The Raymer enterprise., 1916-05-11

June l7-Nineteenth annual Strawber-
ry Festival and Carnival at Glen
wood Springs.
Aug. National Convention OF Rep
fesentatives OF Negro Race at Den
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly at
Pueblo marksmen have organized .
rifle club.
A big tungsten strike has been
made at Nederland.
The Boulder May fete increased
the college fund over $1,000.
Sheriff Krisher destroyed about
$3.50 worth of liquor at Ouray.
More than twenty families a day
took up homesteads in the Pueblo
land district in April.
Edward p. Pitkin, 81, Civil war vet
eran, and member Of Byron l.. Carr
Post, G. A. r., died in Denver.
William j. Jordan was acquitted at
Cortez in the District Court OF the
charge Of murder of Dudley Morri-
son at Dolores.
George e. Ledgerwood, 70, who
was stricken with apoplexy on his
10th birthday. died at st. Mary's hos.
pital in Grand Junction.
A benefit concert to assist In aid
ing 100000 homeless orphans of
France will be given in Denver by
the Society Of Fatherless Children Of
France.
The Denver Motor Club will not
own country home this year, but
instead will lease quarters at Morri-
son for use as rest rooms and social
quarters.
A. A. Peters Of Denver was elect
ed secretary of the American Poul-
try Association at the annual con-
vention of that organization held in
Peoria, Ill.
The report OF the city building in
spector for April shows that permits
for building operations in Denyer in
that month reached $340.9GO, an in
crease of $11.370 over April 1915.
A bill providing that term of the
Federal Court shall be held each year
in Durango, beginning next October.
recently introduced in the Lower
House Of Congress, passed that body.
Eleven banks in Denver, including
national and state banks and trust
companies, had deposits on May l az
gregating s92.3OO,0O0. These were
the largest deposits in the history OF
Denver banks.
The ore shipments from the Tellu-
ride station for the month OF April
totaled 1T cars. keeping the record
up in the front rank All these ship
ments were concentrates. no crude
ore being shipped during the month.
While practicing at the school yard
for track and field meet, Ovid
Plumb, son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. b.
Plumb of kersey, was struck in the
head and seriously injured by a dis
Gus that slipped from the hand OF
Paul Crist. ..e.
In wheat field near the corner
Of West Ellsworth avenue and Sheri-
dan boulevard in Denver, the body
Of an unidentified man, apparently
about 20 years old, was found by
Bernard Shock, dairyman. His
throat was cut and, few feet from
his body, was an open razor
Cashing forged money orders,
stolen with the aid Of an accomplice
from the St Louis postoffice two
months ago, in dozen cities over
the country, in order to keep up an
expensive living at fashionable ho-
tells, James c. McKeown, 30 years
old, was arrested In Denver by fed
eral and city authorities.
DIR. Lucien l. Blake, inventor OF a
submarine signal system in use in the
United States navy, constructing en-
eineer of the United States light.
house board and scientist whose
experiments in the recovery of ore
values added millions OF dollars to
the wealth of Colorado, died in Bos-
ton. Death followed an operation.
Sentences imposed year ago on
Eugene Buchanan, cattleman of Lo-
gan county, and eight associates, by
Federal Judge Robert II. Lewis. for
interference with homesteader,
were nullified in the reversal OF the
lower court by the United States
Circuit Court OF Appeals In st. Paul,
MINI. The case was remanded for
trial
Two Grand Jrnction high school
seniors on geology class picnic was
seriously injured when they fell from
a cliff in Nothorofare cahon. Arthur
Groves, Is, is in st. Marys hospital
with both ankles badly sprained and
his right arm broken, and John Lave,
10, is suffering from a bump on the
head that threatens conclusion and a
Jprained ankle and wrist, as well Al
many abrasions.