The Ordway new era., 1916-06-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New, serviee.
DATES rwm COMING rVnNrs.

June 14-ty-Semi Annual Epworth
League Convention at Colo. springs
June lt--Ntneteenth annual Striwber-
ry Festival and Carnival at Glen
wood Springs.
June s.-.5-Colo. Christian Endeavor
Convention at Greeley.
Aug; i-Celebration Colorados Foru.
sth Anniversary OF Statehood AZ
Aug. National Convention Of Rep
resentaitves of Negro Race at Den
Aug. s-pemocratic state Assembly at
Denver
Aus. ls-ls-Pickie Day and Fair a.
Platterilie.
Aug. 2s-.5-AuuuaI Convention. Grand
Lodge X of T.. at Greeley.
Sept. 5-s-Frontier Days celebratio"
at Fort Morgan.
sept. 21-2a-State Convention B, TO r.
at Trinidad,
The school house at HastinS
Mesa, near Trinidad, was destroyei
by fire.
\ big body of tungsten ore was
opened at the Apex mine in Gilpin
county.
The state convention of B. P. o
Elks will be held in Trinidad Sep.
27-2S-29.
The Wanakah mine in the ouray
district has again started develop
ment work
Judge S. Harrison White has been
elected president OF the Missouri So
ciety of Colorado.
A two-inch streak of pItchblende
ore was discovered in the Bezant
mina in Gilpin county.
Ore of great richness has been
orened up in the Little May vein in
the Beacon Hill section at Cripple
Creek.
Fish and Game Commissioner Jo-
seph l.. Gray received 100000 rain
bo. trout eggs for the Fort Collins
fish hatchery.
The Cripple Creek output in Mag
totaled S4,15O tons, with bullion val
ue of sI.lS5,Si0. The ores averaged
sli.o9 per ton.
The Colorado State Teachers Col
lege at Greeley closed notable year
with its annual commencement exer-
cises, at which degrees were awarded
TO i20 teachers.
Arthur Montague, sentenced 10
serve from fifteen TO twenty years in
the penitentiary for an attack upol a
l6-year-old girl in a Denver store, was
taken to Canon City.
The annual meeting of the Colora-
do Association of the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers will be held
at the Denver Athletic Club the night
OF Saturday, June 10.
Veterans belonging to the Grand
Army OF the Republic in Denver mus
tered a total strength of 440 men
when the rolls were called Decoration
day. During the last year l63 veter-
ans have died
Adj. Gen. Harry P Gamble, of the
State National Guard, has accepted
the designations of three officers o.
the guard, Lieut.. Col. Edward J.
Boughton, Mai Henry J. Hersey and
Capt. Hildreth Frost.
Petitions for constitutional
amendment to allow the manufacture
of beer in Colorado and its sale to
Colorado consumers through delivery
from the brewery to the consumer in
unbroken packages, were put in cir
culation in Denver.
The trial OF Clyde b. Pearson and |
Cornelius Gray, the two men charged |
with the murder of Sheriff Roach of
Cheyenne and his deputy, Nels Mel
son, near Box Elder ranch, was set |
for Monday, June u. in the District |
Court at Fort Collins.
With an output of s3s.t04,Sl5 III
gold since 1898 and the payment TO its |
fortunate shareholders of slO,357 ,0S0 |
in dividends. the Portland uold Min
ing Company of the Cripple Creek |
at any previous time.
Notices of an increase in wages on |
cooperative basis are being posted |
n many metal mines of the state and |
will affect approximately 5000 en-
ployes. It is expected that the move |
ment will extend until it applies to
$4,000 men now engaged in metallif- |
erous mining in Colorado.
A new compressor Is being installed
at the Cold King mine in the Silver
ton district crew of miners has
been placed in the mine. The hex
Mining Company of the San Juan has
| received between 5000 and Sc,
for shipment Of 2,120 pounds of tung
stem concentrates tina. ran lilo per
| cent.
Absolute regulation OF all soft drink
parlors. for the suppression OF boot
Logging in connection with the sale
of soft drinks. is given the Denver
| city police authorities in an ordinance
requiring all persons and corporations
| selling soft drinks to take out licenses
For violation OF the license ordinance
offenders may be fined s25 to $500.
Judge W d. Wright Of the Denye,
West Side Court refused to reduce
the bond Of J. B. Dunning, which was
originally fixen at $4,000. Dunnins