The Raymer enterprise., 1916-08-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New, Service.
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at Denver.
.AyE;,io;l2-Woman's Party Conference
al Colorado Springs. I
aug iIGrand Lake Yacht Races.
Aug 'l4-Colorado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs.
yTTS is;fs-Pickts Day and Fair ~
Aug. 2i-celebration of the opening Of
: tne new State Highway between Del
=. Norte and Pagosa Springs, at Du-
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge K. OF r. at Greeley.
T. Rifle.
Sept. 5;s-Boulder County Fair at
Sept. .S-s-Frontier Days celebration
Sept. l1-Meeting Midland Trail Assn
Sept. is-isnr1arvest Festival at Num-.
Sept. 27.2s-state Convention BE-. %. T.
at Trinidad
There are 34,26l motor cars IN
Colorado. -.
Governor Carlson has announced
his candidacy for second term.
Four hundred Horses and two car
loads Of mules have arrived at the
'' 'aofden' guard camp; $50 ,st -
Many stockmen met at Glenwood
Springs to formulate plans for op-
posing the proposed herd law.
Officers OF the grand castle Of Col
.qredp Knights of the. Golden Eagle,
Will meet in Denver, Aug. 10 and IL.
There are nov 500 Denver house,
maids enrolled on the books Of the
Domestic Workers Industrial Union.
A Union day picnic. at which 1t is
planned to bring 1000 union men and
women together. Is being arranged
for Aug. 20. at Glacier Lake.
Colorado was forty years old on
Aug. l., and in all parts Of the state
The birthday anniversary was cele-
= brated with elaborate public affairs.
The biggest electric show ever
given in Denver will be held the first
week in December, according to plans
which are under way by the cleo
tricians.
Julian H. Moore was selected as a
candidate for the office of Judge Of
the Juvenile Court OF Denver at the
primary election of the Denver Bar
Association.
A transfer of mining claims inyolv-
ing some 400 acres OF patented
ground and at least $1.000.OO0 In val.
ue, is under consideration in the Grip
pie Creek district.
The market value OF silk" socks
manufactured from sawdust in the
United States in 1915 is said to equal
the total appropriation for administer
ing the national forests.
81. Colorado will receive this year $780,
$50 for highway improvements out OF
the $5,OO0,0O0 appropriation recently
made by Congress, II the state puts
up like amount
The Woman's Republican League
of Colorado held an executive commit
= tee meeting. at the league headquar-
ters in Denver and elected Mrs. Julia
r.. hllIam president,
Persee Allen Bobbitt of Grand
county, who was on trial at Little.
ton charged with having illegally
purchased horse In Grand county
was acquitted by the jury.
The second annual basket picnic
for the blind and their friends was
held at Washington park in Denver
under the auspices Of the United
: Workers for the Blind OF Colorado.
The government safety-first train
. will arrive in Denver the morning oi
Aug. and will be on exhibition on
the tracks in front Of the Union sta
tion on that day and the following
day.
Whitefield and associates, who re-
Gently purchased fhe Charles Porter
lease at the sixth level of the C. o.
d. mine, in Poverty gulch, are mining
ore of a high average grade from the
stope of the main C. o. D. vein.
A plan to reach the North pole and
explore the Arctic regions by means
: OF modern aircraft was announced by
DR.: Frederick A. Cook, Arctic ex.
piorer and claimant to. the honor OF
having first reached the North pole,
who is In Denver
Miss Meta Lawrence. school teacher
at Monte Vista, who was awarded ST.
100 by the County. Court in Monte
Vista in a suit brought by her against
John Wertz, whom she charged with
slandering her. was made defendant
in-error in writ Of supersedeas ap-
piled for in the State Supreme Court.
Senator John Shafroth OF Colorado
was called from Washington to Fay
cite, Mo-, by the death Of his brother,
COL, William Shafroth. Col. Shafrotn
was 70 years old and was unmarried
Recently he distributed his property.
estimated at 100000, to his employees,
the poorer people Of Fayette. the
towns churches and to the county's
road fund.