Cheyenne record., 1914-05-14

Sept. 22-25:-Montezuma County Fair
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Oct. 6-9-Colorado- New Mexico Fair at
lsl5.-Gasi Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The state convention of the NJ. w.
A. was held at Pueblo, with delegates
from all parts Of the state present.
Friday was good roads day, accord
Ing to proclamation issued by Cover
nor Ammons, and was generally OBJ
served.
The postoffice at Strong, a mining
camp near Walsenburg, has been loot
ed and a number of books of blank
money orders taken.
Four hundred volunteer workers
will give their time in the big ten-day
campaign to raise the $25o,0OO fund
for Denver university.
Representative Heating has recon.
mended Edward o. Russell of Aanzan-
ola, Robert Tandy Of Del Norte. and
Herbert Sabine Of Alamosa for ap-
pointment as postmasters.
The State Railway Commission has
issued an order requiring the Denver.
Boulder & Western road to operate a
weekly train between Sunset and
Ward after June for period Of two
years.
At Trinidad Major Holbrook furn-
ished guards for the paymasters OF
both the strikers and mine operators,
refusing to let the men have their own
guards. The strikers received their
union benefits.
TIE bulk Of the $4,000 estate left
by Mrs. Ella Clark. wife of the late
Rufus Clark of Denver, will 60 to the
training school on the West African
coast which Rufus Clark endowed a
few years ago.
H. w. Haig, a wealthy land owner
Of Nebraska, died at st. Joseph's hos.
pital in Denver. Three operations
were performed in an effort to save
his life. He was the founder OF Haig,
Neb. He was fifty years of age.
The relief committee organized by
the Women's Peace organization to
aid the Ludlow refugees, received an
urgent appeal from its chairman. Mrs.
Lee Campion, now at Trinidad. for
clothes for babies and women.
e. B. Hill and Jap" Reed, leasera
on the Yellow Pine silver mine, To-
Gated near Crisman, six miles west Of
Boulder, have just received check
from Manager H. A. Frey Of the
Chamberlain sampling works for 81.
500, which is the net return to them
on a carload OF high grade wire silver
ore.
Possible state supervision Of coal
mines and the withdrawal Of all coal
lands under lease. a proposed income
tax on amounts over $4,000 to pay the
strike Indebtedness, and a plan to lay
by a nest egg Of some $250.000 for fu.
ture military operations In strike
zones. were included in House delib-
erations last week.
Sinking the main shaft at the Dill
Ion mine on the south side Of Battle
mountain, Cripple Creek, one Of the
Granite Gold Mining Company's prop.
critics, is under way. the purpose be.
Ing to extend the shaft to the common
water level, which is believed to be
| somewhere between 1,400 and 1900
feet from the collar Of the shaft.
The undertaking of the lessees OF
the Guadaloupe property at Jasper in
| driving a cross-cut tunnel to intersect
the vein at great depth has been sue
cessfully accomplished and the Guada-
loupe vein at the point of intersection
is found to be a body of solid quartz
twenty-three feet in width from the
foot wall side to the hanging wall.
An important strike Of rich ore is
reported to have been developed in
the Caledonia mine, on the extreme
northern slope Of Gold hill, in the
Cripple Creek district, by Thompson
and Company, lessees, who began op-
erations only short time ago. The
ore shoot is about six feet wide and
carries values ranging from $25 to $50
per ton.