Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-05-30

Aug. 2s.-.:Knights of .Pythias Grand
Sept aose.icsS at riaaa state Fair at
Pueblo. -'0fA'' '
sept.-National Association of First
Oct: 1-s-.state w. {. T. U. Convention
oct; sI.@coicrado State Baptist Asso-
1si5.-Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians. Denver.
Twenty indictments were returned
by the county grand jury in Denver.
Sunday, May 25, marked the open
ing of the 1918 Trout fishing season.
Burglars. who broke into the Union
Pacific depot at Fort Lupton got five
pounds of butter, which was sent to
Mayor A. G. Johnson, a gun and is
cents.
Plans are being made to hold a gi-
gantic celebration in Craig, to begin
on the day the first train is run over
the Denver G Salt Lake railroad and
to last full week.
Timber wolves have begun to raid
barnyards and hencoops throughout
the valley. and 1t is reported they are
pulling down full-grown cows in the
Meeker nelghborhood.
Joseph Finley, one of the first men
to enter the Cripple Creek district in
search of gold, died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. j. Smith in Den
yer. Death was due to heart disease.
Sulphur Springs, on the Denver &
Salt Lake road, 109 miles from Dem
yer, is to have $4,000 hotel. pro-
vided $4,000 is raised with which to
erect lighthouses and improve the
town.
Lee Yancey was tound guilty by a
jury in Denver of secreting Mrs
Agnes Massey. and her daughter, Eth
ell Shannon. witnesses in the case Of
J. H. Gardiner. the missing grand
juror.
President Wilson has appointed
Mark A. Skinner, former state senator
from Ell Paso county, to the office of
internal revenue collector for the dis
trict of Colorado, on the recommenda-
tion Of Senator John F. Shafroth.
r. d. George. state geologist. has
filed suit to compel Roady Kenehan,
state auditor, and NJ. A. Leddy. state
treasurer. to issue warrants for s160.
The complaint recites that George pre-
sented bill for twenty days work on
reports.
s. NJ. Leeper, assistant for the past
year to Secretary Vernon McKelvey
OF the State Teachers college at
Greeley, has been notified OF his ap-
pointment as private secretary to
Capgre oap,op SalJnmr;dya If Colora
do Springs.
Raleigh Davis of Boulder was in
stantly killed and his partner, Judson
Lee. proprietors of Boulder billiard
hall, was SO badly injured that he
died as a result of a cave-in in the
Croesus vein of the famous Logan
mine, at Crissman.
More than 400 present employees of
the city of Denver must take civil
service examinations to retain their
positions under commission form of
government, in accordance with an or
der Issued by President Chamberlin
of the civil service commission
Mancos may come into the lime
light through being the home of the
richest man in the United States, not
excepting Rockefeller, If the contests
started hy Martin NJ. Molenaor to re-
cover $500, 900 worth of property
in the heart of New York city is sue
cessful.
Miss frankie Catherine Smith and
Carl F. West of Longmont were mar
ried in Denver. The Rev. B. T. Vim.
cent, who officiated, also officiated at
the wedding of the brides grandpa.
rents forty-eight years ago. The bride
was born and raised near Longmont
and is a granddaughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. N. Smith, who have lived in
that vicinity since 1865, and with
whom she has made her home the
greater part of her life.
midsummer meeting Of the Colo
RADIO Editorial Association is to be
held June 16 at Colorado Springs. A
three-day session of the National
Press Association follows.
Caiion City's annual flower fes
val was celebrated in the presence Of
thousands of spectators. who lined
Main street for ten blocks as over a
thousand school children bedecked In
varicolored flowers and costumes
| and representing historic scenes anc
characters, marched to the state parf
| opposite the penitentiary where pa
! triotic program was rendered.