Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-02-05
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO

civil service and cigarettes Will be
abolished in Colorado If two bill in
troduced in the House of Representa-
tives are passed.
| Elias Kessler, sixty-four, farmer
OF Morrison, died of ptomaine
poisoning after he had eaten cove
| oysters in Denver.
An increase of $12,224,100 in the
| value of Colorado's live stock industry
in the last year is reported by the De
partment of Agriculture.
The dead body of Glen Lee, a coal
miner, was found within 200 yards OF
the mine shaft at Rugby, where it
had probably lain for over two
months.
Mrs. Tennessee Mayfield Biles OF
| Creede, wife of former State Repre-
sentative John A. Biles, dropped dead
of heart disease in front of the Shirley
hotel in Denver.
Through the efforts of A. ]. Halter
OF Denver and Frank Burt. member
of the Panama Pacific Exposition Com
mission. Colorado Day at the fair will
be held on Aug. /.
Delegates from Denver and Pueblo
attended meeting of the all-Colora-
do committee at Colorado Springs. and
plans We're furthe-ed for the upbuild-
ing of the state.
Almost s4.OO0,000 was represented
in business transacted in the Denver
stockyards during horse show week,
lnl 81.
Stockyards bank.
BY agreement of attorneys on both
sides. District Judge Butler of Denver
continued the hearing of the legal pro-
ceedings involving the estate of the
late William Barth, multi-millionaire,
until Feb. IS.
Twin bills were introduced by Sen
ator Francis J. Knause in the Senate
providing for the definition of dope
fiends" and habitual drunkards. and
for an institution for the treatment
of these afflictions.
Juan Lopez was killed and another
person is believed to have been
wounded in a battle near Starkville.
five miles west of Trinidad, between
n posse of sheriff's deputies and a
gang of alleged cattle thieves.
Complete reorganization of the Colo
RADIO diocese of the Episcopal church
of the United States as result of
discrepancies in business management
was voted by leading members of the
church at a meeting in the chapter
house of ST. Johns Cathedral in Den
yer.
William Won Richie, alias Wallace,
and his wife, Lucy, who were arrested
as alleged counterfeiters, were ar
raigned before United States Commits
sIoner Wilbur F. Stone in Denver and
waived preliminary examination Both
were remanded to the county jail un-
der $4,000 bonds.
The President nominated the follow
ing postmasters for Colorado: Sarah
j. O'Connell. Georgetown; Robert E.
Norvell, Hayden, and Muriel l.. Hunt,
Maybell, Moffat county. Other Colo
RADIO postoffice appointments: Lewis
w. Carle, Ford: Will II. Thomas, Ma
nassa; Joseph c. Zimmerman, Peyton;
George A. Grisso, Ramah.
State Treasurer Allison Stocker is
sued to Finance Commissioner Pitcher
of Denver warrant for $4,000 to
cover the appropriation for the West
Colfax viaduct made by the Eight
eenth General Assembly in 1911. The
$4,000. which is. paid as the states
share of the viaduct cost, comes from
the state revenues of 1910.
Eugene laval. ninety-eight, for
nineteen years an inmate of st.
Anthonys hospital in Denver, died
from old age. laval had lived in
Colorado for fifty years, and before
coming to Denver was a rancher and
sheep herder in Elbert county. After
he became too feeble to work he took
up his residence at the hospital
A flight by sailboat and motorcar
from Mexicans and the NARROWING of
his party from all communication
with this country, are among the
thrilling experiences reported by Col
James IL. Shinn, former fish and
game commissioner, and II. C. Boil.
singer, member of the State Legisla-
ture, who returned to Denver after
an absence of several weeks in Mex.
leo.
The will of Frank Craig, founder of
the Craig colony. who died several
weeks ago, was opened in Denver. 1t
was read at a meeting of the state
board of the Mothers Congress, which
had been named by Craig as the ex-
ecutor of his small estate, and con-
ferred upon the congress all of his
property to be devoted to the found
ing of an institution to educate moth
ers to the necessity of parental care Of
children.
Mrs. Bessie Meyers Robinson, a