Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-01-23
COLORADO NEWS
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All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

Sept: 7.-Colorado State Fair at fu-
l9l5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Mrs. Otis B. Spencer was denied
divorce in Judge Rothgerber's court in
Denver.
Warrants were sworn out at Fort
Collins charging Denver brewers with
selling in dry" territory.
The Colorado State Booe;eepers' AS
sociation will hold its annual conven
ton in Denver, Jan. 20 to 81.
David /. Cramer, seventy, a promi-
nent FARMER of Sedalia, died of pneu-
monia at the Colorado sanitarium in
Boulder.
Mrs. Katherine Mcfarland, former
ly well-known English actress and
theatrical manager, died in Denver at
her home.
Articles of the Beaver Park Land
and water Company, Incorporated at
81, 200. 900, have been filed with the
county clerk at Colorado Springs.
Irwin Stoneburner, one of the popu-
lar conductors of the Colorado &
Southern railroad. was almost instant
ly killed by beet train at Fort Col
Inns.
An average reduction of 47c per ton
for sugar beets is made by the Great
Western Sugar Company in the con-
tracts offered the farmer for the 1914
crop.
The La Sale branch of the Farm
ers' union expects to establish a buy
ing and selling agency for members
of the union. and probably work into
general store business.
That the city treasury of Pueblo
will be richer by $4,000 because Of the
Supreme Court decision making legal
the increase in tax valuation for Colo
RADIO has been announced.
William Price, under indictment on
a charge of bootlegging. filed suit at
Grand Junction against Sheriff Chas.
Schrader for damage to his business
in a raid made by the sheriff.
The government organization COM
mittee on regional bank location will
arrive in Denver Jan. % and leave the
city Jan. 26. according to information
received by Denver bankers and the
business mems committee.
Cupid's efforts in the Denver coun-
ty Jail three years ago were rewarded
when Edward L. Doyle, secretary
treasurer Of District Is, United Mine
Workers. and Miss Margaret Zita
Bowen were married at Lohrville, la.
The legality of the state tax commits
sion and its recommended increase OF
more than 300.000.000 in the assessed
valuation of Colorado property. was
upheld in a decision handed down by
the State Supreme Court. The court
stood four in favor and three against.
The Catholics of Denver number 49,
AGA. and of the state 109,1S2. accord
ing to figures compiled by the Rt. Rev.
Mons. Richard Brady for the annual
official Catholic directory. which will
not appear for several months. This is
gain in the state of 1000 over last
year.
The most representative gathering
of roads boosters ever assembled in
Colorado finished its deliberations at
Colorado Springs, going on record for
an annual expenditure of more than
100000 for long period of years to
promote the development of public
highways.
William C. Hopkins, 81, veteran of
the Civil War, died at his home in
Denver after an illness of few days.
Death was due to a sudden attack of
pneumonia. His wife, Mrs. Z. ]. Hop
kins, SO years old, is in stunned con-
dition as a result of the shock of her
husbands death.
sr,
charge of the Denver postoffice, was
notified in a telegram received from
the first assistant attorney general at
Washington that fraud order had
been issued by the postmaster general
against the Marjorie Hamilton COM
pany and all its agents and subsidiary
companies in Denver and Los Angeles.
81 am machine politician. By a
machine I mean not a corrupt body,
but an organization pure in principle
and certain in purpose" So says Mrs.
Gertrude a. Lee, the first woman
chairman of the state Democratic CEN
tral committee. Mrs. Lee. who was
vice chairman, became active chair
man by the resignation of George T.
Bradley when named as railroad COM
missioner.
The Copeland sampling plant at
Cripple Creek, owned by the late VIII
liam S. Copeland, killed by fall in
the Jo Dandy mine a few weeks ago.
and formerly the property of George
E. Copeland killed by Harold F. Hen
wood in 1911. passed into the hands OF
Cripple Creek men. The officers of
the new company are II. C. Harris, G.
r. Lewis, w. E Van SAINT, H. L. Shep-
herd and w. w. Collins.
Ohio. Missouri Kansas and Nebras-