The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

at Trinidad
Sept 2s-30-Third Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
at Ignacio.
Sept. 3O-Harvest Festival at Briggs
dale. s3
Oct 12-Annual Poudre Canon Picnic
at Fort Collins.
Jan. 20-27-AnnuaI Western Stock
Show at Denver.
Marble has new fire department.
Briggsdale will hold harvest fes-
tival Sept. 80.
The Num- harvest festival was
largely attended.
About $4,000 attended the Frontier
fair at Fort Morgan.
A Cripple Creek report says the
Ajax lease is proving rich.
A streak of ore has been opened up
In the Brazil mine at Freeland.
Boulder reports the tungsten situa-
ton brighter than for some time.
The entire estate of Judge David
c. Beaman of Denver, was left to his
widow.
Over 75O carloads of cantaloupes
have been shipped from Rocky Ford
and Ordway.
Many mining properties in the San
Juan district are reopening because
OF better ore prices.
James Baker, a Holbrook resident,
committed suicide by shooting HIM
self with a shotgun.
The land office receipts at Pueblo
for August were $S,400. There were
1922 filings during the month.
The Eureka mine in Gilpin county
is to be taken over and worked by
Ohio and Kentucky capitalists.
The Yukon mill at Durango has
been kept busy on the treatment or
tungsten ore from the Galty group.
Workers in eight of the coal mines
In Huerfano county have Joined the
United Mine Workers of America.
The humble bean, the money-making
crop of the western plains, was hon
ored with bean celebration at Pey
ton.
Work upon the Camp Bird tunnel at
Ouray which is to be nearly IL 900 feet
when completed, is progressing salts
factorily.
"a Denver bank clearipgs for the week
ending Sept. Z were $12,101.0O0. a
gain of 55.5 per cent over the same
week in 1915.
Nearly $4,000 pounds of zinc-gold
ore was shipped from the Eureka
mine in Gilpin county last week to
Black Hawk.
Members of the Pixies Peak Cattle
and Horse Growers Association met
at Florissant and condemned the pro-
posed herd law.
Frank Welch and Frank Cooper, old
offenders in Greeley, were arrested in
Fort Morgan charged with selling and
having liquor in their possession.
Robert Larson, SO years old, car
repairer for the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, was crushed to death while
working on car at Denver.
Both first and second prizes in the
open show for Boston terriers at the
dog show held in Kansas City were
won by Denver-owned dogs.
The buffalo herd at City park in
Denver attained its majority" with
the birth of fine girl baby that
raised the number to twenty-one.
The st. Johns mine people, who are
operating the Revenue mine at Ouray,
are making fine progress and the num-
ber Of employees is to be increased
Negotiations between officials of
the Colorado & Southern and the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroads and their
shopmen are expected to be resumed
in Denver.
H. S. Graves, chief of the United
States Forest Service, has received
applications for the construction OF
forty-two roads in Colorado, under
provisions of the federal aid act.
The enrolment at the Colorado
School for the Deaf and Blind at Colo
RADIO Springs broke all records when
1t reached 100. This is larger than
at any previous time in the institu-
tion's history.
The sixth hearing in the case of
Col. James G. Bulger, sentenced to
death for the killing of Lloyd Nico-
demus, one of the proprietors of the
Savoy hotel, in the spring OF 1914,
was held by the State Board Of Par
dons.
The Red Mountain district shippers.
including the Davey Leasing Com
pany on the National Bell, the Bars
tow, st. Paul, Congress, Joker Tunnel.
tennessee, Reno Leasing Company.
Atlantic, and others, supplied about
fifty car loads of ore to the Silver
Lake mill and the Durango smelter
during the first half of August.
Jack t. Mason is confined to his
home suffering from severe burns
and Dwight Ryland IL In CT Inla,s