Rocky Ford enterprise., 1913-03-21

COLORADO Springs.
Oct 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
citation at Pueblo.
Nearly every section of Colorado
was in the grip of one of the worst
storms of the season on the 14th.
Joyrides after dances by young girls
have been tabooed at Grand Junction
by County Probation Officer Emma
Budelier.
Oliver Foster, one of the leading
apiarists Of northern Colorado. died
at Boulder, after a weeks illness, Of.
pneumonia.
The Senate, by vote of 1S to 10,
killed the Hecker libel bill introduced
at the solicitation of the Citizens
Protective League.
Seventy.five elk from wyoming
were brought to Denver for distribu-
ton among the parks ond forest re-
serves of Colorado.
The Senate laid over until March %
consideration of Senator Hayden's
resolution for the Legislature to ad-
journ on March 81. q.
The Senate killed on third reading
bill for third Judge in the Eighth
Judicial District, composed of Boulder,
Weld Larimer and jackson counties.
e. H. Clark, charged with passing
worthless check for $75 on a Den
Yer jewelry company. was arrested in
Georgetown and taken to Denver for
trial.
A handsome new church building to
cost $4,000 and to be erected at the
southwest corner of Fourteenth ave-
nue. and Williams street, is the latest
structure proposed for Denver.
New York and Cleveland creditors
of the Eureka Shirt Waist Company
of Denver filed petition in the fed
eral court asking that the shirtwalst
company be adjudged bankrupt.
Former Governor Hadley OF Mis-
souri, was in Delta, where he owns
property. He also visited Colorado
Springs, where he made an address.
and later visited the capital city.
Dean LeBaron H. Briggs of Harvard
University has accepted the invita-
tion of the Colorado College trustees
to deliver the commencement address
at the Colorado Springs college.
June IL.
After confessing to officials of the
Mercantile National Bank at Pueblo
that he had stolen $500 from the
bank, Sol Owens, a negro, aged twen-
ty-seven, ran from the bank and has
not been located.
Articles of incorporation for a So
100000 power company. 10 operate In
the rich mining. cattle and fruit coun-
ties of the southwestern part of The
state, were filed in the office of the
secretary of state.
Secretary Likens OF the Denver
park board received word from Paris
that the copy of the famous Dussel-
dorf children's fountain ordered year
ago, has been shipped and should ar
rive in Denver by April 1.
Three years, Irwin Pearson, an In
surance agent of Denver, 'battled for
health fought the obstacles of nerv-
GUS prostration. overcame them, saw
the happiness of recovery ahead. and
then was killed by the virus of an alb
scessed tooth.
Right now the farmers near Long
mont are very much interested in the
question of an independent sugar fac
tory and have appointed a committee
of three, prominent farmers, to invcs-
tigate the proposition which has been
laid before them which would enable
them to secure the factory.
Findings of election frauds are made
in the majority report, favoring Wy
coff, of the Senate elections commit
tee, handed in to the Senate on the
contest of Normal l.. Wycoff against
Senator Casimiro Barela. The mino--
ity report, favoring Senator Barela,
was that no charges against him mad
been proved.
Appointive officers and heads of de-
partments of the state were in confer
ence with Governor Ammons on two
points The first was the keeping of
offices open Saturday afternoons and
the other was for a plan of inter-
changing office help among depart
ments and bureaus when one depart
ment is rushed and another is not.
Frederick Snora, sentenced from
Delta county. November 80. 1912, to be
executed March % for the murder OF
Bruce Doyle, his employer. will not
be hanged. Governor Ammons. act
ing with the State Board of Pardons.
committed his sentence to life impris
onment, with the understand that
Snora be confined in a cell in the in
sane ward at the penitentiary, and
| that his relatives and friends never
make another appeal for executive
clemency.
Hubbell Pepper, aged 72, veteran Of
the battle OF. Bull Run, who had car