Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-03-20
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO

April 9.-General Irrigation Conference
Sept: colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo.
American Indians at Denver.
A. c. Bartels was elected dictator
of Denver lodge No. 81, Loyal Order
of Moose, at the annual election of the
lodge.
The annual conference of state as
SCISSORS with the State Tax Commits
sion will be held March % and 26 at
the Capitol building.
Traditional link" fears of Friday
the thirteenth as a wedding day were
cast to the winds by seven couples
who applied for marriage licenses in
Denver.
w. w. Jones, for twenty-one years
paymaster of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Company in Denver, died at his
home, 40 South Lincoln street. Jones
was seventy-two years old.
Governor Ammons expressed his in
dorsement OF President Wilson's pol
icy concerning Panama canal tolls in
reply to an inquiry from New York
newspaper asking for his attitude.
Mother" Jones, now held mill
tary prisoner in the San Rafael hos
pital in Trinidad, will be brought to
Denver in few days and released by
the militia, according to a report.
Two men and a woman, whom the
police believe to be representatives of
Canadian cocaine smugglers or swim
dlers of druggists, were arrested in a
house on Market street in Denver.
The appeal of Harold F. Henwood,
under sentence of death for the kill
ing of George E. Copeland, May %,
1911, will be heard orally before the
Supreme Court in Denver. April IA.
William p Malburn, son-in-low of
United States Senator Thomas in
Denver, was nominated for assistant
secretary of the United States Treas
ury Department by President Wilson.
The fiftieth wedding anniversary of
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Herckovitz of Den
yer was celebrated by party to be
given by twenty of their children,
grandchildren and great-grandchild-
rem.
An estimated revenue of S150,000
from Inheritance taxes will be received
by the state by Dec. ], 1914. according
to calculation made by Leslie e.
Hubbard, state inheritance tax ap-
praiser.
The Shuster triplets died in Denver
all three within three hours. The par
ents. who are still mourning the death
in one day. several months ago, of
two older children, are Frustrated
with grief.
Frank c. Smith. wealthy mining
and railroad promoter OF Denver, Col
orado Springs and Cripple Creek and
one of the best known pioneers of
Colorado. died suddenly of heart dis
ease at San Antonio. Tex :,
George Kinkel, ex-sheriff of Arapa-
hoe county. was acquitted of charge
of embezzling $1,000. Kinkel was in
dicted last spring with sixty other of
ficials of Arapahoe county, charged
with shortages in county funds.
Unanimous approval was given by
the Denver Real Estate exchange to
the recommendation of its telephone
committee that at the earliest date
possible an ordinance be initiated for
municipal ownership of telephones in
Denver.
With substantial reductions grant
ed to Denver and Colorado common
point shippers in siXty-two important
groups of commodities from Chicago
and the Mississippi and Missouri
III h. nf oil
ready beginning to feel that Colorado
is being given a place on the COM
mercial map.
A schedule of rates to be incorpor-
ated in the new telephone rate ordi-
nance was tentatively agreed upon by
the city commissioners and the COM
mittee of the Denver Business Mems
Association. The schedule in nearly
every classification provides for rates
more liberal to the company than
those in the original Brown ordinance
James Potoso, who is insane, was
brought to Pueblo from Sterling by
the sheriff of Logan county. The
prisoner was placed in XNoodcroft
sanitarium, the insane asylum being
crowded. Potoso several months ago
killed relative, but was not tried for
murder. the facts showing he was in
sane. He is declared to be violently
insane.
The Rev. Father John F. Belzer, for
three years assistant to the Rev.
Father William Organ, pastor of ST.
Leo's church in Denver, and one of
the most DOnular memhers of the
Catholic clergy, died at the home of
sister at Buffalo, N. Y. Death,
caused by tuberculosis, occurred
week after Father Belzer had reached
Buffalo, where he wished the end to
come.