Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-09-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.

Dates for Coming Events.
Sept 2s-26;.Mesa County Industrial
sept. 9-l1.-Weld Count, Fair at
Sept ssy2.-county Fair and Race
Sept s.is,@Merggan a sqgan c1sSi County Fair at
Sept, 9-I2.@Delta County Fair at
;, Sept. 11-12-Eighth District w. C. T,
=. Convention at Denver.
sept. 11-1S.-Annual Meeting Order
c. EasternSstar at Grand Junction.
SEPT; i6-1s--Western slope Fair at
Sept. 10 19.-AnnuaI Masonic Meeting
Sept. -aO..coIorado State Fair at
Sept, 26;-colorado New Mexico
Fair and Indian Carnival at Du-
Sept. 2s-2s Trinidad-Las Anlmas
County Fair at Trinidad;
sept 27-2S.-Bankers' Conventio1 at
Sept 2s-ao-Inter-county Fair at
:. Oct. i-3-State w. C. T. U. Conven-
ton at Fort Collins
Oct. 2-4.-sedgwick County Fair at
Oct, s-I-Ei Paso County Fair at CAL
Oct, 7-12,-Meeting Society of .Ameri
. can Indians. at Denver.
Oct 2l-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
Oct so.-Nov. i0coIorado Kennel Club
Jan. 12-1 15.-Coiorado Poultry Fanciers'
Association Show at Denver.
Jan. 1s-24.-Nationai Western Stock
Show at Denver, -
l915.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
Mrs. Norma Pumphrey. forty-eight,
of 1872 West Byers street, Denver,
shot and killed her husband. Charles
H. Pumphrey, fifty. in their home.
Nearly one hundred members of the
Clam and Lobster club enjoyed
clam bake at Hoeckels ranch near
Denver
More than fifty babies have already
been entered for the Better Babies"
contest at the State fair at Pueblo,
Sept. is to 20.
Under $1,000 bond. DR.. Bennett
Graft of Denver was bound over to the
District Court at Golden. charged with
bigamy by Mrs. Virginia Graft.
Loveland entertained 10000 visitors
on the second day of the Larimer Coun-
ty fair, with one of the greatest aft
ernoons of sport in the West.
Delay in the arrival in Denver of the
plans for finishing the new postoffice
and federal courthouse may prevent
work on that structure this winter.
Mrs. ]. C. Hit. Jr., is at the st.
Vrain hospital in Longmont, having
been accidentlly shot in the right foot
by her husband. who pointed gun at
her in play.
There is every indication that the
good roads convention. to be held in
Pueblo September "a and rs, will be
the magnet for at least 1900 visitors
during the two days.
Horace Coats, eight, son of w. A.
Coats, a dairyman nd school teacher.
living two miles east of Sterling, was
bitten by rattlesnake as he and sew
eral children were entering the school
house.
Beet harvesting is to begin in the
Greeley district sometime between
the 18th and 18th of the month. ac-
cording to an announcement made by
Manager Officer of the Weld county
factories.
A wet town without wafer, Ro-
mona, the new town west of Colorado
Springs, which has been Incorporated
to turn on the white lights and ''let
her CO." Las been refused water by
Colorado SPRINGS.
William Bierkamp, Jr.. the Denver
banker. held in Chicago on the charge
of having deserted his wife, Margaret
and three minor children, escaped ex-
tradition to Colorado by the refusal
of Governor Ammons to issue requi
sition.
The assessed valuation for the en-
tire state of Colorado will be s1,130,-
1921 for the year, 1913 under the
new law which requires all taxable
property to be assessed at full cash
value instead of one-third value as
heretofore.
Twenty thousand persons sursed
through the streets of Colorado
Springs in final worship at the shrine
of the carnival gods. and half that
number jammed their way into the
grandstands along Kiowa street to
watch and applaud thousand masked
and grotesquely attired dancers.
Emma NJ. Marshall. William Ger
rish and Lula Gerrish Owen, heirs of
the late Alfred II. Miles, who died at
the age OF ninety-three leaving an es-
tate valued at 100000. filed their OBJ
jections in the Probate Court at Den
yer to the appointment of George T.
Miles as administrator OF his brothers
estate.
Including several million dollars for
improvements, the identification of
the detour over Soldiers Summit, and
several hundred miles of track laying
in Utah and the broad gauging of the
road from Salida to Montrose by the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. is part
| nf n nnneral scheme for the hetfer-