Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1913-06-20


John X. Mullen will erect $780,
900 home for aged poor in Denver.
A. B. Gray. appointed United States
marshal for Nevada. was for many
years a resident of Denver.
A large amount of dry goods and
cutlery and IS in money were taken
by thieves from store in Swink.
Jesse Kelly, n resident of Fremont
county for fifty years, died at Flor
ence, the cause of death being paraly-
sis.
Mrs. Harriet Wallace has sued the
city of Fort Collins for 100000 dam
ages on account of the Pine street
sewer.
iCty Treasurer U. Grant Danford, of
Cripple Creek, is missing. and his &C.
counts are said to be short more than
$4,000.
Colorado postmasters were nomi-
mated by the President as follows. F.
F. Reinert, Fort Morgan; Bruce Rus
sell, Yuma.
The dedication of the Antero irriga-
ton system that will water 10000
aces near Aurora, takes place June
goth.
The large German population of
Denver celebrated the twenty-fifth an
niversary OF Kaiser Wilhelm's ascent
to the German throne.
Coleman is a new Weld county post
office which has been opened on the
ranch of d. c. Coleman, eleven miles
northeast of Briggsdale.
The new department commander of
the G. A. r. is Rev. C. A. Brooks, who
is well known throughout northern
Colorado as an able exponent of the
gospel.
After selecting officers for the COM
ing year, the National Walters asso-
citation, in session in Denver, selected
San Francisco as the meeting place
next year.
The Moffat road will erect $4,000
hotel at Corona. and has appropriated
$4,000 for the construction of four
new depots, the first of which will be
built at Rollinsville.
The eleventh annual convention of
the Colorado grand chapter of the P.
L. o. at Manitou was attended BY
sixty delegates, of whom twenty-five
were presidents of state chapters.
Among the new improvements to be
added to the equipment of the "Ag-
gle" college at Fort Collins within the
next year will be a Making machine
Tor use in the dairy department
Two sentences have been commut-
ed six applications denied and eight
cases continued by the State Board
of Pardons. Bert King and James
Mayo are the two prisoners who will
be paroled June 21st.
The Supreme Court has begun and
postponed consideration of the appli-
cation filed by attorneys for Arnold.
Sticker and Sullivan petitioning the
court to take original jurisdiction in
the quo warranto proceedings institute
ed in behalf of the deposed Denver of
flee holders.
At a recent meeting of the Larimer
County Farmers Union held in Love
lard and attended largely by farmers
of the Loveland vicinity, the mem
bers present adopted by unanimous
vote a resolution of protest decrying
the tendency TO spend public money
on the construction of tourist roads
and urging the commissioners to put
the county's road fund into farm
roads.
On June IA, 1895, Denver gained
for itself the honor of being the first
city in the Union publicly to honor by
a celebration the famous act of June
IA, 1878, by which the Continental
Congress assembled in Philadelphia
established the national insignia of
the American people. And it was the
anniversary of this event which was
again observed in Denver last Satur-
day-Flag Day.
Advices from Washington indicate
that work will be started on the East
canal of the governments Uncompah-
gre project as soon as legal steps can
be taken to obtain a right of way,
which is now being opposed by land
owners in that vicinity. The East
canal will irrigate between 10000
and 10000 9cres and will be 40 miles
long.
Governor Elias NJ. Ammons ad-
dressed the Denver Chamber of Com
merce at its luncheon on the recent
western governors conference at Salt
Lake CITY