The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1916-09-29

Nn: 3e-77-Annual Ws0tsrn Stock
SHOW At Denver.
Seventeen men were arrested in
Denver In raids on two alleged boot
R,Gging headQuarters.
thirteenth annual state meeting Of the
b. P. o. Il. at Trinidad.
The trade-making trip of the Don
yer Civic Association members to tbs
San Luis Valley was started Sunday.
Officials Of the coal miners union
report progress in the organization Of
the men OF the southern Colorado
fields.
Denver was successful in q spirited
contest in Cincinnati for the 1917 con-
vention for the American Institute OF
Banking.
cratic congressman. has declined the
candidacy for governor on a Liberal
Labor ticket.
Work will be started to widen tho
mountain road running from Ever
green to Bergen Park. The survey
Has been completed.
The State Livestock Commission Is
pushing its campaign against the So
called herd law" which will come be-
fore the voters this fall.
1t Is reported that numerous min.
eral locations are being made at the
scene OF the new gold. strike near
Twin Lakes in the Leadville district.
The National Association of Life
Underwriters elected J. Stanley Ed
wards Of Denver second vice presi.
dent at its annual convention at St
Louis.
ney. on trial for his sanity in the
County Court in Denver. was de-
clared sane by the verdict Of Jury
of laymen.
TunEsten exists In the Leadville
district Its presence has been proved
by the discoveries OF scheelite and
hutnerite recently made in the Gar
butt and hex properties on Breeze
hill.
A bleached-out skeleton. beside a
22-cxiiber rifle and an Ansonia watch,
wer9 found about two and half
mil<s south OF Sal:da in a gulch by
Harry Livingston. IS. son Of +. G.
Livingston.
A budget of $s.282, 900 was decided
upon at the conference in Denver be-
tween experts representing thirty-two
Western irrigation projects and Of
ficiafs of the United States Re"lama
ton Service.
The government warrant upon
which Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Kellar were
held in Denver awaiting deportation
to Switzerland has been cancelled ana
the couple will be allowed to remain
IN the United States
At q meeting of the Democratic
state central committee in Denver.
Raymond Miller of Kiowa county was
Nichols Of Englewerod. vice chairman.
The chairman will name a secretary.
Plans of the Denver & Rio Grande
to develop through broad gauge
line between Denver and Pennington,
N. NJ. will be presented by President
H. u. Nudge at the monthly meeting
Of the directors of the company in
New York.
The recent gold strike at Capital
mine, ON Griffith mountain, near
Georgetown, has developed into a
four-foot vein Of ore that promises to
be q bonanza. The ore is running at
value of $23.S0O a ton and assaying
1880 ounces to the ton.
That the great Cresson ore "vug."
discovered in November, 1914. is not
yet exhausted is indicated by a re-
port from Colorado Springs. stating
that a recent ton shipment from the
mine to the Golden Cycle plant at
Colorado City was paid for on the
basis of 81 per pound or $4,000 for the
lot.
Romance. of the sort fiction lovers
seek, burst into the full blossom OF
reality in Denver. when Mrs. AIDA
Hauk, one Of the Dexter twins.
wealthy widow and we'll known social.
ly. was married to I. Francis Rankin,
said to be an educated. full b!ooded
Cherokee Indian. The wedding took
place at Colorado Springs.
High prices on potatoes are bring
ing wealth into Colorado this year
although unofficial estimates indicate
that the crop will be 100000 bushels
lower than for last season. The crop
for 1915 Appreciated 7,25O.0OO bush.
els as compared with 5,250,00O bush
els for this season. The prices last
year, however, ranged from IS to so
cents per hundredweight, while this
year they range from $3.50 to $1.6O
Der hundredweight.
Left alone at home with her in
valid mother. 12-year-old Lottie Graft,
daughter of Henry Craft, Of Aurora.
saved her mothers life at the peril of
her own when a fire started in the