Cheyenne record., 1915-11-18

llOu at COLORADO TlnS8.
Jan. 3-10-Sixteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
tion at Denver.
Denver.
Trinidad fire boys will give their
annual New Years ball Dec. 81.
County Judge Horatio Wilson
Hanes, 81, died at Montrose of Bright's
disease.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bruning of
Denver celebrated their fiftieth we'd
ding anniversary.
A case Of scarlet fever was reported
at Berthoud, and the public schools
were temporarily closed.
Work is starting with a 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 5.5 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 a commissioner Of
Cheyenne county. He succeeds Charles
G. Fox, resigned.
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 E. A.
Baldwin Of Portland, Ore, for $165,0OO.
An hour after he boasted to friend
that he never had been ill in his life,
John Dulmaine, IS, of Grand Junction,
dropped dead at a 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.
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 a Sixteenth
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 a 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 of
embezzlement.
Positive assurances that the Loyal
Order of Moose will begin the con.
struction Of 100000 sanitarium
near Denver within a year have been
received by the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce, according to Secretary
Thorndyke Deland.
Papers for the extradition of Arthur
Houser, 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 H
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 Nederland dis.
trict, where between 100000 and
$250,000 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 it were overcome
Saturday night by the cold near Eldo
redo Springs. One of them, Harold
McVay, suffering with frozen feet. is
now at the county hospital. He be
lieves that his companion, Joseph Vir.
gil, has been frozen to death.
A resident Of Greenwood has ap
piled for a permit to establish a skunk
farm on the San Isabel forest. The
permit will be made to include sixty
acres of land; ten to be used as q
breeding pen, ten to raise garden trucL