Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-06-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

| sNeHtlOn at Saliua.
June 14-1S-Semi Annual Epworth
League Convention at Colo. Springs.
June I7-Nineteenth annual Strawber-
| ry Festival and Carnival at Glen
June 22-25-Colo. Christian Endeavor
convention. at Greeley.
aug; l-Celebration Colorado's Forti.
eth Anniversary of Statehood. at
Aug. National Convention of Rep
resehtatives of Negro Race at DEN
Aug. s-Democratic state Assembly at
Platteville.
Aug. 22-25-AnnuaI Convention, Grand
Sept. 5-S-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
sept, 27-29-State Convention B.P. o. E.
The school house at Hasting
Mesa. near Trinidad, was destroyed
by fire.
A big body of tungsten ore was
opened at the Apex mine in Gilpin
county.
The state convention of B. p. o.
Elks will be held in Trinidad Sept.
27-2S-29.
The Wanakah mine in the Ouray
district has again started develop
ment work.
Judge S. Harrison White has been
elected president of the Missouri So
ciety of Colorado.
A two-inch streak of pitchblende
ore was discovered in the Bezant
mine in Gilpin county.
Ore of great richness has been
opened up in the Little May vein in
the Beacon Hill section at Cripple
Creek.
Fish and Game Commissioner Jo-
seph l.. Gray received 100000 rain.
bow trout eggs for the Fort Collins
fish hatchery.
The Cripple Creek output in May
totaled S4,15O tons, with a bullion val
ue Of $1,1s5.S40. The ores averaged
$14.09 per ton.
The Colorado State Teachers Col.
lege at Greeley closed a notable year
with its annual commencement exer-
cises, at which degrees were awarded
to 420 teachers.
Arthur Montague, sentenced to
serve from fifteen to twenty years in
the penitentiary for an attack upon a
16-year-old girl in Denver store, was
taken to Canon City.
The annual meeting of the Colora.
do Association of the American So.
ciety of Civil Engineers will be held
at the Denver Athletic Club the night
Of Saturday. June 10.
Veterans belonging to the Grand
Army of the Republic in Denver mus
tered a total strength of 44O men
when the rolls were called Decoration
day During the last year 163 veter-
ans have died.
Adj. Gen. Harry p. Gamble, of the
State National Guard, has accepted
the designations of three officers oil
the guard. Lieut.. Col. Edward J.
Boughton. Mai. Henry J. Hersey and
Capt. Hildreth Frost.
Petitions for constitutional
amendment to allow the manufacture
of beer in Colorado and its sale to
Colorado consumers through delivery
from the brewery to the consumer in
unbroken packages. were put in cir.
culation in Denver.
The trial OF Clyde b. Pearson and
Cornelius Gray, the two men charged
with the murder OF Sheriff Roach of
Cheyenne and his deputy. Nels Mel
son, near Box Elder ranch, was set
ior Monday, June IL, in the District
Court at Fort Collins.
With an output of s3S,4Oi,S15 in
gold since 1898 and the payment to its
-. - . N
in dividends, the Portland sold Min.
ing Company of the Cripple Creek
district is in better form today than
at any previous time.
Notices of an increase in wages on
4 cooperative basis are being posted
IN many metal mines of the state and
will affect approximately 5000 en-
ployes. 1t is expected that the move
ment will extend until it applies to
$4,000 men now engaged in metallif-
erous mining in Colorado.
A new compressor is being installed
at the Gold King mine in the Silver.
ton district A crew of miners has
been placed in the mine. The Ibex
Mining Company of the San Juan has
received between $1,000 and So. -,
for shipment of 2,120 pounds of tung.
sten concentrates that ran lilo per
cent.
Absolute regulation of all soft drink
parlors, for the suppression of boot
Logging in connection with the sale
OF soft drinks. is given the Denver
city police authorities in an ordinance
recurring all persons and CORPORATIONS
selling soft drinks to take out licenses,
For violation of the license ordinance
offenders may be fined $25 to $500.
Judge w. ID. Wright of the Denver
West Side Court refused to reduce