Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-03-17

| at Pueblo.
May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
Springs
May 2..-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
May 1S-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly at
Denver
Longmont cattle feeders are getting
top prices for their stock.
Weld county potato growers have
Joined the State Association.
The date for the 1917 annual West
ern Livestock Show will be Jan.
2C.24.
Ex-Governor E. M. Ammons was re-
elected president OF the Western
Stock Show Association.
1t is stated that Mesa county cattle
men will oppose the submission of the
proposed herd law to vote in No
vember
Thos. B. Mitchell, IS, pioneer
Washington county farmer and promi-
nent G. A. r. man, died at his home
at Akron.
There will be more than forty-five
classifications of business groups in
the new Denver Civic and Commercial
Association.
A meeting of representative negroes
of the United States is to be held in
Denver next June to protest against
the treatment of the race in this coun
| try.
Clarence H. Olmsted, president OF
| the Olmsted Investment Company and
a resident of Denver for forty years,
was found dead in his office in
Denver.
A loss of $4,000 was sustained by
the Colorado Alfalfa Meal Company oil
Niwot, when fire destroyed its $685..
900 mill, and machinery and stock
valued at $25.000.
Henry NJ. Blackmer was chosen
president of the Midwest Refining
Company at a meeting of the directors
in Denver, following their selection
by the stockholders.
In a collision with an automobile
driven by Arthur w. Fawbush, car.
penter of Denver, Ezra Cooper, IS.
suffered fractures of both legs ami
several deep scalp wounds.
George w. Bixler was named chair
man of the fourth annual cleanup.
ard.paint" campaign, to be conducted
with the hope of making Denver
thoroughly spotless town.
An Ismont report states that Il
" Q f--yft down
Platte Canon destroying some of the
finest timber of the Pike National Re.
serve, and doing great damage to pri-
vate property.
With the arrest of eleven persons
| eight of whom are youths II and Is
years old. Denver police assert they
have cleared up scores of automobil.
tool and metal thefts committed with
in the last year and have recoverei
loot valued at several hundred dol
lars
The Denver Charter League filed
petitions containing 9,S4S names, call
ing upon the city commissioners to
order special election on the pro
posed charter amendment seeking to
ernment and substituting the mayor
system.
Confirmation of the report thai
Charles Dewitt Miller, an American
engineer. had been killed in the Villa
raid on Columbus, N. NJ, was received
in Denver by the young mans father
r. ]. Miller. from an older son, John
nf M h1 t,
Columbus to verify the report.
One of the largest awards ever
given by Colorado courts to an in
jured workman for loss of an arm
was sustained by the State Supreme
Court when it upheld the Judgment of
the Denver District Court granting
$4,000 damages to Fred Klankman
against a coffee and spice company.
Out of $50 elk shipped from Yellow
stone National Park this winter, Colo
RADIO secured 100 head Fifty of these
were purchased by the syndicate of
capitalists who built the automobile
road up Pixies Peak. and have been
turned at liberty near that road, to
serve as an added attraction to tour
lists.
A. NJ. Forbes, "a years old, formerly
of Denver, tols at Cripple Creek that
he had represented himself to be heir
to an estate worth s3,C00,00O in order
to obtain money, and had engaged the
services of friend to find him a
wife to promote his alleged swindle.
| Forbes was sentenced to serve d
term in the state penitentiary of fou-
to five years.
Prospectors will be pleased to learn
| that their samples will be assayed
| free hy sending them to the ReSearch