Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-03-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
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March 4.-Democratic State Central
Mornh Gommattee Meeting .di in Denver. ,
Junction.
SIe Food Feaa and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
April isIpemocratic state Convention
May First Congressional District
Repnbiican Convention at Colorado
May 2.@Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
Loveland is to have new grain
elevator.
The court house at Springfield was
destroyed by fire.
Firestone citizens have voted bonds
to construct a water plant.
Four persons were arrested at ou-
ray on bootlegging charges.
A five-day Chautauqua meeting will
be held at Ouray early in July.
Earl Jones, Of Hoehne, was arrested
at Trinidad on murder charge.
A penalty now threatens many who
have failed to pay their income tax.
One hundred cars of lambs have al
ready been shipped from the Fort Col
lins district.
A move has been started in Denver
to have law passed abolishing cap
ital punishment in Colorado.
Ed Washington, colored, plead
guilty to running a disorderly house
at Ouray and was fined $3.50.
Work for approximately $50 men
for period of several weeks will be
furnished planting beets at Loveland.
The annual reunion and dinner Of
the Ohio Society of Colorado will be
held Saturday evening, March 4, i'll
Denver.
w. e. Steel of Denver was chosen
treasurer Of the Fratarnal Society
Law Association at its meeting in
Chicago.
Senator Shafroth sent the name OF
William e. King to the postmaster
general as his choice for the postmas.
tership Of Sterling.
Solomon Werthan, cigar dealer of
Leadville and Denver. died at his
home in Denver. Death. due to
heart disease. was very, sudden.
A broomstick cane, welded by
woman who for nine weeks had been
practically bedridden by rheumatism,
routed burglar, armed and masked,
from a South Denver home.
The first public function in the new
Denver Union station was held when
a farewell reception was given A. d.
Parker, the retiring vice president OF
the Colorado & Southern railroad.
The Episcopalian diocese of Colo
RADIO, through the secretary of the
standing committee, announces an
election to be held June for the pur
pose of naming bishop coadjutor to
head the church in Colorado.
John T. Gaylor will be returned to
Denver from Colon, Panama, dis
tance of $500 miles, by federal autho
rites to answer a charge of stealing
a check for s400 in 1911. while EN-.
ployed as a clerk at Fort Logan.
The federated shop crafts of the D.
& II. G.. have reached AN agreement
with J. +. Enright. superintendent of
motive power. granting all federated
craftsmen and apprentices ! cent an
hour advance over the former scale
Aid of the Denver police was
sought in locating Theodore L. Lamo-
reaux. 26 years old, a rancher of
Wheat Ridge. who disappeared The
request for aid was made by Mrs.
LamoreauN. who fears he may have
met with an accident.
Six physicians. constituting a coro.
ner's jury chosen by Dr. Sherman
Williams, coroner, to make inauirv
into the death of Mrs. Ada Williams
at Mercy Hospital in Denver, re-
turned verdict holding DR.. Noble
o. Hamilton responsible.
Children of five generations. some
of whom live In Trinidad. mourn the
death of Mrs. c. Woodward. % years
of age, who died at her home in La
Junta. The deceased is survived by
two children. fifteen grandchildren.
eight great grandchildren and one
great, great grandchild.
The will of the late William Fran
els Jewell Ingram, a Colorado mining
man, was filed for probate in the
County Court in Denver. The prop.
erty, which is estimated at u value
of S25,0O0,' was divided among his
brothers and sisters. He owned real
estate in Colorado and in Kansas
At the conclusion of the states
introduction of testimony in the Dis
trict Court at Trinidad. Judge CRANKY
Hillyer instructed n jury to bring in
a verdict of not guilty in the case OF
John Salvo, an Italian youth on trial
for the murder of Jose Estaven Bel
arde, at Gulnare. April IA. 1915