Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-09-19
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
'estern Nc wspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.

Sept. IS ls:-Annual Masonic Meeting
Sept. 1s-2o..coiorado state Fair at
Sept. as- -2e-Mesa County Industrial
Sept. 2a-2s.-Coiorado New MEXICO
Fair and Indian Carnival at Du-
Sept. 1926 Trinidad-Las Animas
County Fair at Trinidad. :.
Sept 27-2S.-Bankers Conventie1s a'
Sept 2s-so-Inter-County Fair at
Oct. 1:s-state w. C. t. U. conven-
oct. a-t.@sedswick County Fair at
Oct s-i@Ei paso County rair at Cal
Ca can indians. IdI'nf a. benyer. Ss'e.'
Oct. 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
seps fatan saaseooa g.. essslG Road. Conference at
Pueblo.
Oct. FL. o. O. F. Annual Encamp-
Oct. ao.-Nov colorado Kennel Ciuo
Association Show at Denver.
Jan. 1s24-National Western Stock
1si5.%Last 1noT n' DsrHsd erHad Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
Clyde l.. Starrett resigned as police
magistrate of Colorado Springs.
John Tucker, farmer living on the
H. NJ. Henry ranch, two miles west OF
NiWot, was killed by lightning.
Governor Ammons honored Crowley
county by paying his first visit to
county far held in the state this year.
The Board of County Commissioners
at Boulder appropriated $4,000 for the
employment of a county agricultural
expert.
Congressman Thomas j. Riley OF
Connecticut was the guest of Denver
letter carriers and postoffice clerks at
banquet.
A festival was held at Center to
celebrate the completion of the San
Luis valley railroad from Monte Vista
to Center.
John M. Waldron of Denver COM
mitted suicide by swallowing carbolic
acid five minutes after he had hidden
members of his family goodbye.
Michael O'Keefe, fifty-two. a patient
in the tuberculosis ward at the Den
yer county hospital, committed sui
eide by swallowing carbolic acid.
Boulder county, first in northern
Colorado to build a system of perma
nent gravel and sand highways, is al
SO to take lead in the state in using
oils as a method of maintenance
Denver will make a strong bid to in
duce the 1000 white men, many of
whom have families. who will shortly
complete the work of constructing the
Panama canal to come to Colorado.
Frank Munsey, twenty years old. OF
Denver, suffered fractures to his legs
and probably internal injuries when
several tons of sand caved in on him
in a sand pit in which he was workinS
1t Globeville.
Odgen Mills, New York millionaire
was awarded $500 damages from
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad for
a right of way through the old Kin
caid and Alexander ranch near Le-
vita, Huerfano county.
Ten years, to a minute, from the
time she was married, Mrs. Louise
Taylor. wife of Postmaster Huse Tay-
lor, died at Cripple Creek at O'Clock.
Death was due to typhoid pneumonia.
after an illness of two days.
The funeral of Harry Smith and his
wife, Celia Miriam Smith. drowned in
Denver City park lake. was held
from an undertaking parlor. The
services were in charge of the Arbe-
iterrink. a Jewish lodge.
The funeral of Miss Kathryn Old
land, the young society girl who was
killed in an automobile wreck be-
| tween Meeker and Rifle, was held at
Meeker. The procession was the
largest in the history of the town.
A bolt of lightning struck the troll
ley wire at the Englewood tramway
loop. caused one end of the severed
wire to drop and weld itself to the
street car track and delayed cars be-
tween Denver and Englewood two
hours.
Englewood politics has proved too
much for its woman pastoi. The
| resignation of the Rev. Kate Hans.
! pastor of the Mayflower Congrega-
tional church, was announced. her
friends declaring that politics forced
her to leave.
James Is. Lansing. who a number of
years ago gained the sobriquet of the
Death Valley poet of Nevada, and
whose writings were copied from one
end of the country to the other, was
married to Miss Aimee Burt at the
Terhune ranch, near Yampa.
Carefully removing his false teeth
and taking a final puff at cigar for
which he had spent his last nickel
Joseph Gavette' of Grand Junction
placed the muzzle of .3s-caliber re
volver in his mouth ard fired a bull
let through his head, death being in
Simultaneous.
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