Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-11-19

Nov. 29-Dec. 4-Electrical Prosperity
Nov. 40 Dec. 4-Electric Prosperity
Dec. 6-1IsAnnuai Exhibition Pixies
Peak Rabbit and Pet Stock Associa-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Trinidad fire boys will give their
annual New Years ball Dec. 81.
Robert Rockwells barn on his
ranch near Maher was destroyed by
fire.
A case of scarlet fever was reported
at Berthoud, and the public schools
were temporarily closed.
City Engineer Goeder reported that
the Fort Collins filter plant buildings
are located on state lands.
Work is starting with rush on the
new coal properties of Moore gulch.
fifteen miles west of Steamboat.
Howard Morton, 1S, of Grand juno
tion was run down, run over and left
badly injured by party of unknown
motorists.
1t is stated at Alamosa that the
Mosca oil fields has been abandoned
by the Texas oil drillers-M. E. Layne
and assistants.
Anton l. johnson of Wild Horse has
been appointed a commissioner of
Cheyenne county. He succeeds Charles
g. Fox, resigned.
The sugar market is undergoing a
furry, and has caused an advance in
prices unequalled since the start of
the European war.
A westbound Manitou car struck
and killed 3-year-old Alice Boyd while
she was playing with groun of child
rem at Colorado Springs.
The new Denver Union station was
formally dedicated when 80 members
of the Chamber of Commerce lunched
In the resplendent dining room.
An hour after he boasted to a friend
that he never had been i'll in his life.
John Dulmaine, 90, of Grand Junction.
dropped dead at Cheyenne hotel.
The new state highway over Wolf
creek pass into the San Louis valley
will be logged and published in the
1916 issue of the Automobile Blue
Book.
streak of ore running sixty per
cent in tungsten has been struck on
the Argentine lode above the Tobin
mine In the famous Argentine district
at Georgetown.
An increased production continues
from operations now carried on by
the company and lessees on the Pay
master and Commonwealth lodes in
East Argentine district.
Civil service examinations are to be
conducted in Denver December for
three federal positions in the new
postoffice, first and third-class steam
engineer and electrician.
Washington Aldridge. 10, charged
with nonsupport of his daughter, Eve.
lyn May, in charges preferred by Mrs.
Viola Aldridge, his divorced wife. was
acquitted by a verdict of the jury in
Denver court.
Go-to-church Sunday will be con-
tinued throughout the month of No
vember and the four Sundays will be
celebrated instead of one, as had been
planned, according to announcement
by Denver ministers.
The biggest mining bonanza struck
in Boulder county in many years, not
excepting even the recent rich discov.
cries In tungsten, is the lease of
Tommy Mohr and ]. A. Wasson on the
Alice mine at Jimtown.
B. e. Bradley. former Denver news
paper man and for the past several
years general manager of the st.
Louis Post-Dispatch, has purchased
ranch OF 1,720 acres about thirty
miles west of Fort Collins.
small gas explosion, occurring in
one of the back entries of the Tabas-
CO mine near Trinidad, rendered sew
eral men unconscious for a short time
and caused Tom Dennison, pit boss
of the mine. to sustain broken leg.
W. B. Slaughter. president of the
defunct Mercantile National bank OF
Pueblo. was denied permission by
Federal Judge Lewis to examine the
accounts of the institution in prepar.
ing defense to combat the charge OF
embezzlement.
The Mesa county commissioners
have placed the road over Grand Mesa
to Alexander lakes on the list of sec.
ondary roads of Mesa county, mean.
ing that the road will receive atten.
tion next in Importance to the primary
roads, on which the state funds are
expended
Lawrence A. Neville, in complaint
filed in the District Court at Fort Col
Inns, charges that his brother beat and
bruised him to the extent that it re.
quired 800 worth of medical work to
patch up the injuries. His feelings and
earning capacity were damaged even
more, he alleges, and he asks s1O. O.OOO
damages