Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-03-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Apth iS.,enocratic State Soh'S'o
May 1.-First congregational District
Republican Convention at COLORADO
May 2.-RepublIcan State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
The Maccabees are reviving their
lodge at Frederick.
Fort Morgan's new public library
has been formally opened.
A stay of execution was granted
James c. Bulger until May 81.
The Laramie County Milk Conden
sary received an order for $500
cases.
The sugar company has appropri-
ated $4,000 for improvement of roaos
in Morgan county.
That better tungsten ore Is being
mined is shown by the tests Of ore
being sampled daily.
The highway advisory board has
allotted $593,740 to the various couu'
ties for road work
The Farmers Days at Hotchkiss
have been so successful that a Dairy
Day is being planned for June.
The Western Tungsten Mines Com
pany filed articles of incorporation in
the county clerks office at Boulder.
]. B. Kilian of Delta is the new
secretary of the marketing board OF
the Colorado Stock Growers Associa'
ton.
An election will be held at Fred
erick March 81, to determine whether
the several schools of District 76 shall
be merged.
Denver Ranch No. /, National Or
der OF Cowboy Rangers, celebrated
the second anniversary of the order
with a banquet and ball.
The board Of directors Of the Colo
RADIO Power Company has declared q
dividend of 1 per cent on its $1,000.
900 common stock, payable on
April 13.
A method of certifying the Feb
| ruary payrolls of the state SO thai
they we're approved by both the ole
and new State Civil Service Commits
sions was arranged.
The annual banquet of Fort Col.
Inns pioneers, held at Pioneer Cabin
in commemoration OF the date of the
birth of Colorado territory, was a
gay and happy affair.
That Denver has an ideal climate
| is found In the fact that February had
but one entirely cloudy day, thirteen
were absolutely clear and there were
fifteen partly cloudy days.
! Il
| sell, So, pioneer of the state and
| for eleven years resident of De
Beque, occurred one mile from De
Beque at the home Of relatives.
Charles Gallagher. IS years old. en-
| ployed on the ranch OF J. y. Taylor,
| near Arvada, who fell from hay
wagon and suffered a broken back,
died In the Denver County Hospital.
Frank Peterson, who was convicted
| of assault to kill his wife. Stella
/ Peterson. was sentenced by Judge
! Wright in Denver to serve one year
| in the county jail. the limit of the
| Law.
! Denver is to be made the supply
headquarters for government equip
ment in fighting forest fires that
may arise in the territory embracing
! 1000, 900 acres of United states for
| est reserves.
! Except in two instances. statistics
| gathered in Denver from the books
| OF the district attorneys office fail
| to show a material reduction in
crimes since the prohibition Law he
came effective.
Another new record was made in
the Denver sheep market when a
three-car shipment of fat ewes from
Greeley, sold at $3.50. the highest
price of the season.
For $1,000 w. L. Tanner and J. c.
Clark bought the Mary Nelson lode In
Grand Island mining district from 6.
Leon Giggey and NJ. f. Giggey, &C
cording to warranty mining deed
which was filed at Boulder.
A total of S72 persons were ar
rested in the month of February by
males and 1l3 females. AS usual the
single persons, numbering $40, out
numbered the married ones. totalling
S23.
John o. McWilliams, a minor, filed
suit through his father, w. X. Nc
Williams as next friend, In the Dis.
trict Court of Denver. to recover
$26,17i against the Denver Tramway
Company for damages sustained in
an accident at Arizona avenue and
South Pearl street, Sept. 4. 1914
Stability of grain and hay crops
on non-irrigated tracts throughout
Colorado has brought an influx of
homesteaders into Denver to locate
on the remaining 100000 acres OF
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