The Dolores star., 1916-07-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES ron COMING EVENTS
July zS-29-Strawberry Day OF Steam
Aug, l.Ceisbr.tion colorado.s Forti-
| eth Anniversary Of Statehood. at
Aug: iEN.,ion.l Convention Of Rep
Aug: s-Dsmocratic State Assembly At
Aug. 14-colorado Federation Of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs.
aug; is,iS-PIckls Day and Fair At
Aug. .ss-as-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge K OF p At Greeley.
Aug; l-sspt. Apple DE Days At
Sept s-s-Frontisr Days celebration
Sept. 15-is-Harvest Festival At Num-.
Sept a7;ss3ststs Convention B.P.o.E-
Colorado prison workers will picnic
in Washington Park in Denver. July
18th.
The county clerk at Gunnison has
issued 80 more auto licenses this year
than last.
The Delta National Guard were
given an ovation when they passed
through Gunnison.
A party from steamboat Springs
made the trip to Denver over the new
automobile route in one day.
The Missouri Society of Denver.
will hold its annual dinner pail pio-
mic" at Warrington park. July Is.
Colorado will get 31.3o2.O00 of the
S15O. O00. 900 appropriated by Congress
for good roads in the next five years.
The Industrial Commission has de-
clared a dividend to policyholders in
the state compensation Insurance
fund.
The summer course at the State
Normal school, Greeley. has had 80
far an enrolment of LOO in the COL
lege department.
Steps have been taken to insure
concerted action Of all interests in tina
preparation of the ordinance to abate
the smope nuisance in Denver.
Thomas ]. ODonnell of Denver.
was elected president Of the Colora-
do Bar Association ut the annual
election held at Colorado Springs.
The clothing Of seven-year-old Vir-
ginia May Luke. Of Denver, caught
fire from the candles on a birthday
cake and she was burned to death.
More than 200 prominent attorneys
from all parts of the state attended
the nineteenth annual state convon-
ton Of the Colorado Bar Association
at Colorado Springs.
One promotion in the ranks of Com
pany E. Rocky Ford. has been Off
cially announced. Private Henry A.
Sullivan now is battalion sergeant
major. with a salary of $45 per month
An 18-inch vein of graphite worth
from $500 to $500 per ton, has been
found on the eastern slope of Siegel
mountain, about eight miles from Pit
kin, in the Quartz Greek mining dis
trict
The head and shoulders of sacred
OK beautifully mounted arrived in
Rocky Fort by mistake and enter
tanned the curiously inclined at the
depot for a day or two. The speci-
men was shipped to Earl Bennett by
mistake and was intended for the Zoo
at Colorado Springs.
After shooting and killing Abner
Lowell. 4S years old, and his son,
Hugh, 18, and seriously wounding an
other son. Frank, 16, in a quarrel
wig was surrounded near Durango by
a sheriff's posse in a cabin, where
he killed himself with his rifle.
A . snappy military program was
staged Sunday at the Golden rifle
range. with every unit in camp on
parade participating in drills and
other features Of flag presentation
by the Sons of Colorado. Those units
which had not received their emblems
were given state and national flags.
| Mrs. Jefferson M. Snow, of Denver.
was injured. perhaps fatally, and her
husband seriously hurt, when a large
automobile truck in which they were
returning to Denver from Cheyenne
plunged over a small embankment,
four miles north of Fort Lupton, and
turned turtle, pinning them be-
meath 1t.
The Rev. Irving P. Johnson, in.
structor at the Seabury Theological
Seminary at Faribault, Mimi, who re-
Gently was elected bishop coadjustor
Of the Episcopal diocese of Colorado,
has formally accepted the post, sub
ject to his ratification by the stand
ing committees and house of bishops
of the church throughout the United
States.
Plans have been completed for &C.
curing the 100000 to be raised in
the West for the construction of the
Moffat tunnel on the Denver & Salt
Lake railroad. Boston and New York
investors have agreed to take the
other half of the proposed $4,000. 900
bond issue, If the plan now concluded
for raising a 600 nnn in Danuar in