Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-05-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper Union News Service

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| May 18-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 2O-ProSressive State Convention
In Denver.
June 17--Ninoteenth annual Strawber-
ry Festival and Carnival at Glen
wood Springs.
Aug. National Convention Of Rep
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly a
Denver.
A big tungsten strike has been
made at Nederlard.
Sheriff Krisher destroyed about
$3.50 worth of liquor at Ouray.
The seventh annual meeting and
banquet OF the Missouri Society OF
Colorado will be held in Denver,
May IL.
The location of rich iron mine
a few miles north of Aguilar, by
Everett Lain and Mccoy Grimsley. is
reported.
William J. Jordan was acquitted at
Cortez in the District Court of the
charge of murder of Dudley Morrf.
son at Dolores
c. C. Roberts, Rocky Ford junk
dealer. was given a sixty-day sen.
tence on the charge of receiving
stolen goods.
1t is stated that J. o. Miller, the
choice of the progressive Democrats
of Boulder, is to be the new pOstmas-
ter at that place.
George T.. Ledgerwood. 20, who
was stricken with apoplexy on his
7Oth hfrfhAnv Itnl at Marv'c hna
pital in Grand Junction.
Harry Owens and Dan Straughter
colored, were bound over at Rocky
Ford to await the action of the Dis
trict Court on statutory charges.
A. A. Peters of Denver was elect
ed secretary of the American Poul.
try Association at the annual con
vention of that organization held in
Peoria. Ill.
The report of the city building in.
spector for April shows that permits
for building operations in Denver in
that month reached s3iO,9GO. an in.
crease of $1l,37o over April 1915.
The Irish flag was floated from the
top of one of the tallest pines on the
mountain side that surround the city
OF Ouray, when word reached there
of the outbreak in Dublin.
A bill providing that term of the
Federal Court shall be held each year
in Durango. beginning next October,
recently introduced in the Lower
House of Congress, passed that body.
Another raise of 10 per cent in the
wages of all the 5000 men employed
at the Minnequa steel plant in Pu-
eblo was announced. making a total
increase of 90 per cent within few
months.
Leaving no hint of the reason for
his action, young man giving the
name of Charles p. Evans of Denver
committed suicide by drinking poison
in the American Annex hotel in ST
Louis, Mo.
The ore shipments from the Tellu-
ride station for the month of April
totaled III cars, keeping the record
up in the front rank. All these ship
ments were concentrates, no crude
ore being shipped during the month
Miss Mary Il. Teller. sister of
Justice Henry b. Teller, died at the
home of the widow of Senator Henry
Teller, in Denver. Death was due to
pneumonia, which she contracted a
week ago. Miss Teller was GO years
old.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, leading
spirit in the militant suffragist move
ment. and mother of Christabel and
Sylvia, is coming to Denver. Eng
lands most famous suffragette will
speak in Denver May 20. She is in
this country in the interests of the
Serbian relief fund.
Cashing forged money orders,
stolen with the aid of an accomplice
from the St. Louis postoffice tive
months ago, in a dozen cities over
the country, in order to keep UP an
expensive living at fashionable ho
tells, James C. McKeown. 30 years
old, was arrested in Denver by fed
eral and city authorities.
Sentences imposed a year ago on
Eugene Buchanan, cattleman of Lo-
gan county, and eight associates, by
Federal Judge Robert E. Lewis, for
interference with homesteader,
were nullified in the reversal of the
lower court by the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals in st. Paul.
MINI. The case was remanded for
trial.
Mrs. Sophie Gertrude Chellew. who
is suing the Stratton estate for a
widows share" of the late mining
kings millions, will not have the op-
portunity to air her claims before a
jury. Judge w. P. Kinney of the
County Court in Colorado Springs
has ruled that jury is not needed to
try the case, the only question at
issue being that of heirshin