Cheyenne record., 1916-10-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Oct 30-Nov. 4-Meeting Colo. state
Teachers Association.
Jan. 1-6-Poultry Show at Denver.
Jan: 20-27-Annual Western Stoch
Show at Denver.
tion at Colorado Springs.
A bean cleaning plant has been in
stalled at Fort Morgan.
Former President Roosevelt will
speak in Denver Oct. "a.
Fort Collins reports scarcity OF
houses for rental purposes.
Two record loads of wheat at Fort
Morgan brought total of $3O9.S1:
Work on the construction Of the
new depot at Craig will be started at
once.
A. J. Eaton sold a section of land
an acre.
The postmasters OF the state held
their annual convention at Idaho
Springs.
The first days slicing at the Love-
land sugar beet factory amounted to
1895 tons.
Horses in Weld county, at recent
auction sales, brought from $175 to
$3.50 per head.
Grazing sheep on the Flat Tops of
Routt county has proven very success
full this season.
Tag day for the Swedish National
Sanatorium for tuberculosis in Den
yer netted $4,000.
At Fort Collins the hauling OF beet
pulp over any Of the city's paved
streets has been forbidden.
The contract for erecting the new
high school building at Burlington has
been awarded at $23,742.
Colorado Springs citizens have pro-
tested against the proposed abridge'
ment of the street railway service.
The new branch office of markets
and rural credits opened in room 2l5
in the new federal building in Denver.
The first contingent Of Colorado
troops to reach the Mexican border
was Company A of the Signal Corps.
An effort will be made to obtain
daily mail service throughout the
year between Loveland and Estes
Park
At Leadville the Ibex is again loom
ing up with a greater tonnage of ore
being extracted than at any time in
its history.
Thomas P. Gore, the blind senator
from Oklahoma, will speak at Lead
vile Oct. 23 and at Grand Junction
Oct. "a.
Next month Loveland expects to
pay $4,000 on the electric bonds,
which will leave $4,000 still out
standing.
The city of Longmont has pur-
chased $50 acres of school land sur
rounding the reservoir Of the Long
mont water works.
The annual meeting of the Denver
branch of the Needlework Guild of
America will be held Nov. Z in the
chapter house of st. Johns Cathedral.
w. ]. Bryan, former secretary of
state, delivered two addresses in Den
yer. He spoke Thursday in Pueblo
and Friday at Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Aurilla Baxter, 50, wife of J.
H. Baxter. died at her home near
Sligo Mrs. Baxter had been a resi-
dent of Weld county for forty-three
years.
The Public Utilities Commission
suspended the schedules of the street
car service in Colorado Springs until
Oct. 90, and called a hearing at Colo
RADIO Springs.
Divorced, required to pay $25 a
month alimony, and enjoined from Wis
iting his wife and children, are the
terms imposed against John F. Ever
man of Denver.
A fine body of gold, silver and cop
per ore was opened up in the Ray
mond tunnel at a depth of about l 900
feet. This property lies directly south
west of the Capital mine at George
town.
The Hitchings ranch and stock
farms in the state, sixty miles from
Denver. and containing 5000 acres,
has been sold to Frank NJ Smith of
| Chicago for $4,000.
This year has been the most pros
porous in Denver since 1910 as shown
by the collection of taxes. C. ].
Pitcher, manager Of revenue, said that
941 per cent OF the taxes payable
this year have SO far been collected.
According to a Boulder report. the
Lucky Seven" leases on the Yellow
| Pine. recently developed high-grade
silver ore. The Vancleuse vein was
opened up in a streak three feet wide
per ton.
Merchants and manufacturers Of
Denver and the Denver Manufactur-
ers' Association will spend approx
mafelv Slh nnn In nrenaring for the