Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-08-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

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Aug: sl-sspt. Apple Pie Days at
Sept. 5-s-Bouider County Fair at
Sept. b-s-Frontisr Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept. Injecting Midland Trail Assn
Sept. l5-Is.Harvest Festival at Mum.
Sept. 1s.23-State Fair at Pueblo; T.
at Trinidad.
Jan. 2O-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
Fire did about $1,000 damage at
Golden.
Battery B at Golden is proud of Its
evenly matched horses.
Miss Elsie Green of Denver will go
to China as missionary.
The Major ranch near Paonia may
become summer home for musi'
clans.
President Wilson is expected to
speak at Denver on his proposed trip
to the coast.
DR.. L. D. PEBBLES must face a charge
of murder for the death of Mrs. Anna
Ross of Denver.
The La Porte and Fort Collins w.
C. T. U. had a joint Christian citizen
ship picnic at Lindenmeier lake. near
Fort Collins.
Troop A of the Montana cavalry
and eighty-one recruits from Fort
Morgan left Denver on special train
for Douglas, Ariz.
The bond election held in the Rio
Grande drainage district north OF
Monte Vista resulted in two to one
victory for the bonds.
Comptroller of Currency Williams
authorized the First National bank OF
Pueblo to increase its capital stock
from 100000 to 100000.
The Colorado Springs and Denver
branches of the Red Cross have sent
1,035 comfort bags to Colorado troops
at the Golden rifle range.
Nick La Sale, an Italian coal min
er, 2S years old, was electrocuted in
the Big Lake coal mine, one and one
half miles west of Lafayette.
A movement to have a $25.000,O00
bond Issue for building roads in Colo
RADIO was launched at meeting Of the
State Highway Commission.
The contract for the construction
of three miles of the lower end of the
Durango-Silverton highway, in La
Plata county, was awarded for s5.44O.
Two women and a 10-year-old boy
were stunned by a bolt of lightning
which struck the home of Richard ].
Myers, District Court stenographer, in
Denver
The Helen Gould tunnel is now
through rich looking porphyry very
similar to that found on Breeze hill
at Leadville.
Denver is to have a milk conden-
sing plant that will employ between
rs and 100 persons, and which will be
a great impetus to the dairy industry
in and near Denver.
A letter from President Wilson,
stating and celebrating at length his
views on the suffrage question, was
read at the Jane jefferson Democratic
Club banquet at Denver.
Silver ore which will assay 1900
ounces to the ton, or 1915 at present
prices, has been uncovered in the
shaft of the Princess mine near Cen
trail gulch at jamestown.
Stewart Cox, lessee of the United
Gold Mines Company. operating the
Hardwood mine at the Damon group
OF claims on the eastern slope of Iron
clad hill, is shipping again.
Arrangements have been made for
public reception for Charles E.
Hughes, candidate for President on
the Republican ticket, on the occasion
of his visit to Denver Aug. &c.
Hugh c. Brown, mining promoter
of Wilmington, Del. and former post
master of that place, who committed
suicide at the top of Lookout noun
tain, was well known in Denver.
After the Moose convention in Den
yer decided not to name a ticket,
minority got together and desig-
mated a state ticket, headed by
John B. Stephen of Denver for COVER
nor
George Lawrence, 25, of New York
was killed by a Colorado Midland
railroad freight train at Palsade,
twelve miles east of Grand Junction.
Lawrence had been stealing a ride on
the train.
A secret marriage in Canon City
more than five weeks ago was re-
vealed when Mrs. Robert w. Steele.
widow of the late chief justice, an
ncunced the marriage of her daughter,
Miss Jane Steele. to Norman B. Hull
of Denver.
Secretary of the Treasury William
G. McAdoo has announced at Wash
| ington that he will visit Denver to
personally consider the contention of