The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1916-09-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EvENTs.

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Oct It, F l2nA Ga,1,n, Poudr' Canon Picnic
Show at Denver.
An addition to the city hall at Du-
range will be erected.
Senator John F. Shaffroth has re-
turned from Washington.
Bids are sought at Idaho Springs on
new location for the Idaho Springs
postoffice.
Over 75O carloads of cantaloupes
have been shipped from Rocky Ford
and Ordway.
About 1000 Masons from all parts
of the state are in Denver attending
various annual meetings of the order.
In August, the Breckenridge dis
trict, in Summit county, shipped $780,
300 worth of gold ore to the smelters.
Excavation has been started by the
Rare Metals Ore Company at Rollins
Vile for a 5Ox35-foot addition to it'll
mill.
| Construction work will begin soon
on the Boulder county end of the road
between Pine Cliff and Rollinsville, to
cost $4,000.
Work on the foundation Of the
| $4,000 addition to the Union Print
ers' Home at Colorado Springs has
been started.
Members of the federal farm loan
board were guests and speakers at a
luncheon given by the Civic associa-
ton of Denver.
Travelling on a special train, a con-
tingent of business men will leave
Denver Sept. "a for a trade-making
trip through the San Luis valley.
Governor Carlson was one of the
speakers at the fifteenth annual en-
campment of the Beecher Island Bat
tie Memorial association at Wray.
The Rev. Edwin Seldom, pastor
emeritus of the Broadway Baptist
church and widely known in Denver
religious circles, died Of tuberculosis
at the Cakes home
The production of mineral in Clear
Creek county for the year 1915 to-
tailed $1,124,225, according to the re-
port Of the Geological Survey. The
number of producing mines in the
county is los.
Prospectors on Junction creek near
Durango have uncovered blanket
vein of ore a short distance below
grass roots that runs twenty-five
ounces in gold and 1,133 ounces in
silver to the ton.
Corporal George Sparks, % years
old, member of Company F of the
Colorado National Guard, now en-
camped at the Golden rifle range, was
perhaps fatally stabbed in street
fight in Denver.
A ten-inch vein of boronite copper
ore was encountered in the Princess
Annie copper mine near West Cliff
The strike gives indication of a main
body Of high grade copper ore in the
heart Of the mountain.
August production Of the properties
Of the Granite Gold Mining Company
at Cripple Creek was 5000 tons of ore,
with an average value Of $23 a ton
The gross bullion value of the output
will approximate $4,000.
Don P. Blackwood, the young at
torney charged with lunacy, who, it
Is alleged, twice attempted to take
the life Of a Denver attorney, was
adjudged insane by a commission ap-
pointed by the Denver County Court
In none of the Colorado districts
has the influence Of higher prices for
silver. lead, spelter and copper been
more perceptible than at Robinson and
kokomo. two pioneer camps in Sum-
nit county, just over the county line
from the Leadville district.
The long contest over the disposi-
ton Of the fortune of the late Col.
George S. Newman, Colorado capital
list, ended Unexpectedly with the filing
of an agreement in the Arapahoe
County Court at Littleton, when the
widows proposition to divide the es-
tate was accepted by blood relatives.
The paternity of the Mable Owens
twins, one black and the other white,
mas been established. Investigations
made by Denver city and state author
tiles have resulted in disclosing from
the records of st. Joseph's hospital
tnat the father was Jack Civilian, a
negro undertaken, said to be dead.
Not to be outdone by Boulder,
Georgetown, Cripple Creek, Leadville
or other districts in which very high
grade gold ore has recently been dis
covered, Ouray reports a gold strike
yielding $40 to the pound of ore in the
upper level Of the Governor mine at
MT. Sneffles, under lease to Carr,
Hothwell & Buskirk Of Ouray.
Evidence Indicating fraud in the
signing of petitions sent out with
hired circulators in Denver was pre-.
scented at the hearing of arguments
In the application for a mandamus pro.
hibiting Secretary of State Ramer