The Raymer enterprise., 1915-01-07
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan. l1.-Midwinter Meeting Colorado
editorial Association at Denver
Jan. l.-Banquet Pioneer Printers So
ciety at Denver.
jan. s-ls;-Meeting State Assn OF
county Commissioners. in Denver.
Jan. 20-2l.-Colorado Good Roads As
ISOLATION Meeting. in Denver
The Denver postoffice receipts for
1914 were $l,372,425, as against $1,311.-
291 for 1918.
1t Is stated that John F. Vivian is
slated for secretary to Governor Carl
son.
Building permits in Denver during
1914 exceeded those of 1918 by 1851
In number and sS53,2l2 in value.
Denverites greeted 1915 with shouts
OF joy in midnight revels, and many
receptions were held on New Years
day.
Colorado ranks twenty-fourth among
the states Of the Union in the number
Of automobiles owned, having 1850
machines.
Governor-elect Carlson addressed
the Denver Manufacturing Association
upon Colorado manufacturing and its
opportunities.
Sixteen thousand three hundred and
lightweight persons were arrested in
Denver by the police department dur
ing the year 1914.
Denver corporations will pay out al
most s2,000,O00 in dividends and inter
est to investors this month, accord
ing to estimates compiled by the var
ious concerns.
The rule prohibiting women teach
ers who marry from continuing their
school work should be lifted, in the
opinion of most of the teachers who at
tended the State Association gathering
in Denver.
By acclamatlon Mrs. Fred Dick, for
several years president of the State
Congress of Mothers, was reelected
at the final business meeting OF the
sixth annual convention of the organ.
ization, held In Denver.
In response to message calling
her to the bedside of her dying hus-
band, Mrs. Henry Lightcap arrived in
Denver from North Jensen. Ind, to
find that death had preceded her.
Her husband died the day before her
arrival.
Julian Story, the artist, who with
Mrs. Story, is the guest of the Spencer
Penroses, will put the finishing
touches on the tableaux vivant in
which society leaders of Colorado
Springs will pose to aid charity at
the opera house
William d. Arnold, sixty. a resident
Of Colorado for thirty years, died at
bis residence In Denver. Arnold was
at one time superintendent OF the Col
orado Central mine at Georgetown.
where he was well known in mining
circles. He is an Odd Fellow and is
survived by wife.
During the past year 406,903 cattle
were received at the Denver Union
stockyards, according to the annual
report OF the stockyards company
Other receipts were: Calves, 1886:
hogs, 255,636; sheep, 692,247; horses
and mules, 16,957. The number OF
railroad cars used in the receipts was
1890.
President Wilson. members of his
cabinet and members of Congress who
VIII accompany the nations chief ex-
ecutive on his trip through the Pana-
ma canal to the opening of the Pana-
ma-Pacific exposition, will be asked
by Denver organizations to spend a
day In Denver on their return from
the exposition early in April.
The Colorado Supreme Court is
called upon to decide whether the
state or federal government owns and
controls the surplus and unappropri.
ated waters within state in a suit
filed with the court by Ethelbert
Ward, special assistant to the attor-
ney general of the United States. It
Is said to be the first time the ques-
tion has been carried to the Supreme
Court.
Plans for the National Horse Show
and Midwinter fair took shape at a
meeting of representatives of the COM
mercial and civic organizations of Den
yer. The dates set were Jan. IS to 23.
inclusive, at the Denver Stockyards
stadium. Miss Loula Long of Kansas
City will bring her stable of thorough
bred horses, estimated In value at
100000. one saddle horse alone hav-
ing been purchased recently for s12,-
900.
Happy jack single comb white
leghorn cock, belonging to ]. H. Cover
OF Denver, captured first honors as
being the highest scoring bird on ex-
hibition at the fifteenth annual cham.
pion poultry show given by the Colo
RADIO Poultry Fanciers' Association at
Denver. According to W. II. Pierce,
the Judge Of the show, Happy Jack"
had the highest percentage of any
bird he ever examined, ninety-six and
one-half points. Nineteen cups were