Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-01-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan. 3-S.-Farmers Annual Congress-
Jan. 4-s.-coiorado Kennel Club Show
Jan. s-ioSSlxteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
Jan: 17-1s.-MeetIng Colorado Retail
+ Groeers and Butchers Association
Jan. 1s.Dsixth Annual Convention of
colo Good Roads Assn at Denver.
Jan. i6-22.-Western Live Stock snow
Feb. Injecting Republican State
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. 16-1S-Sports Carnival at Steam
March 26-Aprii 2.-Coforado Retail
Merchants. Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Delta is to have 6OO-ton sugar fac.
tory.
The new Denver postoffice building
is now being occupied.
The Prohibition penalty law be-
came effective Jan. 1. ..
Grand Junction Is to have another
big elevator early the coming sea-
son.
The railroads have made half-fare
rate for the Western Stock Show at
Denver.
lie beuF6T lOuTlSI buIGdu LOO
opened its campaign to raise $4,000
for advertising Colorado.
Boulder is planning the erection oil
new building as an assembly hall
on the Chautauqua grounds.
The Woman's Club OF Denver held
special services New Years to cele-
brate Colorado's first Dry" day.
Denver churches celebrated the
coming of the New Year and the pass
ing of Wet Colorado Friday night.
The State College at Fort Collins
will invest s29.5OO of its $1sS,000 Ag-
gle endowment fund in state securi-
ties.
Temporary insanity. induced by q
protracted attack of grip, is believed
to have led Alfred l., Yarrow OF Den
yer to end his life.
San Juan county bids fair to soor
become one of the largest producers
of tungsten ores in Colorado, ant
probably in the United States.
Mrs. Ella Monk Mayo, wife of Dud-
ley Mayo and an early.day society
belle OF Denver. died at her residence
after an illness of ten months, which
resulted from fall on the Icy pave
ment.
After a two-day search for 15-year
old Dorothy Merrill of Sterling, who
left her home to go to Sunday school
it developed that she had eloped tc
Denver and was married to Albert l.
McCulloh of Fort Collins.
The body of an unidentified man
of about 40 years old was found In q
haystack on the Copeland ranch, 8
few miles north of Globeville. He
apparently had frozen to death seek
ing shelter from the cold.
Joseph Kuykendall, SO, first mayor
of Leadville, died at his home there
Grippe, resulting from cold he con
tracted several days ago, was pro
nounced by the attending physicians
as the cause of the death.
Cutting off his relatives with 81
each. among them two Denver heirs
George A. Grund. wealthy broker o!
Kansas City, Kan, left the bulk OF
his s15O.0O0 estate to his lifelong
friend, Henry McGrew, OF that city.
The Public Utilities Commission
will issue orders compelling all pri
vate and public owned corporations
to install the same system of book.
keeping in order that the business OF
the companies may be gone over
quickly and without SO much red
tape.
In the hope of proving that the bul
let which killed w. II. Dickens al
Longmont on the night OF Nov. 30 wai
not fired from the gun which wa;
found at the home of Rienzi Dickens
members of the Dickens family EN-
ployed an expert crime investigator
from Auburn, N. Y.
More than a score of Denver meu
and women, among them laborers,
dressmakers and rooming.house keep
ers, gave accommodates" notes tc
John Cusack. former cashier of the
First National Bank at Wellington
which later involved Cusack in trans.
actions for which he is on trial in the
United States Court at Denver on a
charge of embezzling 100000 of the
institutions funds.
The suit of the State Board OF
Equalization, which seeks to compel
Clair J. Pitcher. Denver county as
SCISSOR. to raise Denvers valuation
| SIS, ,0OO,0 will be fought in the Dis
trict Court on the ground that "the
raises made by the Colorado Tax
Commission on the property involved
were made arbitrarily, capriciously
and unlawfully and as matter oil
guess and chance" according to the
answer filed in the case by the city
attorney'S office