The Raymer enterprise., 1915-11-18


Ney- 20 Dec: 4-Eleetric Prosperity
Week at Sterling
DEG. 6-1l--Annual Exhibition Pixies
peak Rabbit and Pet Stock Associa-
.,on at Colorado Springs.
| Jan. 3-1O-Sixteenth annual show OF
Colorado Poultry Fancierse Associa-
tion at Denver. 80
Jan. Western Live Stock Show In
Denver.
Trinidad fire boys wifi give their
annual New Years ball Dec. 81.
County Judge Horatio Wilson
Hanes. 81, died at Montrose of Bright's
disease. ~rf
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 drllers-M. 4. Layne
and assistants.
Anton ]. Johnson of Wild Horse has
been appointed a commissioner OF
Cheyenne county. He succeeds Charles
G. Fox, resigned.
! The new Denver Union station was
formally dedicated when 80 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 Il. A
Baldwin of Portland, Ore. for $165,0oO
An hour after he boasted to a friend
that he never had been i'll in his life
John Dulmaine, 55, of Grand Junction,
dropped dead at Cheyenne lotel
The new state highway over Wolf
creek pass into tie San Louis valley
will be logged and published in the
1916 issue of the Automobile Blue
| Book.
A 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 Sixteenth
street store, according to reports. to
the police.
| Ten out Of the twenty-three bene
ficiaries 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
| tahus y au0t, d Ibl lltl StFiiOi BDSS- Oh
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 of
embezzlement.
Positive assurances that the Loyal
Order of Moose will begin the con
struction OF a s2.0000OO sanitarinm
..ear Denver within year have been
received by the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce, according to Secretary
l'horndyke Deland. !.
Papers for the extradition OF Arthur
tlonser, an escaped convict from the
Canon City penitentiary, will be re.
fused by the governor of Kansas, as
the man is wanted In that state for
the alleged murder of William fI
Smith of Wichita. =:
One of the greatest mining hoon,s
that has struck Colorado since the
days OF the Cripple Creek rush is
now, In progress ip the Nederland dis.
trict, where between 100000 and
s25Q,0oo worth OF tungsten was taken
out the past month.
Two Denver laborers seeking work
| and with the hardihood to walk into
the mountains TO get il were overcome
Saturday night by the cold near Eldb.
rado Springs. One of them, Harold
MeVay, suffering with frozen feet, il
now at the county hospital He be
lieyes that his companion, Joseph yir
| gil, has been frozen TO death.
a resident OF Greenwood has an
piled for permit TO establish skunk
farm on the San Isabel forest. Th
permit will be made to include sixty
acres of land; ten to be used as p
breeding pen, ten to raise garden truel
and forage, and forty acres as a pas
ture for cows and horses, The appli
cant plans to start. With, 500 ..edHF
! skunks. and by maintaining five or siy
lows to supply milk for the kittens
raise two litters a wear.