Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Jan 3-AnnuaI convention Colorado
Farmers Congress at Fort Collins
at Fort Collins Agricultural College.
Jan. 4-S.--Colorado Kennel Club Show
at Denver
Jan. 3-10-Sixteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
tion at Denver.
Jan. 17-1s.---Meeting Colorado Retail
Grocers' and Butchers Association
Jan. 1s-Sixth Annual Convention of
Colo. Good Roads Assn at Denver.
Jan. Western Live stock Show
at Denver.
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition Mt Denver.
A compromise of the Kansas-Colo
RADIO water suit is about to be COM
pleted.
DIR. w. A. Jolley of the American
Red Cross is back in Boulder from the
European battlefields.
Mrs. Elizabeth Leonard, 86 years
old. who had been a resident of Colo
RADIO twenty-five years, died in Den
YER
The mine strike cases have been
transferred from Trinidad to Ell Paso
county for hearing in the Fourth Ju-
dicial district.
The annual session of the Farmers
Congress will be held at the Colorado
Agricultural College in Fort Collins
during the week of Jan. 3.
The first beet seed threshing at the
Loveland sugar factory developed the
fact that twelve acres yielded an aver.
age of 1900 pounds to the acre.
II. U. Nudge, president of the Rio
Grande Railroad Company, and a
party of officers were on board spe-
cial train that was thrown from the
track near Marshall Pass.
Judge James Il. Benus OF Boulder,
prominent in many ways, being wor
shipful master of the Masonic order,
has pledged himself not to shave or
have his hair cut until peace prevails
in Europe.
Two hundred thousand pennies a
day-round bright, copper-gold Lin
coin pennies. stamped with tiny
%" under the 1915" date are pouring
out from the Denver mint to feed the
country's demand.
Formal opening of Denver's new
s2,5O0.oOO marble postoffice at Eight.
zenith and Chaupa streets took place
when hundreds thronged into the new
building bearing Christmas packages
to send by parcel post.
Powers and Baca county are boast,
ing 10000 tons of broom corn from
which the growers have realized $685..
900 practically all of which has been
shipped from Holly to broom manufac.
turers all over the United States. g.,
Tony Lombardi, 17-year-old North
Denver boy charged with causing the
death of Sandy Antonio, is, in a fist
fight over girl, was acquitted by a
jury of involuntary manslaughter in
the West Side Court in Denver.
Lord and Lady Aberdeen, now tour.
ing the United States in the interest
of the Aberdeen fund for philanthrop
ical work in Ireland. arrived in Den.
yer from Salt Lake City. Lord Aher.
deem was formerly governor general
of Canada.
Ed Cody was taken from Rio
Grande train at Colorado Springs
charged with the theft of n draft for
E247 in Denver. Cody was accom-.
panied on the train by his wife and
six children. the latter ranging in ages
from to II years.
While Mrs. Jane NARROW, sc, a pio
| Lcer Denver woman, formerly pro
| prietor of the old American house, is
| dying in Denver hospital, a court
contest for her $1,000 estate. repre-
senting the savings OF a lifetime. has
been started
Two Mexicans engaged in a game oil
| cards at Fort Collins which ended
when one drew a revolver and the
other went home for shotgun and
used il with telling effect. As a resul,
Georgiano MARTINEZ, better known as
Shorty" is In the county hospital
| and Victoriano Lamos is in the county
Jail.
On the promise of her husband
| Fred s Norman, a Kansas City rail
road man, to return TO her and sup
port her. Mrs. Sallie Norman, who
tracked him to Denver and had hin
arrested, with Miss Gertrude Boyer. OF
statutory charge, asked the district
attorney to dismiss the case filed
| against him.
The submission OF new Iiquo,
amendment at the general election
next fall has already been tentatiyel,
agreed upon by anti prohibition forces
according to information from Denver
sources. If the plan as proposed i:
carried out the question submitted
for consideration by the voters vii
provide for the return of local option
In place of absolute prohibition, sup
plemented by a high license system
and other restrictions designed I,
eliminate the evils which now attacl
| to the llnunr traffic