The Dolores star., 1916-06-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper UnIon New Service
DATES s'OR COMING EVENTS.

League Convention at Colo. SPRING.
~ Festival and Caravan At Glen
wood Springs.
June z2-zs-Coio Christian Endeavor
Aug: l-ceiebrstion coiorado's Fortt-
e EN- Anniversary Of Statehood. AZ
!..sn,.siS.ss q Ssess ase. .. b:S:
Aug: s-Democrasie State Assembly at
Aug; is:lS-Pickle Day and Fair at
Aug: 2s-.s-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. Of p, at Greeley.
Sept. s-s-Frontisr Days celebration
At Fort Morgan.
Sept. 27;2s-state Convention B.P.o.E
Ore of great richness has been
opened up in the Little May vein in
the Beacon Hill section at Cripple
Creek.
The Silverton district in the San
Juan country is booming and the act.
tvity in mining and milling is beyond
all precedent.
The Cripple Creek output in May
totaled 84,150 tons, with . bullion val
ue Of $1.185.S4O. The ores averaged
$14.09 per ton.
John Louis Stranahan, 81, wealthy
mining man Of the Lakewood region.
died at the Boulder sanitarium follow
Ing q brief illness.
Twenty-Five autos carried the mem
bers of the Pueblo County Bar Asso-
citation from Pueblo to Beulah. where
the first annual picnic was held
Residents of Fraser have cleared
Berthoud pass OF the accumulation of
snow which threatened to keep out
automobile traffic for several weeks.
William Willard Burke of Sterling
has been awarded the annual schol.
arship to Harvard University estab-
lished by the Rocky Mountain Har-
ward Club.
The Colorado State Teachers Col
lege at Greeley closed . notable year
with its annual commencement exer-
cises. at which degrees were awarded
to 42O teachers.
The tungsten mill being erected by
the Rare Metals Ore Company at Rol-
linsville. Gilpin county. will be
opened for operation on June 10 or
Is at the latest.
Arthur Montague, sentenced to
serve from fifteen to twenty years in
the penitentiary for an attack upon a
16-year-old girl in q Denver store, was
taken to Canon City.
The annual meeting Of the Colora.
do Association of the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers will be held
at the Denver Athletic Club the night
of Saturday. June 10.
Sylvester Stewart was fined $15G
in West Side Court In Denver BY
Judge Wright for alleged secretion of
a witness. Muriel Henderson, the
prosecuting witness in felony case.
Edwin v. Brake, former state labor
commissioner, was sued for divorce
in the County Court in Denver by
Mrs. Mary A. Brake. The complaint
names a woman called "Estelle" as
correspondent.
Petitions for . constitutional
amendment to allow the manufacture
OF beer in Colorado and its sale to
Colorado consumers through delivery
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unbroken packages. were put in cir
culation in Denver.
With an output of $38.404,S15 in
gold since 1893 and the payment to its
fortunate shareholders of $1O,357,OSO
in dividends, the Portland uold Min
ing Company of the Cripple Creek
district is in better form today than
at any previous time.
The arrivals of watermelons, tn.
first of the season, has given a sig.
nificant summer aspect to the fruit
markets of Denver. which is not in the
least lessened by the addition of
green corn and fragrant netted can
taloupes.
Henry Miller, "a years old, had his
leg broken, and Mrs. Grace Whelden,
%. was painfully hurt, when a motor
cycle they were riding crashed into
an automobile driven by Mrs. William,
O'Brien of Colorado Springs at Four
teenth and Market streets in Denver.
A new compressor is being installed
at the Gold King mine in the Silver
ton district. A crew of miners has
been placed In the mine. The hex
Mining Company of the San Juan has
received between $4,000 and $6,vvs,
for shipment of 2,120 pounds of tuns I
stem concentrates that ran lilo pe4
cent.
Judge w. D. Wright of the Denver
West Side Court refused to reduce
the bond of J. B. Dunning, which was
originally fixe1 at $4,000. Dunning
is charged with embezzling the funds
of the Swift Packing Company in sums
aggrcgating approximately $4,000.
Dunning was charged jointly with
Ernest H. Pettigrove and Max Pep
per.
Collecting tungsten ore as a means
of raising spending money is one Of
the latest industries of the prisoners