Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-09-18

Sept i6-19.-Logan County Fair ut
Sept 81 ss-Inter-co. Fair and. Race
ssp s 5s:sAAesss h's slaps Gay FAIR Mont
Sept, ss-s5.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
sep.. ss-ss.-El Paso Co. Fair. cnihsn
Sept 2s-oct. central Colorado Fair
Oct. 1-3.--Grand County Fair at
Oct. s-s.-Ceio- New Mex Fair at Du-
1sI5:-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver!
Rocky Ford's Melon Day celebra-
tion was a big success.
About 10000 acres of state land
were disposed Of at the sale at Limon.
Sixty-eight carloads of cattle were
loaded at Cary in one day, for ship
ment to Denver.
The Luis Maria Baca Grant No. 4 in
Sagusche county is now open for min
ing men and prospectors.
The sale of state lands at Colorado
Springs brought $3.327.49 as part pay
ments on 1878 acres to nineteen pur-
chasers.
A party OF Yampa people met with
an accident when J. r. Starkey's auto
was overturned in Russell gulch, be-
tween Toponas and Mccoy.
Rev. John P. Campbell, for the last
three years pastor of the Trinidad Con-
gregational church, died at his home
after long illness from tuberculosis.
Denver's health record is unexcelled
by any other city in the United States
OF the same class, according to. DR..
Oscar Hayes, deputy health commits
sioner.
Lucil Kelly Of Pueblo complained to
the police that Cleveland Sheldon at
tempted to take a watch away from
her. Sheldon Is in the city Jail on
charge of disturbance.
Final plans for a program OF auto
mobile races and a display Of 1915
automobile models on Sept. 26 and 27
were launched at meeting Of the
Denver Motor Club.
w. A. Clark, who shot himself
through the body at Aurora, after he
had killed John johnson, farm hand,
died at the county hospital in Denver.
His body was turned over to Deputy
Coroner Bostwick.
Mrs. W. e. d. Stokes. wife of mil
lionaire Stokes. Of New York. and
niece of the late Isaac Elwood. gave
birth to a son at the home OF her
mother, Mrs. Arthur Scott Miller. in
Denver
Miss Ruth Nicholson, daughter of
Samuel ID. Nicholson. one of the Re-
publican candidates for governor, re-
fused to be operated on for appendi-
citis until she had received the cleo
ton returns.
Assessor G. w. Clark has just to-
tailed up the assessments for the com.
ing year and finds that the total val
uation of assessable property in Mont
rose county to be SLICES, 1876, or an in
crease of S691,727.
A fall down stairs two months ago
in which she was bruised from head
to foot, resulted in the death of Mrs
]. V. Dennam, &c. of Nevada, Mo-, at
Fort Collins. Her remains were sent
to Nevada for burial
Circulars describing Michael o Mara.
formerly baggage master at the union
depot, who disappeared shortly before
$1,000 was missed from the Union
Depot Companys funds, were sent
broadcast throughout the country by
the Denver police.
Harry Taylor. twenty-seven years
old, a Denver concessionaire, who was
run down by an Automobile driven by
l.. C. Stevenson an employee OF local
automobile company. at Sixteenth and
Curtis streets. died at the county hos
pital as the result of fractured skull
and internal injuries.
A National Association Of State Audi.
tors has been formed in Denver as
the result of the conference of the Ma |
tional Tax Association. Its chief OBJ |
jects will be to promote uniform sys-
tens of accounting and uniform legis- |
lation in the various states upon sub |
jects in connection with the offices o, |
the members. r...
The ashes OF Capt. John d. How
land. Denver pioneer artist, Indian |
fighter and scout, are to be scattered |
to the winds In the mountains which |
he helped to reclaim from the wilds |
and which he depicted with all the |
power of his artistic brush In accord.
ance with his wish they will be taken
to some rock fastness and there
thrown upon the breeze.
Miss Nora X. Hills. who has been
visiting for the last six months at
Dover Bay, England. returned to Den.
yer. and told interesting incidents OF
the war. "The straits of Dover are so
mined.' says Miss Hills. that refu-
gees fleeing from France have to be
taken into other ports" She was
aboard the last passenger boat that
was allowed to enter Dover harbor