Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-10-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

dale.
Oct. sIFrontier Day Celebration at
Oct. I2-AnnuaI Poudre Canon Picnic
at Fort Collins.
Jan. 20-27-Annual w estern STOCK
Show at Denver.
Tungsten buying at Boulder is again
becoming lively. Many miners are re-
fusing $50 a unit.
Seventeen men were arrested in
Denver in raids on two alleged boot
Logging headquarters.
The Cooperative Association OF
Dearfield, near Virgins. has placed
thirty men at work on the roads.
Officials of the coal miners union
report progress in the organization OF
the men of the southern Colorado
fields.
Denver was successful in a spirited
contest in Cincinnati for the 1917 con-
vention for the American Institute OF
Banking.
The State Livestock Commission is
pushing its campaign against the So
called "herd law" which will come be-
fore the voters this fall.
1t is reported that numerous min.
eral locations are being made at the
scene of the new gold strike neal
Twin Lakes in the Leadville district.
Thirty tons of copper ore from the
Mantle Brothers mine on Blue noun
tain in the Uintah valley will be
freighted to Craig. from where it will
be shipped to Denver.
Denver's high school cadet regiment
Will start out with SlS boys as its
membership. according to reports
made to the school board by the prin'
cipals of the five high schools.
A bleached-out skeleton, beside a
22-caliber rifle and an Ansonia watch,
were found about two and half
miles south OF Salida in a gulch by
Harry Livingston, 18, son of F. g.
Livingston.
The government warrant upon
which Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Kellar were
held in Denver awaiting deportation
TO Switzerland has been cancelled and
the couple will be allowed to remain
in the United States.
At meeting of the Democratic
state central committee in Denver,
Raymond Miller of Kiowa county was
elected chairman and Mrs. Mary
Nichols of Englewood, vice chairman.
The chairman will name a secretary.
The second death as result of the
collapse OF a portion of the stadium
on the occasion of the Welsh-White
fight at Colorado Springs occurred
when Tom Allen, 80. a porter at the
Colorado Savings Bank Building sue
cumbed.
Plans OF the Denver & Rio Grande
to develop a through broad gauge
line between Denver and Pennington,
N. NJ. will be presented by President
H. U. Nudge at the monthly meeting
of the directors of the company In
New York.
The Denver Election Commission
partly completed totaling votes fol
candidates for Democratic nomina
tions. The totals show that Benjamin
c. Hilliard defeated Fl. b. Teller fol-
the nomination for congressman by
majority of 7G.
The recent gold strike at Capital
mine. on Griffith mountain, near
Georgetown, has developed into
four-foot vein of ore that promises to
be bonanza. The ore is running at
a value of S2S.S00 a ton and assaying
l.I9O ounces 10 the ton.
At meeting in Denver, the Repub
lican state central committee per
fected its campaign organization by
electing Phillip b. Stewart chairman,
Mrs. Franklin E. Brooks of Colorado
Springs vice chairman, and John F.
Vivian of Weld county secretary.
Following an investigation the Colo.
rado State Board of Architects has ex.
onerated Architects McLaren and
Thomas of Colorado Springs of ali
blame for the collapse OF the amphi,
theatre at the Welsh-Wh fight at
Colorado Springs on Labor Day.
Sunflower grange of Sedalia will
hold its annual Frontier Day this year
at Castle Rock. October has been
selected as the date. The program
has been doubled in length, more fea
lures added and the grange promises
tc make it the biggest one-day event
in the series of county entertain
ments.
That the great Cresson ore 'vug,"
discovered in November, 1914, is not
yet exhausted is indicated by a re
port from Colorado Springs, stating
that recent ton shipment from tho
mine to the Golden Cycle plant at
Colorado City was paid for on the
basis of 81 per pound or $4,000 for the
lot.
A quantity of photographs, letters
and papers found in the trunk aban