Cheyenne record., 1916-12-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

DATES FoR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 1-S-Poultry Show at Denver.
Jan; 11-13s-Poultry Show at Canon
Jan; 2o-Athletic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
Jan. 2o-27-Annual western Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. M. C. A. Annual conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
A new alfalfa mill is to be opened
at Wilson.
Milk has been raised from TIC to
S1sc per quart in Denver.
Fire did about $4,000 damage to the
Wyman school in Denver.
A pre.Christmas sale of goods made
by the blind will be held at Denver.
Judge Tully Scott delivered the
eulogy in the Elks lodge of sorrow at
Sterling.
Alex Park and Harry Wilcox were
injured in two automobile accidents
at Pueblo.
The skating fad which has been re-
vived in the cities of the East has
spread to Denver.
Miners in the Puritan and Sham.
rock mines in the Frederick and Erie
districts, have been given an increase
in wages.
Frederick A. Bigler, a Denver con.
tractor, died at Cheyenne as the re-
suit of injuries sustained four weeks
ago in fall.
A game of football. played as only
young boys can play one, nearly re-
suited fatally for Wilbur Stark, 9
years old, in Denver.
The third annual course for pros.
pectors will be given by the Colorado
School Of Mines in Golden for four
weeks, starting Feb. 5.
c. E., Waldron of Monument has
been elected president of the Colorado
Milk Producers Association. He sue
ceeds J. c. DeWall of Mount Morri'
son.
A gold brick was received at the U
S. mint in Denver valued at $4,000.
and representing the eleventh clean.
up Of the year of the U. s. Gold Cor.
poration mine and mill at Sugar Loaf
Over five thousand dollars was col
lected on the annual tag day observed
in Denver by the Saturday and Sun
day Hospital Association. The exact
amount of the donations was $5,.
036.17.
Denver has been named by the AS
sociated Advertising Clubs of the
World as one of the leading market.
ing centers of the United States and
iy, u,I,i tha1, xyiIl q kn tn cir
third annual investigation of business
conditions.
A unique Thanksgiving dinner took
place in Denver when G. r. Bates
Oldest member of a family of five gen
erations ranging in age from 90 years
down to months, sat at the head OF
the table with all his happy kinsfolk
gathered about.
Ninety thousand dollars in extra
ticket sales were realized by railroads
cooperating with the tourist and pub
licity bureau of the Denver Civic AS
sociation in exploiting the scenic at
fractions of Colorado for the 1916 sea
son, according to dispatch received
from Chicago.
Henry Huston, AZ, was arrested at
Sugar City on a bench warrant is
sued by Judge Robert E. Lewis of the
Federal Court in Denver on a charge
OF using the mails to defraud. He was
taken before United States Commits,
sioner B. Yates in Pueblo and later re-
leased on $1,000 bond.
Comprehensive plans for the devel
opment of the national Fairgrounds in
Colorado were outlined by Stephen T.
.Mather. assistant to Secretary of the
Interior Franklin X. Lane, in charge
/ Of national parks, at a luncheon held
in Denver under the auspices of the
Denver Civic Association.
Eighty per cent of the copper to be
produced in the United States during
the first half of 1917 is said to be sold
in advance. This would indicate that
900, 100000 pounds of copper has been
placed for delivery during the first
six months of the coming year, the
refinery yield being estimated at 1885,
OOO,O 900 pounds per month.
Federal Judge Lewis in Denver sen.
fenced Albert Duff and Frank Bren.
men to serve fifteen months in the fed.
eral penitentiary at Leavenworth. The
boys were charged with raising one
dollar bills by pasting the numeral
"5." taken from an internal revenue
stamp, on the bills. Bremen is a
former School of Mines student
According to the budget estimate OF
the election commission, Denver will
need $54,47O.71 for elections in 1917
The estimate is based upon the ex.
penditures for the 1915 election. which
were $37 ,623.43, the increase being due
to greater cost of election material
and to the creation Of sixty new pre-