The Colorado statesman., 1916-06-17

resentatives OF Negro Race at Den
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly ut
Denver.
Aug. 1s-19-Pickle Day and Fair al
Platteville.
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention, Grand
Lodge X. of p, at Greeley.
Sept. 5-S-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
sept. 27-29-State Convention 3. p. o. E.
at Trinidad.
A jury was secured and the Slaugh-
ter trial at Pueblo started on Tues
day.
put TO work in the Denver postof.
flee.
A hail storm at Englewood did con
siderable damage to flowers, vege
tables and fruit.
The G.. A. r. men of Colorado and
Wyoming were welcomed at Pueblo fol
their annual meeting.
A company has been formed tc
operate lease on the Prince Albert
mine at Cripple Creek.
Scarcity of men is the only handi
cap in the Nederland tungsten dis
trict, according to S. T. Weller.
The President nominated George r.
Painter postmaster at Telluride and
George B. Wick at Las Animas.
The fourth annual session of the
Colorado Sociological Conference was
held in the state house in Denver.
]. G. Crobbe, formerly of Kentucky
has been named head of the Normal
school at Colorado Springs to succeed
Prof. Snyder.
Frederick Won Holdt, an expert on
forestry matters, is advocating the
planting of a grove of walnut trees on
the plains of Colorado.
The school board of Arvada has
been authorized to call a special
bond election for a $4,000 bond issue
to provide funds for a new high
school building.
Nearly 1000 persons are camped
in Rocky Mountain Park in North
Denver at the thirty-fourth annual
Day Adventists.
Unconscious, his nostrils clotted
with blood, d. D. Collins, clerk of
Camp No. 8, w. O. W., of Colorado
Springs, was found in his office by
his sister and mother.
Two hundred Sir knights from
Colorado will attend the thirty-third
triennial conclave, centennial ami
versary, grand encampment of
knights Templar at Los Angeles.
Prohibition is heartily favored by
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Enginemen, although not as
political issue, according to state
ment from the Denver meeting.
Denver has had a gain of 5000 in
its population within the last year,
as shown by the new city directory.
This represents an increase of per
cent and gives the present popula-
tion as 235,000.
Clearings of the Denver banks for
| the week ending on the Sth broke all
records when they advanced to s15,-
413,000, marking an increase of 42.7
per cent over the corresponding week
of last year.
Mystifying circumstances surround
the discovery of body, believed to be
that of William Waddell, marooned in
the brush on a small island in the
Platte river at the foot of Eighteenth
street in Denver.
Be careful of eating game out of
season, for Uncle Sam might "getchu
if you don't watch out" So says Wal
ter B. Fraser, state game and fish
M tgci H.
ment of the game laws.
AS the result of being run over
by a taxicab on the night of Feb 30,
May e. Krebs, a trained nurse, has
started suit in the District Court in
Denver against the Denver Omnibus
& Cab Company for $4,000 damages.
At Bendermeer lodge, in the
shadow of Mount Evans, the Denver
Rotary Club and it's guests, $50
strong, will celebrate a mountain-top
high jinks" on June "a. 1t will be
the annual outing of the club.
The Loveland Cherry Growers AS
sociation, independent of the Loveland
Fruit Growers Association, was or.
ganized at a meeting of orchardists
held at Loveland for the purpose OF
solving marketing problems attending
the probable harvest of $4,000 crates
of cherries in the Loveland district.
Mrs. Gertrude Sophia Chellew of
Denver who recently lost out in the
County Court at Colorado Springs in
her effort to prove that she was the
widow of Winfield Scott Stratton,
and as such entitled to a share OF
the Stratton millions, has renewed
her fight to get a share of the money
Capt. A. II. Hardy, rifle expert who
has returned to Denver from Colum-
bus, N NJ, states that the whole pop
ulation along the american side of