Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-12-17

| Jan. 3-Annual convention Colorado
Jan. S-S.--Farmers' Annual Congress
at Fort Collins Agricultural College.
| Jan. 4-S.-Colorado Kennel Club Show
Jan. s-IoSsixteenth annual show of
| Colorado Poultry Fanciers Associa-
Ian. 17-19.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Grocers' and Butchers, Association
Ian. 16-22.-western Live Stock Show
March 2o-ApriI 2.-Colo rado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
The Fort Collins milk condensary
is in operation.
The new elevator at Craig is N
running order.
National Prohibition Day was OBJ
served Sunday.
The secretary of state has received
1000 tags for autos for 1916
Harry C. Davis was elected presi-
lent of the Denver Bar Association.
The bandit who robbed the Manitou
bank of $4,000 seems to have made
good his escape.
Denver business men have guaran.
teed $4,000 for the Western Stock
Show in January.
Over 100000 acres OF Colorado land
has been designated as being under
the 320-acre homestead law.
The tenth annual convention of the
Delta County Livestock Association
will be held in Delta Dec. 80.
By will drawn three years ago,
Mrs. w. II. Dickens was given the en-.
tire fortune of the murdered Long
mont banker.
Oscar Cooks appeal for rehearing
was denied by the Supreme Court
and he is to be executed during the
week of Feb. 2.
Orchard Park Baptist church folks
at Pueblo are to be prohibited from
selling or giving away intoxicating
liquors on the church site"
Francis + Roberts, once widely
known as an inventor and railroad
builder, died at the home Of his daugh.
ter in Denver, at the age of 81.
The body of Charles Anderson, 81
years old, prospector Of the early
days, was found at the bottom of a
200-foot precipice three miles from
Ouray.
Frank b. Ahrold, who committed
suicide In Salt Lake after shooting
and dangerously wounding Mrs. c. G..
Grenshaw, leaves a wife and thre1
children in Denver.
A man named owen. in Jail at
! Bisbee, Ariz, is charged with being
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Mitchell. of Walsenburg, last Septem-
ber.
Informations were filed in the Dis
trict Court at Boulder by District At
torney W. II. Fleming formally charg
ing Renzie Dickens with the murder
of his father. W. II. Dickens, at Long
mont, Nov. 30.
Rabbits OF all sizes and descrip-
tions, numbering 700, were distribut-
ed to the poor in Denver from the
Salvation Army hall The gifts were
presented to Lieut.. Col j. w. Cousins
by George A. Pughe OF Craig.
Occupancy of Denver's new federal
building by the Postoffice Department,
| and many other branches of the gov
ernment by Jan. / has been assured
the officials, according to an an
nouncement made from Washington.
Oscar Cook, sentenced to death for
the murder of Patrolman William Nc
Pherson and A. J. Lloyd in Nalverde
saloon four years ago, was taken from
the Denver county jail to Canon City.
Execution has been set for some time
in the week of Feb. 20.
Thomas b. Stearns, president of
the Denver Chamber of Commerce,
declared that from information he
has received he was firmly of the
opinion that a munitions plant and
an army training school would be
authorized by congress and that Colo
rado will get them both.
The double escape from death OF
William C. Ramsey of Fairview ranch,
who was taken TO Denver and placed
in hospital, is the most remarkable
adventure that has been reported so
far from the mountains this winter.
Both of Ramsey's feet were frozen,
and while he was crawling along a
| trail after the accident he was mis-.
taken by friend for bear and came
near being shot.
The marital status of Mrs. Caroline
Palmer Travis Davis, who is 72 years
old, was finally fixed by Judge Perry
of the District Court in Denver by
the granting Of a decree annuling the
marriage of Mrs. Davis to Henry T.
Travis. which took place at Ironton,
Wis, in 1865. Mrs. Davis had thought
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years, had remarked again, been dr.
vorced, and then suddenly discovered
that Travis was still living