Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-12-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
'estern Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.

DATES FON COMING EVENTS.
Jan. l-6-PouItry Show at Denver.
jan ri,J i1-1s-Poultry Show at Canon
Jan: 2o-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan; o-27aAnnuai western Stock
tion at Colorado Springs.
A FIGURING mill project at Florida
Mesa, near Durango, seems about to
materialize.
The Crowley county commissioners
will convert the county Jail at Sugar
City into court house.
A movement is under way for the
holding of an automobile show in
Grand Junction, Dec. 27 to 80.
George Allen, for forty years resi-
dent of Colorado, died at his home in
Denver. He was so years old.
The Pueblo City Council passed an
ordinance requiring the equipment OF
all automobiles with safety lamps.
Work has been started on the s1O.-
900 cooperative creamery projected
by citizens of Limon and vicinity.
AT meeting of the Wellington Com
mercial Club movement was
launched for the promotion of a sugar
factory.
The Fruit Growers Association at
Fort Collins is discussing the advisa-
bility of installing cannery to handle
next seasons crops.
Legislative changes in the state
homestead and marriage record laws
were recommended at meeting of the
Colorado Equal Suffrage Association in
Denver
Gen. George Washington Cook OF
Denver, famous Colorado pioneer, is
d. ling in the state asylum at Pueblo,
according to dispatches received in
Denver.
Lakeside, one of Denver's Oldest and
most famous amusement parks, is to
be sold at auction. The sale will be
conducted by the sheriff of Jefferson
county, in which the park is located.
Denver bank clearings for the eleven
months reached the enormous total of
tory of, Denver and greater than the
clearings for the entire year of 1915
by 1O4,064,251.49.
From all Indications the business of
the Denver postoffice will show an in
crease for 1916 OF more than 81 ,0O0. 900
as compared with 1915. This is the
largest gain in the history of the of
flee.
Great Britain is ready TO enter on
peace negotiations at once. provided
Germany will make an "uncondi-
tional" offer of n joint step to end the
war, according to Alfred Crebbin, Brit
ish vice consul in Denver.
The first boy born within the limits
of what is now the town of Flagler.
has Just become the first mayor OF the
new town as the result of its first
election The mayor-eIect is Leon Z.
Lavington.
Denver felt the effect of Germany's
peace proposal by an immediate drop
in the cost of living. AS a result of
Won Bethman-Hollweg's speech in the
reichstag. flour fell 20 cents per 100
pounds in the Denver market and is
now selling at 81 per 100 wholesale.
Plans for organizing 100000 Colo
rado-financed corporation for the con
struction of hotels and camps in the
national parks in the state were dis
cussed at the meeting of the executive
committee of the Denver Civic Asso-
citation.
Cooperation with the federal forest
service for the conservation of the for
est reserve ranges in Colorado. was
the principal matter discussed at
meeting of sheepmen of the Western
Slope at Rifle. according to Chief of
the Grazing Bureau John II. Hatton Of
the Denver office.
Seven Mexican women. federal pris-
oners at the Canon City penitentiary,
will be deported from the United
States at the expiration of their terms
in the spring, according to Henry II.
Moler. inspector in charge of the Den
migration Service.
4 record better than any since 1912
has been established by Denver in the
valuation of building permits issued
the filing OF the permit for the con
struction of the J. X Mullen Home for
the Aged having swelled the figures
beyond the 100000 mark. The rec
ord reached in 1912 was $5,332 900.
Basing her breach of promise suit
upon hundreds Of unusual expressions
of endearment contained in many
hectic letters which she says were
written to her by Henry P. Needham.
formerly chief clerk to the division
superintendent of the Denver & Rio
Grande railway, Mrs. Theodore De-
worse has taken action in the Denver
courts to obtain $4,000 from Need
ham.
Judgment in favor of the Minerals