Gunnison news-champion., 1916-07-14
COLORADO NEWS IN BRIEF

~Dgtch" HELLER Of Denver won tn,
ro.zA riding championship in Il,
s.u-I City roundup.
4 forest IRE IN the Rocky mountain
l4-oaal forest on Thompson creek de
s.-uged timber valued at sssO.CO0.
fTedtie Welsh. lightweight cham
;.0a. was fouIed by Ad Wolgas, II
the eleventh round OF their bout al
..rlvsr.
Llrango will shortly have a neN
res s,er OF the federal land Office tier,
md the new appointee will be Senator
-o-l Thomas Joyce of Silyerton.
several hundred persons searched
.a hills near Fraser for Charles "A
9ore, field surveyor OF the forestry
..-'ice, missing for a week. No trac.
I'm was found
The annual convention of the Co.or
optical society was he'd in Den
closing with a banquet at the Al
--y hotel. W. +. Beckhart was re-
led head of the society.
gorge Shindle. railroad detective
lead at his home in Denver from \
..t te wound received at Oakley. Kan
o. June q. in an alteration with
ne Faust, a colofed employee OF
zee Union Pacific.
Ereddie Welsh will defend his title
worlds lightweight champion in q
"Hty round bout at Colorado Springs
labor day. His opponent Will ne
J.r Of the big four"-Charley White
-uny Dundee. Benny Leonard oil
er Hammer.
The convention OF the Brotherhood
.. locomotive FIremen and Engine
30. which has been in session at the
a litorium in Denver since June 5
shed its work and adjourned after
.e.gtiug Louisville. KY, as the meet
uE place In 1913.
The opening II the new highway owe,
..aJbit Ear pass. which links Denver
and Steamboat Springs by scenic
y4'e which is considerably shorter
an the old road. was celebrated BY
automobile run over the highway
ID which twenty machines and eighty
--s.dents OF northwestern Colorado
took part
The nineteenth annual convention
b. the Colorado Bar association was
cid at Colorado Springs with large
tendance. In his annual address
President John d. Fleming of Boulder
Tged a revision of the ballot laws in
-egard to ballotinS as the result ol
he adoption OF the headless ballot
act He criticised the length of the
lyerage court decision.
Liquor shipments into Denver
cached a totai OF 1880. according to
he books OF the county clerk and re
order. Every day last month tho
ransportation companies handled
.3S shipments OF liquor. varying in
'ize from quar-; bottle to barre.
The recording fees for the month
to $1,S45. Liquor shipmena
have steadily increased since Jan. /.
Two persons were killed and ano;h.
er seriously injured in a shooting af-
rrigating bitches in Pine river valley
Abner Lowell. aged forty-eight. and
his son. Hugh. are dead and another
.on. Frank. aged sixteen, is seriously
injured. The sheriff and three depu
lies are in search OF Henry Ludwig
who is said to have done the shooting
Marguerite Cook, The fourteen-year
,ld bride of ]. q. Cook, aged fifty-siy
] steel worker, was found dead on z
bridge in the downtown district OF Pa.
sblo. A few rods away lay the body
II Cook with a bullet through his
heart Cook is thought to have shot
his wife and then committed suici 4
rhe couple are said TO have been ~
,rated during most OF the time - 4
heir marriage, seven months ago
Colonel James c. Bulger is in -
IN awaiting hanging for the mO
II Lloyd F. NiCnodemus In the u
roy hotel at Denver. but the reg =
,e was raising for service in MO
It the time he committed the crime
'eady to depart for the front u
allied upon. The Rocky MouI
the organization OF volunl
.avalry founded b. Colonel Bu '
Our years ago. has been accepted
he war department
Petitions to initiate two bills in q.
interests of the farmers were =
Nth the secretary Of state by voln, :
aoggatt. The petitions have been gen
rally circulated throughout the state
md literally signed The herd law
makes cattle raisers liable for damage
lone by their stock to crops of tie
armers, and the farmers loan bill
.alls for the loaning OF state school
and funds on farm mortgages at
ow rate of interest to farmers.
During 1915 Colorado mines pro
luced $22.419.0d0 in gold. 7.0l2,Vul
,unces Of silver. s7.240,o0 pounds os
ead. 7.212,000 pounds Of copper and
l0O.000.O00 pounds If zinc, having q
otal value of s42, 1895. 464, as compared
NTH q value OF $33.4e0.126 in 1914
During the first six months of 1915