Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-01-31
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Four men were injured in an auto
mobile collision in Denver
Lysander l.. Johnson shot and in
stantly killed Mrs. Maude Murray and
then killed himself, at Pueblo.
Michael Striker. (65, miner at Ley
den, died at st. Lukes hospital in
Denver from injuries he received in
an accident at the mine.
The tax rolls for Crowley county,
just sent in to the treasurer at Ord
way by the assessor, shows the total
valuation to be $2.63s,542.47.
Mrs. Abigail Phillips, aged ninety
two, widow OF Colonel Ivers Phillips, a
pioneer of Colorado and native of Leo
minister. Mass, died at her home in
Boulder.
Frank p. Metcalf, sixty-two years
old. was struck by street car while
crossing Fifteenth street near Law
renee in Denver and had one rib
broken.
Governor Ammons has appointed
Thomas J. Ehrhart of Centerville 4
member of the State Highway COM
mission to succeed w. NJ. Wiley. who
has removed to Seattle.
One hundred and fifty members OF
the Colorado Stock Growers Associa-
tion gathered at a banquet in Denver
10 tell of the past and present great
ness of Colorado's stock show.
After thrilling battle with great
golden eagle measuring seven feet
from tip to tip. James Amber of Ray
mer has a magnificent specimen which
he will have mounted.
General Frank d. Baldwin, fearless
Indian fighter, Civil War veteran and
true gentleman, has the distinction OF
being voted the first honorary life
member of the Denver Club.
Nineteen thousand dollars was stol-
en- from the Pioneer State Bank, in
Denver, in broad daylight, while hun
dreds of people passed by the bank
and a policeman stood without the
doors.
Former State Senator Horace 7. De
Long of Grand Junction and Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Pierce and six children OF
Debeque are recovering from the ef-
tects of ptomaine poisoning which re-
suited after eating chicken.
Betting Nelson, the famous prize
fighter and one-time champion light
weight of the world, descended on
Denver, "kidnaped' Miss Fay King, :;
cartoonist on Denver paper. and left
for his home in Hegewisch, ILL.,, where
they were married.
Amos w. Grant, receiving teller for
the Pioneer State bank of Denver, has
confessed that 1t was he who took the
S1,91O reported missing from the
banks vaults. He turned over to the
police 81 400 of the stolen money and
promised to return the missing S51p.
Governor Ammons has appointed
Mrs. Inez Johnson Lewis secretary OF
the State Auditing Board; 4. S. Tuck
er. secretary of the State Board OF
equalization. and auditor of the State
Tax Commission. and Charles Nowlin
of Boulder. clerk of the State Dairy
Commission.
The twenty-eighth annual, meeting
of the Colorado State Forestry Asso-
citation was held in the Denver Cham
ber of Commerce building. Addresses
were delivered by T. c. Henry on the
relation of forests to rainfall and irri
CATION and by Mrs. Helen Grenfell on
.The Mission of the Cottonwood"
Thomas Richards, matinee idol of
1.-THE Chocolate Soldier" and stage
partner of Miss Lulu Glaser. has
brought suit for divorce from Mrs.
Martha Miner Richards, the Denver
cafe singer who recently went to
Pittsburg and sued Miss Glaser fo-
1000 for alternating the affections OF
richards.
William Green, aged 20, of Denver,
to save his life, submitted to an op-
Grafton which has never before been
performed in the West, at the county
hospital, on January 5th, and is now
on the road to recovery IL x-ray pic
lures taken are correct. Green sub
mitted to having a portion of the bone
of his leg removed and spliced onto
place farther down.
The movement to construct a new
drainage tunnel that will bore the
| Cripple Creek district at a greater
depth than the Roosevelt tunnel, has
received an impetus in subscriptions
amounting to 100000, which, it is re-
ported, have been assured by the Cres-
cent Consolidated Gold Mining Compa-
ny and the railroads affected by the
| Cripple Creek ore business.
Seven thousand passes, worth at the
usual mileage rates s63,602. the equiv
alent of one-sixteenth of the roads to-
tai revenue. were given away by the
Denver G. Rio Grande Railroad Com
pany in June, 1912, according to evil
dence brought out by Examiner A. T..
Smith at the opening Denver session