Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-05-01

Sept. 23-2s.-Ei Paso Co. Fair. Caihan..
Oct. 6-9-Coiorado-N Mexico Fair at
1sl5.-Gast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Denver hardware stores profited by
the strike in the southern territory to
the extent of selling over 600 rifles.
Ludlow and Mexico-the two fur
nished the themes for many OF the
sermons delivered in the Denver
churches.
Some of the Denver and Cripple
Creek guardsmen mutinied when Or
dered to the strike zone, on account
of not having been paid for previous
services.
Mrs. Sarah ]. Eager, eighty-eight,
resident of Denver for forty-three
years, died at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. George Kaylor, wife Of Pa
trolman Kaylor.
Six hundred and fifty rifles were re-
ported purchased from hardware
stores of Denver Thursday and
shipped into the coal strike region OF
southern Colorado.
Sergeant Perry of the marine ser
vice opened the recruiting office in
Colorado Springs after an absence OF
several months. Eight applicants ap-
peared the first day.
Application for supersedeas from
Judge Denison's custer decree was
made before the Supreme Court by
attorneys for the Mountain States Tel
ephone Company in Denver.
A Denver chapter of the National
Red Cross Society was formed for ser
vice in Mexico. It's chief object is to
supply funds and medical supplies for
hospitals along the border.
home in Edgewater. He was fifty
eight years old and had lived in Den
yer nearly thirty years. and at Edge
water for twenty-five years.
The County Court in Denver ap-
pointed John F. Frary guardian OF
John r. Olson. a minor, that the boy
might obtain proper consent to enlist
as a marine for Uncle Sam.
Mrs. ]. ]. Brown of Denver and
Newport. heroine of the Titanic, has
offered to give $1,000 toward the sup
port of troop of Colorado women and
to lead them in battle against Mexico.
A telegram was sent from Denver
to Governor Ammons en- route from
Washington. by the Colorado Single
Tax Association. demanding that he
resign forthwith as governor of the
state.
A dozen residents of Ludlow and vi
cinity are in Pueblo, some injured. but
others merely fleeing from the trou-
BILE zone. They tell stirring stories OF
the battle between strikers and mill
tia last week.
Protests against dilatory special
session of the Legislature to investi-
gate the coal strike. with problemat-
ical action some time in the remote
future, when quick work and instant
wise decision were needed, were filed
with statehouse officials and members
of the Senate and House last week.
Thirteen of the victims of the bat
tie of Ludlow and the fire in the tent
colony were buried in graves in the
Catholic cemetery at Trinidad. Fifteen
hundred men, women and children
escort in the funeral procession. that
passed through Trinidad from the
Holy Trinity Church to the cemetery
east of the city.
While duck shooting near San Aca-
clio on Sanchez lake, an immense arti-
fetal reservoir belonging to the Cos
tilla Estate Development Co.. ]. Chap
pin. thought to be one of a party of
homeseekers from Oklahoma, was
drowned. Chappin had shot a duck
out on the lake and in attempting to
reach it fell into the lake, and, it is
supposed. was seized with cramps in
the icy water.
Word was received in Denver by J.
B. Andrews of the death in Baltimore
of James Murdoch, an old resident Of
Denver Mr.. Murdock was seventy-one
years old and bachelor. He went to
Baltimore some time ago to receive ra-
dunn treatment for a tumor.
From every flag pole in Colorado
the stars and Stripes will wave from
now on until the Huerta government
in Mexico surrenders to the United
States and the troops of this country
are withdrawn, according to a plan
which met with general approval since
It was suggested in Denver.