Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-02-14

Grand Junction will have new
modern maternity home next summer.
Noah III. Deisher, sixty, died of pneu
monia at Montrose after three days
Illness.
With the death recently of Rio
Blanco's only pauper, the county poor
form has quit business.
Miss Ethel Miner, fifteen, niece of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Miner of Meek
er, eloped and was married to Harvey
Wise, thirty.
The United States smelter at Canon
City, which has been idle for more
than two years, is preparing to re-
sumo operations.
F. D. Light was shot dead at the
Juniper mine at Oak Creek, and his
stepson, Benjamin Price, is under ar
rest charged with the killing.
Mrs. ]. l.. Roberts, who was stabbed
about the back and body by Oswald
Hendrich in fight at her home at
Alma, has fair chance of recovery.
The travelling men of Denver have
taken the initial step for going into
the hotel business. They are plan
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tel.
At late session of Judge Denisons
COW in Denver. attorneys appeared
witF Mrs. Fernando C. Martin and got
divorce for her from Theodore
Martin.
Mrs. Mary Rumble. eighty-eight, one
of Boulder's Oldest residents died at
the home of her daughter ]. V. Mellet.
TO remains were taken to Denver
fof cremation.
The necessity for the immediate
construction of detention hospital
for the city OF Boulder was empha-
| sized at a meeting of the Commercial
Association directors.
Crowded conditions for the insane
were found by the Legislative insane
asylum investigation committee at
the Denver county hospital, the first
institution visited by 1t.
b. G. Robbins, one OF the most
prominent business men of Colorado
Springs. is dead. He was 43 years
old. and is survived by son, II, bis
mother, two brothers and two sisters.
The loss of his two legs, close to
the hips, in an accident near Bennett.
resulted in the death of Frank X.
Young, 81, brakeman for the Union
Pacific railroad. Young fell between
two box cars.
Simple ceremonies at the residence,
las Pennsylvania street. Denver,
marked the laying to rest of the re-
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road man and treasurer of the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad for forty years.
Confessing to charges that he had
mismanaged affairs while head of the
city street department under the
present administration, w. C. McWfl.
liams, after trial before the Pueblo
city commissioners was dismissed
from service.
At the meeting OF the Mothers
Congress in Denver, committees were
appointed to cooperate with Miss
Josephine Roche. inspector of public
amusements, in an effort to abolish
slot machines and gambling devices
in all parts of the city.
Two carloads of wild elk from the
National park in Montana were un-
loaded at the Denver Union stock
yards and later shipped out to Wins
ton, Ariz. There were eighty elk in
the lot, all yearlings. The animals are
being shipped to Arizona at the ex-
pense of the state to stock the game
preserves.
The Supreme Court has issued a no
tice that it would on February is
take up the consideration of the ques-
ton of what, If any, eight-hour law
for miners is now in force in this
state. The court orders that briefs
shall be filed before February 15, and
announces that any attorney interest
ed in the case may file a brief.
The Rev. Sherman Coolidge. an
Episcopal minister of Detroit, Mich,
who is full-blooded Shoshone Indian,
has been added to the special COM
mittee of the Colorado Publicity
League which will go to Washington
to apply to the incoming administra-
tion for the sending of Indians of the
United States to the Pageant of Amer
lea. to be held in Denver in 1915.
Governor Ammons told the members
of the Colorado Electric Club in Den
yer that the water power resources o;
Colorado are 95 per cent. undevel-
oped, and that the proper develop
ment. with the utilization of the
states great coal deposits and its wide
variety and abundance of raw mate
rials, should make Colorado one OF
the leading manufacturing states OF
the nation.
The equestrian statue of Kit Carson
by Augustus Lukeman, well-known
New York sculptor, is nearly complet-
ed, and will be set up in Kit Carson
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