Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-24
COLORADO
STATE NEW S
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COMING EVENTS.
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Oct. 2-9.-Fair and Race Meeting at
| Denver.
Oct. ls.-odd Fellows Annual State
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Trinidad Elks have purchased site
on which to erect a home.
Coloflats is the name of a new post,
office in Las Animas county.
The Craig City Council has awarded
contracts for municipal water works.
The sheriff's force raided a gam.
bling joint at Valdez and arrested two
| men.
Forty bushels of wheat to the acre
is the harvest of L. ]. Halverson of
Peetz.
Fire destroyed the barn and gran
airy on the L. G. Newell ranch near
Paonia.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. d. Shaffer of Den
yer celebrated their fiftieth wedding
anniversary.
Fire destroyed the conveyor house
at No. / shaft at the Rockvale mine
near Florence. .s
About 600 carloads OF Elberta
peaches have been shipped from the
Palisade district.
The oil well near Paonia is down
1850 feet, and Indications are report
ed better all the time.
Telluride has one of the best high
huiI in In ha of 10 tuh ha
size of the town is considered.
Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw. mother OF
Harry X. Thaw, spent day in Dem
yer on her way to the California ex-
positions.
Articles of incorporation Of the Car
notite Reduction Company, a 100000
concern, were filed with the secretary
Of state.
Charles S. Gilman. 60 years old and
mining man OF Denver, died at his
home of paralysis. from which he had
suffered for ten years.
The commissioners Of Las Animas
county have agreed to set aside $4,000
for the purpose of employing an agri-
culturist. beginning Feb. /.
Fort Collins men have bought a
large number of lambs in Wyoming to
feed this winter. Prices range SIG
l.25 higher than a year ago.
Gangsters waylaid and beat up six
pedestrians on Fifteenth street In
Denver. There were ten or twelve of
them in the gang, according to their
victims.
william o. Macy, druggist, was
shot twice through the hand In an
encounter with bandit who attempt.
ed to hold up his establishment at
Colorado Springs. -fr
The thirty-ninth session OF the Uni
versity of Colorado began at Boulder
with a larger faculty. and probably a
larger student body than at any time
since its foundation.
Undersheriff Bennett of Arapahoe
county is pursuing c. w. Leach, al
legged forger. who passed from Den
yer to Littleton. leaving behind him
chain of worthless paper
Eddie Coy, a balloonist and para.
chute jumper, fell 1900 feet and was
fatally injured in view of a crowd OF
$4,000 people who were watching his
exhibition at the State Fair.
Plans were set afoot at a meeting
Of editors and Pueblo Commerce Club
members at Pueblo to strengthen the
Colorado State Fair and bring that in
stitution up to the highest standard
Mrs. Venus Reiter De Remer, di-
vorcei wife OF Leslie De Remer of
Denver, is married for the second
time TO DR.. Reiter, a wealthy Chicago
physician. News of the wedding has
reached Denver.
Denver is one OF thirty-sIx out of
sixty-eight cities reported that show a
gain in building for the month of Au.
gust. The permits issued for August,
1914. aggregated sl5O.62O, and for last
month s179,sl0.
Fifty men are searching the noun
tains in the region between Grand
Lake and Estes Park for the Rev.
Thornton r. Sampson of Austin. Tex,
| who has not been seen since Sept. 3,
when he left Grand Lake to walk to
Estes Park
The hearing on the demurrer of the
| secretary of state to the application of
| the representatives of the home rule
government to require referendum
on the statewide prohibition law at
the next election was continued by
Judge Perry of the District Court in
| Denver until Sept. 25.
Mrs. James l.. Jenkins of Denver
refused to accept $3.50 in full settle
ment for the injuries sustained by her
nine-year-old daughter, Julia. in rail
road accident at Burnham year ago.
after her husband and her attorneys
had announced that the sum was sat