Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-21

wood Springs.
Racing Association at Denver
Sept. 27-Oct 8.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denx J
The jitney busses gave up the ship
at Pueblo.
May % will be Better Roads Day at
Fort Morgan.
The thermometer registered 9O' in
Denver on the 18th.
Two fires at Telluride caused a loss
of more than $4,000.
The telephone company has cut the
rate to Fort Morgan users.
The Buffalo Head mine near Pitkin
promises to become a rich producer.
Claims have been filed against the
Barth estate for nearly $4,000 law
yer's fees.
Mrs. Charles Foljambe, for thirty
years resident of Denver, died in
Philadelphia.
Work on the Grand River Oil and
Gas Companys well at DeBeque is
progressing favorably.
One man was killed and two serious
ly injured by falling rock at the road
Canon City.
P. ID. Zimmers, one of Denver's early
settlers and general contractor in
the city in the sos, died in Fairplay
from penumonia.
The Monarch Madonna Mining Com
pany has purchased the air compress
ing plant of the Salida Copper Com
Dany and will ramoyo II IN Moparcb
Blossom Day" at Canon City called
out 5000 persons. The apple. peach,
pear, plum and cherry trees were
radiant with the highly scented
flowers.
That DIR. ]. S. Fox of Silverton, rep
resentative in the Twentieth Assembly
from San Juan county, perished with
the Lusitania is the belief of many of
his Silverton friends.
Charles w. Scott, tried for the sec
ond time on white slavery charges,
was found guilty in the West Side
Court in Denver after the jury had
delfberated for a half hour.
A handsome brick hotel, similar to
the Antlers in Colorado Springs. will
be built in the park facing the Salida
depot, II the heirs to the donor of the
ground will give their consent.
After wrestling with the PROPOSE
ton for day and most of night the
city council let contracts to the ex-
tent of s66.O67.73 for the rebuilding
of the Montrose city water system.
Shriners from many parts of Colo
RADIO and some from New Mexico will
gather In Trinidad on May 81 to at
tend a ceremonial session, at which
time class of fifteen will become
Mobiles.
Rodney Curtis, Denver capitalist
and pioneer who died April &c in San
Diego. Cal, left fortune of between
$1,00O.0OO and $1,25O.O00, according to
estimates by Denver persons who are
closely in touch with his affairs.
Letters and remembrances from
her children and friends will be the
dredth birthday that Mrs. Alice Harri-
son of Denver will allow. She will
attain the century mark of life,
May 2s.
A stranger compelled the cashier of
the First National bank of Granada
to hand over s5l5. the cash in sight,
then forced the bank force into the
vault and departed. Later the bandit.
Roy Cotter, was captured and the
money recovered.
Mrs. Maria Stannard, nineteen,
principal witness for the state in tho
second prosecution of C. w. Scott for
white slavery, testified in the West
Side Court in Denver that she had
turned over to Scott in one month
more than 5000 earned last fall
kilograms received by Denver rela-
tlves of Hyman Rosenbaum, for many
years prominent in the cattle industry
of Colorado, declare that he shot him.
self at Vancouver. B. c., after killing
his partner and dangerously wounuing
his partners son in a quarrel in their
office over the management of the
business.
At Pueblo. while his wife lay in bed
with their eight-year-old daughter, c.
J. Preston fired two shots at her from
rifle, the first missing and the sec
ond hitting her in the left arm. He
then went into the kitchen and shot
himself, and will probably die. Mrs
Preston is not believed to be serious
ly injured.
Col. Jared L. Sanderson, pioneer
stage coach driver and one of the
picturesque figures in the early South
west, died at his home in Boulder at
the age of "a. Colonel Sanderson or.
ganized the first stage freight passen-
ger and mail from Kansas City to all
parts of the Southwest and the Pacific
coast. He brought the first packet of