Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-22

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sociation Meeting. in Denver
| Jan. 1S-23.--Horse Show and Midwinter
Fair at Denver.
State Auditor Mulnix appointed his
son, Fl. b. Mulnix, chief examiner to
succeed W. II. Porter.
The Colorado and Wyoming Lumber
Dealers Association will hold con
vention in Denver Jan. 10 to 81.
Saul Epsteen, state insurance com
missioner, rendered his resignation to
Governor Carlson to take effect March
15.
Denver. Washington and Newport.
Isle of Wight, felt the shocks of the
earthquake which shook parts of Italy
last week.
Hiram Pierce of Fort Collins died
of pneumonia at the residence of his
son, Robert Pierce. in Denver. whom
he was visiting
A jury in West Side Court in Den
yer brought in a verdict of not guilty
in the case of C. w. Scott. charged
with white slavery.
A. S. Angel. eighty-three years old
died at his home in Denver. He. was
born in Newport and came to Colo
rado twenty-three years ago.
High-grade ore valued at $1,000 was
stolen from the Patrick Connors lease
in No. shaft of the Little Jonny mine
at Leadville at the 7o0-foot level.
Mrs. Julia y. Bishop, 81 years old,
died at the home of her son, William
c. Bishop. in Denver, from an attack
of pneumonia. She came 10 Colorado
in 1865.
The Cudahy ranch has added 1880
acres OF land to its holdings north OF
Rocky Ford, the ranch containing at
the present time between 1000 and 81
900 acres.
A balance of $1.246.2l1.46 in cash
was turned over to State Treasurer
| Allison Stocker by former Treasurer
I.eddy, when Stocker assumed control
Of that office.
Dairy products sold in Colorado dur
ing 1914 returned approximately $3,-
| 100000 to their manufacturers, ac-
cording to the annual report of State
Dairy Inspector G. E. Morton.
The school children of Colorado
Springs have entered into the spirit
of the Chamber of Commerce in ad-
vertising the Pixies peak region with
an enthusiasm that promises big re-
suits.
Five damage suits. filed as result
of the giant powder explosion in Boul-
der in 1907, against the Colorado &
Southern and the receiver of the
Northwestern Railway Company, have
been settled out of court.
The Louisville bank of Louisville
was turned over to the state banking
department by the ownership of the
believed it to be the best way to safe
guard the patrons of the bank.
immigration is going to be a slogan
of the Carlson administration-imm
grafton of good, honest, desirable for
eigners to Colorado by systematic
methods, provided the Assembly sets
aside money for the State Department
| handling this subject
Colorado Legislators are planning to
| rid this state of habitual users OF in
furious drugs by providing an irri.
gated farm on which will be built a
hospital and industrial school. to
which drug iiends will be sentenced
| and cures attempted.
The Montrose city commissioners
| expressed Willingness at their meet
| ing to make the necessary appropria-
tion for the purchase of the Mountain
park which Congress has granted the
city up in the Sawtooth range, 500
| acres at a cost OF $3.50.
r. c. Cowan. Y. NJ. c. A. man and
superintendent of Craig colony, lost
| his sixteen-year battle against tuber
culosis in Denver and died. Cowan
was known among patients of the
| colony to have feeling for their wei
fare similar to that of Frank Craig,
eral weeks ago.
The city and county of Denver is
saved approximately 100000 that it
might have been Obliged 10 pay out
in back salaries, and is under no obi.
cation to reinstate about 300 former
| employees who were discharged at
various times following the extension
| OF the classified service on June J.,
| 1918, through a decision handed down
| in Denver by Judge Butler of the Dis.
| .rict Court.
Two weeks have satisfied Hugh
| Walker and Viola Smith that they are
not soul mates, after all. Walker
wants to return to his wife and eleven
nonths-old baby girl, whom he left
without penny. Dec. IS, last. to run
away with Mrs. Viola Smith, wife OF
Herbert Smith. Mrs. Smith wants her
husband to come to her with the three
pretty boys she left behind her in her
hurried flight from her home near
| Denver.