Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-11-05

tion at Colorado springs.
William Harold Hurdle. IL, waa
drowned in the Eaton ditch.
The Moffat road has opened a train
dispatcher's office at Phippsburg.
The new town of Miner is making
rapid strides to get into the modern
class.
Cooks Drum corps has received
certificate of incorporation from the
state.
The eight-room house on the Bake
Bullard ranch at Stove Prairie, near
Fort Collins, was destroyed by fire.
C. l.. Depew, brakeman on the beet
run at Sugar City, was shot and prob
ably fatally injured at his home in
Sugar City.
w. A. Willis, formerly of Louisville
and one of the county commissioners
of Boulder county, died suddenly at
Rock Springs, Wyo.
Mrs. Catherine A. Nicodemus, wife
of the man slain by James C. Bulger,
denies the report that she asked elem.
ency for the murderer.
County Commissioner Frank Il. Pal.
mer of Steamboat Springs died from
injuries recently when he was run
over by wagon loaded with potatoes.
John p. Rittmayer, a hardware mer-
chant of Glenwood Springs, died OF
heart disease while visiting his
brothers, Adam and George Rittmayer
Of Denver.
The estimate of the United States
Bureau of Census at the halfway per-
lod between decennial censuses places
the present population of Fort Col
Inns at 1O.s29.
Surrounded by their children, grand
children and great-grandchildren, Mr..
and Mrs. W. l.. Bennett of Lakeland,
near Morrison, celebrated the fif-
tieth anniversary of their marriage.
While pulling beets on the Goslee
ranch near Tiff. N. Jacob, an Assyrian
"a years old, fell or was dragged from
his seat and was trampled to death
beneath the hoofs of his horses.
Employers must bear the burden of
proof that injured employees are not
entitled to full compensation under
the insurance law, according to rul-
ing by the State Industrial Commits
sion
Albert r. Cullen, for 10 years one
of Grand functions highly respected
citizens, was instantly killed neal
Bingham, Utah, where he had been
working for the Utah Copper com
pany.
The fourth veteran of the Civil wal
to answer the last summons in Boul
der in three days was Smith Miller
Raper, who died at the residence OF
his daughter, Mrs. Robert Stewart. He
was so years of age.
Three more oil and placer sites in
the Wellington region were filed on
by A. d. Abbott, ]. E. Brown. b. F.
are said to be among the choicest in
the supposed oil fields.
Statewide effort TO popularize as a
patriotic duty the use OF Colorado
made goods is what the Denver Manu-
facturers' Association is now plan
ming. The first point in the state to
join i'll these plans is Pueblo.
WIN COHllHutu luedl NtdthtI COuuf
tions, the tungsten belt is a veritable
beehive of activity just at present, SO
thick are the miners aid would-be
miners prospecting and digging for
tungsten ore in the Boulder district.
The state public utilities commission
has no right to regulate the service
and rates of taxicabs unless they com.
wifi hot
fixed points or over established
routes" according to an opinion given
the body by Attorney General Farrar
Dr. Edmund C. Rivers. drowned in
Barr Lake, leaves an estate variously
estimated at from 100000 to a little
more than $l,O00.000. AS DIR. Rivers
had no immediate relatives. so far as
known, the disposition of his fortune
is a matter OF conjecture by his
friends.
II. b. Tedrow, United States dis
trict attorney, caused the arrest of
four cattle agents in Dolores county
who, he asserts, have been burning
the cabins. killing the cattle. destroy
ing the fences and crops of home
steaders or 'nesters" seeking to make
homes on government land
Denver welcomed many distin-
guished guests-men from Africa. In
dia, China, Italy, Corea, Alaska and
cities of the United States-as dele
gates TO the National Laymen's Mis-
sionary convention which opened at
the First Baptist church. Six hum
dred and forty-one delegates, repre-
senting nearly every denomination.
registered.
Denvers first mayor. John C.
Moore, is dying at the home of his
son, II. l.. Moore of Excelsior Springs,
Mo-. according to information re-