Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-04-23
COLORADO NEWS
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All Parts of the State

Sept 27,oct. .s.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
The new NJ E. Church at Uncom-
pahgre has been dedicated.
A number of new members have
been added to the Montrose Chamber
of Commerce. 4-
Many Colorado farmers are making
their places distinctive by giving their
farms name.
The Fanny Crosby Memorial Sunday
will be observed by the Denver
churches on Sunday, April 25.
The Ouray Commercial Club has in.
augurated campaign to advertise
the advantages of Ouray county.
sufficient acreage has been con-
tracted for beets to run the factories
at Las Animas and Rocky Ford.
E. H. Wadsworth, Grand Army
veteran and resident of Denver for
fifteen years. died at his home.
Thomas Kyner. ST., seventy, pub
Usher Of the Cripple Creek Times,
died Of Bright's disease in Kansas
City.
Mrs. Sarah E. Carstarphen. who
died at her home in Denver, was a
classmate and playmate of Mark
Twain. and was herself famed for her
wit.
Henry e. Lutz, special assistant in
Denver to the attorney general of the
United States, has sent in his resig-
nation to Washington, to take effect
May 1.
Traces OF oil have been found at a
depth of 1,40O feet at Sable, a station
on the Union Pacific railroad, a few
miles east of Denver, by the Mid-Colo-
rado OIL Company.
Mrs. Margaret H. Hutchison dropped
Denver. Her husband, William c.
Hutchison, died suddenly in similar
manner Dec. 20, 1910.
The Charles Meyers ranch near Ell.
bert, considered one of the best farm
properties in the state. was sold to
Rufus Gordon Barr and N. L. Vermil.
va of New York for $4,000.
One of the oldest Odd Fellows in
Colorado. William Bennallack, pioneer
o.
from cancer. at the home of his daugh.
ter, Mrs. Charles Truscott, in Denver.
Mrs. Edward Dunegan, OF Montrose,
whose husband was caught under
pile of falling flour and killed, was
given $1,000 by the Milling Company,
who also paid the funeral expenses.
Plans for giving wide publicity to
IL ttr,1 - ror
rado and for advancing and cementing
its interests as tourist center. will
be outlined at a meeting in Boulder.
Michael Carroll, Denver's Oldest
resident, aged ninety-eight years seven
months and three days, died at the
home of John F. Advert. Bronchitis
caused his death after an Illness of
three days.
Isadore Spangler, owner of the
Canon CityCripple Creek district auto
stage line, was dangerously injured
several miles below Cripple Creek
when his autobus collided with the
buggy of Elbert Tremaine, promi.
nent ranchman.
The total appropriations made by
the Twentieth General Assembly were
approximately s3,4O6.OO0, or s5SO.00O
in excess of the total revenues of the
state for the same period. as based
on estimates compiled since adjourn
ment of the Legislature.
One of the largest delegations OF
stockmen that ever left the Denver
yards on a booster trip pulled out
from the Union depot on special
train for Douglas, Wyo., to attend the
annual convention of the Wyoming
Stockgrowers' Association.
Carl NJ. Lindquist, president, founder
and largest stockholder of the Lind
quist Cracker Company, and for many
years prominent in Denver through the
part he took in the business, political
and philanthropic life of the state. died
at his residence of oedema of the
lungs, a dropsical condition brought
on by muscular rheumatism.
Rewards aggregating several hun
dred dollars will soon be out for the
murder of Frederick c. Matson, TWEEN
ty-four, who was killed in his shack
at Fort Logan. The county commits
sioners at Littleton appropriated 5000
out of the county fund. The Abbott &
Schaberg Lumber Company, Matson's
employer already has offered 500.
One of the beneficial results that
business men and bankers forecast
for Colorado as a result of the i'm.
proved financial conditions now be
ginning TO be evident throughout the
country is renewal of investments
in irrigation enterprises, resulting in
the completion of many large systems
in the state that have been thrown
into financial difficulties by unfavora
BILE conditions and in some cases by
mismanagement on the part of Off
cials of the companies affected.