Cheyenne record., 1915-09-23
COLORADO
STATE News S


Oct. 1s.-odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Trinidad Elks have purchased a site
on which to erect home.
Indications of mineral have been
found near Genoa.
Coloflats is the name of a new post!
office in Las Animas county.
The Craig City Council has awarded
contracts for municipal water works.
The sheriff's force raided gam.
bling joint at Valdez and arrested two
men.
The Rocky Mountain Baptist Asso-
citation held a three-day session in
Denver.
Fire destroyed the barn and gran
ary on the l.. G. Newell ranch near
Paonia.
Mrs. VIM. Bevar of Fort Collins
was kicked by wild horse and seri-
ously injured.
About 600 carloads Of Elberta
peaches have been shipped from the
Palisade district.
A get-together meeting of the Off
GERS of the P. M. c. A. in Colorado was
held at Manitou.
The oil well near Paonia is down
1850 feet, and indications are report
ed better all the time.
Benjamin F. Stapleton, postmaster
at Denver, will be the custodian of
the city's new postoffice.
Telluride has one of the best high
school buildings in the state, when the
size of the town is considered.
The State Federation of Women's
Clubs will hold a five-day meeting at
Colorado Springs opening Sept. %.
About 300 bankers met in Denver
for the annual convention of the
American Investment Bankers Asso-
citation.
Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw, mother of
Harry K. Thaw, spent day in Den
yer on her way to the California ex-
positions.
Articles of incorporation of the Car
notite Reduction Company, 100000
concern, were filed with the secretary
of state
Fort Collins fruit growers are ask
ing leave to kill off cottontails, as
they are already feeding on the bark
OF the young trees.
The commissioners of Las Animas
county have agreed to set aside $4,000
for the purpose Of employing an agri-
culturist. beginning Feb. l.
R. F. Blunt of Denver was found
guilty of passing forged check for
S24 and sentenced to from one to
thre years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. T. e. Ormston of Pueblo fell
from an automobile on the Colorado
Spring road and received injuries from
which she died few hours later.
Ralph Finley, while endeavoring to
pass an automobile two miles south
of Pueblo crashed head-on into anoth-
er car, suffering fractured skull.
At the closing session Of the Ameri.
can Electro-Therapeutic Association
in Atlantic City, N. j., Dr. J. d. Glib
son Of Denver was elected president.
The hearing on the demurrer of the
secretary of state to the application of
the representatives of the home rule
government to require a referendum
on the statewide prohibition law at
the next election was continued by
Judge Perry OF the District Court in
Denver until Sept. 25.
A yearning for an opportunity to be
great surgeon and to pursue his
studies in the field hospitals of the
allied armies where each case pre-
sents a problem in the science of sur
gerry, is now declared to account for
the disappearance of DR.. Samuel W.
Miller, Jr., of Mead. He left his young
wife and 9-months-old babe the night
of Sept. 6.
After twenty-three years in Denver
as the pastor of the Boulevard Con-
gregational church, the Rev. Charles
II. Pettibone has resigned and will
leave Oct. / for Florida for the sake
of his wife's health.
According to President Charles H.
Roper of the Omaha-Lincoln-D Denver
Good Roads Association, over 1900
cars loaded with tourists from other
states pass over the road every day
during the tourist season.
Approximately 100 representatives
Of Colorado labor organizations will
be in attendance at the annual con-