Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-08-29


The Methodists of Gunnison will
build a $4,000 parsonage.
Ira Arthur is In Jail and Leo Morris
is under $500 bond at Sterling.
charged with highway robbery.
Private Lee Maddox. who comitted
suicide by shooting himself with an
army revolver was buried at Fort Lo-
gan.
Bowles lake, mile west of Little
ton. was the scene of big barbecue
given by the Territorial Daughters OF
Colorado.
Louis E. Dupree. seventy-two. resi-
dent of Greeley for thirty-seven years,
died at his home in San Diego, CAL.
of heart disease.
Mike Malone. former prize fighter,
fired bullet at Patrolman F. l..
Wood of Denver but missed Malone
was arrested after hard scuffle.
The baby found on the Denver &
Pueblo Knights Templar to the Den
yer conclave and adopted by Mrs. w.
F. Raber. wife of one of the Pueblo
knights, died at Pueblo.
1t has now become certain that Mrs.
W. T. Decker. sixty-two years old. was
slain at the lonely section house on
the Colorado & Southern railroad
tracks eight miles from Fairplay.
Under the direction of F. Y. Nose
ley, course in agriculture will be in
stituted a, the Greeley high school and
II the plan proves popular If will be
taught in all of the upper grades.
Insurance rates in Denver have
been cut in startling fashion within
the past two years, according to the
results of an investigation just COM
pleted by the Real Estate exchange.
Mystery. with a hint of romance,
surrounds the suicide of Miss Florence
Wilson, twenty-five years old. in the
Welton hotel at Pueblo. She swal
lowed bichloride of mercury tablets.
Colonel William F. Cody has brought
suit in the Denver District Court
against Gordon Lille Coawnee Bid
charging fraud in the conduct of the
Buffalo Bill Wild West and Far East
shows.
The body OF William D. Watts,
forty years old. expert accountant,
well known in business and in Masonic
circles. was found at the bottom of
letic Club building.
Residents of Littleton have started
movement to build a concrete high
way to Denver and claim that II built
it will be the finest piece of road in
the west 1t is estimated that the
highway will cost $4,000.
George B. Morris, twenty-four, was
brought back to Denver from Ere
mont, Neb., where he was arrested on
charge of having secured an auto
mobile from Denver dealer on a
fraudulent check for $1,000.
Herman Silver, eighty-three years
old. president of the old Tribune Pub
fishing Company. for eight years sup
erintendent of the Denver mint and
one time register of the United States
land office in Denver, died in Los
Angeles.
Belief that death by their own
hands was preferable to life that lay
III Sloie lOl thtli SduStu tWo men "
commit suicide and a young boy and
girl to attempt self-destruction in
Denver in one day The bodies of the
men were taken to the moTgue, and
the two children to the poison ward
of the county hospital.
Two little boys received serious in
juries on the Hamilton-Bash ranch
near Breckenridge when a giant pow
der cap exploded while Robert Bash,
twelve. was holding it between his
thumb and fore finger.
Her head crushed to a pulp, the
body of Mrs. Celia Becker. sixty-five
years old. cook of the Colorado C
Southern section house, midway be-
tween the Wadley ranch and Como,
fourteen miles from Fairplay, was
found in the section house yard i'm
mediately after the trrific electrical
storm.