Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-15
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
,estern Newspaper Union News Service.

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May 27.-Log- Rolling Contest. WOW.
June 16-1S.-state Sunday School Con-
June Is-July t,-Race Meet, Denver.
July 5-11.-Race Meet. Pueblo:
july Is-ls.@Grand Lodge Session. B. P.
g. Eiks at Denver. ., c,,,,.
Aug. J1s;:s1-Prowers Co Ta,s I.s lIimas Lamas.
Aug. 2s.-Farmers' Fair at TSwler
Sept. ;E.watermelon Day, RSeky Tord; I,or!.
Sept. i-4."Morsan Co. Fair Fort Nor
SEPT; s-Il.-crowiey Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept. e-11.-Cheyenne County Fair at
SEPT Day State snEPa Fair c'ts Pueblo
sept; l5-1s.-Lincoln County fa'r "'
Sept. -2s-Race Meet. Denysr,, and
Race Meet at I.imon u.,, Mont
Sept. -25.-Montezuma County Fair
Sept. 22- -25.-Trinidad Fair. Trinidad
Sept. 23-26.-Er Paso Co Fair. Gaihan;
Oct 6-s-Colorado-N Mexico Fair at
I9l5.-.ast Grand COUNCIL OF North
| American Indians at Denver.
The state convention of the NJ. w.
A. was held at Pueblo, with delegates
from all parts of the state present.
Friday was good roads day, accord
ing to proclamation issued by Cover
nor Ammons, and was generally OBJ
served.
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Gators have arranged summer school
for the study of economic problems as
applied to welfare and organized char
| ity work.
The State Railway Commission has
issued an order requiring the Denver,
Boulder & Western road to operate
weekly train between Sunset and
Ward after June for a period of two
years.
Charles Smith and George McDon-
aid, arrested in Pueblo for assault and
robbery of "A jewelry salesman, have
been identified as the two men who
held up Joseph He'll in his saloon in
Denver.
H. w. Haig, a wealthy land owner
of Nebraska, died at st. Joseph's hos
pital in Denver. Three operations
We're performed in an effort to save
his life. He was the founder of Haig'
Neb. He was fifty years of age.
The relief committee organized by
the Women's Peace organization to
aid the Ludlow refugees, received an
urgent appeal from its chairman. Mrs.
Lee Campion, now at Trinidad. for
clothes for babies and women.
Entire blame for the Ludlow horror
is placed upon the state troops. in the
report submitted to Governor Ami
mons by the committee headed by
Mrs. Alma Lafferty which investi-
gated the tragedy for the Woman's
Peace Association.
The warehouse of the HenkelDuke
Mercantile Company at Pueblo was
destroyed by fire. causing a loss of
about $4,000. Tramps who had been
making their home in boxcars ada
cent to the building are supposed to
have caused the fire.
Preparatory to systematic cam
paign to induce buyers of Denver a1d
Colorado to purchase Colorado-made
goods. the Denver Manufacturers AS
sociation is preparing to give a carni-
val and mask ball at the Auditorium
on the night of May 90.
E. B. Hill and Jap" Reed, leasers
on the Yellow Pine silver mine. To-
Gated near Crisman. six miles west of
Boulder. have just received a check
from Manager II. A. Frey of the
Chamberlain sampling works for 81,
500. which is the net return to them
on a carload of high grade wire silver
ore.
Possible state supervision of coal
mines and the withdrawal of all coal
lands under lease. a proposed income
tax on amounts over $4,000 to pay the
strike Indebtedness, and plan to lay
by a nest egg of some s25O.OOO for fu-
ture military operations in strike
zones. were included in House delib-
erations last week.
A graphic description of the reign
of terror that has existed in Mexico
for some time previous to occupation
of Vera Cruz by American marines
was given by w. w. Rich, United
States consul at Salina Cruz, Oaxa ia.
on the Tehuantepec Isthmus, who
stopped in Denver on his way to
Washington. Rich left Vera Cruz five
days before the occupation of that
city.
An electric motor for car-haulage
use is being put in at one of the deep
est levels in the Portland No. work
ings at Cripple Creek. 1t will be prac-
tically the same kind that was utilized
years ago in the big Columbine tun-
mel, on the west side of Squaw noun.
tain, when the Woods Investment
Company was at the apex of its pros
perity with score or more of dis
| trict mining enterprises