Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-07-30


Oct. 2-9.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Denver.
A business boom is on at Roggen.
VIM. B. Osborn of Loveland cele-
brated his 91st birthday.
Virginia Dale people have incorpor-
ated a telephone company.
Cherry picking has started at Fort
Collins. but the crop is short
A. T. Flood is postmaster at Tip
perary, a new Colorado postoffice.
Many enjoyed fine strawberries at
the Steamboat Springs festival last
week.
Leslie Pettyjohn of Pagosa Springs
was killed in an auto wreck near Fori
Garland.
Arrangements are being made fol-
the Prowers county fair at Lamar,
Sept. $3.50.
The cattlemen's celebration at Gun
nison was largely attended and en-
joyed by all.
site has been selected for per-
manent live stock building on the
Trinidad fair grounds.
Heavy damage and a loss of nearly
$1,000 resulted to two local firms as
the result of a raid on Sterling by
yeggmen.
The Iron Mask mine at Red Cliff
heaviest producer in Eagle county and
one of the most valuable mines in
the state, has been taken over by the
Empire Zinc Company.
A fine baby boy of regulation weight
and healthiness was born to DR.. and
Mrs. w. A. E. DeBeGue, at DeBeque.
DR.. DeBeque. who is "A years old, is
receiving congratulations from scores
of friends.
Mrs. NJ. ]. Baron, AZ years old. who
cut and slashed herself at her home,
1914 South Pennsylvania street. Engle-
wood, in an attempt to end her life.
is fighting for existence at the Little
ton hospital.
Governor Carlson went to Cheyenne
Friday to attend the Frontier Days
celebration. Governor Kendrick sent
a special invitation to the Colorado ex-
ecutive to be his guest during the an
nual roundup.
After having been in litigation for
thirty-one years. the Tabor mine, in
the Monarch district which in the
early days shipped some ore valued at
$4,000 a ton, Is to be reopened under
lease acquired by F. c. Watson of
Garfield and Harry E. Mathews Of
Salida.
The accidental discharge Of a gun
in the hands of a companion came
near resulting in fatality at Love
land, and George Shaffer, aged IA, lies
at the Sutherland hospital in a criti-
cal condition from the effects of
gunshot which perforated his intes-
tines in dozen places.
The attempted disposal of diamond
rings and brooches made in Boulder
by a young man whose description fits
that of one of two men suspected by
the police of completely in the murder
of Isaac Solomon and the looting of
his pawnshop in Denver, has extended
the police search for the murderers
into northern Colorado and Wyoming.
Suit for $1,000 damages against the
Cedar Hill Coal and Coke Company
was instituted in the United States
Court in Denver by Mrs. Maria Mourt-
zoukou of Greece because of the death
of her husband. Spyridon Mourtzou-
kou, in the company's Greenville mine.
rock fell from the roof of the mine
and crushed him to death Oct. 20,
1914.
The telephone directory and build
ing permits show that Denver is grow.
ing steadily. The March directories
have total of 4S.S5O subscribers
against 44,50O in 1914. The last issue,
published in July. shows a total of 49,.
700 against 1900. The building per-
mits to June 80 amount to s1,464, ,44O,
against Sl,2S6,020 for the same period
last year.
Governor Carlson by telegraph sug-
gested to Secretary of the Navy Dan
tels the name of Oliver p. Fritchle of
Denver, electrical engineer and inven-
!or, as that of a possible member of
he civilian board of inventors being
organized by the secretary and
Thomas A. Edison to devise defensive
means for the nation.
According to a dispatch from Wash
ngton, the body of Ralph Dusell, for
ner college student at Fort Collins,
vas found near Newcastle, Wyo., a
short distance from the spot where
he biological survey camp with which
lie was located was swept away in
he night by cloudburst. The re-
Mains were sent to Canon City for
burial
While searching a mountain side for
bear" Neal Wright, the 12-year-old
boy whose testimony in the West Side
Tpurt in Denyar raoapt,y froad III.