Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 14-Grand Lake Yacht Races.
Aug. 14-Colorado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs.
AIS. iS-i9-pickie Day and Fair al
Aug. 2I-CeIebration of the opening Of
the new State Highway between Del
Norte and Pagosa Springs. at Du-
Aug. 22- -25-Annual Convention. Grand
Aug: al Sept. Apple Pie Days at
Sept. 5-S-Boulder County Fair at
Sept. 5-S-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan. .
Sept. 11-Meeting Midland Trail ASS
Sept. 1S"is.Irarvest Festival at Num-.
Sept. 1s-23-State Fair at Pueblo;
ut Trinidad.
The oasis hotel at Collbran was de-
stroyed by fire.
Tungsten miners in Boulder county
are striking gold.
Many new residences are being
built at Fort Morgan.
The Pea factory at Loveland has
concluded a run of three and one
half weeks.
Mrs. Geo. Plummer, of Fort Collins,
died from injuries received in run
away accident
The Northern Oil Company has
commenced explorations in Axial
Basin, Moffat county.
The Montrose Creamery manufac-
tured 1895 pounds of butter in one
week. its record output.
Capt. Thomas n. Gimperling, who
has been on duty at Fort Logan. has
been ordered to the border.
A complete new plant of mining
machinery is to be installed in the
Corando shaft at Leadville.
A streak of high grade hubernite
has been opened up in the Try and
Trust group near Silverton.
A beautiful mountain picnic ground
in Bear creek canon is a new posses
sion of the people of Denver.
The graveling OF the road between
Berthoud and Longmont within Lari-
mer county has been completed.
Denver probably will secure one OF
the new federal farm loan banks, au-
thorized in the act recently signed by
President Wilson.
Harry l.. McGinn of Denver, for
twenty-five years conductor on the
Union Pacific railroad, died at Mercy
hospital after brief Illness.
Soldiers and civilians. old men and
young. matrons and maids-in brief.
all citizens of Colorado joined in cele-
brating the 10th birthday of the state.
Further expenditures of 100000 in
reconstructing the east and west
wings of the Denver Union station
has been authorized by the Union
Station Company.
A head-on collision between an au-
tomobile and a street car caused. the
death of Mrs. Cora Newland, 40 years
old. and serious injuries to two other
persons at Greeley.
For the first half of 1916 the Lead
Vile district claims value output OF
10000 900 compared with close to
SO, 900 900 in the first half of 1915,
gain of &C per cent.
A Boulder report says that in spite
CT the dullness of the tungsten mar
ket. not one of the numerous mill
projects under construction through
out the Boulder district has been
abandoned.
T. Tom Naito, 81 years old, a Japa-
neses. proprietor of a Denver noodle
factory, was struck by lightning and
instantly killed while riding on
motorcycle just beyond the end of the
Globeville car line.
Two cloudbursts that visited the
Grand junction section of the West
ern slope did property and crop dam
age estimated at between 100000 and
s25 300. Four bridges on the Plateau
creek were washed out, each bridge
having two spans.
When Luther Wolfe. railroad tim
ber contractor. shot and fatally
wounded Roy Smith. an employee, he
rdid SO in self defense, coroner's
jury decided in Denver. The shooting
occurred at Wolfe's home in the
Platte river bottoms.
Charles S. Davis of Colorado Lodge
No. l. of Denver, was elected su-
preme vice chancellor of the Knights
of Pythias from field of four can
didates. according to telegram from
Portland, Ore, where the supreme
lodge held its meeting
A case of infantile paralysis which
is said by DR.. William H. Sharpley,
city manager of health and welfare in
Denver, to be Every light and not in
epidemic FORM" was reported to the
municipal health department. The
sufferer is little girl years old,
living on Capitol Hill.
A. Il. Patterson of Los Angeles, one
of the drivers entered in the automo-
bile races for the Penrose cup on
Pixies peak Aug. 10, IL and IL, was