Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-01-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Grocers' aud Butchers Association
as Pueblo.
Jan. l9.-Sixth Annual Convention of
Colo. Good Roads Assn at Denver;
Jan. 19--Fifth annual convention Colo
rado Division Pixies Pcak-Ocean-to-
Ocean Highway Association. at Dem
Jan: is-es.-wes,ern Live Stock Show
Feb. 11-i2.Annunl convention Colo.
rado Metal Mining Association, at
Feb. Is-Meeting Republican Stale
Central Committee in Denver.
March s5"Aprii :-cetoraao Retail AZ
industrinI EEnssition at Denver.
II is said Colorado produces eighty
per cent of the tungsten in the United
States. ....
Boulder was selected for the next
show of the Northern Colorado Poul-
try Association.
Colorado Springs was visited by a
terrific windstorm, and destruction to
farm property was reported.
Four generations were present at
the Christmas dinner given by Mr..
and Mrs. A. w. McQuown at Eaton.
The Rev. Phillip Schmidt, pastor at
Loveland. will be forced to defend his
citizenship in the District Court at
Fort Collins.
Effie Thomas, % years old, was the
first woman to be arrested In Denver
for intoxication since the dry" law
went into effect.
Thirty.two arrests have been made
in Las Animas county for alleged vio-
lation of the Colorado prohibition law
since the law became effective, Jan. l.
Peter Miller, G2, mechanic and
pioneer of Colorado Springs, was run
down by an auto and died an hour
later from his injuries at hospital.
How would you like to own a herd
| of cows like one in Montrose county
which gave birth to five calves In u
year-triplets last January and twins
in December?
Gateway, mining town southeast
of Grand Junction, was cut off. by
| heavy snowstorm, from outside COM
munication, and food and coal sup
plies were reported short.
A silent search, conducted several
months by his wife, Mrs. Anna Floyd.
owner of q ranch in Arapahoe county,
resulted in the arrest of N. A. Floyd.
&c years old, on n charge OF bigamy.
Bulkeley Wells. president. and NJ. b.
Tomblin, secretary. have issued call
| for the third annual convention of the
Colorado Metal Mining Association.
to be held In Denver on Feb. IL and
IL.
| Following an attack of grip, Col. T..
C. Ramer. seventy.eight formerly
treasurer of Larimer county and men,
ber of the Republican State Executive
Committee. died in his home at Fort
Collins.
The annual congress of the Saliva
ton Army OF the western states
opened in Denver with Commissioner
Thomas Estill, commander of the or
ganizatioh in twenty-siX western
states, presiding.
Dispatches from London indicated
that Edward Rose. former Denver
youth who took passage on the Per
sia. which was torpedoed near the Is
land of Crete, may have perished
when the liner went down.
An inheritance tax of s93,05s.OS was
paid to the state upon the estate Of
Dennis Sullivan. Denver millionaire
banker. who died last October. 1t was
paid to Leslie f. Hubbard. state in
heritance tax appraiser, after he had
fixed a valuation OF $1,423.072.
A White orpington hen belonging to
J. b. Carruthers Of Colorado Springs
was adjudged one OF the finest in
America by c. p. Van Wrinkle. judge
at the exhibition given by the Colo
RADIO Poultry Fanciers' Association at
the Auditorium in Denver.
Secretary Redfield. head of the Ma
tional Department of Commerce. has
invited Secretary Thorndikc Deland
OF the Denver Chamber of Commerce
to attend two-day conference of com.
mercial secretaries of Chambers Of
Commerce in all of the larger cities
OF the country in Washington Feb. 4.
The addition of six sections of land
| to the Rocky Mountain National Park
is provided for in a bill introduced in
| Congress by Congressman Timber
lake. the sections include Gem lake,
Deer mountain and the Twin Sisters
| district. The bill also asks an appro-
priation of $4,000 to improve and
maintain the park.
The bank clearings in Colorado
| Springs for the year 1915 showed an
increase of s3.766. .441.14 over those for
the year 1914, according to figures CIV
en- out by George e. Nolte, secretary
| OF the Colorado Springs Clearing
House Association. The total for last
year was s36.232, ,597.73, as compared
with total of s32,46G, 1869 in 1914.
Thirty.five Japanese men residing