Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-04-10
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
| April 9.-General Irrigation Conference
May i2-i4Gstate, Council of Junior Or
May I4-16.-Race Meet Durango.
June 13-July 4.-Race Meet, Denver.
July 7-1i.-Race Meet. Pueblo
}nIy s;ScherTy Pie Pay asy,.s Ms snsa,nn r
July 2-2s.@cattiemen's Day. Gunni-
Aug. 1s-21.-Prowers Co Fair. Lamar.
Aug. 25-2S.-Bent CO; Fair. Las Animas.
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las Ami
Aug. 2e.--Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
Sept. 1-4;-Ar kansas Valley Fair
Sept, Swatermelon Day, Rocky Ford;
Sept. 2-5;-Farmers' ard Stockmen's
Sept. i-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
SEPT. lI-44.ILarlmsr Co; Fair, LovsIand
Sept. io-sugar Day, Sugar City;
Sept. i4-II9.-Golo. state Fair. Pueblo.
Sept. 2225.-western Slope Fair, Mont
rose.
SEPT. ss-ss.-E h'q P%so GO. Fair: eaihan
Sept. 2S-30.-I inter- County Fair and
Race Meet. Limon.
19lo-Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver.
Robert r. Freund, the Oldest union
printer in the United States, died at
the home of his son, Robert G. Freund,
in Denver.
Albert Giesecke, Denver pioneer
and one of the oldest men in the state,
died at the home of his son, Albert
Giesecke, Jr.
Nine governors of as many Western
states sent In notices that they would
be in Denver to attend the governors
conference.
A Mexican army of unemployed
banded together at Pueblo. was fed in
front of the city hall by the commits
sioners and started on its way to Old
Mexico.
The Illinois locals of the United
Mine Workers, according to a wire
received at Denver headquarters, have
voted 100000 by referendum to the
strikers of Colorado.
Jerome Dreyfuss, charged with OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses,
who attempted suicide on the morning
ing to authorities at Mercy hospital in
Denver.
The second annual "Clean Up and
Paint Up" campaign in Denver, which
will start May 4, and continue for one
week, promises to add several hun
bred per cent to the general appear
ances of Denver.
Another new industry will be pro-
ducing in Denver in a short time. The
Colorado Potato Flake Company,
which had heep considering the estab-
nitely decided to do SO.
Indications are that the cattle and
sheep ranges of the Western slope will
be in much better condition this sum-
mer than for the last several years,
and that these industries will be more
flourishing than last year, according
to cattlemen and sheepmen.
The way to tremendous agricultural
development in Colorado through in
tensive farming and the devotion of
farm products to the dairying and
live stock industries was pointed out
by Burton w. Hurd of Houston, Tex,
in a talk before the Real Estate ex-
change at its weekly luncheon in Den
yer.
The love for the dead Madero and
the indomitable courage of the living
Villa-these two things, according to
S. y. Lieberman of Chicago. who
visited in Denver after a trip to Ell
Paso. Juarez and other Southern
h. Nf thn
Mexican revolution which is sweeping
Victoriano Huerta on to his certain
doom.
b. Masser of Grand Junction has
purchased the L. T. Stewart ranch
near De Beque. and situated in Mesa
and Garfield counties, for 100000.
The ranch, one of the largest on the
Western slope, consists of 800 acres,
of which 300 are in cultivation. Mas
ser also bought 1000 head of sheep
besides the cattle and horses on the
ranch.
John Ergal of Denver, a bartender
employed at the Monarch saloon in
Victor. was severely slashed in the
face in the Mint saloon by George
"Tex" Rice, a waiter. The men were
quarreling over a dice game, when
Rice pulled out his knife and slashed
Ergal down the left cheek. The ply
stefan took eighteen stitches to close
the wound. Rice was arrested and
taken to the county jail in Cripple
Creek.
Dividend checks of the Golden Cycle
Mining Company of Cripple Creek
were received by stockholders of that
corporation. The dividend, at the rate
of cents per share, amounts to s45.-
900. The Golden Cycle Mining Com