Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-07-16


Oct; 2-9.-Fair and Race Meeting at
The canning season at Loveland has
opened.
Chief of Police Felix o'Neil of Den
yer has resigned.
DR.. William H. Smiley was appoint
ed supervisor of the Denver high
schools
Thousands of people saw the Lib,
erty Bell during its five-hour stay in
Denver.
Colorado Springs society turned out
in force to attend the reopening of
the famous Broadmoor casino.
Denver Elks of Lodge No. II. 200
strong, left for Los Angeles, where
the annual national convention will he
held July 12 to Is.
Frank Yakosh, 20, miner living in
Leyden, was drowned within few
feet of several of his companions who
were powerless to save him.
Orlo G. B. Hoyt, 26. a Santa F6
Aswitchman, was cut in two when he
Well under a string of cars at the Mar
tin street crossing in Pueblo.
The marriage of Miss Ramona
Bookwalter and Harry C. Curtis re.
duced the number of bachelors at the
Littleton court house to one. ~
With the motive of his act hidden
from the eyes of the authorities, Al
bert Groves, 81 years old, ended his
life in Denver by hanging himself.
A unique feature of Denver's recep-
tion of the Liberty bell was the pres
ence of Charles S. Thompson. So
year-old veteran of the Mexican and
Civil wars.
Suicide was responsible for eight
deaths in Denver during June. This
is the largest number of suicides fol-
any one month this year. Seven deaths
were due to accidents.
June broke all records in calls fol-
DIR. Stork in Colorado Springs. The
health departments report shows to
tai of fifty-four births, including thir
ty-eight boys and sixteen girls.
A formal demand for possession OF
the office of state bank commissioner
was made by Grant McFerson of Boul
der upon E. E. Drach, the present
commissioner. The demand was de
MED.
The body of w. P. Robbie, prospec-
tor and formerly a contractor of Fort
Collins, was found in the brush about
twenty miles from Glendora, CAL, ac-
cording to telegram received by his
children.
Bert Manor. 35, died at Cripple
Creek of injuries received when he
and his brother-in-law, Albert Russell,
SO, fell 500 feet in the Mitchell shaft
of the Pinnacle mine of which they
were sublessees.
A $1.OOO,000 powder plant contem
plating the manufsc cture of munitions
for the European war. according to ar
authoritative report in Denver, is te
be constructed near Sedalia, within
the next few months.
Approximately 100000 acres of gov
ernment land were taken up by home
steaders in the Denver land distric,
during the last year, according to the
report being made up by w. A. Max
well, United States receiver of public
moneys.
Two men dangerously injured,
7-year-cld girl bruised police Officer
slightly injured, the lives of five men
and three women endangered and one
horse instantly killed were Denver's
one-day contributions to the toll oil
motorcycle and automobile accidents
In futile attempt to save his son.
Guy Robinson, from drowning, DR..
Franklin Robinson, Sc, of Crook, was
drowned. The youth was swimming
in the duck pond of the North Ster-
ling ditch, seven miles north of
Crook.
Complaint has been filed with the
State Public Utilities Commission or
behalf of fifteen Denver manufactur
ers and other business firms, asking
that the present freight switching
rates of 20 and 25 cents a ton in Den
yer be reduced to s or 10 cents ton.
Old Sam, gnarled, wrinkled Ute,
proved an entertaining witness in
the trial in the United States District
Court in Denver. of Tse-Ne-Gat,
charged with having murdered Juan
Chacon, Mexican sheepherder, near
Ute mountain, in southwestern Colo
RADIO, the evening Of March 20, 1914
Unreciprocated affection on the
..art of the girl Of whom he became
enamoured is said to have been the
cause of the tragedy enacted at the
ID. d. Brossman farm, five miles
southeast of Berthoud, when Oscar
Brossman, aged 2l years, ended his
life by putting .32 bullet through
his brain
Misses Marjorie Perry and Char
lotte Perry of Denver, Portia Mans