The Raymer enterprise., 1916-02-24


Junction.
March 2o-ApriI 2.-Coiorado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition al Denver.
April 13-Democratic State Convention
at Pueblo.
May First Congressional District
republican Convention at Colorado
Springs
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
The San Juan tungsten district is
booming.
Sugar advanced from $500 to $685.
per cwt. In Denver.
R. L. Metcalfe of Omaha, spoke in
Denver on Washingtons birthday.
Over $4,000 was paid leasers on the
lbex mine at Leadville last week.
Denver's new federal court was
dedicated in the new postoffice build
ing.
President Wilson nominated Sam
uel W. Barber as postmaster at Chey.
enne Wells.
M. D. Thatcher. aged Pueblo banker.
Is reported sinking, and the end eX-
pected at any time.
William Mari, 6S years old, Colo
RADIO pioneer and widely known cattle
man Of North Park, died at st. Luke's
hospital
Mrs. Alice Wallace, so years old.
dropped dead from heart disease
while being fitted for coat In o
Denver department store.
The highest price ever recorded on
the Denver market for fat lambs,
1880 per cwt., was paid for two car
loads In from Fort Collins.
call for the Democratic state cen
tral committee to convene in Denver
Saturday. March 4, was issued by
Chairman Wellington Gates.
The bittieton primary" to select a
candidate for postmaster was held,
and Lew f. Allen was high, with 1853
votes. Eight persons were voted for.
! Jay Denham, So years old, resident
OF Colorado for thirty-eight years. and
well known stockman, died at his
home near Deer Trail, after a long
illness.
Mrs. Margaret Osborn, So, wife o,
Judge w. b. Osborn, died at Loveand
She was one OF the first settlers al
Gold Dirt. mining camp near Cen
tral City. in 1850. .4..
An order for 100000 worth of tung.
rten ore for an Eastern steel concern
u be used in the manufacture OF
munitions for European governments
was received Ia Denver.
One hundred and ten arrests In.
volving alleged violations of the pro
hibltion law were made by the Den.
yer police and the district attorneys
office in the first six weeks of a
dry" Denver. according to records Of
/ the two offices.
Risking his own life to remove
jeopardy to probably scores of 9TH
ers, Jesse b. Ronaldson, 20. a car.
penter and contractor. picked up a
live electric light wire on the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad tracks south
of Bayaud street In Denver and
moment later fell dead under the
shock of 1900 volts.
! Prompted by what is believed BY
friends to have been dependency
over a shattered love affair, Gustavs
Liljeberg, II, living at 25Ol Harlan
street, Edgewater, ended his life by
swallowing several ounces of chloro-
form and cutting his wrists with a
razor. He died at the tythospital
In Denver.
Er. Bennett Graft, released on ST.
500 bail several days ago on a charge
Of murder growing ont OF the death
OF Mrs. Ruth kamp at Mercy hospital
was rearrested In Denver on the or
der Of Coroner Sherman Williams in
connection with the death OF Mrs.
Beulah Hatch. wife of George T..
Hatch OF Longmont.
The Rev Otis L. Spurgeon, who was
| kidnapped from his hotel in Denver
after delivering religious lectures in
1914, has filed $4,000 libel suit
against the Knights of Luther and
their manager. +, NJ. Shipper, accord
ing to dispatches from Des Moines,
lHwa. lie represented the organiza-
tion while in Denver on speaking
tour.
Hurled headlong against stone
curb in crash Of autos at Eighteenth
avenue and Grant streets in Denver,
Mrs, Fulton Jack, SO years old wife
of prominent attorney of Beatrice,
Neb, received injuries which 1t is bc.
lieved will be fatal. She was return.
ing from the funeral of neph W. Mrs.
Jack came to Denver to attend the
funeral OF Robert Wood, a 7-month.
old son Of c. D. Wood, q Boulder
Tungsten mill superintendent