Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-14


| Oct. 21-Colorado state Baptist Associ-
alton at Pueblo.
Milton l.. Anfenger was elected ex-
alted ruler of the Denver Elks' lodge.
Linmore Pierce. deputy organizer
for the knights of Columbus, died at
Boulder.
John Mitchell, vice president of the
two speeches in Denver.
Filings and surveys have been made
to irrigate an additional 100000 acres
of land adjacent to Denver.
The Blue Goose saloon at Seventh
and Wynkoop streets, an old land
mark of Denver. was destroyed by
fire.
Big crowds greeted and inspected
the demonstration train of the State
Agricultural College at Florence,
Canon City and Salida.
w. H. Dickson, former attorney gen
eral of Colorado, was taken to st.
Joseph's hospital for an appendicitis
operation. Mr.. Dickson has been Ill
a week.
The ashes of Edward E. Knots,
twenty-nine years of age, vaudeville
actor who died in Denver, were sent
to his widow in San Francisco by par
eel post.
Charles Shriver of Boulder. who was
sentenced to ninety days in the coun-
ty Jail for assaulting William Neihei.
sci last April, has been released on
bonds.
Senator Casimiro Barela introduced
a memorial to President Wilson rec
ommending the appointment of DIR. B.
L. Jefferson as United States ambas-
sador to Mexico.
The Denver Business Mems Associ-
alton is fostering a statewide cam
paign for a reduction in telephone
rates. not by the state as a whole, but
by municipalities.
The Weld County Farmers Union is
strongly opposed to the passage OF
House Bill No. 34S. providing for an
increase in the amount of taxes avail
able for state purposes.
Mrs. Ursie Hendin, who lives at
1874 Pearl street, Denver, received
word from Los Angeles that she has
inherited $4,000 from the estate OF
her uncle, who died there.
]. J. Moore, fifty-two, a collector
and resident of Denver for twenty-five
years, shot himself through the head
at the breakfast table. He died in a
hospital a few hours later.
Thirty small children, pupils at the
school in Engleville, three miles south
of Trinidad, owe their lives to the
coolness, bravery and quick wit of
Miss Elizabeth McLiver, the teacher.
The slayer of Signe Carlzen. the
music teacher, who was beaten to
death August Q. last year, in an unfre-
quented road in Montclair, is said to
be known and may be taken by the
police.
Miss Mary i. Hice, supervisor of
music in the public schools of Colo
RADIO City, was found dead in the bath
tub at the residence of l. A. Foote.
where she lived. Death was due to
apoplexy.
Gilbert r. Easton, fifty-five years
old, special representative of the Kan
sas City Life Association, was killed
by an inbound Seventeenth avenue
car. at the ClarksonN street crossing
in Denver.
The Salida Light, Power and Utility
Company. one of the Oldest hydro-elec-
trio systems in Colorado, was sold to
the reorganization committee of the
Central Colorado Power Company for
a cash consideration of s500.000.
On suspicion that he is connected
with the recent $4,000 swindle of ia
cob Harder, the Washington ranch
man, the Denver police are making a
rigid investigation of the recent ac-
tions of w. F. Fairchild. aged thirty
eight, arrested by j. e. Stein at Sew
enteenth and Stout streets.
According to instructions received
from the charge d'affaires at Wash
ington by A. ]. Ortiz, Mexican consul
in the Denver district. Victoriano
Huerta is hereafter to be regarded as
| all documents bearing his signature
are official and to be recognized.
United States Senator C. S. Thorn
as has advised Governor Ammons
that the present Legislature had best
make changes in the state election
laws. If it can. to provide for the d.
rect election of United States sena-
tors for a year from next fall, because
it is highly probable that the proposed
amendment to the federal constitution
for direct election of senators by the
people will soon become a part Of the
constitution.