Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-09-17

Sept. 27-oct. International Dry
Oct 2-s.-Fair and Race Meeting at
&c conventlon H"a at e:eG% coIorado sa@h Springs.
Forty-eight persons have taken the
civil service tests for Denver jobs.
An exceptionally heavy yield OF
beans is reported in the Loveland dis
trict.
big tabernacle has been erected
near the county jail at Grand juno
ton.
Ten men were taken In a raid on
an alleged gambling den in Engle-
| wood.
Lack of sufficient classrooms ham
pers the Boulder university as enroll
ing begins.
Frank Taylor and Oscar Schwartz
were arrested near Alamosa on a
charge of rustling cattle.
The Colorado Agricultural College
opened the new year at Fort Collins
with 457 students registered.
Ira Meyer of Colorado Springs is re-
ported to have been badly beaten by
Arthur Robinson, discharged ranch
hand.
w. G. Coffran. 6S years old. who
went to Denver in 1878. was married
to Mrs Mary f. Dodson. Mrs. Cof-
fran is SO years old.
President Wilson and Postmaster
General Burleson have been invited to
attend the official dedication of Dem
ver's new postoffice building Nov. Is.
Governor Carlson has ordered all
offices in the state house to remain
open until o'clock on Saturdays,
thus ending the summer half holiday.
The boom in tungsten property is
gaining force and volume every day
and Nederland is now the center OF
observation among mining men of the
state.
John E. Matthews and Miss Mabel
Van Dyke Of Arvada were fined $40
and costs, each. amounting to about
500. for the beating given Edward
Purdy.
Miner, the newest OF Routt county's
towns. is a lively place. and promises
to become an important center in the
coal fields of the northwestern part of
the state
The Cotoppaxi cutoff road will be
completed by Sept. 81 and the event
will be celebrated at Echo, under the
auspices of the Canon City Chamber of
Commerce
That the Fort Morgan sugar cam
paign will begin the latter part of the
month and continue 12O days, is the
man 10 f;yurio0 -
this time.
With score of 9s.1 points, the
Chandler first aid team of Fremont
county won the annual first aid con-
test at Walsenburg. given by the Vic
tor-American Fuel Company.
The harvest festival at Fort Morgan
Sept. IA to IL will be a big event, as
the cup for the best non-irrigated dis
play has spurred the farmers and
ranchers to prepare some fine ex-
hibits.
Logan b. Crawford, superintendent
of the Routt county fish hatchery, has
been selected by the government as
supervisor of predatory animal control
for the district composed of Colorado
and Wyoming.
The claim of Mrs. Nina Thomas, "a,
of being the youngest grgandmother in
Denver, is disputed by Mrs. Vestie
Kasson. 80, who was married at 16. and
her daughter was welded at IA and
became mother at Is.
Mary Crosivich. 9-year-old daughter
of John Crosivich, wealthy Austrian
groceryman, was perhaps fatally in
jured when she was pinned beneath
her fathers automobile on the Santa
F'e trail. east of Pueblo.
Workers from all parts of the state
will attend the jubilee convention of
the Colorado w. c. T. U. at Trinity
NJ. E. church, in Denver, Sept %. %
and "a. Mrs. Adrianna Hungerford,
state president. will preside.
A new building and improvements
to its plant at the Denver Union stock.
yards which will cost 100000 are to
be made by Armour & Company. The
order has already been issued for the
beginning of construction work.
General crop conditions in Colorado
are excellent and the outlook good in
spite of general deficiency of rain.
fall on the Western Slope, according
to the weekly weather and crop re-
port issued by District Forecaster F.
II. Brandenburg of the Denver wealth
er bureau.
Judge CRANKY Hillyer called the
criminal docket for the September
term OF District Court at Trinidad,
but as the appropriation of Las Ami.
mas county for prosecuting criminal
cases has been nearly exhausted it
is expected that several of the strike
cases will be continued until the De-