Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-02-20
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Feb. 19-State Mining Convention at
| Denver.
Feb. 22-washington Day banquet at
March io-1iWi.leventh annual con-
ference. Colorado Daughters of Amer
July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session. B.
| +. o. Elks at Denver.
Sept; 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
lsl5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
The annual banquet of the Denver
Bar Association will be held Feb. 81.
Unexpected and unannounced. Mrs.
Genevieve Chandler Phipps returned
to Denver.
John T. Campson, eighty years old,
! was found dead in his bed in Denver
| from heart disease.
Louis Adams fifty-five, for the last
~ten years chief of the United States
| immigration bureau in Denver, died at
| his home in Milford, Ohio.
Sunday. February 22, has been Sc.
| lected as the date of the annual meet
ing of the Jewish Social Service Fed
Grafton of Denver.
Seventy-two hours after having TAX
en- the radium treatment for cancer,
| Frank p. Gelvin, railroad man OF
Denver, was pronounced cured.
The Longmont Farmers institute
| held a four days session. 1t was the
| twenty-fifth meeting of the organiza-
ton, said to be the Oldest of it's kind
in the country.
Chinese husbands are o. X" de-
clared Mrs. Mary Chew. white wife
of Harry Chew, Chinese. who was ac-
quilted on white slavery charge in
the Federal Court in Denver.
Fifty members of the Republican
Newspaper Association of Colorado
met informally in Denver in a get
together" session. pursuant to call
recently issued by Guy U. Hardy,
president.
The management of the Ajax mills
at Victor announced that, beginning
at once, the company has made a re-
duction of twenty-five cents a ton on
rates for ore treatment at the Golden
Cycle and Portland mills.
An attempt to change the present
design of the American flag will be
hotly resisted by. the Grand Army of
the Republic veterans of Colorado, ac-
cording to members of Post No. %, G.
A. r. of Colorado Springs.
A coroner's jury in Denver held the
Western Chemical COMPANY at fault
for the death of Charles Rh 'des. an
employe, who was ground to death in
the shafting of an aerial tram. Rhodes
was married and lived at 3i7 Inca
street
Denver and the nation at large on
the 18th paid homage to the memory
of Abraham Lincoln In outward form
Denver discharged its obligation of re-
spect and gratitude with many public
functions and by the closing of banks
and private buildings.
The body OF James Moynahan. fifty
two. was found on the floor of his
cabin at the Wellington mine near
Breckenridge, where he had been en-
ployed as night foreman for the last
ten years. Death had been caused by
a bullet wound in the forehead.
Colorado Springs friends of Henry
lie B. Wills were shocked at the re-
port from Rochester, N. ", that his
death was caused by his own act. Ac-
cording TO the report he was found in
the bathroom at his residence with
his throat cut with a manicure knife.
Three hundred and fifty-two of the
leading business men, farmers and
hog growers of the San Luis valley
gathered at Monte Vista to attend the
monster pig roast given by the Monte
Vista Hog Growers Association TO
hA
ing out OF hog cholera from the val
ley.
Application for an original writ of
habeas corpus to release her from the
military prison at Trinidad, where
she has been held incommunicado
since January IL, was made to the
State Supreme Court in behalf of
Mother Jones, strike leader, by an
attorney for the United Mine Workers
of America.
An attempt by unidentified persons
to dynamite the concrete bridge OF
the Denver G. Rio Grande railroad
near the Holland dairy, north of Colo
RADIO Springs, was made. Owing to
the fact that the dynamite was not
properly placed only the corners of
the concrete piers were blown out
and the structure remained practical
ly uninjured.
Abraham Lincoln wrote his Gettys-
burg address upon small scrap of
brown paper used for wrapping
sandwich, while he was riding on the
train that took him from Washington
to the Gettysburg battlefield, accord
ing. to former Congressman A. w.
Rucker, at the annual banquet and
commemoration services of the Colo
RADIO Commandery of the Loyal Leg