Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-10-09

Oct. 30Nov.1-Tenth annual Dog show
| lsIb--Lnst Grand Council of North
| American Indians at Denver.
Governor Ammons has designated
October as fire prevention day.
The Denver Congregation Knese
Israel has raised $3.50 for the relief OF
suffering Israelites in Europe.
Red Cross funds in Denver amount
to $2,07D. The total collected in the
United States is 100000. of which
S2S6,000 has been spent.
Records of business done in the
Denver postoffice for September show
an increase of sixteen per cent over
that of the corresponding month last
year.
| Denvers low record for serious
crimes impressed former Gov. Her
bert S. Hadley of Missouri, who
| passed four months in Denver this
| summer.
| William X. Eaton was awarded the
| Republican nomination for one of the
four senatorships from Denver by a
majority of six votes by Judge Denison
in the District Court
| h'ete, ttI, ooll VI
Reece. a ranchman five miles west of
Arvada, killed himself by accident
when a bullet from a 20 caliber rifle
entered his forehead
| G. V. Morris of Denver. a Santa Fe
freight conductor, is in a critical CON
dition at st. Marys hospital, as a re
| suit of being bitten on the hand by a
rattlesnake at Pueblo.
Lightning struck and shattered the
top of the sixty-five-foot steeple of the
Berkeley Methodist Episcopal church.
West Forty-third avenue and Sheridan
boulevard, in Jefferson county.
James n. Ashmore, former athletic
director at Millikin University OF De-
catur. ILL.,, has been secured for the po-
sition of physical director at the Uni
versity OF Colorado at Boulder.
w. J. Mahoney. "a, fell on the side
walk at Fourteenth and California
streets in Denver and broke his jaw.
He was removed TO St. Joseph's hos
pital by Police Surgeon Preston.
| Wireless communication between
the State University plant at Boulder
and other stations has been prohibited
by order OF the United States govern
ment on account of the European war.
Eight state rifle matches will take
place at the rifle range near Golden
from Oct. II to IS. Twenty.nine com.
panies OF the National guard will en-
ter, each team to be composed OF
from six to eight men.
Morris Alash. a Denver shoemaker,
has received an appeal for help from
his wife. Molly. who is in the town OF
Ostrara, Russian Poland. She says
that In the beleaguered village every
one Is starving. and bread sells for
twenty-fiye cents Il pound. The town
is completely surrounded and no one
can get ont.
One million dollars is cash will be
used by w. L. Petrikin of the Great
Western Sugar Company in an effort
TO get supply of sugar beet seed
from Germany. Petrikin will sail
from New York Oct. for Rotterdam
and. because of financial conditions
due TO the war, will be forced 10 carry
the cash with him.
The sale of G,OOO head of horses on
| one order to the British government
through Denver commission firms and
| the completion OF the movement
through the Denver Union stockyards
was reported. The horses are said to
have been gathered from all parts OF
Colorado and Wyoming and to have
been shipped to Canada.
The total value of building permits
for the month OF September, 1914. in
Denver exceed those of the same
month in 1913 by Sol $40. an Increase
of 300 per cent. according to the
| monthly report of the building inspec-
tors office. For September 1914.
they aggregated s1,007, ,130. as against
s295, ,4gO In the same month last year
| One of the most recent of Denver's
welfare Institutions is the Health
| Seekers Free Bureau of the Denver
| Visiting Nurses Association. located
at 535-536 Temple Court building The
| aim of the bureau Is to serve as a cen
trail clearing house OF information for
| new-coming health seekers, and to as
| sist them in getting properly started
on the road 10 recovery.
The Interstate commerce commits
sicn has suspended the tariffs promul-
gated by the Union Pacific Railroad
company, which closed the Ogden
Gateway to the Denver & Rio Grande
for all business to and from points
on the Oregon Short Line. including
Yellowstone National park This ac-
ton was taken as result of numer.
ouD petitions filed with commission
by commercial bodies on the Western
slope and Utah. protesting that the
closing of the gateway would deprive
their committees of great amount OF
business derived largely from tourists