Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-06-04

June 1s-1s.-Strawberry Days. Glen
June ls-jHIy HMGolo,aqs Tair and
Aug. 3i-sePt. 2.-Grand Lodge. X. OF r.
aug. soo ss.as.WFaHil SHI'h Festival at Flagier.
Sept. 27-Oct. s.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
ouray will celebrate July Sc.
Fort Lupton is enjoying a building
boom.
Pagosa Springs is preparing for a
celebration on the Fourth of July.
The Masonic bodies at Ouray have
purchased the Opera House building
and will fit up elegant lodge quarters
l.. s. Dale, national field commits
sioner of the Boy Scouts, is in Denver
to conduct campaign to raise fund
of $4,000.
Leonard w. Clark, rancher living
six miles from Grand Junction, fell
dead while working in the field. Apo
plexy is given as the cause.
One of Telluride's richest strikes
was made at the third level of the
Black Bear mine, owned by the Colo
RADIO Superior Mining Company.
Increased salaries for ministers
were proposed in a report made to the
general assembly of the United Pres
byterian church in session at Love
land.
Colorado ranks eighth in a list of
fifteen states in the production OF
spring wheat. according to report
issued by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Loveland welcomed about 300 dele
gates to the fifty-seventh general as
sembly Of the United Presbyterian
church. The sessions continue from
May 26 to June 3.
His excellency the maharajah Of
Kapurthala, H. H. Jagat Jit Singh
Bahadur. with his wife, the maharanee
Prem Kaur, and his son Prince Karin
jit visited in Denver.
Ignorance of the deadly effect of
cyanide of potassium when combined
with sulpburic acid cost William T.
Craft, fifty-three years old, pioneer
Denver real estate man, his life.
Gold, currency and certificates of
deposit worth slO5. 5.594.SS were found
in a safe deposit box owned by the
late George Filbeck, German pioneer
of Denver. when recently opened.
The beginning of the forest fire sea
son in Colorado is marked by the sta
tioning of forest guard at the sum
nit of DEVILS Head, a mountain 10000
feet high in the Pike national forest.
talT ttrntl I,,.,
young actress and daughter of Alfred
Patek, former newspaper man of Den
yer. was found dead from asphyxiation
by gas in the bedroom of her home in
Chicago.
The congressional committee now
inspecting the government reclama-
ton projects will be in Colorado be-
tween June 2S and July 2, and will
go over the two federal Irrigation en-
terprises in Colorado.
Five thousand trained Italian sol
diers, prepared to go directly to the
battle front, are awaiting the govern.
ment's call in the district under Ital-
ian Consul General Chew Oreste da
Vella, whose headquarters are in
Denver.
James Farrell. alias Harry Rose,
said to have been an accomplice of
Harry Schinegge in the murder Feb
2 last, of John Brunke, assistant
cashier of the Haxtun State Bank, was
found guilty of murder in the first de.
gree by jury In Holyoke.
A total of $iS4.70i as indemnity for
deaths and injuries suffered by EN-,
ployes in the metalliferous mines OF
Colorado will be paid under the pro.
visions of the workmen's compensa.
tion law during the next three years,
according to estimates made by Fred
Carroll. state mine commissioner.
Loyalty to his country is weighed
in the balance against his life for
Oreste de Vella, Italian consul in Den.
yer. who has received black hand
letter. The letter. presumably writ.
ten by one of his own countrymen,
threatens the life of the consul if he
sends Colorado Italians to Join the
colors of their country.
The annual election of officers and
delegates to the national convention
to convene in Los Angeles in August
was held by Denver Typographical
Union No. 49, The results follow
| President. Frank J. Pulver: vice pres
ident, A. P. Knill; secretary-treasurer
+. C. Birdsall. Delegates, August
Rooster and F. L. Zimmerman.
Postmaster j. NJ Brown of Mancos
received information from Washing
ton that the new mail route for the
upper Mancos and the Thompson Pari
and Cherry Creek country has beer
established and is scheduled to star
June 16. 1t is regular rural free