Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-05-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

ry Festival and Carnival at Glen
wood Springs.
June 22-25-Colo. Christian Endeavor
Convention. at Greeley.
Aug. 2-National Convention of Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Dem
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly al
Denver.
Aug 22-25-Annual Convention, Grand
Lodge X. of r.. at Greeley.
Sept. 5-S-Frontier Days' celebration
at Fort Morgan
{. Fort Morgan is to have baseball
team.
May "a will be Cleanup day for
Ouray.
The Ouray smelter is to resume OPP
erations.
w. C. Calhoun, well-known Denver
publisher, is dead.
The Loveland Chautauqua date has
been changed to July1.
Mayor.Elect r. w. Speer, OF Den.
yer. is to be inaugurated May II.
Loveland is preparing to sell s79.-
900 bonds to build a light plant.
Revival services are being held in
the Methodist church in Florence.
The Loveland Canning Company is
preparing for the 1916 campaign.
1t is predicted that the beet crop
in Colorado this year will be big
one.
a site has been purchased in
Colorado Springs for a million-dollar
hotel
w. L. Kramer has organized
company to operate the Keno mine at
Ouray.
Four were bruised when Chas.
Crooks touring car turned over near
Pueblo.
Fort Morgan's Frontier Days cele,
bration this year will be held Sep
tember 5-S.
DIR. John C. Tatman. mayor of Oak
Creek, Colo, died suddenly of heart
trouble at Boulder.
The weather conditions of the past
week were boon to farmers
throughout the state.
Work on the new building of the
Broadway Christian church at Pueblo
will be begun about June l.
Edward o. Spiese. 23, young
farmer from New Mexico. ended his
life with carbolic acid at Rocky Ford.
The Greeley City Council has voted
TO purchase $1,000 of the city's bonds,
thus saving a large sum in interest.
The Rev. Joshua l.. Gravett, pastor
of Galilee Baptist church in Denver
celebrated the quarter-century ami
cersary of his services as pastor OF
that church.
The transcontinental railroads
through their vice president and traf.
number of important adjustments in
Colorado freight rates.
News was received from Washing
ton that a favorable report had been
made by the public lands committee
en- the Kent bill to establish a ma
t'onal park service bill.
w. E. Mcclure. % years old, bar
ber at Golden. was found dead in his
employers barbershop. A coroner's
jury fixed the cause of his death to
be an overdose of whisky"
That her husband stayed at home
too much and that he was nuisance
about the house, are charges made
by Mrs. Alice S. Eubank of Denver
III the trial of her divorce suit against
a man S5 years of age.
At meeting of the State Board
of Pardons, the case of Gerrit J.
Van Wyk, Hollander who was SEN
fenced to the State Penitentiary for
life on the charge of having muir
dered his sister-in-law, Gertrude
Hast, will be heard.
w. A. Deuel.. former superintend-
ent of the Union Pacific and former
general manager of the Moffat rail-
road, died at Mercy Hospital in Den
yer, where he underwent an opera
tion. Mr.. Deuel. was 73 years old and
was born in New York state.
A postponement of the case of So
phia Gertrude Chellew. alleged widow
of w. S. Stratton. has been denied by
Judge w. p. Kinney, in the County
Court at Colorado Springs. The court
also denied petition made by at
torney for Mrs. Chellew for an allow
ance from the Stratton estate for ex-
nenses in bringing witnesses to the
city for the trial.
What was at first heralded as the
tapping of an oil gusher and what
may yet develop into the location of
oil sands OF paying quantities was re-
ported from the mo. - ranch, six
miles north of Fort Collins. Boiled
down to the cold facts. the well drill
ers on the ranch have tapped at
depth of ninety-seven feet strata of
oil sand which has given a decided
trace" of crude oil
George Adams, the Romany king"