Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-06-16

Denver.
Aug. National Convention of Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Dem
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
Aug. 1s-is-Pickle Day and Fair at
Platteville.
Lodge X. of p. at Greeley.
Sept. 5-8-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept. 27-29-State Convention B. p. o. T..
at Trinidad.
Denver's new "dry" ordinance is
now in effect.
State officials. acting with the Dem
yer police, captured carload OF
whisky.
A report has reached Denver that
Pope Benedict has placed ban upon
dancing.
Cherry growers of Loveland and
vicinity expect a crop of 10000 crates
this year
Sister Alexius of the st. Joseph's
order. died at st. Joseph's academy
in Denver, after long illness.
The Supreme Court has decided that
the safety clutch" exempts the pro-
hibition penalty bill from referendum
| vote.
Contraband liquors valued at more
than $500 were confiscated in a raid
| on a cafe at 1416 Larimer street, in
| Denver
The legislative prohibition law
cannot be referred to the voters,
under decision of the State Su-
preme Court.
A strike of gold ore, running $4,000
to $4,000 per ton, is reported at Boul-
der to have been made in the Liv-
ingston mine.
Motor trucks are to be used to
Fort Collins when the harvest shall
open next fall.
The constitutionality of the state
survey bill passed by the last Legis-
lature was upheld by decision of the
State Supreme Court.
Thirteen hundred Elks. members of
B. p. o. E., No. 30, of Pueblo. will
march in a grand parade in celebra-
tion of Elks' Flag day.
An inheritance tax of sl4,479.41
was paid to the state by the estate
of Edward w. Williams. mining man
and Denver hotel proprietor.
Grover merchants are forming
company to prospect for oil and tung-
stem. and determine whether they eX-
list in that vicinity in paying guam
titles.
While swimming with dozen other
recruits in Fuckers lake on the gov
ernment post at Fort Logan. Jake ii.
Grier, an 1S-year-old recruit from
Tiler, Tex, was drowned
Benjamin Griffith is the Colorado
member of the new Progressive ma
tional committee. and E. p. Costigan
was the member OF the resolutions
committee at the Chicago convention.
THE Human Fly" Harry Gardiner
who recently sent thrills through
| thousands of Denver persons, has
| been engaged for two exhibitions in
Glenwood Springs. Strawberry Day
June IL
Miss Edna Da Prom. Denver dan
cling teacher. was elected third vice
| president OF the National Dancing
| Masters Association at the annual
convention of the organization in
New York.
C. a. Petrie, of Loveland, marketed
two loads of 1,344-pound steers in
Denver at SlO.50, and Cox & Bronson,
of the same place, sold load of go
| pound cows at $500. and Mat McCas-
lin, of Longmont, sold sixty steers at
| $40 per cwt
The Rev. Irving johnson of tine
Seabury Divinity college of Fari-
bault, Mimi. was elected bishop Co
adjutor of the Protestant Episcopal
diocese of Colorado by the diocesan
council of the church in session at
| the chapter house of St. Johns ca
thedral in Denver.
Charged with an offense against
his 14-year-old stepdaughter that has
aroused the women of Adams county,
in which county the crime is alleged
| to have been committed. George Sea-
gar has filed an application for a
change of venue to another county,
stating that it is impossible for him
to obtain fair trial in Adams county.
Two carloads (about forty tons) of
medium and low grade ores have re-
Gently been handled at the metallurgi-
cal testing plant at the Colorado
School of Mines by the newly estab-
lished research department. One car
load came from the Telluride district
and one from the La Plata mines,
notably the May Day and Valley
| View.
The pioneer mining camps of the
state. Boulder, Gipin, and Clear
Creek, are reflecting the advanced
price of silver in excess of the aver