The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-11-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Uaion News ssrvtos.
DATES FOW COMING EvEArS.


DATES FOM COMING s:vEArs.
yaa- l-s-Poultry Show At Denver
jan; n-l'-Poultry Show at caho"
Jan, zO-Athletic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
Jan; sO-27-Annual wsstsrs Stock
Feb. fly. N. C. A. Annual Conven-
tion' at Colorado Syringe
Denvers expenses for the recent
election were about $4,000.
Over 500 fancy chickens were stol-
len from q poultry ranch at Pueblo.
The Intermountain Livestock Show
will be held at Grand Junction. Dec.
and Z.
There il 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 q few days by
X. w. Bradford, state printing COM
missioner
A fortune in diamonds and jewelry
was awarded to a dozen friends Of
the late Maria E. Brind by . jury in
Judge Aliens division OF the District
Court in Denver.
The Rock Island lines have with
drawn from an agreement for tbs
joint use of the tracks of the Denver
& Rio Grande between Colorado
Springs and Pueblo
Morris l.. Smith, manufacturer OF
slides for motion picture theaters and
widely known as Smith, the Slide
Man." committed suicide In his home
at Denver by cutting his throat with
q razor.
Almost 100000 was paid to Weld
and Larimer county beet growers. OF
this amount 100000 was paid at
Greeley. $329.OOO at Windsor. S250,OOo
at Eaton. $4O1.0 at Loveland, and
100000 at Fort Collins.
An Idaho Springs report states that
the mining output in the old reliable
camp Of Gibson gulch is brighter.
and more work is being done on the
old mines In the District than has
been done for several years.
Denver detectives instituted
search for r. w. Morgan. a glib-talk-
ing youth. wanted in Denver for OBJ
tanning 500 on a worthless check, and
In Steamboat Springs for forgery, OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses,
and wife desertion.
Julius c. Gunter. governor-elect. car
ried Denver with plurality Of 1913
over Governor Carlson, his Republican
opponent, in the recent election, &C.
cording to figures tabulated by the
election commission in the canvass of
the Denver vote. Gunter polled 40, 1856
votes In Denver.
Not an idle house in Breckenridge.
Kokomo, Robinson or Montezuma Is
Summit county's response to the pres
ent fair prices for zinc, silver, copper
and lead. AS winter approaches the
need Of houses to shelter the In
creased forces Of mines in all of
these camps is very keenly felt.
Walking without word to the bed.
side OF his wife. who lay very ill in q
rooming house at Pueblo, Charles
Niece, railroad switchman 81 years
old, drew q revolver and shot himself
through the heart, dying instantly.
The wife received such a shock from
her husbands suicide that, it is said,
she probably will die.
The Consolidated Mines Develop.
ment Company. operating the Yukon
group at Alice. have good ore In
three headings on the upper or 100.
foot level. One drift shows six; to
eight inches Of smelling ore, assayiug
$50 per ton, and one and one-half feet
Of mill dirt which assays from SO to
S12 gold per ton and four to six
ounces silver.
Denver postoffice inspectors and
police authorities Of Denver and Jef.
terson counties are conducting .
search for band Of yegsmen who,
broke into the postoffice at Edge
water. Just across the jefferson
county line from Denver, blew open
he safe with two charges of nitro
slycerin and escaped with stamps.
currency and money orders totaling
more than $50.
Thanks to the Cripple Creek dis
.rict, Colorado holds an important
place In the dividend disbursements
rom American mines In the month of
October. The list of the known Tor
open) dividend payers, according to
the New York Engineering and Minins
Journal, contained forty-three names
n October. These companies paid out
that month 312.326.7O5. compared
With $5.911.791, paid by thirty-one
ompanies in October, 1915. showing a
gain Of $6,414,914. or 110 per cent
Cripple Creeks contribution to the
Known October list is $373,44l. Out
side of Cripple Creek the WELLINGTON
Mines Company at Breckenridge paid
100000. making 100000 thus far in
1916 and S1,25O,OOO all told, :