Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-01-30
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session. B.
p. Q. Elks at Denver.
Sept, 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
isi5.@Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Karl Johansson committed suicide
at Pueblo.
John Trevillion and Arthur Herberg,
Georgetown miners employed at the
Capital mine, fell GOO feet to instant
death.
There is said to be movement on
foot again to build an electric railroad
between Colorado Springs, Denver and
Pueblo
A. P. Anderson was elected presi-
dent of the railroad commission, and
5. S. Kendall, secretary. This is the
first organization under the new law.
John Wolfer, fifty-four, pioneer
ranchman, died at the University hos
pital in Boulder from injuries received
last summer on his ranch near Louis
Vile.
Five thousand employees of the Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron Company's steel
plant at Pueblo are to be vaccinated
because of the discovery of one case
of smallpox in one of the mills.
Never before have there been as
many entries in the poultry exhibit at
the livestock show as this year. The
classes were well filled and many
showings OF high bred fowls made.
Governor Ammons was the guest of
honor at the Denver horse show Thurs
day. A record-breaking crowd filled
every seat in the stadium at the stock
yards. and packed the standing room.
Luke Grant, special agent of the re-
cently-created federal commission on
industrial relations, was in Denver to
investigate strike conditions in the
coal fields of southern Colorado.
Charles obley of Fort Collins, a pri-
vate of Company F.. First regiment
Colorado National Guard. was acquit-
ted at Trinidad of the charge of mur-
dering John German, strike breaker.
A lead.silver mine in Mexico, the
product of which, for time, was util-
lied by General Carranza's army for
bullets. is part of the estate left by
George r. Nelson of Kansas City and
Denver.
Miss cecil Desmond, twenty-five. a
stenographer was probably fatally in
jured when she fell from the second
floor to the basement in the elevator
shaft of the Tabor Opera House block
in Denver.
Dan Williams was indicted for MUIR
der as a result of the grand jury in
vestigation at Central City of the find
ing of the mummified bodies of three
babies in the attic of a house in Black
Hawk, Sept. %.
The fourth annual old-time cowboys
reunion in Denver was reminiscent OF
the days of the trail blazers. heavy
with the smoke of the chuck wagon
fire and filled with romantic tales of
the early cowpuneher.
Either Coy. Hiram Johnson of Cali
fornia or ex-senator Albert Beveridge
of Indiana will be the speaker at the
Washington Day banquet of the Pro
gressives OF the Western Slope to be
held in Grand Junction.
Buyers from Illinois, Iowa, Missouri
Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and
other central and Middle Western
states were the principal bidders at
the auction sale of feeder cattle at
the stock show in Denver.
The first prize winner among single
entry fat steers at the Denver Stock
Show. shorthorn steer from the Colo
RADIO Agricultural College. weighed l.
O60 pounds, and sold for $3.50 per
hundred, or $2.25 per hundred better
than the champion carloads.
Alice Stanley, alias Alice Morgan,
Roumanian gypsy, was arrested at Fort
Collins at the request of F. S. Wood.
ruff, Tulso, Okla. officer, who says
she belongs to the Stanley gang of
gypsies arrested at Colorado Springs
to be taken back to Oklahoma.
Thomas NJ. Howell. district deputy
of the order of Moose, returned to
Denver from a visit to the lodges of
the order in southern Colorado. He
states that the agricultural and metal
mining prospects are better than at
any time within his memory.
Brooding over financial reverses. the
loss of his position as fireman for a
market company and the approaching
motherhood of his wife, John T. Tay-
lor, formerly of Denver and a son OF
Zachary NJ. Taylor of 2975 Chase
street. Denver, shot and killed his wife
and two stepchildren, Homer, aged
five, and Jessie. aged two years and
then committed suicide.
In her will, which was filed for pro
bate in the County Court in Denver.
the late Mrs. Christina Evans left ST.
500 to her dog, Daisy" To each OF
her nephews and nieces she left $4,000
cash. only $500 more than she left for
the dog. which she nlaced in the care