Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

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Sept 5-s-Boulder County Fair at
Sept. 5-s-Frontier Days. celebration
Sept. 1i.Meeting Midland Trail Assn
Sept. ls-is.I1arves. Festival at Mum.
Sept 27-29-State Convention B. p. o. E.
| at Trinidad.
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
Ian: 2o-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
John Hartman, Al, railway con-
ductor, was killed in an auto accident
at Pueblo.
Civil War veteran Nelson II.
Parker, 80 years old, died at his home
N Denver.
Jewelry to the value of $240 was
stolen by burglars who entered the
home of Mrs. Ella Ackridge in Den
ver
Many unique attractions have been
arranged for the silver anniversary
Arkansas valley fair at Rock Ford,
Sept. 1924.
Plans have been concluded for the
reorganization of the Colorado Yule
Marble Company and the termination
of the receivership.
Gladys Welborne, II, of Denver,
committed suicide because her mother
refused permission for her to marry
Lieut.. John Street, of the National
Guard.
Geo Holmden who threatened to
kill Buel, at Byers, was sentenced to
six months in jail, but on agreement
to leave the state, sentence was sus-
pended.
A contract for two miles of the
Fall River road running through the
Rocky Mountain National Park was
let for $1O,SOO. Work will begin I'm.
mediately.
The Pixies Peak region is to be
made famous in series of. poetic
;ingles from the pen of Walt Mason,
the famous uncle Walt" of EN-.
poria, Kans.
Pueblo has put aside its own ambi-
ton to secure one Of the twelve farm
loan banks, and has offered to aid
Denver in securing the coveted finan-
cial institution.
The city OF Denver had a cash bal
ance of 1857, 10000 June 30, accord
ing to the report of City Auditor
Markey, for the first six months OF
the calendar year.
Mike Bargues, "a. was shot in the
stomach and fatally wounded by
Sadie Lawson. with whom, the po-
lice say, he had been living at 1909
Elm street, in Pueblo.
Denver will send delegation of 200
representative business and profes-
sional men to the meeting of the
Knights of Pythias grand lodge of the
domain of Colorado at Greeley.
The net operating profit of the Ray
Consolidated Copper Company, in
which Colorado Springs men are
heavily interested, during the second
quarter of the year was sS,22G, ,749.2S.
The first farm loan bank to be or
ganized in the west under the new
federal rural credits act, which be-
came effective last month, was an
nounced by a group of Denver bank
ers and financiers.
Mrs. Florence Bayard Hlles of
Delaware. national organizer for the
Congressional union, arrived in Den
yer TO begin two weeks campaign
IS organize the Woman's party for
he First District.
Charges of statutory nature were
lied by the district attorney in Den
yer against Lieut.. Jack Street of A
uocp, Colorado National guard, in
connection with the suicide of IL
year-old Gladys Welborn.
A movement to obtain for Colo
redo the proposed government nitrate
plant, for which Congress recently
authorized s2O.O0O,OOO, was inaugur.
ated by the coal operators of Denver
and by the Civic Association.
A wide range of labor topics are
dealt with in the annual report of
Jchn McLennan, president of the
Colorado State Federation of Labor.
submitted to the convention of the
federation at Colorado Springs.
Returns from all sections of Colo
tado on the present crop conditions,
just on the eve of the big harvest,
leave little doubt that the state has
a right to rejoice on the showing
which has been made and to look for
ward to increased prosperity as a re-
suit of the abundance of the yield.
Increased values of the products of
S21 mines in Colorado during 1915, as
shown in the records compiled by
Charles w. Henderson of the United
States Geological Survey, include ev-
cry metal except silver, with a total
increase in value Of s9,966,571 over
the total value of mine products of
the preceding year.