Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-06-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Aug. 1-Celebration Colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary of Statehood. at
Aug. 2-National Convention of Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Dem
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
Denver.
Apg. is-i9-Pickle Day and Fair al
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. of r., at Greeley.
Sept 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
Sept 27-29-State Convention B. p. o. E.
at Trinidad.
The Congregationallsts held their
annual conference in Colorado
Springs.
The Christian Endeavor societies of
Colorado held a three-day session at
Greeley.
Jay Gould, son of George J. Gould
and director in the Rio Grande South
ern railroad, was visitor in Denver.
If present plans are carried out the
West Colfax viaduct in Denver will be
formally opened to traffic abou.
July 15.
Roy Matz was arrested by the fed
eral authorities in Fort Collins on the
charge of cutting government timber
without a permit.
Arthur E. Rockwell, 43 years old, a
private in the fifty-sixth Indiana
regiment during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war. died in Denver.
President Wilson nominated the fol-
lowing Colorado postmasters: James
L. Gordon. Springfield: Oren F.
Frary, Durango; Amy r. Kruchten,
Flagler.
With 1000 acres of the finest tim
ber land in Colorado destroyed, the
forest fire near Mt. Evans was re-
ported Wednesday by telephone to be
gaining.
State Treasurer Allison Stocker
announced he had made arrangements
for the cashing at par of all warrants
drawn for maintenance of the Ma
tional Guard.
The Colorado Springs branch of
the Red Cross Association, has under
taken a contract for furnish 500 COM
fort bags for the men in the Colorado
National guard.
The decoration of the iron cross
was conferred upon Henry Plambeck,
second lieutenant in the German
marines, a nephew of w. F. Palm
beck of Denver.
Word has reached Colorado
Springs of the suicide at Flagler of
James Madole. 27. son of Samuel Ma
dole, one of the wealthiest residents
Of eastern Colorado.
The society of Colorado Pioners
held its twenty-fourth annual picnic
in Denver and celebrated the fifty
eighth anniversary of the discovery
of gold in Colorado
The Tomboy Gold Mines Company,
operating near Telluride, crushed
$4,000 tons of ore in May, from which
it collected $4,000 in bullion and $685.
900 in concentrates. Net profit for
the month was $4,000.
Pretty girls of Denver have volun-
tered their services in bringing up
Colorado's state troops to full COM
plement. Business and professional
men of Denver offered to give their
time and their money to aid.
No trace has been found of the
seller or former owner of the mystic
rious .3S caliber Fourhand and Wads-
worth gun, which was used by the
murderer of Mrs. Cora Rosella Allyn.
wife of Charles Y. Allyn, at their
home in Greeley.
Denver has made its first formal
and much amazed bow TO the khaki
Girls" when several members of the
First Aid Corps to Company l. o.
the state militia appeared on the
downtown streets in their new drill
uniforms.
One of the first brides to be led
to the altar in Denver since the call
to arms was sounded was Miss BERTHE
Brinkman of Glenwood Iowa, who
was married at st. Marks church to
DR.. Thomas b. Lacey, battalion quar-
termaster of the Third Regiment of
the Iowa National Guard.
Colorado troops of the National
Guard are to be rushed to the border
for service as quickly as possible. I'm
der urgent orders issued by the War
Department the Colorado troops are
to be entrained by battalion and
squadron, no unit waiting for others,
just as quickly as that battalion or
| regiment or squadron is recruited to
minimum strength.
Fred Jones was declared guilty OF
murder in the first degree by jury
in the West Side Court in Denver
The penalty was fixed at life impris
onment. Jones was convicted of kill
ing William Cabler. an aged watch
man at the Union stOckyards, April
p of this year. Ralph Bertram, who
was charged Jointly with Jones,
| turned states witness in the case