The Holly chieftain., 1916-03-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News servics.
DATES EOR COMING EVENTS,

AAAC otdte SOhseutioH
May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
May 1s-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly at
Denver.
The date for the 1917 annual West
ern Livestock Show will be Jan.
1924.
A primary to select a postmaster
for Boulder is opposed by many citi-
zens
Edward Scrafford, veteran U. p,
engineer, died suddenly at his home in
Denver.
Mrs. Esther Williams. 20. of Den.
yer, lost her life in prairie fire east
of Montclair.
The funeral of Dr. w. l.. Dorland,
pioneer resident and physician, was
held in Pueblo.
The cornerstone Of the Denver
Sheltering Home for Jewish children,
was laid Sunday.
Battery B, field artillery of Denver,
has announced its first annual mill
tary ball in Denver.
Ex-Governor E. M. Ammons was re-
elected president Of the Western
Stock Show Association.
Judge and Mrs. Ben B. Lindsey,
members of the Ford Peace Expedi.
ton have returned to Denver.
The Festival of Purim, called the
Carnival of. the Jews, will be cele-
brated in Denver. Sunday, March 10.
The United British Societies will
celebrate Canadian night Saturday,
March IS. with concert in Denver.
There will be more than forty-five
classifications of business groups in
the new Denver Civic and Commercial
Association.
A range war has been started in the
Mort section, and over 200 head
of sheep are reported slaughtered in
the Dominguez Canon.
Former State Treasurer NJ A.
Leddy has demanded that the state
prove in court the alleged shortage
Of over $4,000 under his administra-
J tion.
A meeting of representative negroes
Of the United States is to be held in
Denver next June to protest against
the treatment of the race in this coun.
try.
Clarence H. Olmsted, president OF
the Olmsted Investment Company and
a resident Of Denver for forty years.
was found dead in his office in
Denver
Announcement has been made that
the American Beet Sugar Company
has made an appropriation of $751;
900 for the improvement of the plant
at Rocky Ford.
John Babbitt, who made the trip
overland to California in 1S49, and
prospected through Colorado in 1859,
died at his home near Denver. He
was 80 years old.
A loss of $4,000 was sustained by
the Colorado Alfalfa Meal Company OF
Niwot, when fire destroyed its $25,
600 mill, and machinery and stock
valued at $25,000.
John Angelo, miner, was award
ed judgment for $2,5O0 against the
Mutual Coal Company of Walsenburg
by jury in the United States Dis
trict Court in Denver
The giant skeleton of dinosau-,
the most complete one ever found in
Colorado is to be exhibited in the
Colorado Museum of Natural History
at Denver City Park.
Henry M. Blackmer was chosen
president of the Midwest Refining
Company at a meeting of the directors
in Denver, following their selection
by the stockholders.
In collision with an automobile
driven by Arthur w. Fawbush, a car
penter of Denver, Ezra Cooper, 1S,
suffered fractures of both legs and
several deep scalp wounds.
The construction of at least four
new mills for the treatment of ore
is contemplated by Cripple Greek dis
trict operators and it is expected that
these plants will be ready for oper-
alton some time the coming summer
Prospectors will be pleased to learn
that their samples will be assayed
free by sending them to the Research
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