Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-03-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Repubilcan convention at Coiorauo
Springs
April 26-Annual Convention Western
Colorado 1. o. o. F. at Grand juno
tion.
and Fourth Congressional District
Converts ion at Pueblo.
May 1s-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs
Aug. S-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
There are 7,40O automobiles in Dem
ver
Boulder miners are busy and pros
porous.
Strawberries are on the Denver
market.
Denver will vote on the Mayor form
of government before May A.
March II was tag day for the Or
phans at Sacred Heart in Pueblo.
Bids will be opened April for
Loveland's new school building.
One person in each twenty-seven
in Colorado owns an automobile.
In the recent reports, Colorado
banks show large increases in depos-
its.
There is excitement four miles
south of Salida on account of tungs-
ten strike.
The practice of naming farms is
growing in popularity, especially in
northern Colorado.
1t is stated that many farmers are
being "stung" in the purchase of seed
for spring planting.
Over 200 Puebloans are ready 20
form a company and serve the U. 5.
in its hunt for villa.
The Georgetown tunnel has now
reached a depth of some 800 feet,
and is being steadily driven ahead.
William James Ginniff, who sue
ceeded Frank Craig as superintend-
ent of the Craig Colony, died in Den
yer.
Tom Pitts of Montrose. was con-
victed of bootlegging, and fined $40
and given ninety days in the county
jail.
Observance OF st. Patrick's Day in.
cluded one of the most elaborate pro
grams ever planned by Irishmen of
Denver.
George A. Blinn. county commits,
sioner of Arapahoe county. died at
his home in Clark Colony. from heart
disease.
Five months in the county jail was
the sentence imposed in the West
Side court in Denver upon II. NJ.
Roberts, convicted of "bootlegging.
The giant skeleton OF dinosau-,
the most complete one ever found in
Colorado. is to be exhibited in the
Colorado Museum of Natural History
at Denver City Park.
Sioux Indians from the Pine Ridge
agency, South Dakota, arrived in Den
yer to go on the War Path" at the
Pure Food Show at the Auditorium
which opens in Denver Monday.
Four big Denver bond houses may
take, individually or collectively, be
tween sl0,O00.000 and S15.0O0,O0O Of
$75.OO0.0O0 5 per cent bonds just is
sued by the Dominion of Canada.
George B. Dodge, for many years
widely known railroad official. in
Colorado, died at the family residence,
in Denver after an Illness of three
weeks. He was 81 years old and d
son of Col. d. c. Dodge. a Colorado
pioneer railway builder.
Cider, unless sterilized becomes an
Intoxicating liquor and thus falls un
der the ban of the state prohibition
lazy, according TO a report made by
John Lynch, state pure food and drug
commissioner, to Attorney General
Farrar.
A committee of fifteen. represent
ing members from each of the patri
otic societies in the city, met in Dea.
yer to make plans for a commemor.
.tion of the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the Grand Army of the
Republic April 6.
Practical efforts are being put
forth by the Denver Bureau of the
government division of irrigation in
vestigat!ons maintained by the De
partment of Agriculture to render
tilIable again 100000 acres of ricn
irrigated lands in Colorado that have
become water-logged principally
through over-irrigation.
Denver's five national banks and
the five principal savings banks have
gained s1,769,152 in deposits since
Dec. 81, and $20.i69.702 since March
{. last year, according to the state
ments of condition on March I, which
were prepared by the various institu-
tions at the order of the comptroller
of the currency at Washington and
the state bank commissioners.
A full and unconditional pardon was
granted by the governor to Sherman
w. Morris. alias Frank Shercliffe,
who was sent to the penitentiary IN