The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FoR COMING EVENT,

Oct e-Frontier Day Celebration at
Castle Rock.
Oct. l2-Annual Poudre Canon Picnic
at Fort Collins.
Oct. 17-19-MeetinT of SYNOD of Pres
byterian Churches at Grand Junction.
Jan. 20-27-Annual w est o r n stock
Show at Denver.
Oct. 1 has been chosen an Go-To-
Church day.
Over 600 students are registered at
the Fort Collins college.
The 1916 Synod of the Presbyterian
church. district of Colorado, will meet
in Grand Junction. Oct. 1918.
One cent per gallon was taken off
the price of gasoline in Denver, which
now sells at % cents a gallon.
Chas. w. Fairbanks, Republican
candidate for Vice President, address
ed large audience at the Denver A~
ditorium.
The Leadville district is booming
and the output reported the greatest
in history. Lake county mines this
year will produce $1S,000.0O0.
Esther Brown, who was arrested in
Denver in company with a man giving
his name as Edward Sears, is believed
to be Esther Ellison of Eaton.
Two leads OF good ore is the daily
output from the P. T. mine located on
Chicago Creek. Idaho Springs district.
Some Of this ore assays over $100.
The National Association of Life
Underwriters elected ]. Stanley Ed
wards OF Denver second vice presi
dent at its annual convention at St
Louis.
John Reidy. Colorado pioneer and
deputy United States marshal for
eighteen year, died at his home in
Denver. He had been i'll about two
weeks.
Over 1900 carloads of cantaloupes
have been shipped from the Rocky
Ford and Ordway districts, and grow
ers received a higher price than for
years past.
The Jenkins and johnson lease on
the Pozo property near Idaho Springs
is among the best in the camp that
maintains the regular output of about
$50 tons of good ore per month.
The fifty-third annual session of the
Rocky Mountain Baptist Association
met at the Baptist church of Love
land. Thirty-six of the forty churches
of the association were represented
The first subscription to the Den
yer Labor Temple, which unions of
the city are planning to build, was
voted by the Denver Trades and La
Dor Assembly at its regular meeting.
Mrs. M. A. Potter, prominent soci-
city woman of Indianapolis, sustained
concussion of the brain and may die
as the result of an automobile acci-
dent on the Cheyenne road near Colo
RADIO Springs.
Ore shipments of 333 carloads from
the Silverton district for the month
OF August, broke all records for the
month in past years. At an average
Of twenty-five tons to the car. the ton
mage production amounted to a total
of 1926 tons for that month.
William Bayard Craig, for whom the
principal town of Moffat county was
named and who originally owned the
greater part of the townsite, died and
was buried from the Craig Central
Christian church, which was built
largely through his efforts while its
pastor thirty years ago.
Juan Valdez, an escaped convict
from the New Mexico penitentiary,
and who is said to be the leader of a
gang Of cattle rustlers that has op-
Grated in southern Colorado and Ok
lahoma and who has been sought for
by officers of Las Animas county for
almost year, was captured at La
Junta.
The leasers, on the Senator mine,
below Black Hawk. shipped a carload
OF concentrates from the Iron City
concentrator, weighing 1890 pounds,
to the Globe smelter, which was set
tied for at 1.65 ounces gold, 1852
ounces silver and 67 per cent lead,
showing the ore to be worth $42.77
per ton. producing a check for s356.97.
A shipment of two lots of ore to the
sampling works at Black Hawk from
the famous Pittsburg mine in lower
Russell Gulch, returned exceptionally
high values, one lot bringing 3.97
ounces gold, $50 ounces silver and
$50 per cent copper; the other lot re.
turning values of 1878 ounces gold,
1880 ounces silver and is per cent
copper.
The arrest in Chicago of Willard
Powell, alias the Waco Kid" as a
suspect in connection with the nation.
wide Matchmaking gang being round
ed up by the federal authorities of
Chicago. is one of the latest develop
ments in the case with Colorado
angle. The Waco Kid" was arrested
in Denver last June on charge of
Wire-tapping" and was Iatar axtr,