The Colorado statesman., 1916-12-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service

ian. 2O-Athletic Clup boxing contests
Jan; 2O-27-AnnuaI western Stock
Show at Denver
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. C. A. Annual Conven-
ton at Colorado Springs.
Delta will have a community Christ
mas tree.
Fifty-one thousand tourists visited
the Rocky Mountain National Park
last summer.
A total coal tonnage of 1,03S,263 was
mined in Colorado for the month OF
October, 1916.
The sum of s3O,295 will be expended
in Colorado Springs during 1917 for
park maintenance and improvements.
The Denver Laramie & Northwest
Iern railroad will go on the auction
block for the seventh time early next
year.
Former Judge Edward C. Stimson
was elected president of the Denver
Bar Association to succeed Harry c..
Davis.
The eighty-first regular meeting of
the Colorado branch of the American
Society of Civil Engineers, was held at
the Denver Athletic Club.
The commissioners of Crowley
county have purchased the holdings
of the Crowley County Agricultural
Fair Association for $1,000.
An order for $4,000 tons of steel
rails to cost more than $1,6O0,OG0 has
been placed with Colorado company
by the Missouri Pacific railroad
A farmer in Pueblo county who
raised twenty acres of beans threshed
$4,000 pounds, which brought him
S11 900 in cash for his seasons work
Miss Cora Cowperthwaite, for more
than twenty years a teacher in Den
yer schools and widely known among
Colorado educators, died in Los An
geles
The State Industrial Commission
has announced general increase in
the wages of miners in the Leadville
district, recently requested on the
grounds of the increased cost of liv.
ing.
The jury in the case of w. S. Van
SAINT, former manager of the Copeland
Ore Sampling Company, on trial in
the District Court at Cripple Greek
for alleged embezzlemenu, was dis
charged.
Plans for the establishment in Den.
yer of a distributing plant to be oper
ated by the farmers themselves were
Initiated at meeting of committee
of the Colorado Milk Producers Asso.
citation.
The city council of Trinidad has
passed ordinances for the widening OF
Maple street between Main and First
for the covering of the Kansas avenue
arroyo and for the purchase of new
fire cart.
Denver merchants whose property
was damaged by the Cherry creek
flood four years ago will not be able
to recover damages, according to an
announcement from the State Su
preme Court.
Death claimed w. H. Stridiron OF
Denver, otherwise known as Affinity
Bill" man of many wives and more
affinities, expounder of the matri
monial ad, trifler with hearts and
pocketbooks.
Another advance in the price of coal
was announced on the Denver market
Routt county lump, which sold last
summer for SIS ton, and has since ad.
vanced to Sc ton, now has gone to
s6.25, the highest price of the year.
Denver high school teachers have
requested the school board to grant
a raise in salaries, estimated at about
SIS month on an average for each
teacher. The request is embodied in
resolution of their association passed
unanimously at its last meeting
A movement to have the business
men of Denver and northern Colorado
join with the government in the pro.
per development of Rocky Mountain
National park was inaugurated in
Denver as a result of the visit OF
stephen T. Mather, assistant secretary
of the interior.
Under the supervision of the Unit.
ed States Bureau of Education, classes
loI Tie euucdlloh ol immigrants are
being organized at Greeley, Fort Col
Inns, Fort Morgan, Sterling, Walsen-
burg, Trinidad, Oak Creek, Lafayette,
Salida, Gorham, Colorado Springs.
Canon City, Rockvale and Leadville.
William N Vale, formerly first lieu
tenant in Company A, Colorado Ma.
tional Guard infantry. has resigned
from the army service and has re-
turned to Denver 1t is understood he
will be appointed to the vacancy on
the District bench caused by the ele.
vation of Judge George W. Allen TO
the Supreme Court.
Exclusive and original jurisdiction
in all cases involving rate-making and
service of nuhlic utilities rnstS snleIu