The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES EoR COMING EVENTS.
Aug; 1-Celebration Colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary of Statehood. at
Aug. National Convention of Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Den
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
Aug. .s--Meeting Colorado Editorial AS
sociation at Denver.
Aug. 1O-Republican State Assembly at
Aug. 14-Grand Lake Yacht Races.
Aug. l4-Colorado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs.
Platteville.
Aug. 21-Celebration of the opening OF
the new State Highway between Del
Norte and Pagosa Springs, at Du-
range.
Aug. 22-25-AnnuaI Convention. Grand
Lodge X. OF P at Greeley.
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Sept. 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
Sept. 11-Meeting Midland Trail Assn
in Denver
Sept. 15-16-harvest Festival at Num-.
Sept. 27-2s-State Convention b. p. U. e.
at Trinidad.
Windsor is planning to buy big
fire truck.
Eighty-five horses were burned to
death in a Denver livery stable.
Weld county will get approximately
$4,000 from the State Road Fund
this year.
Eight girl strikers Were fined s.
and costs in Denver for menacing
five girls who refused to strike.
Harvey Mayfield, a ranchman OF
the Pawnee Butte country, is in the
county jail on charge of maliciously
shooting cattle.
A call has been issued for the an
nual meeting of the National Mid
land Trail Association in Denver the
week of Sept. II.
Miss Jean Lauge, 21-year-old Den
yer manicurist, attempted suicide
after being deceived and married to
Geo. II. Mills of Newton, Ia.
Fifteen hundred soldiers from the
Golden rifle range paraded through
Denver streets Saturday, and then
were guests at Denver theater.
Angelo Girardo, 60, Boulder vege-
table and fruit grower, was struck
by a C. & S. passenger train on
crossing near Marshall, and instantly
killed.
Meyer Friedman, Jewish banker
and philanthropist, died at Mercy
Hospital in Denver as the result Of
complications after an operation. He
was 62 years old.
The ColoradolWyoming irrigation
suit which has been pending in the
United States Supreme Court for
more than four years will come up
for a hearing on Sept. 4.
The quantity of petroleum market
ed from the areas of oil production
in Colorado in 1915 amounted to 20S,-
AIS barrels, decrease of 14,29S bar
rels, or 6 per cent from the corre-
spending output in 1914.
From May l to July 15 last year
when saloons existed in Colorado
the state penitentiary received 1877
prisoners. From May 1 to July IA
this year - under prohibition - the
penitentiary received Al prisoners.
Denver's annual per capita loss
from smoke is $40, while the total an
nual loss from TIE evil is at least ST.
100000, according to estimates made
by those who have been and are now
according the problem deep and COM
prehensive study.
John F. Vivian, register of the
State Board of Land Commissioners
and secretary of the Republican
State Central Committee, mailed to
Philip b. Stewart, chairman of the
Republican state committee, his
resignation as secretary of the state
organization.
Rumors which have been in circula-
ton in Denver for several days to the
effect that the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway may again obtain control of
the Western Pacific, making a con-
tinuous system from Denver to the
Pacific coast, have been in a meas
ure confirmed by New York advices.
The simple and impressive burial
service of the Episcopal church was
recited at ST. Johns Cathedral in
Denver, where hundreds had gather
ed to pay their last tribute to Robert
S. Ruble, assistant general passenger
agent of the Union Pacific, whose
sudden death at his rooms in the
Denver Club shocked the city.
The celebration of the opening of
the new state highway between Del
Norte and Pagosa Springs will be
held at Durango, Aug. 81. AS link
in an important highway, the Spanish
Trail-Grand Canon highway, pro-
jected between Denver, Colorado
Springs, Pueblo, Walsenburg, Ala.
mosa. Del Norte, Pagosa Springs,