The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-03-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Industrial Exposition al Denver
April lsEDemocrstse STATE conssntios
Nay i.-First Congressional District
sEsI,n6iican s, Convention At Colorado
Apri! ss-Annual Convention Western
Colorado l. o. o. +. at Grand juno
May 2.-RepubIican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
May lS-De emOcratlc State Convention
At Colorado Springs.
Aug. S-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
There are 7.4OO automobiles in Den
yer.
Boulder miners are busy and pros
porous.
Strawberries are or the Denver
market
A grape juice plant is planned to
be running in Denver by Aug. 90.
In the recent reports, Colorado
banks show large increases IN depos
It's.
r. W. Speer has announced him
self a candidate for mayor of Den
yer.
There is excitement four miles
south of Salida on account OF lungs
ten strike.
Mrs. NJ. E. Crowley. 81, of Lead
vile, claims to be the original pioneer
woman of the west.
The summer home Of Clifford Davis
of Berthoud, at Estes Park, was de-
stroyed by fire.
1t is stated that many farmers are
being "stung" in the purchase OF seea
for spring planting.
Over 200 Puebloans are ready ~
form a company and serve the U. s.
In its hunt for Villa.
The Georgetown tunnel has now
reached depth of some 800 feet,
and is being steadily driven ahead l
Observance of st. Patrick's Day In.
cluded one of the most elaborate pro.
grams ever planned by Irishmen of
Denver.
Only three arrests for drunkenness
were made in Colorado Springs dur
ing February, according to Chief Of
Police Howard Stark's report.
Despite the general advance in
prices of articles used in construction
there is increased interest in new
building in Denver this spring.
John Boiler, II. was killed eight
miles east Of Fort Collins when his
automobile failed to turn and plunged
into the Eaton ditch.
Five months in the county jail was
the sentence imposed in the West
Side court in Denver upon H. NJ.
Roberts, convicted of "bootlegging."
DR.. Edward F. Eldredge formerly
of Denver and Grand Junction, diei
in San Diego, Cal, where he had
been living for the last two years. He
was co years old.
Several business men of Denver
and Sterling have co-operated to pro
vide capital for the erection of four,
story modern, fireproof hotel in Sterl.
ing, to cost 100000
The Colorado Retail Clothiers' As
sociation closed its first annual meet.
ing In Denver, after three days
passed in discussing matters of in.
terest to the trade in the state.
Sioux Indians from the Pine Ridge
agency, South Dakota, arrived in Dem
Yer to go on the War Path" at the
Pure Food Show at the Auditorium
which opens in Denver Monday.
The state of Colorado during the
year ending January, 1916, reduced
its outstanding bonded indebtedness
approximately 100000, according to
Deputy State Treasurer ]. S. Temple.
Four big Denver bond houses may
take, individually or collectively, be-
tween $1O.OOO,OO0 and $15,O0O,OOO Of
| $75,00O,O00 per cent bonds Just is
sued by the Dominion of Canada.
A jury in the County Court in Den.
yer awarded DR.. William H. Heisen q
verdict for s2.75O against the estate
of Alonzo Thompson, octogenariau
spiritualist, for medical fees. D..
Heisen asked $4,000.
| An ihhSihtohSC toA vi was
paid State Inheritance Tax Ap-
praiser Hubbard on the estate of the
late William H. Dickens, the Long
mont banker, who was assassinatea
in his home the night of Nov. 30 lasy
George B. Dodge, for many years q
widely known railroad official in
Colorado. died at the family residencs,
in Denver after an illness of three
weeks. He was 81 years old and d
son OF Col. D. c. Dodge, a Colorado
pioneer railway builder.
A committee of fifteen, represent
ing members from each of the patri.
otic societies in the city, met in Dea-
yer to make plans for a commemor-
alton of the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of the Grand Army of the
Republic April 6.
II the United States becomes in
| volved In war with Mexico the