Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Jan. 1-6-Pouitry Show at Denver.
at Denver.
Jan. :O-27-Annual Western Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. c. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs
The postoffice at Williamsburg was
discontinued Oct. 81.
The Colorado Bean and Grain Com
pany has been organized to operate
at Matheson.
The Eaton sugar factory started its
1916 campaign with increased capac-
ity and equipment.
The receipts of the 1916 Colorado
State Fair were the largest in the his
tory of the fair association.
Twenty-four acres of land near Fort
Lupton produced an average of s225
per acre in tomatoes this fall.
The tax levy for Colorado Springs
will be approximately Z mills for 1917,
or .3 of a mill higher than this year.
A new wing costing $4,000 to be
equipped with a hospital ward will be
added to the Old Ladies' home in Dem
yer.
Fifteen hundred dollars worth OF
fancy, imported wines were confiscat-
ed by the Denver police bootleg squad
and taken to police headquarters.
Batteries b and C of the Colorado
National Guard arrived in FL Paso aft
er record march of more than 100
miles by wagon roads from Deming,
N NJ.
Craig, the terminus of the Moffat
road, is to have new bank building,
modern in every particular, which will
be the business home of the First Ma
tional bank and the Masonic lodge.
The Denver & Salt Lake railroad de-
clined the donation of 1000 raised by
the citizens of Hayden toward the
construction OF new depot and will
construct a two-story edifice at once.
Preparations to join in nation
wide celebration by the Knights of
Columbus in honor of Washington's
birthday next February are already
under way among the Denver mem
bers of the order.
Mrs. Ellen C. Wright. 81, widow OF
the late Andrew c. Wright, and
prominent pioneer woman of the state,
died at her home in Denver after an
illness of four days. Old age was the
cause of her death.
Notices have been sent out to repre-
sentative business men and farmers in
eastern Colorado for meeting to be
held Nov. at Limon. when plans for
the organization of the eastern Colo
RADIO commercial organizations will be
perfected
Horace G. Benson was accorded the
right to run as the Peoples party can
didate for district attorney as well as
ers in Denver when the Supreme
Court reversed the decision given by
District Judge Sheafor.
A man who was later identified as
Gregorio Lopez of Trinidad was
picked up along the railroad tracks
mile north of Starkville with scalp
wound on the back of his head. He
was taken to Trinidad hospital, but
died without regaining consciousness.
Ward district, Boulder county,
where gold and silver values are in
evidence, as well as the huebnerite
form of tungsten, is closing the year
with unusual activity. No less than fif.
teen properties are now working in
that district. many of which have been
Ue for years.
Halloween was not a forgotten date
on the calendar with the boys of Com
pany A, Colorado National Guard, on
he Mexican border The Denver boys
enioyed celebration of the event, as
related in letter received from Capt.
c II. Doke OF the First Separate infan-
try.
James O'Rourke. manager of the
Sueno de ORC Mining Company OF
Durango, reports that in the tunnel re-
Gently driven on their Mount Lewis
property, an additional ore streak has
been encountered. giving assay re.
turns of 66.32 ounces gold and 2S4S
ounces silver
Several rich silver veins have been
opened along the main fork of Light
ner creek east of the La Platas, anu
the recent phenomenal production OF
the Mary Murphy in Cave Basin dis
trict further southeast. all looks like
plenty of silver awaiting the coinage
demand of the world.
Having spent $4,000 TO prevent her
son, ]. F. Comnell. from being hanged
for the murder of two farmers 'at Su-
mol, Neb., after he had robbed a bank
in broad daylight, Mrs Ruth ConneIl
refuses to give the government $l,4O0
to make good the shortage in the post
office accounts at Insmont. Park coun.
ty, where young Connell was postmas-
ter for several years
Mrs. Herman Coors of Golden. who