Cheyenne record., 1915-06-10
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c o L O r ADO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News service.

Dry Farming Congress at Denver.
A foot of snow on June 2 sets a new
record at Breckenridge.
Greeley is to have an old-fashioned
Fourth of July celebration.
Rich ore theft is charged in the
Carnotite mine war in Mesa county.
A petition for home rule has been
filed with the city clerk Of Durango.
Mr.. and Mrs James H. Crawford
celebrated their fiftieth wedding ami.
versary at Steamboat Springs.
B. Emden. loyal Texas of Houston,
presented Governor Carlson by mail
with tiny chain carved out Of Texas
watermelon seeds.
Grand junction postoffice will be
raised to first-class rank on July 1, as
a result Of stamp sales exceeding
$4,000 the past year.
Out of total enrolment of ninety
eight in the Platteville public schools
there was an average attendance the
past year of ninety-two.
A dividend of $3.50. 900. amounting to
45 per cent of the deposits of the
Mercantile National bank of Pueblo,
will be paid depositors.
Father Donnelly, pastor of st. Fran
els de Sales church in Denver cele-
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary OF
his ordination in the priesthood.
The number Of saloon licenses in
effect in Denver was 405 on May 81
this year, as compared with 470 on
Oct. 81 of last year, a decrease OF %.
AS a nurse in q German military
hospital in Munich, Miss Fannie r.
Moor, plucky Denver girl, has termi-
mated a pleasure tour begun two years
ago.
An increase of $6,275.1s in postof-
flee receipts for last month over the
same month last year is shown in the
report submitted by Postmaster
Stapleton of Denver.
Five thousand dollars is demanded
from the City and County of Denver
for the loss Of finger in suit filed
in the District Court by Michael
Henry, former city emplye.
DR.. Charles A. Lory was reelected
president of the Agricultural College
for a term of two years at the semi
annual meeting of the State Board of
Agriculture at Fort Collins.
The site of Colorado's National Park
is praised by Mark Daniels, superin-
tendent OF national parks, who re-
turned to Denver after inspecting the
territory comprised by the park.
A patriotic parade in which Den
vers school children will take lead
ing part Is planned as one of the chief
features for the exhibition of the
Liberty Bell in Denver on July 10.
Depositors of the Mercantile Ma
tional bank at Pueblo will receive a
dividend of possibly 40 per cent on
their deposits July 1, according to
Temporary Receiver Francis A.
Chapman.
A rumor of three attempts, suppos-
edly on the part of Indians, to kill
Capt Stephen Olop, superintendent of
construction of the new school on the
Southern Ute reservation at Navajo
Springs, has reached Cortez.
The Denver municipal excise depart
ment will issue saloon licenses until
Dece. 81, 1915, according to decision
by Commissioner of Finance Clair ].
Pitcher, based upon an opinion rem
dered by City Attorney I. N. Stevens.
Regretting her action in permit
ting all her teeth to be extracted, Mrs.
Jennie Bingley, sixty-three years old,
attempted to commit suicide in Den
yer by drinking the carbolic acid
given her to aid in healing her mouth.
Special orders were received from
the War Department by the Colorado
National guard instructing the militia
to get its companies in the best con-
dition and Immediately bring its
equipment up to the minimum stan
dard.
The case against w. w. Rowland,
former member of the Colorado House
of Representatives, charged with per-
Jury, was set for trial June % in Den
yer, after Judge Perry had denied q
motion to Quash the information
against him.
A movement to have a new state
formed from territory taken from
Southwestern Colorado and adjoining
portions of Arizona, New Mexico and
Utah, is reported to have been set on
foot by members Of the Durango
Nhau,haP Of Commerce.