The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.

at trinidad.
Sept. 29-Prohibition State Convention
Sept. 2s-3O-Third Annual Pine River
valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
Sept. 30-Harvest Festival at Briggs
dale.
Oct. 12-Annual Poudre Canon Picnic
Jan. 2O-27-AnnuaI western stock
Show at Denver.
About 1000 Masons from all parts
Of the state are in Denver attending
various annual meetings Of the order.
More than $4,000 tourists visited
Estes Park this summer, according to
Enos Mills, the Colorado naturalist.
Mesa Verde National Park and the
cliff dwellings are to be shown by
film all over the United States this
winter.
Members of the federal farm loan
board were guests and speakers at
luncheon given by the Civic associa-
ton of Denver.
Travelling on a special train, con-
tingent Of business men will leave
Denver Sept. "a for a trade-making
trip through the San Luis valley.
A tunnel 1000 feet long under Cum
bres pass with 21z per cent. grade
is contemplated by the Denver & Rio
Grande for its proposed standard
gauge line into Durango.
Share in an estate of which settle
ment is being made in Indianapolis is
awaiting Nora Naughton and Bridget,
or Della, Naughton, whom the admin
istratoys are trying to locate.
Denver's high school cadet regiment
will start out with S1s boys as it's
membership, according to reports
made to the school board by the prin-
cipals of the five high schools.
The fifty-first annual meeting of the
Rocky Mountain Baptist Association
opened at Loveland for a three-day
session. Forty-six churches were rep
resented and a number of prominent
ministers and laymen were present.
Former governor ]. Frank Hanly of
Indiana, nominee of the Prohibition
party for president, and Rev. Ira Ian
drith of Tennessee, the vice presiden-
tial nominee, will campaign in Colo
RADIO the last week in September.
Despite all efforts on the part of the
police no trace has been secured of
the two safe-blowers who visited four
downtown Denver business houses.
The authorities believe the crooks,
after getting nearly $3.50, left the city.
Colorado leads every state in the
union in tungsten production by more
than 100000 annually, according to a
statement contained in report sub
mitted to a committee of the Metal
Mining Association at a meeting held
in Boulder.
The Denver Election Commission
partly completed totaling votes for
candidates for Democratic nomina-
tions. The totals show that Benjamin
C. Hilliard defeated H. B. Teller for
the nomination for congressman by a
majority of 76.
The state convention of the Colo.
RADIO Prohibitionists will convene at
the Trinity Methodist church, Denver,
Sept. 20. The convention will nomi
and determine the action to be taken
on state ticket.
Sister Cornelia O'Hara, Sister of
Charity for more than forty years and
for the last twenty years one of the
most popular and efficient members of
the nurses staff at st. Joseph's hos
pital, died of acute paralysis after an
illness of three months.
Following an investigation the Colo
RADIO State Board of Architects has ex-
onerated Architects McLaren and
Thomas of Colorado Springs of all
blame for the collapse of the amphi-
theatre at the Welsh-White fight at
Colorado Springs on Labor Day.
Love again laughed at lawyers and
separate maintenance suits in the Dis
trict Court in Denver when Mrs.
Sarah Eaves Savage, accompanied
her husband, John A. Savage, to the
court house and secured dismissal of
the second suit for separate mainten-
ance she had filed against her hus.
band.
1t is stated that development work
at the Governor mine, in the Sneffels
district, about nine miles from Ouray,
opened up several inches of quartz
which runs over 1000 ounces in god
and valued at $4,000 per ton. Along
side the quartz are several inches of
mud or tale that pans" about $500
per pound.
While w. H. George, who made a
voluntary confession at Cheyenne that
he had shot his sweetheart, Evelyn
Rodgers of Denver, still clung to his
story at Littleton, where he had been
taken, Miss Rodgers was paying a
'life-sized" visit to the Denver chief
of police and assuring him earnestly
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