Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-10-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Oct. 1S.-Odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Greeley has a lady barber.

Morley.
Joe Wallace died at Pryor at the
age Of II.
Three deaths from meningitis have
occurred at Chrome.
Denvers night school for advanced
pupils has an enrolment of $50.
Harris is to have its first school
house soon, bids having been called
for.
Mrs. ]. d. Hallett was shot at Man
cos while starting to attend a we'd
ding.
Mahlon Lappin, aged II, died at
Walsenburg as the result OF a run
away accident.
Homestead entries il Las Animas
county during. August and September
numbered 800.
1t is reported from the state peni-
tentiary at Canon City that Harold
Frank Henwood is insane.
The laying of the cornerstone of the
new schoolhouse at Flagler was at
tended by Masonic ceremonies.
The $35, 900 boad of John r. Lawson
has been provided by Werner y. Reed
and former Senator T. NJ. Patterson.
An Oklahoma man has written to
the Palisade Chamber of Commerce
that he wants to locate a mill there.
The International Fuel Company,
which recently began operations at
Harris, has made its first shipment OF
coal
Sherwood Crocker, chief deputy
state bank examiner, has resigned to
take a position as federal bank ex.
aminer.
Judge E. X. Caldwell of Pagosa
Springs died at Cedar Hill, N. M,
while on a business trip. He was 73
years old.
All Greeks employed by the Oak
Creek coal mines expect to leave in
few days for their native land to de
fead the flag.
A brakeman named O'Heron, new al
the job. on his second run was crushed
to death while attempting to couple q
freight train at Johnstown.
A threshing machine and four
stacks of grain were burned near Mil
liken when spark from the engine
caught in one of the stacks.
The Denver Manufacturers Asso-
citation will hold a Denver products
show at the Chamber of Commerce
building, to continue nine days.
Fire losses in Colorado Springs for
the first nine months of 1915 were but
s6,736, the lowest in the history of the
city for the same length of time.
The Rev. Francis S. Beggs, pastor
of st. James NJ. L. church, Denver, is
dead. He was &c years old and had
been a minister for fifty-five years.
The first carload OF machinery to be
installed at the plant of the River
Smelling and Refining Company south
of Florence has arrived on the ground.
A man was found dead on the rail.
road track at Auit and papers in his
pockets led to the belief that his name
was w. F. Brown, residence unknown.
Charles Nelson. railroad employe
of thirty years service and lately a
d. q Il. G. crossing flagman at Trim.
idad, died suddenly of heart disease,
| aged 60.
George Harbold, who was thrown
| from coal wagon few days ago
when his team ran away. died at the
county hospital in Denver. He was
CO.
The Colorado Equal Suffrage Asso-
citation. opposed to capital punishment.
has asked Governor Carlson to COM
mute the sentences of James C. Bull
ger and George Quinn from hanging
to life imprisonment.
A motion to quash indictments
against seventy-five defendants in
criminal cases growing out of the re
cent coal strike, were denied without
argument, by Judge ]. II. Denison in
District Court at Walsenburg.
Thirty-one indictments we're re-
turned by the county grand jury at
| Grand Junction against f. +. Udlock,
president of the Udlock Investment
Company. In default of bond in the
sum of $4,000 he was sent to Jail.
Whether Robert l.. Parker, Sc years
old, of Center, Tex, a witness in the
suit of Mrs. Sophia Kennedy against
the estate of w. S. Stratton, will be
allowed to testify, is one of the nice
points of law 10 be threshed out when
the case comes up for trial in the
County Court at Colorado Springs. An
instrument which was filed in the
County Court there and has become
part of the records in the case. indi.
Gates the defense will bring up this
point on the ground that Parker is an
Interested party.
Humane officers in Denver are OF
the trail of the dog poisoler. Six val
liable members of the canine family
have been victims during the last few
days.