Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-10-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
The Denver trade excursionists
were entertained at Sterling.
Six persons were hurt in accidents
one day at Loveland.
The funeral of Thos. A. Cosgriff,
wealthy Denver banker, was held Sat
lrday.
Forty-six homesteaders claimed
lands at the Pueblo office in one day,
breaking all records.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hennes, 81. of Gree
ey, prominent in women's club cir
lies, died at Boulder.
The funeral of Father Michael P.
Casey of Pueblo was held from the
Cathedral of the Immaculate Concep-
ion in Denver.
Walter R. Crippen, A, native of
Golden, died at the home of his sister.
Mrs. o. N. Henry, in Denver after
2rotracted illness.
Stock raising is to be made practi-
,al as well as educational feature of
he Myron Stratton Home for the Poor
It Colorado Springs.
George Lyman. SO, veteran OF the
Civil War. who marched with Sher-
man to the sea. died at his home in
Denver after long illness.
William G. McAdoo. secretary of
he treasury, and his wife, daughter
II President Wilson, and a party of
i've, were in Denver Saturday.
Mrs. Loula Lowell, president of the
Colorado Daughters of the Confeder-
Icy, was unanimously reelected to
hat office at the Denver meeting.
Between $1,000 and $4,000 was
stolen from the La Jara State Bank
when robbers blew the safe and es-
:aped by stolen horse and buggy.
The weekly luncheon of the Cham
Der OF Commerce. Denver. was nota-
BILE for brief but vigorous boost ad-
dress by Gov. Frank B. Willis OF Ohio.
Negotiations looking toward the
purchase Of the plant Of the Denver
Union Water Company by the city and
county Of Denver have been started.
W. B. and Coney c. Slaughter were
Indicted on ninety-seven counts by
the federal grand jury for wrecking
the Mercantile National Bank at Pu-
eblo.
Securing enough labor for the farm
ers of the Greeley district is becom-
ing a serious problem, and just now
there is decided shortage of help of
all kinds.
A reception honoring Frank c.
Goudy. recently elected deputy grand
sire of the sovereign grand lodge of
Odd Fellows, was given at Odd Fell
lows hall.
The old cattle from the 10,000-acre
ranch of the Wooten Land & Develop
ment Company will be sold by George
W. Bowen, receiver, by permission of
Federal Judge Riner.
The two men under arrest at Ala
mosa charged with robbing the La
Jara State bank. refuse to say one
word regarding that crime or about
themselves.
prosperity week. is to be cele-
brated the last day of November and
the first few days of December at the
Auditorium in Denver by an electric
show and Colorado home Industrial
exposition.
The high schools of Canon City and
South Canon have been dismissed to
give the students an opportunity of
assisting the ranchers in gathering
their apple crop, which is one of the
largest in recent years.
Mrs. Daisy McLaurin Stevens. presi- |
lent general, and sixty-five Daughters
Of the Confederacy were in Denver,
guests of the local chapters, for a day,
en- route to San Francisco for the gen.
sral convention of the organization.
]. c. Roberts, for several years Den
yer representative of the United |
States Bureau of Mines, has resigned
10 become the first professor of the
DR.. Joseph A. Holmes chair of safety |
engineering at the Colorado State |
School of Mines at Golden.
Swinging around a half-circle 100 |
miles in length which took in parts
Of three counties-Logan, Phillips and |
Sedgwick-the Denver trade makers
excursion found rich fields of wheat, |
great tracts of corn bending with |
grain-loaded ears just touched by |
autumn frosts, alfalfa fields that gave |
evidence of ample yield, and in occa- |
sional instances promising young or
chards, according to Julesburg re-
port.
According to a dispatch from Wash
ington, Mrs. E. E. Eberley, sister of
the late Admiral Fighting Bob" Ev- |
ans, has inherited fortune left by |
her sister. the late Mrs. James Steven
son, of Washington. D. C. Although |
Mrs. Eberley was apprised some time |
ago that her sister had willed her es-
tate to her. three other sisters have |
been contesting the will and the Den |