The state herald., 1915-11-19

Peak Rabbit and Pet Stock Associa-
tloh at Colorado Springs.
Jan. 3-1O-SiXteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
tion at Denver.
Jan. -Western Live Stock Show in
Denver.
Trinidad fire boys will give their
annual New Years ball Dec. 81.
County Judge Horatio Wilson
Hanes, 81. died at Montrose of Brights
disease.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bruning OF
Denver celebrated their fiftieth wed.
ding anniversary.
A case of scarlet fever was reported
at Berthoud. and the public schools
were temporarily closed.
Work is starting with rush on the
new coal properties of Moore gulch,
fifteen miles west of Steamboat.
At Boulder the county tax levy for
the year 1916 was fixed at SO mills by
the board of county commissioners.
1t is stated at Alamosa that the
Mosca oil fields has been abandoned
by the Texas oil drillers-M. e. Layne
and assistants.
Anton l. Johnson of Wild Horse has
been appointed commissioner oil
Cheyenne county. He succeeds Charles
G. Fox, resigned.
The new Denver Union station was
formally dedicated when $50 members
of the Chamber of Commerce lunched
In the resplendent dining room.
The Charter Oak ranch, $500 acres
of irrigated land fourteen miles east
of Colorado Springs, was sold to Z. A.
Baldwin Of Portland. Ore, for s165,OOO
An hour after he boasted to friend
that he never had been i'll in his life
John Dulmaine, 55, of Grand Junction,
dropped dead at Cheyenne hotel.
The new state highway over Wolf
creek pass into the San Louis valley
will be logged and published in the
1916 issue Of the Automobile Blue
Book.
streak Of ore running sixty per
cent in tungsten has been struck on
the Argentine lode above the Tobin
mine in the famous Argentine district
at Georgetown.
Preparations for cold weather were
made by Denver sneak thieves from
three Denver homes and a Sixteenth
street store. according to reports to
the police.
Ten out OF the twenty-three sene
ficiarles and legatees in the Barth will
case have accepted the plan for settle
ment suggested by Miss Charlotte
Barth, heir OF the late William Barth
of Denver.
The body OF man found dead In
the Union depot yards In Denver
where apparently he had been struck
by train, was identified as that OF
Andy Faust. former section boss Of
the Rio Grande railroad at Salida.
w. b. Slaughter. president OF the
defunct Mercantile National bank OF
Pueblo. was denied permission BY
Federal Judge Lewis to examine the
accounts OF the institution In prepar
ing defense to combat the charge ol
embezzlement.
Positive assurances that the Loyal
Order Of Moose win begin the con
struction OF 100000 sanitarlum
near Denver within a year have been
received by the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce. according to Secretary
Thorndyke Deland.
Papers for the eStradition OF Arthur
lIouser, an escaped convict from the
Canon City penitentlary. will be re
fused by the governor OF Kansas, az
the man Is wanted In that state for
the alleged murder OF William II
Smith OF Wichita.
One OF the greatest mining booms
that has struck Colorado since the
days OF the Cripple Creek rush" Is
now In progress In the Ncderlnnd dis
trlct, where between 100000 and
s25O.oOO worth OF tungsten was taken
out the past month.
Two Denver laborers seeking work
and with the hnrdlhood to wnlk into
the mountains 20 get II were overcome
Saturday night by the cold near Edo
rado Springs. one OF them. Harold
MeNay suffering with frozen feet, Il
now at tho county hospital. He be
lioyos that his companion. Joseph vlr
xii, has been frozen 10 death
A resident OF Greenwood has ap
piled for permit TO establish skunl
farm on the san Isabel forest The
permit viii be made 10 include slxty
acres Of land' ten to bc used ms
breeding pen, ten 10 ralao garden truoi
and forage. and forty acres na pas
turc for cows and horses Tho nppll
cant plans 10 start with 500 adult
skunkn. and by maintaining five or ais
cows 10 supply milk for the kittens
raise two littcrs year.
Mrs. May Ray, who shot and killed
her husband, James. NJ Oak Crock
wan taken TO tho Denver county jail
Mrs. Ray declares hhe did not know
there was u revolver IN tho hous,
prior TO the tragedy. and that II wat