.S
mills, as against 34.25 mills for 1913
on valuation of approximately 1884,
100000.
An exhaustive inquiry into the eco
nomic worth of great monopolies; a
study into fixed prices maintained by
corporations, and the creation of a bu-
reau of standards to gather informa-
tion relative to all public service con-
Germs, were propositions advocated for
scderal adoption as means toward
bettering commercial conditions, by
William C. Redfield, secretary of COM
merce, in an address before the Den
yer Chamber of Commerce.
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