Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-03-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union news Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 27-Oct S.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver.

Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Leadville is enjoying an immense re-
vival in mining.
Boulder was selected for the 1916
| meeting of the D. A. r.
The farmers institute at Limon was
success in every way.
Leno, the two-year-old son of Mrs.
Christina Zanpedre, widow, of GU.
| ray, was horribly burned and died in
| great agony.
The Denver police have been asked
| to find Michael Bass, 81, who disap'
| peared from his home in Toronto,
| Canada, IL Septe ember, 1911.
The home of Mr.. and Mrs. C. A..
Wright, residing on the old Long
place, California Mesa, two miles west
of Delta, was destroyed by fire.
Mayor Thompson of Aurora has be-
gun campaign to secure much
| needed improvements on the Colfax
avenue road through that city to
Denver.
Mrs. Mary Alice McMann, 65, widow
of Robert H. McMann, former Denver
banker, died at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. John II. Thatcher in
| Pueblo.
Judge II. McGarry of Colorado
Springs was formally chosen president
at meeting of the new directors of
the Ell Paso Consolidated Gold Mining
Company.
Ora Phillips, former chief of the
Grand Junction Fire Department, con-
victed of running a disorderly house
and sentenced to six months in the
county jail, escaped from the Jail.
The Denver, Boulder & Western
railroad has announced an increase of
20 per cent in freight and passenger
rates on its line to Eldora and Ward.
Tourist rates will not be affected.
s. N. Nye, 70, pioneer theatrical
man and manager of the opera house
at Colorado Springs from the time it
was built in the early sos until a year
ago. died in his home in that city re.
Gently.
John Knox, arrested five weeks ago
for shooting Harry Millington.
neighbor at Stove Prairie, was found
guilty OF assault to murder at Fort
Collins after one of the speediest
trials on record.
| General Carranza, leader of one OF
the revolutionist factions in Mexico,
has ordered the printing of more than
| $4,O00,000 worth of currency from a
! Denver company through his personal
representative. Salvador Catano.
An innovation in the shoe shining
business has taken its stand in Den.
yer, and modest sign, "Madge's
Shoe Shining Parlor," hanging above
the doorway Of a shop at 617 Eigh.
teenth street, is the announcement.
1t is operated entirely by girls.
A shawl ingeniously twisted into
rope and assembled like a hangman's
moose. was employed by Miss Maude
Warner. a pretty Aspen woman, in an
unsuccessful effort to end her life by
strangulation in Denver She was
found unconscious by Earl Gibson, an
Aspen man, with whom she had quar-
| Relied
| Charles R. McLain of Canon City
and Charles Il. Herr of Durango, mem.
bers of the state highway commission,
may be removed from the board be.
cause of alleged activity against the
| governors measures to abolish the
board of capitol managers and the
half.mill levy for the support of the
| board.
Leonard Imboden, who with J. A.
Hill served five years in the peniten.
tiary at Canon City on the charge OF
wrecking the Denver Savings Bank,
has returned to Denver with the in
tention, it is declared, of winding up
the business of repaying the loss sus.
tanned by the depositors of that in
| stitution.
A strike which promises to parallel
in richness the famous discovery re-
Gently made in the Cresson mine at
Cripple Creek, was reported to have
been made in the Pro Patria tunnel,
two miles from Rico, on Newman hill.
A vein of ore running $4,000 in gold
to the ton and showing width of
from eight to ten inches has been un-
covered, say reports from the district
4 The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Chivington, XII
owa county, Mrs. Edith NJ. Cowles, to
succeed A. A. Austin, resigned; Yel-
low Jacket, Montezuma county, Mrs
Matte l.. Banter to succeed C. w.
Marriott, resigned: commissions have
just been issued to Orlando NJ White
at Matheson and Irma Taylor at Red
Mesa.
Commencing the members of the
House of Representatives for their
action in purging their membership,
the first time on record that a ma
jority has expelled a member of its
!. own party, Governor Carlson delivered
in person a message to the Twentieth
! General Assembly and urged speedy
accomplishment of the pledges of the
Assembly and the administration.