The Ordway new era., 1916-12-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper unloa New. Service,
DATES rou COMING EVENTS,

Ilty.
Jan. co-.>thlctIe Club boxing contests
Jan. .o.:S-Annusi w.st.ra stock
Feb. s-I-Y- NJ { a Annual conrsa-
tion at Colorado Springs
The Intermountsin Livestock show
will be held at Grand Junction, psS-
6 and :.
Boulder suardsmen sent craEoertes
for the Thanksgiving dinner OF sol
dlers on the Mexican border,
The stockholders OF the State Fair
Association met in Pueblo and elected
directors for the coming year.
There is lot of development work
in the mines at ophir and some few
| shipments have been made recently
to the smelters.
Bids for contracts on legislative
printing, amounting TO about $4,000
will be advertised in a few days by
r. W. Bradford, state printing com
missioner.
The Rock Island lines have with
drawn from an agreement for tn
Joint use OF the tracks OF the Denver
& Rio Grande between Colorado
Springs and Pueblo
Farmers in the Lakewood and Ar.
vada sections of jefferson county are
iraugurating a movement looking TO
cooperation in the sale of their Fro.
ducts and the erection OF creamery.
While descending the basement
stairs in her home in kiowa. Mrs. Leo
/ Dietemann. daughter of Mrs. Rather,
inc Bachmann of Denver, fell and
burst a blood vessel in her neck. She
died 4 short time afterward.
The Mesa Verde National park will
be the objective of host OF visiting
/ automobilists next summer, according
10 4 letter received by State Highway
Commissioner Ehrhart from the ma
tionaI tour information bureau OF
Kansas City.
Julius c. Gunter, governor-eleCt, car
ried Denver with plurality of 1878
ever Governor Carlson, his Republican
opponent, in the recent election, ac.
cording to figures tabulated by the
election commission in the canvass OF
the Denver vote. Gunter polled 40,3SG
votes in Denver.
Preliminary estimates OF the beet
crop OF 1916, made by the federal gov
Crnment. place Colorado for the
seventh time in first place as beet
sugar state, with yield OF 81 per cent
Of all the beets produced in the Unit
ed States and approximately % per
cent OF the beet sugar manufactured.
George W. Vallery. who was elected
grand junior warden of the grand en-
campment OF knights Templar at Los
Angeles, was rendered a banquet and
reception by Denver Knight Com
mandery No. 25. of which Mr.. Vallery
is member. at Ell Jebel temple. Up
wards OF 900 were present.
Members of the Edgewater volun-
teer fire department saved the wife
and two young children of William
BENTON Wen their home at Zsu.
Harlem street caught fire. supposedly
from defective flue. Benton is i'll
IN d hospital. The house was badly
damaged before the flames were ex-
tingushed.
The fortune Mrs. Henrietta Myers.
aged Denver recluse, boarded and hid
has been found, or. at least, a part OF
it has. More than $4,000. pair OF
diamond earrings, the stones weigh
ing a carat and a half each; ha..
dozen gold rings. one of them set with
cluster of diamonds; a watch and a
valuable gold necklace were the re.
ward of searchers.
Three carloads of gold and silver
ores have been received at the Cham
berlain sampler at Boulder. One car
of gold and silver concentrates came
, from the Illinois Mining Company a,
Gold Hill, carload of good grade OF
, gold ore was received from the Tung
stem Metals corporation, taken from
the Red Sign mine in Boulder canon
which also produces some good tung
I stem ore. And a carload of silver ore
, came from leasers on the Yellow Pine
r mine.
} Thanks to the Cripple Creek dis
trict, Colorado holds an important
place in the dividend disbursements
: from American r'ines in the month o.
e October. The list Of the known (ol
: open) dividend payers, according tc
e the New York Engineering and Mining
= Journal. contained forty-three namet
g in October. These companies paid Out
in that month S12.326.705. compared
: with S5.911.791. paid by thirty-ont
r companies in October. 1915, showing {
, gain Of S6,414.914. or ITO per cent
( Cripple Creeks contribution to tn,
;, known October list is S373.441. Out
: side of Cripple Creek the Wellington
e Mines Company At Breckenridge pait
+ 5000, 900, making 100000 thus far IL
1916 and 31,250,O00 all told.
!, Denver detectives instituted
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