The Dolores star., 1916-08-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.

aug. lo-Republican State Assembly Nc
Aug. I1-Progressive State Convention
Aug. Io,isSwom.n's Party Conference
Aug. l4-Grand Lake Yacht Races
aug. lt-Colorado Federation Of Labor
Au meeting Ing At Soloradc SPRING. .,
Pi.,ssvi iii.f'ek's Day and a'f "
Aug. aI-CeIebration of the opening Of
Norte and Pagosa Springs. At Du-
Aug. 22-ss-Annual Convention. Grand
Aug Ri, si-seps. Apple Pie Days at
Sept: S-s-Boulder County Fair At
Sept. S-s-Front,sr Days celebration
Sept. 11NMeesinE Midland Trail Assn
Sept. i5.Is-harvest Festival a. Mum.
Sept 27-zs-Stats Convention B. p. o. T.
There are 34.2sl motor cars in
Colorado.
Governor Carlson has announced
his candidacy for . second term.
Four hundred horses and two car
loads Of mules have arrived at the
Golden guard camp.
Many stockmen met at 0lenwood
Springs to formulate plans for op-
posing the proposed herd law.
Officers Of the grand castle of Col
orado Knights of the Golden Eagle.
will meet in Denver. Aug. 10 and II.
There are now 500 Denver house
maids enrolled on the books of the
Domestic Workers Industrial Union.
A Union day picnic. at which it IL
planned to bring 1000 union men and
women together. is being arranged
for Aug. 20. at Glacier Lake.
Colorado was forty years old ON
Aug. l, and in all parts Of the state
the birthday anniversary was cele-
brated with elaborate public affairs.
The biggest electric show ever
given in Denver will be held the first
week in December, according to plans
which are under way by the cleo
tricians.
Julian H. Moore was selected as q
candidate for the office of Judge Of
the Juvenile Court of Denver at the
primary election of the Denver Bar
Association.
A transfer Of mining claims involv-
ing some 400 acres of patented
ground and at least 100000 in val,
ue, is under consideration in the Grip.
pie Creek district.
The market value of silk" socks
manufactured from sawdust in the
United States In 1915 is said to equal
the total appropriation for administer.
ing the national forests.
Colorado will receive this year $685..
$50 for highway Improvements out OF
the $5,0OO.0O0 appropriation recently
made by Congress, If the state puts
up like amount.
The Woman's Republican League
of Colorado held an executive commit
tee meeting at the league headQuar.
tiers in Denver and elected Mrs. Julia
E. Killam president.
Persee Allen Bobbitt of Grand
county, who was on trial at Little
ton, charged with having illegally
purchased a horse in Grand county
was acquitted by the jury.
The second annual basket picnic
for the blind and their friends was
held at Washington park in Denver
under the auspices of the United
Workers for the Blind of Colorado.
The government safety-first train
will arrive in Denver the morning OF
Aug. and will be on exhibition on
the tracks in front of the Union sta
ton on that day and the following
day.
Whitefield and associates, who re-
Gently purchased the Charles Porter
lease at the sixth level of the C. o.
D. mine. in Poverty gulch. are mining
ore Of high average grade from the
stope of the main C. o. D. vein.
A plan to reach the North pole and
explore the Arctic regions by means
Of modern aircraft was announced by
DR.. Frederick A. Cook, Arctic az.
plorer and claimant to the honor Of
having first reached the North pole,
who Is In Denver.
Miss Meta Lawrence, school teacher
at Monte Vista. who was awarded 81
100 by the County Court in Monte
Vista in suit brought by her against
John Wertz, whom she charged with
slandering her, was made defendant
in-error in writ of supersedeas ap
piled for in the State Supreme Court
Senator John shafroth Of Colorado
was called from Washington to Fay
cite, Mo-, by the death of his brother
Col. William Shafroth. Col. Shafrotu
was " years old and was unmarried.
Recently he distributed his property.
estimated at 100000. to his employees.
the poorer people Of Fayette, the
towns churches and to the county's
road fund.
The Jane jefferson Democratic
Club will celebrate the fifteenth an.
n1versary of the founding of the club
An0 ho- 10 T.