Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-01-02
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
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Jan: l5;-Annuai Meeting Colo. Farm
sa ers Congress ;at Agricultural Col
Jan. 15-1s.Z,Meetins Monntain Division
c,ot, Colorado ,to,the. Gulf Highway Asso-
Jan; Injecting Colorado Association
OF Commercial Executives at Colo
Jan. s-$i.@Nationai Western Stock
SHOW at Denver;
Z. Q. yElks at Denver.
Sept. 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
1s15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
A fire at La Junta caused loss OF
$4,000.
An Illinois Association will be
formed in Rocky Ford. A reunion will
be held in February.
Sixty extra carriers and sixty extra
clerks aided in caring for the Christ
mas rush at the general postoffice in
Denver
A stroke of heart disease killed J.
Knox. a ranchman ten miles south of
Akron, while he was feeding stock in
his Darnyard.
Every action taken by the conven-
ton of the Colorado State Federation
of Labor was indorsed in resolutions
by the Denver Painters.
Myron r. Mckinney, engineer at
the railroad shops. died suddenly at
his home in Grand Junction. A widow
and six children survive.
The receipt of parcel post packages
was broken at the Denver postoffice
Friday. There were between 10000
and $4,000 parcels sent out from Den
yer.
A total of 26O men and women were
placed on the farms of Weld county in
the past five months by the Labor Bu-
reau of the Weld County Commercial
Club.
Lee Beardsley of Westcliffe, 5S, for
merly wealthy ranch and mining
man, is a suicide. Friends believe
financial troubles caused him to shoot
himself.
Louis Kerzan. nine-year.old son Of
a smelterman at Leadville. was killed
when a stray horse leaped in front of
the sleigh in which he was riding and
wrecked il.
S. NJ. Bell, an Oak Creek merchant,
was severely injured when a crowd
of men, women and children attempt
ed to attack three nonunion men en-
ployed in the mines at Oak Creek.
Victor Stangberg of New York, for
merly of Denver, the engineer who
yer tramway, died at his home in Tar
rytown. N. Y, from heart failure.
Denver has 1888 manufacturing in
dustries carrying an annual payroll of
s11, ,9S5.005, and with an annual out
put valued at sG2 2,95O,3S1, according to
figures just compiled by the Denver
Chamber OF Commerce.
Jay ]. Bryan of Golden has been
appointed chief of the Department of
Concessions and Admissions, accord
ing to telegram received from Pres
ident Charles C. Moore of the Panama
Pacific International Exposition.
Blinded by the snowstorm which
swept northern Weld county Friday,
Marshall Daidrick, As years old, a
rancher living near Carr, twenty-seven
miles north of Greeley, was struck by
Union Pacific snow plow and killed.
Miss Bonnie Ethel Steele of Kansas
City has filed an amended complaint
in her suit against the trustees of the
Stratton estate at Colorado Springs to
recover 10000 shares of Portland Gold
Mining stock with interest on the
same since 1894.
Stitching her finger to a piece OF
cloth she was sewing on the machine,
Mrs. Fannie Biggs of La Sale, suf-
fered agonizing pain and became SO
weak from fright and loss of blood
that she was unable to release herself
until aid arrived
Mrs. Mary Wolf Dargin was nom
mated for the position of registrar OF
the Denver land office, according to
dispatch from Washington. Her
name was sent to Congress following
the recommendation of Mrs. Dargin by
Senator Shafroth.
Twenty-Five funerals were held at
New Castle in one day over bodies of
victims of the Vulcan mine disaster
A majority of the funerals were under
the auspices of various lodges to
which the men belonged. Two bodies
remain in the mine. the rescue work
ers not having been able to remove
the debris which covers them.
| Steps will be taken by the execu-
tive committee of the Colorado State
Federation of Labor to bring about
the recall of Governor Ammons just
as soon as the legal machinery of the
state labor body can get in action. 1t
was ordered Thursday afternoon by
the delegates to the special convention
at Denver which adjourned after a
three days session.