The Raymer enterprise., 1913-11-06
COLORADO NEWS
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All Parts Of the State
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
Dates for Coming Events.

Nov. 24-26-State Teachers Association
meeting ut Pueblo.
Jan. 2-l5.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Associatlon Show at Denver
Jan; 19-24.-National Western Stock
SHOW at Denver.
Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
Association at Colorado Springs.
ls15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Fire destroyed three business build.
ngs at Ouray, entailing an estimated
loss Of about $4,000.
W. L. Hainley, a laborer, attempted
% kill himself in a saloon in Denver
by drinking carbolic acid.
Colorado day" at the Anglo-Amer-
lean exposition In London from May
% October, 1914. will be September II.
The income tax, the first provision
II which became operative Nov. l, had
IN effect upon the visible money sup.
ply among thousands of Denverites.
Lewis S. Tuttle, sixty.seven yearg
bid, former Denver police official and
At one time acting chief Of the de
partment, committed suicide at his
home in Denver.
The ninth annual dog show Of the
Colorado Kennel club closed in Den
yer with the presentation of cups and
medals and the parade of the winners
around the arena.
Slrs. Norma Phumphrey, sentenced
% nine-months' term in the Denver
county jail for killing her husband.
Charles Pumphrey, has been made
'trusty" at the Jail.
Should military activity in the
southern coal camps be long drawn
out 1t will mean the loss of years
study to a group Of State university
students at Boulder.
The Wild West carnival of the Fre
mont county Cattlemen's Association
was held at Canon City. Public Of
tlcers and business houses closed dur.
Ing the afternoon.
Because she used a forged check az
means Of collecting money, which
she says was due her, Mrs. Minnie
Walker, twenty-seven years old, dress
maker. was arrested In Denver.
A man whom Edward Donahue had
befriended, giving him clothes. food,
shelter and Job, turned on his bene
factor and at the point OF revolver
robbed him Of $55 near Broomfield.
Bituminous lump coab which sold at
$4.75 and IS ton before the strike In
the southern fields went into effect
now is quoted at $725, with prospects
Of 1t soaring still higher. according to
Denver dealers.
Adjutant General Chase declared al
Trinidad Saturday that unless the
strikers give evidence Of better faith
than is indicated by the surrender OF
their arms. he would use force to
make them comply with the mandate
Of the governor.
While hurrying for a car to attend
the funeral of his six-months.old baby,
Victor Nelson dropped dead a block
from his home at Herrick's Crossing
Jefferson county. The body was
found by passersby and taken home.
Death was due to hemorrhage
brought on by excitement.
Safecrackers gained entrance to the
Farmers bank at Timnath, ten miles
from Fort Collins, made an unsuccess.
full but desperate attempt to dyna.
mite and break open the safe, ham.
mered their way through steel graf.
Ing, tore open a number Of safe de.
posit boxes and escaped with only
$500 In money, so far as known.
Henry Rockwell Baker, favorite
nephew Of the late John w. Gates,
who becomes the prospective heir to
the Gates millions through the sud.
den death OF his cousin. Charles G.
Gates, at Cody, Wyo., is Ill with tuber.
culosis, and left Colorado Springs
few days ago for Arizona where II Is
feared he will not survive the winter.
The monthly report OF mines and
smelters of the Cripple Creek district
shows that Ss,GlS tons were turned
out with n gross bullion value OF ST..
2G0,G24 in October. During the month
dividends were paid amounting to
sl76.1s5.04. These were distributed
as follows: Portland, 100000; Golden
Cycle. s45,OOO; vindicator, $4,000;
Mary Mckinney. s2G,ls5.0i.
Secretary Of the lnterionr Lane, In
communication to State Engineer
John f. Field, announces his willing.
ness to submit the differences exist
Ing between the state and the govern.
ment, relative to irrigation matters, to
committee OF three competent en-.
g!neers. This Is the proposal Field
made by Secretary Lane during the
latter's visit In Denver recently.
A reign of violence that began at
Walsenburg shortly after midnight
Saturday eliminated Sunday morning.
within two blocks Of Camp Walsen.
burg, when Harry Johnson, a negro
striker was shot In battle between
strikers and Colorado Fuel and Iron