The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1916-06-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES fOR coMsN0 EVENTS.
Aug. 1-Celebration Colorados Forth
eth Anniversary of Statehood. At
Aug. sHNation.I Convention of Rep
'ressntatives Of Negro Race at DEN
Aug. democratic State Assembly at
Aug. is.is-Pickl. Day and Fair at
Aug. 2s-a5-Annual Convention. Grand
Sept. s-s-Frontisr Days celebration
Sept. a7-ss-state Convention B.P.o.E.
at Trinidad.
Otis Long, chief Of tho Victor fire
department, died following an oper-
alton for appendicitis.
The funeral OF Mrs Elizabeth Small,
wife Of Major Small, wealthy farmer.
was held at Longmont.
Preparations are being made for the
annual exhibition of the Denver Ken
mel Club. to be given at Lakeside.
July 2.
An order for the disbanding Of the
Second Infantry regiment of the Colo
RADIO National Guard was issued by
Adjutant General Gample.
In the case of Mrs. Geo. Jackson
at Pueblo, Judge Essex decided that
sales OF liquor within Colorado made
to persons outside the state were
valid.
DR.. Noble o. Hamilton, convicted
in Denver Of causing the death Of Mrs.
Ada Williams, was given the mini
mum sentence Of from ten to eleven
years.
Oil and gas have been encountered
at $3.50 feet in Well No. at Aurora,
according to a report given out by
Thomas B. Jefferson, drilling super
intendent.
A verdict awarding judgment Of 81
to w. H. Saylor Of Loyeland against
G. A. Hamilton. was the outcome Of
q Islander suit in the District Court
at Fort Collins.
A jury in the West Side Court in
Denver found DR.. Bennett Graft
guilty Of murder in the second degree
in having caused the death on Feb.
2. of Mrs. Ruth Camp.
Joseph c. Benson, "a, a resident of
Arvada for the last thirty years was
arrested at Golden, charged with hav-
ing deserted his wife in the spring Of
1914 and left for California.
The Great Western Sugar Company
has organized a department Of re-
search for the purpose OF promoting
efficiency in the thirteen factories
row owned by the company.
After they had kept the secret for
nearly two years, the marriage of
John Thorpe of Denver and Miss"
Eveline M. Stephens of Boulder. on
Nov. 13, 1915, was announced at Boul-
der.
A special train of eleven cars left
Denver for Los Angeles with the Den
YER Knights Templar on board OH
their way to attend the Thirty-third
convenes in that city.
A great festival and carnival In the
form Of family picnic will be held
at Bowles grove. Littleton, by the
Swedish people of Denver and vicin.
fty, in honor, according to national
| custom, Of the advent Of midsummer.
Warner johnson of Denver and John
Turner Of Loveland were ordained in.
to the ministry as clergymen of the
Seventh Day Adventist church at
services held at the convention of the
Adventists at Rocky Mountain lake
in Denver.
Alexius J. Halter, through whose
h4
| section Of Denver became one of the
choice suburban residential sections,
died at his home at 1901 Clermont
street, OF diabetes after an illness of
two months.
Within five days $4,000 to be used
in caring for the families of militia
men If the guard is called into active
service. was raised by twenty-five
women in Pueblo, organized by Capt.
c. H. Doke of Company l., as
branch Of the army first aid corps.
Fully recruited, the strength of the
Colorado National Guard, when mobi-
lized according to War Department
orders, on account of conditions in
Mexico, will be approximately eight
companies Of infantry, numbering $50
men; four troops of cavalry, 400 men;
two batteries of artillery, 300 men; a
signal corps of rs men; two engineer
ing companies, 200 men: field hospi.
tai corps, so men.
A disordered mind, due to an over.
dose of drugs. led Daniel D. Collins.
until few days ago clerk of camp
No. 5, w. o. W.. into believing tina,
he had been attacked and robbed at
in his office at Colorado Springs, &C.
cording to his friends. Collins was
found on the floor OF his office appar-
emily In an unconscious condition.
with the safe door open and papers
scattered around the room