Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-04-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
tern Newspaper Union New. Service.


DATES COR COMING EVENTS.
April l3-Democratic State Convention
May First Congressional Dlstrie,
Repnbiican Convention at Colorado
April 2s-AnnuaI Convention Western
Colorado 1. o. o. F. at Grand juno
April 29-May s-Food show at Colo
May ,2..;;-Republlean State and Third
Convention at Pueblo.
May ls-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 2o-Progressive State Convention
In Denver.
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
Denver.
The old Spaulding hotel at Colora-
do Springs has been sold for $4,000.
Ben B. Lindsey OF the Juvenile
Court was threatened with death in
letter he received in his courtroom in
Denver.
Two prisoners attempted to saw
their way out Of the Denver jail in
previously planned.
The annual district convention OF
the Knights of Pythias will be held
n Montrose on Wednesday and
Thursday, June 7th and 8th.
Sydney w. Strut, known among
friends and associates in Denver for
fifteen years as S. w. Clayton,
dropped dead in his rooms in the Den.
YER Athletic Club.
One of the largest land transac-
tions of the year was closed at Wat
kins, when Ernest A. Reeves sold
1860 acres of improved, non-irri-
gated land and 13O head Of cattle to
George Adee of Iowa, for 800.
Cyril Tuckfield of Denver was
named as principal for the naval
academy at Annapolis by Senator
Charles s. Thomas, under a recent
act authorizing an increase in the
number Of cadets at the academy.
The aggregate number of building
permits issued by the city Of Denver
during the first three months of 1916
exceeded the figures for the same pc
riod during 1918 by $5OO.0OO. accord
ing to the report of the city building
inspector for March. ..
Activities of the Rockefeller found
alton in aiding the poor and unem-
ployed during 1915, as well as its sup
port Of non-affiliated organizations.
are set forth in report made public
in New York. The relief funds pro-
vided included $99,9S4 given to the
Colorado state committee on unem-
ployment and relief.
Weddings and bad checks were fea.
lures in the experience of two men
who have been landed in Jail in Gree
ley and Idaho Springs as a result of
ers' Association in trying to run to
earth men who have been charged
with series of forgeries in various
sections of Colorado.
Monday, April II. will be red let
ter day in the annals Of the members
of the Greeley lodge of Knights OF
Pythias, for on that evening the
crack drill team of Denver Lodge No.
Al, numbering lis men, and accom-
panied by fifty or more other mem
bers Of the lodge, will visit the Gree
ley lodge and give an exhibition Of
the work Of the team.
Last year Colorado farmers har.
vested 1.S2O.O0O tons of sugar beets
at gross selling figure Of $10.i17.000.
This year. when the beet sugar indus.
try in the United States is seriously
crippled by lack of German seed,
these same farmers should harvest
more than 2.500.000 tons OF beets. and
sell them to the sugar companies for
more than s15,5OO.oO0.
Naming six women in as many
towns in almost as many states, AMI
limiting at several more women whose
names and whereabouts she does not
know. Mrs Ada NJ. Hollowell of Den.
yer filed suit in the District Court for
divorce from George A. Hollowell.
Mrs. Hollowell also charges that her
husband kidnapped her four children
while they were living in Fruita.
Miss Dorothy Merriweather was
overcome with emotion and forced tc
leave the courtroom at the West Side
Court in Denver while waiting to
testify for the state in the case OF
DR.. Robert ]. Mason, charged with
conspiracy in performing the opera
tion that caused the death of her sis
ter, Miss Ruth Merriweather, in De
cember, 1914.
In three important decisions the
State Supreme Court declared in
substance: Col. James c. Bulger
must be hanged during the week of
May 81 for the killing of Lloyd f.
Nicodemus. May 6. 1914; the petition
for a referendum vote on the civil
service law passed by the last gen.
eral assembly is void, and the city
and county of Denv1- cannot compel
the State Insane Asylum authorities
to accept patients from Denver
| county.