Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-08-13
STATE NEWS
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

west teatureS at GranQ Junctlon-
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Aug, l-sep.. s-Grapd Lodge. X. of p.
Sept. 1O-11.-Fall Festival at Flagler.
Sept. 27.oct. s.-Meeting International
oct ss4Far aad SinFass Race Meeting X RSsi at
Denver.
Suit for $10.25O was filed by James
yer against the Victor-American Fuel
Company.
The county commissioners at Grand
Junction changed the date of theNcom-
ing drainage district election from
Aug. 19 to Aug. "a.
One. and probably two more grain
elevators. will be erected in Sterling
at an early date. If plans now in con
temptation are carried out.
Twenty-nine enlistments for service
in the United States navy during July
makes the report for the Denver sta.
tion unusually large for midsummer.
Secretary of State John E. Ramer
rejected the petition to refer to the
general election in 1916 the medical
bill passed by the General Assembly
last winter.
A $25.000.O00 contract for rifles will
be let among Denver's manufacturers.
provided local institutions can handle
such an enormous order. according to
Charles Rohde.
Lillian May Matthews of Denver. who
is suing John Z. Matthews for divorce
and 100000 alimony, must wait until
her suit is tried on its merits before
she gets any alimony.
A full company of National guards
men for Canon City was practically
assured as the result Of a mass meet
ing held there. at which Governor
Carlson was the principal speaker.
Mrs. Florence Hawkins of Lafayette.
Ind. has written Mayor w. H. Sharp
ley to ask help in finding her son.
Howard Mallory. who wrote her regu-
larly from Denver until one month
ago.
Work of remodeling the old federal
building will be begun the first of the
year. it was announced In Denver.
with the definite assurance that the
new building will be ready for occu-
pancy Nov. Is.
Capt Adolph Schill. veteran of the
Civil War and former editor of the
Colorado Herold. a German newspaper
OF Denver. died at his home. 504S
Tennyson street. of hardening of the
arteries.
Colorado silver mines will be among
the first to benefit from purchases of
l.125.O00 ounces Of silver. which. ac-
cording to dispatches from Washing
ton. are being made by the United
States government
United States Senator Charles 8.
Thomas will go to Boston and Wash
lngton. His visit East, the senator
explained. is on legal business only
and not due to any possibility Of a
call of Congress In extraordinary ses-
sion.
Seven and half million dollars
will be spent in this state during the
100 days of the tourist season, chiefly
by eastern visitors. according to fig.
ures just compiled. by Harry n. Bur.
hans. secretary-treasurer of the Tour.
ist Bureau of the Denver Convention
Association.
Reneging on his promise to marry
for the reason that he had but $4,000.
1t is alleged. Fritz Rethmeier. mer-
chant of Mesita. failed to keep his
promise to make Mrs. Alice NJ. Redd
of Denver his wife. and the latter has
filed suit in Costilla county for &c.,
900 damages for breach of promise.
At Cripple Creek employees of the
Portland Gold Mining and Milling
Company voted upon a proposition to
provide system Of cooperative pro
lection, which. 1t is believed. will re.
suit in placing the hospital system OF
the Cripple Creek district on a PAL
with that OF mining camps such as
Butte and Calumet.
Should death end the spectacular
career of Richard Won Millar, who lies
at the Denver County hospital suffer-
ing with fractured skull as result
of his leap from the rear of fast
train as he was being brought back to
Denver prisoner. the news Will
reach and stab the heart of Countess
Won Millar. his mother, in Berlin.
Germany.
Miss Irene Scotland. for some time
connected with various loan COM
panies of which ]. l.. Wyatt under in
dictment in Texas on the charge of
using the mails to defraud. Is the head,
was given judgment against Wyatt
for $50 by a Denver Justice OF the
peace. The Judgment was for wages
and expenses incurred while running q
branch office in Chicago.
Within short distance of the ranch
house on the farm owned by Mrs.
Charles Hallack, near Edgewater.
julius Luond. 13 years old. was
drowned in a small lake