Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-02-18

Industrial Exposition at Denver.
April 13-Democratic State Convention
at Pueblo.
Las Animas county is soon to have
a county agriculturist.
An "All Together for Denver rner
ger dinner has been set for Feb. is.
At a public sale on farm near
Center, yearling heifers brought
s64.50.
Allison Stocker, state treasurer.
formally announced his candidacy for
governor.
President Wilson nominated Sam
uel w. Barber as postmaster at Chey-
enne Wells.
The Republican Newspaper Associ-
alton will hold its annual meeting in
Denver Feb. IL.
Capt. Douglas H. Jacobs of Fort
Logan died in the post hospital of
Bright's disease.
There were 714,330 books loaned
from the Denver public library and
branches in 1915.
The Industrial Commission reports
that up to Feb. 10th there have been
6,647 accidents since Aug. 1.
The body of Delos A. Chappell.
Denver capitalist was taken to Kala.
mazoo, Mich, for interment.
Nj. and Mrs. James Magee. old-time
residents of Denver celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary.
The death of Thomas Addison
Lewis of Pueblo occurred at Holly
wood. Cal, suburb of Los Angeles.
Wellington Gates, chairman. issued
call for the Democratic state CEN
tral committee to meet in Denver,
Saturday, March 4.
The Republican Editors Assocla-
tion held its annual convention in
Denver. with Geo. w. Johnson Of
Longmont presiding
Joe Cippollone, an Italian. was cleo
trocuted in the Victor American Fuel
Company's coal mine at Chandler by
accidental contact with a transmits
sion wire.
Mrs. Agnes Salber, who has been
confined in the county jail at Trini-
dad since Dec. 9, 1915. charged with
the murder of her husband, was rec
leased from custody.
The immediate resignation of Con-
gressman Ben c. Hilliard as a mem
ber of the Denver School Board was
demanded in resolution passed at n
meeting of the Denver Taxpayers As
ISOLATION
The funeral of Franklin L. Brooks,
former Congressman from Colorado
and one of the most widely known
lawyers in the state was held in Colo
RADIO Springs from the First Baptist
church, Sunday afternoon.
A total of S03 men and women were
received and cared for ON the county
farms of Colorado from July /. 1914
to June 80. 1915, according to figures
which have been compiled from an
nual reports by the State Board of
Charities.
Appeals at St. Louis gave an opinion
which upholds the right of the Den
yer Utilities Commission to issue
bonds up to $S,G0O.000 under the char
ter amendment for the building of a
municipal water plant.
In celebration of Lincoln's birthday
in Denver, all the public buildings
were held by patriotic and civic So
cieties all over the city, probably the
largest demonstration Icing the dedt
eating of the new steel flagpole 1t
the capitol.
Patrick w. Lawler, 81 years old.
former member of the Denver police
| department and in recent years
| rancher near Broomfield, was instant
~ killed when n wagon in which he
was riding was struck by a. Denver &c
Interurban car at the Copeland cross
ing north of Globeville.
Barely forty-eight hours after his
son, Douglas A. Roller, and his nurse.
Mrs. Mary L. Robinson. were shot
during q struggle with a burglar in Il
room next to where he lay sleeping,
William w. Roller, "A, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. J. Meyer,
Jr., in Denver. Death was due to
uremic poisoning.
A twelve-day blockade of railroad
traffic in southwestern Colorado was
lifted Monday. Delayed and regular
traffic over the Denver & Rio Grande
moved out of Durango and Alamosa.
The line over Cumbres pass was
cleared of drifts from six to thirty
feet deep, ending the longest stop
page of traffic over this road for sew.
eral years.
With net income for the twelve
months of s2,316,175, and plans under
consideration for growth and extern
sion, the Mountain States Telephone