Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-02-04

| Central Committee In Denver.
State Central Committee at Denver.
Feb l6.ls-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
Merchants Associations Food and
lndustrial Expcsition at Denver
Many lambs are being shipped from
Fort Collins.
Colorado Potato Growers have
| formed an association.
S. w. Baber has been recommended
for postmaster at Cheyenne Wells.
President Wilson nominated James
A. Rutledge postmaster at Woodman.
Timothy hay and South Park up
land hay command SIC a ton in Dem
yer.
Cantaloupe growers held a meeting
at Rocky Ford, and will form an as
ISOLATION.
Funeral services for Judge G. A.
Wilkin. who died in Canon City. were
held in Denver.
A telephone line. connecting Grand
Junction and Salt Lake City, will be
established the coming summer.
Orders have been issued by the War
Department for extensive improve
ments to be made at Fort Logan.
Fire at Antonito destroyed a print
ing office and drug store. causing a
loss of $4,000. covered by insurance.
The Right Rev. Benjamin Brewster
of Glenwood Springs was elected bish.
op of the Protestant Episcopal diocese
of Maine.
1t is stated that Gen. John Chase
will resign as head Of the state
guard, and that Harry P. Gamble Of
Boulder will succeed him.
Friday reports said one snowslide
near Silverton had placed 800 miners
in perilous position. Property loss
was estimated at 100000.
Robert G. Cousins, former Con-
gressman, of Des Moines, Iowa. will
be principal speaker at the Lincoln
day banquet in Denver, Feb. IL.
Property owned by the state OF
Colorado is worth between $12.00O.000
and $15,000.OOO according to an esti-
mate made by Harry e. Mulnix, state
auditor.
Clarence P. Dodge, chairman of the
Progressive party in Colorado, issued
a call for a meeting OF the state cen.
trail committee to be held in Denver.
Feb. IA.
A blaze in st. Joseph's hospital at
Denver endangered the lives Of over
800 patients, but 1t was put out, with
only one fireman being injured and
four persons overcome by smoke.
Denver machinists have accepted
the proposition of employers to In
crease wages from 37h cents to 40
cents an hour with the work day con-
tinued at nine hours instead of eight.
The Colorado Hardware Dealers
Association at its Denver meeting de-
cided to change its name and take In
New Mexico and Wyoming, and passed
a resolution favoring a tax on the mail
order business.
Governor Carlson appointed Fred.
erick Goble of Silverton a member OF
the advisory board to the State High.
way Commission to succeed Charles T..
Herr of Durango. The appointment is
for a term of four years ending April
/, 1920.
Judge John A. Perry of the Denver
District Court appointed Z. r. Har-
per receiver for the grand assembly
of the Companions of the Forest, a
fraternal insurance organization. at
the request of Fred Farrar. attorney
general.
Delirious and completely exhausted
from the effects of three-day expos.
ure to winds Of near-blizzard weather,
John J. White, former state public
examiner, who disappeared from his
home in Denver Tuesday, was picked
up near death from freezing at Castle
Rock Friday afternoon.
Huge masses of snow, which ranged
in depth from six to twenty-eight feet.
Friday. were reported loosening on
mountainsides in various Colorado
mining districts, endangering lives
and property. Mines reported threat.
ened Friday night include the Sunny.
side, Iowa, Tiger, Barstow, Gold Lion.
Unity, Gladstone, Boulder and Red
Mountain.
A policy of preparedness In antic-
ipation of the convening of the next
General Assembly was adopted at the
session of the Colorado Association OF
County Commissioners in Denver. The
commissioners decided to pass reso.
lutions on proposed legislation now SO
they could work while the General
Assembly was not in session in put.
ting their views before the senators
and representatives.
Articles of Incorporation of the Ma.
tional Radium Products Company
were filed with the secretary of state.