Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-10-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

has been. opened.
day and night.
The school baseball nine at Evans
has girl manager.
The Trinidad City Council has CIV
en- it out that gambling must go.
The new $4,000 school house at
Penrose has been opened for use.
The new Hot Springs hotel was
opened at Idaho Springs Saturday.
On account of the boom in tungsten
mining Nederland will have a new ho-
tel.
Telluride Episcopalians are provid-
ing themselves with church build
ing.
A fine gravel road has just been
finished between Loveland and, Berth
oud.
Steamboat Springs Elks are petition
ing for the organization of lodge
there.
The Burlington Record issued a
daily edition during the Kit Carson
county fair.
Fred Decker attained an elevation OF
1000 feet in an aeroplane at the Prov.
ers County Fair at Lamar.
By the kick of horse in the face
Daniel Swietzer, aged ten, near Rocky
Ford, will be disfigured for life.
A peculiar September sight on the
ranch of G. G. Gericke near Grand
Junction is lilac bush in full bloom.
The Durango fish hatchery has
shipped 10000 trout fry for distribu.
ton in the Pine. Piedra and San Juan
rivers.
The "all-star" American and Ma
tional League teams will play at
Greeley Oct. 90 on their way to the
coast.
C. S. Nolan, section foreman for the
Colorado & Southern at Nola, blew
out his brains. He was lately from
Missouri.
Governor Carlson has appointed
Richard w. Lichtenheld of Denver a
member of the State Board of Barber
Examiners.
btANel aoSoClu-
tion has voted to investigate the feas.
ibility of having a wooden mill estab.
lished in Denver.
Oliver T. Jackson, for six years
messenger in the governors office,
has offered his resignation, to take II.
feet on the 10th.
Denver shippers have complained
to the State Utilities Commission for
a revision of switching charges i'm
posed by railroads entering Denver.
Col. William f. Hughes OF Denver
has sold to Texas parties tract of
Springs for consideration of $780,
600.
Edna Puffer, who has circled the
globe in the last few years as a man,
was arrested at Carbondale. Her
hobo pal says he did not know the
difference.
Carlyle Very OF Brush, while out
hunting with another boy, was shot
through the leg. Medical help not be-
ing available at once, he died few
hours later.
L. Z. Preston, riding a bicycle on
by being hit by an automobile. The
dazzling headlights of the machine
are said to have been the prime cause
of the accident.
The International Bank OF Com
merce at Pueblo closed its doors after
a run started, the Officials say, after
false rumors had been spread. They
will open again soon.
One hundred tons OF scrap metal
property OF the Book Cliff Railroad
Company, which has been accumulat-
ing for twenty years, has been shipped
to an eastern ammunition firm which
will make shrapnel of it.
John Zondek brought suit in the
Denver District Court against the I'm
ion Pacific Railroad Company for the
sum of $4,000, alleging the loss OF four
toes in alighting from a train on
which he had been permitted free
ride.
Walter S. Jones of Denver, who was
temporarily at EiDeTt, ana playing
ball with the Elbert team. was struck
on the head by a baseball and died
from hemorrhage of the brain in 3
Denver hospital, whence he had been
taken. He was 21.
A section man probably saved the
life of the five-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Williams at cad
vile by pushing her from the d. &
r. G. track with his foot as his car
rounded a curve and bore down upon
her on a grade.
One hundred and fifty farmers have
made subscriptions to the stock Of the
new milk condensary at LoYeland
which will complete the building and
install the machinery.