Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-11-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan. 20-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan. :o-27-Annual Western stock
Show at Denver.
Feb 2-4-Y. NJ. G. a. Annual conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs is planning the
construction of municipal audito'
rum.
1t is announced that stock COM
pany will establish pickle factory
at lone.
Registration at Colorado Springs
shows gain this year of 1900 over
that of 1912.
The Denver Trades and Labor as
sembly has gone on record against the
so-called herd law.
Warden Capp has been granted a
stay of sixty days in the custer suit
brought against him.
A spur of the Santa Fe railroad is
under construction to the Wolf Park
coal mine near Canon City.
A difference of legal opinion is turn
ing the city of Boulder into popular
marriage resort for the divorced.
Organized labor was host to vii.
liam b. Wilson. secretary of labor, on
his arrival in Denver from Cheyenne.
Suit has been filed in the Denver
District Court by Mrs. Maggie Marks
against Samuel and Max Levy, brok-
ers, who failed recently at Bisbee,
Ariz.
The annexation of Englewood to
Denver was recommended to the real
estate bureau of the Civic Associa-
ton of Denver at its meeting by
special committee.
Alleged evidence of fragrant fraud
and forgery in connection with the
initiation of the so-called "herd law"
has resulted in an investigation by
the September grand jury.
The house of bishops of the Episco-
pal church elected the Rev. Frank
Hale Touret, rector of Grace church in
Colorado Springs, to the position of
missionary bishop for western Colo
RADIO.
With a parade of beautiful floats
more than two miles long and JOY
making carnival. Denver celebrated
the increase in Colorado manufactur-
ing and the success of her first home
products festival.
The slow but deadly effect of mer-
curry poison, taken by Mrs. Matte
May Foster, 10 years old, resulted in
her being removed to st. Joseph's
hospital in Denver in an effort to
save the young woman's life.
Telluride reports that leasers on the
old lines property at Sawpit have re-
Gently opened a good streak of ore
after sinking about seventy-five feet,
which has encouraged them to fur
ther effort and expense.
Reports from Breckenridge. where
the Tonopah Mining Company is op-
Grating three dredges, state that the
output of placer gold from that dis
trict during the month of August was
in the neighborhood of $4,000.
A jury in Judge Perry's division OF
the District Court in Denver awarded
Mrs. Hattie Morris, wife of Ed Nor.
ris, S105 damages for the loss of her
dog, Trixie, who died as result OF
injuries inflicted by r. A. Settle.
In the White Raven mine at Wari
tEere has been opened up good pro.
ducing vein at depth of 414 feet and
600 feet from the shaft. Three cars
OF ore shipped from the mine last
month netted the owners s6,lG9.
At Leadville Warren +. Page has re.
opened the Progressive property on
North Fryer hill, adjoining the Har-
ward, and is now engaged in cleaning
out the shaft and old workings on the
first level at depth of $50 feet.
With no idle houses in Breckenridge,
Kokomo, Robinson or Montezuma. and
with brisk demand for miners in
all of these camps, Summit county is
enjoying the best fall season for min
ing in long period of time.
An uphill fight to provide the nee
essaries of life for a sick husband and
herself proved too much for Mrs
Henrietta Dabney, 20 years old, so
during fit of despondency, she took
her life in her room at a Denver
hotel.
Recent market advances in flour
and sugar will not cause further in.
creases in the price of bread and pas,
tries in Denver, SO far as the master
bakers are concerned, according to
Benjamin p Bower. president of the
association.
The first actual accomplishment in
relieving the statewide freight car
shortage materialized when the Den
yer & Rio Grande raised the embargo
imposed ten days ago against the
shipping of apples from the Western
Slope in boxcars.
The annual convention of the Colo
RADIO Parent-Teacher Association and
of the Mothers Congress closed in