The Dolores star., 1916-12-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper union News ssrv,es
DATES FOR CO MING EVENTS.

Jan 1.s-Poultry Show at Denver,
'a9ll-ls-Poultry Show at Canon
} p-Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan; :O-2!-Annual western Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y NJ C A. Annual Conven-
ton at Colorado Springs.
enver's expenses for the recent
election were about $4,000.
Over 500 fancy chickens were stol-
len from a poultry ranch at Pueblo.
The Intermountain Livestock Show
will be held at Grand Junction. Dec.
6 and z.
There is a 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.
A fortune in diamonds and jewelry
was awarded to a dozen friends Of
the late Maria E. Brind by q jury In
Judge Aliens division of the District
Court in Denver.
The Rock Island lines have with
drawn from an agreement for this
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
Nov
at Denver by cutting his throat with
razor.
Almost 100000 was paid to Weld
and Larimer county beet growers. OF
this amount 100000 was paid at
Greeley, $4,000 at Windsor, $3.50. 900
at Eaton. $4O1,O 900 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 a
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 a plurality Of 1913
over Governor Carlson, his Republican
opponent, in the recent election, &C.
cording to figures tabulated by the
o1orfiNn ,looi in ~
the Denver vote. Gunter polled 1896
votes in Denver.
Not an idle house in Breckenridge
Kokomo, Robinson or Montezuma ia
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 a word to the bed.
side of his wife, who lay very i'll in a
rooming house at Pueblo. Charles
Niece. railroad. switchman 81 years
old. drew a 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 13O-
foot level. One drift shows six to
eight inches OF smelling ore. assaying
$50 per ton. and one and one-half feet
Of mill dirt which assays from $40 to
$12 gold per ton and four to six
ounces silver.
Denver postoffice inspectors and
police authorities Of Denver and JEFF
ferson counties are conducting a
search for a band of yeggmen who,
broke into the postoffice at Edge
water, just across the Jefferson
county line from Denver, blew open
the safe with two charges of nitro
glycerin and escaped with stamps,
currency and money orders totaling
more than $50.
Thanks to the Cripple Creek dis
trict, Colorado holds an important
place In the dividend disbursements
from American mines in the month of
October. The list of the known Tor
open) dividend payers, according to
the New York Engineering and Mining
Journal, contained forty-three names
in October. These companies paid out
in that month s12.326, 7O5, compared
with $5,911,791, paid by thirty-one
companies in October. 1915, showing
gain of $6,414,914, or 10 per cent.
Cripple Creeks contribution to the
known October list is $373,441. Out.
side of Cripple Creek the Wellington
Mines Company at Breckenridge paid
100000, making 100000 thus far in
1916 and $1,25O,0 900 all told.
David Evans of Denver has brought