The Raymer enterprise., 1915-07-08
COLORADO
STATE NEW S
Newspaper Union News Service.
COMlNG EVENTS.

| at Colorado Springs.
Aug 26-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagle-
| sept 2l-oct. s.-Meeting International
| Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Judge Burke. of Trinidad, is threat
aned with a recall.
Ernest H. Osgood, 81, for fifteen
rears assistant postmaster at Pueblo
lied of pneumonia.
Carl Downing, 20, and Virgin Kirby.
20, were drowned in the Animas river
eight miles north of Durango.
A total of $16,5s4.51 in inheritance
axes was collected last month by Les
lie E. Hubbard, state inheritance tax
appraiser.
G. W. Gardner, who killed himself
n Denver, shot at his wife at their
home in Cascade May 1. according to
Cascade people.
Frank NJ. Butcher, formerly national
bank examiner of Oklahoma City. has
oeen appointed cashier of the Denver
stockyards bank.
In Morgan county there are 3.S2s
persons between the ages OF six and
:wenty-one years. OF this number
1856 are males and 1892 females.
At special meeting Of the Colorado
Springs Mining and Stock exchange.
w. P. Kinney was reelected president.
All other officers were reelected
The Denver committee in charge Of
arrangements for the reception of the
Liberty Bell July 10 asks that merch-
ants decorate their stores on that day.
Elizabeth Johnson. 5, daughter OF II.
E. Johnson, mining man at st. Elmo.
blew off her left hand when she held
a percussion cap In it and touched it
off with match
The hearing on the motion for
new trial in the case of John Lawson,
convicted executive board member of
.he United Mine Workers, will be held
Saturday, July g.
Caude X. Boettcher was reelected
chairman OF the executive committee
Of the Denver Tramway Company at
the annual adjourned meeting of the
stockholders in Denver.
A special meeting OF the State
Board of Health has been called for
July 5 to formulate plans for the en-
ioreement of the new anti-drng law
aw which becomes effective July 3.
June 30, with 54-degree minimum
and 66-degree maximum, was the cold
est June day on record since 1906,
when the thermometer dropped to 81
IN June % and registered SO the next
day.
All registration records for the Uni
gersity of Colorado summer session
were shattered at Greeley when al
most 900 students enrolled. Last
year the total attendance was only
566.
Greeley school children, patriotic Sc
cieties and citizens will welcome the
arrival of the Liberty Bell, July 10th,
by public program. to be held on
the steps of the Union Pacific freight
depot
The right of Judge CRANKY Hillyer
TO preside in further trials of former
coal mine strikers in southern Colo
rado will be determined by the State
Supreme Court at hearing to be
held July IL.
The judges of the Denver District
Court are becoming strict in the en-
torcement OF their orders concerning
the payment Of alimony. Two men
were arrested and placed in jail for
heir failure to comply with such
orders
Following the decision of Denver
merchants. Colorado Springs retail
stores enforced rule that no more
womens clothes would be sent from
their stores on approval and that such
goods purchased would not be ex
changed.
Proceedings against the six soldiers
held in the guard house in connection
with the case OF Margaret Much. the
l5.year-old high school girl from
North Denver, are held in allegiance
until the girl is sufficiently recovered
to point out the exact place where tne
,ffense was committed.
Prospects for the greatest crop in
the history of eastern Colorado, with
consequent prosperity for the resi-
dents OF that section and for Denver,
was the message brought to Denver
by more than 800 farmers, bankers.
merchants and business men from the
great new agricultural empire In the
eastern part of the state. &
Evidence indicating that a gang of
wire tappers' or professional race
: horse gamblers we're working in Den
yer for several months prior to June
last. and that the gang had agents
In many of the large cities OF the
country, was unearthed In suite OF
offices on the second floor OF the
building at 17iS Welton street.