Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-01-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
essern Newspaper Union News Service.


Jan. 1s.-Sixth Annual Convention of
Colo. Good Roads Assn at Denver.
jan 19-Fifth annual convention Colo
rado Division Pixies Peak-Ocean-tO-
Ocean Highway Association. at Dem
Jan. ls-22-western Live Stock Show
rado Metal Mining Association. at
Feb. 12-Meeting Republican state
Feb. 16-1s--sports Carnival at Steam
March 26-Aprii 2.-coiorado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Clarence Darrow delivered lecture
in Denver on the single-tax question.
Citizens of Durango voted $175,Oo0
bonds to build new high school
building.
Delta county farmers are securing
large number of Holstein cows from
Wisconsin.
Much interest is being manifested
in the good roads meeting at Denver,
Jan. 1920.
Russell o. Boles, who was par
doned, has been released from the
Congressman Hilliard explained his
tunnel bill at Chamber of Com
merce luncheon in Denver.
Transfer companies report three
families coming into Denver to one
going out since Jan. /.
II. w. Atkinson, government travel
ing auditor, was in Denver to audit
the books of the collector of internal
revenue.
The Stock Show at the Denver
Union stock Yards is attracting larg,
crowds, and the entries are among
the best ever made.
The Intermountain Congress of the
Salvation Army closed three-day
meeting in Denver with consecra-
tion service at headquarters.
Miss Edith Wharton, 21 years old.
comely California girl, is near death
in the Denver county hospital as a
result of an effort to end her life
with poison.
Olof L. Lindstrom. brother of
Marie and Olga Lindstrom and Mrs.
C. r. Ericsson of Denver. was frozen
to death while hunting near Deer
River. MINI.
1t is announced that the Rio Grande
Southern railroad has decided to re-
duce the freight rates on ore ship
ments from the Bear Creek section to
the Utah smelters.
The State Public Utilities Commits
sion heard evidence upon complaint
made by the town council of Arvada
against the rates and services of the
Arvada Electric Light Company.
E. p. Taylor will be the new county
agriculturist at = salary of approxi-
mately s2,s00 year, If he accepts the
offer of the county commissioners de-
cided upon at Grand Junction.
Senator Shafroth has introduced a
bill in Congress which has for its pur
poses prohibiting the railroads FROM
charging higher rates for short haul
than long haul over the same line
in the same direction.
Senator John f. Shafroth's bill. IN
troduced in the National Senate, pro-
viding for the establishment of a mill
tary training school at Fort Logan,
has met with the hearty approval of
prominent Denver business men.
The Senate has confirmed these
Colorado postmastors: Agnes II. AL
ford. Castle Rock; Thomas J. Cancel
lor. Brighton: Duncan Lamont. Colo
RADIO City, Walter E. Rogers, Ber-
thoud. and Rhoda ]. Yersin, BurIing-
ton.
Frederick Huet, 30, friend of Gus
tave Dore. as well as classmate of
that famed artist in the Government
School of Arts at Paris, France, and
noted artist himself previous to
1865. died at the county poor house At.
Empire.
One Colorado man was identified
| among the list of dead following the
massacre of seventeen Americans by
| Villa bandits near chihuahua City,
and the names of two others are
thought to be those of mining men
who have made their homes in this
state.
A $4,000 verdict was given by a
| jury in Judge Aliens court In Denver
in favor of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence A..
Spencer against julius Brand,
charged with running down with his
| automobile and killing Anna Dell
Spencer, the 10-year-old daughter of
the plaintiffs.
Masked and heavily armed, two
youths appearing to be not older than
is or 10 years, entered drugstore at
141 South Broadway, in Denver and
holding the proprietor at bay with
their revolvers, rifled a cash drawer
| as dozen or more pedestrians
passed the place. They then es.
capped.