Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-10-17
COLORADO NEWS
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w.r.rn Newspaper Union New. Service.

Dates of Coming Events.
Oct; 21.-colorade State Baptist Asso-
Oct. s7..Lo.o.F Annual Encampment
at Grand Junction.
Oct; 2s.-Good Roads Meeting at fu-
Oct. 3o-Nov. 1-colorado Kennel Club
Nov -s:-Thirtsenth Annual Conven-
tion Of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association at Denver r,,...
Jan. asHs is-st.%Nstiomai atom + Western Western Stock
,sl5.%L..t 1aoI A. Densssi Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Sugar beet money for this years
crop will begin to circulate through the
state in short time.
The shipping season for peaches in
car lots is about over at Grand juno
tion for this year.
Whether the union has right to
maintain pickets in the coal camps
will be argued before Judge Strong of
Boulder.
Ethelbert Stewart, sent as mediator
by President Wilson, recommended
that Congress make an investigation
of the Colorado strike situation.
Two suspects, Frank German. 80.
and Frank Tower, 80, have been ar
rested in connection with the robbery
of $1,000 from Frank Walker, mer-
chant, at Nederland.
Mesa county probably will be the
first in the state to take advantage
of the law passed by the last Legis-
lature which permits counties to abol-
ish the old road overseer system.
During the last two months the
following shipments have been made
from Steamboat Springs: Cattle, 42S
cars; sheep, 160 cars; horses and
mules, nineteen cars; a total of 6O7
cars.
Former Lieutenant Governor e. r.
Harper was selected by the board OF
directors of the Colorado Publicity
league as managing director of the
Last Grand Indian Council or pageant
of 1915.
Mrs. Mary C. C. Bradford, state
superintendent of public instruction.
invited all Indian teachers of tho
United States to attend the conven-
ton of the Society of American In
dams to be held in Denver October IA
to 10.
Saved from premature burial only
by slight flush on the ear lobes. Ma
rie Hesse, the 3-year-old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hesse. who lives
on a ranch near Wray. is alive at her
home and physicians say she will re-
cover.
In spite of vigorous opposition on
the part of several cities, Denver
probably will land the 1914 convcn-
ton of the American Roads congress.
in the opinion of Secretary Harry
Burhans of the Denver Convention as
sociation.
A. l.. Willard, one of the witnesses
for the defense in the trial of Capt.
C. e. Williams at Fort Collins, and
who was arrested on a charge of per-
jury the morning after he testified.
has filed suit in the District Court
for s15,50O damages.
Andrew Recen of Kokomo. one OF
the early pioneers of that section. was
found dead in his cabin by Frank
Holmes and r. L. Wiley. who entered
the cabin at the head of Gore creek,
in Eagle county. while on a hunting
trip. Recen. 1t is thought, had been
dead for almost three weeks.
gold brick. so per cent fine and
weighing 240 ounces. was sent out of
the Gaylord mill at the Dante mine at
Cripple Creek. The brick, consigned
to the Denver mint. was valued at
s4,135. This is the second brick sent
out from the district in two days, the
total value being close to $4,000.
George A. Patterson. an employe of
the marble quarry at Marble. was in
stantly killed when the head blew off
a compressor tank while he was re-
pairing the pipe line which drains the
quarry His body was blown to
atoms, portions of it being found sew
eral hundred feet from the scene of
the explosion.
Formal judgment was rendered in
the District Court at Colorado
Springs in the suit of DR.. j. G. Hol-
lingsworth of Kansas City against
Edward r. Tufts of New York, in IA
vor of the defendant, and dismissing
the findings of Referee o. L. Collins,
which gave Hollingsworth half in
terest in 100000 shares in the Grand
Union Mines Company of Old Mexico
and s351,00 in cash.
Bequests aggregating s97.5O0 was
left to various Colorado institutions
under the provisions of the will of the
late Olivia Thompson, widow of the
late Charles |. Thompson. former
Judge of the Colorado Court of APP
peals. Mrs. Thompson's will has
been probated at Kansas City. The
Colorado university at Boulder. $751;
600; the Denver Orphans home s1O,-
600; the Ladies' Relief society of Dem