Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-05-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union New. service.
DATES FoR COMING EVENTS.

June 26-29.-Christian Endeavor State
Convention at Greeley.
July-Mstate Postmasters Association
July 2s.-Pacifie Jurisdiction. w. O.
Aug. i2-I5.~Thirt%yp % Second rrienniai
Conclave of Knights Templar, Den
Aug. 1S-2O.-American Association of
Park Superintendents at Denver;
Aug. ls-2Q.--Army of the Philippines
Aug.-Grand Council of order of Red
Men. at Denver.
Colorado Springs. :
aug; foo2s 2sMNknights Nihg Of Pythias i Grand
septsNatiohai Association of First
Class Postmasters. at Denver
Oct 2l-coiorado State Baptist Asso-
1915.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver
boy of Walsenburg, was drowned
when the boat in which he was fishing
capsized.
Saul Epsteen has taken oath of of
flee and has assumed the duties of
state commissioner of insurance, to
which position he was appointed by
Governor Ammons.
-'iA .. NSi II ouC 1oCiiS iCStui Ci hhu
club member, has been awarded a de-
cree of divorce from Sanford Bell, for
six years member OF the faculty at
The University of Colorado.
Charles w. Frickey, Denver saloon
keeper. man of the world and sport,
goes to the penitentiary to serve life
term for homicide. The Supreme Court
has refused to grant supersedeas.
Fifty thousand dollars to bring DR..
F. F. Friedman to Denver. That Is
the sum offered by j. d. Byrne,
wealthy resident of ST. Louis, whose
wife is a patient at the Oakes Home
in Denver.
A delegation of mobiles from Ell Jebel
shrine in Denver attended the annual
convention at Dallas. On their trip,
the Denver Shriners were Joined by
delegations from Cheyenne. Sheridan
and Salt Lake.
While en- route to Ogden. Utah, 20
take back home the body of son who
had just died suddenly, H. H. Sander
son. of Carthage, Mo-, dropped dead IN
the observation car of Union Pacific
train 109 at LImon.
The sacrament Of holy orders-the
ordination for the priesthood-was ad-
ministered in Denver when Bishop ".
C. Matz, officiating at pontifical high
mass. ordained Aloysius Markham, a
graduate of st. Thomas Seminary, as
a Catholic priest.
For the purpose OF refinancing the
Denver Reservoir Company $2,000,000
has been raised in the East and abroad
by Arthur Day. receiver of the con-
cern. One million dollars was loaned
by the Banque Franco-Americaine Of
Paris, ss50.0OO procured by an assess
ment on the bondholders and the re-
mainder by eastern banking houses.
The validity of the utilities bills, the
banking code and the insurance code,
passed by the Nineteenth General AS
sembly, may be attacked on account
OF an oversight. 1t appears from the
records of the office of the secretary
of state that the journal of the House
of Representatives of the last day,
Wednesday, March 12, 1913. was never
approved.
Luther J. Burbank, the California
plant breeding expert. will be the
guest of the Denver Chamber of Com
merce at one of the luncheon meet
ings of that organization in July. Bur
bank will at that time visit the Car
bondale potato growers to diagnose
the blight that has fallen upon Colo
RADIO potatoes for the past two sea-
sons
With the most solemn and impress
sive services of the Catholic church.
the requiem high mass-in which a
hundred priests participated, the fu-
neral of the Right Rev. Henry Robin
son, monsignor and vicar general of
the Denver diocese, was held from the
Annunciation parish church, where
the aged prelate discharged his duties
as pastor for a number of years.
The last survey of the Moffat road
between Craig, Colo, and Salt Lake
City. is being made, and work on coh-
struction will be commenced at once.
Colorado's contest against the fed
eral government involving the use Of
waters on forest reserves, is up to the
United States District Court Attorney
General ]. Frederick Farrar has filed
in that court petition of Intervention
in the suit brought by the government
against the Telluride Power Company
This proceeding involves the right Of
the defendant company to use FOR
power purposes a ditch mile and
half in length, near Telluride, on the
Montezuma forest reserve.
With a batting rally in the ninth
inning Utah secured three runs and
saved themselves from being shut out
by the University of Colorado in the