Cheyenne record., 1916-11-30
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Jan Jam 11iisn1PGsls5y shsg as Dsayssss ssson
JAM g -Athis.io club boxing contests
s.s .sh,y ss e y sss'rn s'ees
Fsn. 10y. M. G. a. Annual conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Denvef's ei6snses for the recent
election we're about $4,000. = ss.s'.
.oysL = 500 fapey shtckeps wsresatala'
asn ffoh poultry ranch. at Pueblo.
Ths infermountain Livestock Show.
tsvtlr be Held at Grand junction, Dec.
and ,,,s472 t:.sSs.s..ss!as w
There Is lot of development work
in the mines at Ophir and some few
/ shipments have, been made recently
! to the smelthrs.s 4 ,
Bids for contracts Of. legislative
printing. Amounting to about 100000.
will be advertised ina few days by
r: W. Bradford state printing COM
missioner. u .;2at; E9nIg 3RI {
+ A'fortune in diamonds-and- -jewelry
Was awarded to. a dozen friends. Of
the late Maria E.. Btind by a jury in
Judge Aliens division of the District
Court in Denver - =.
| The Rock Island lines have with
drawn from an agreement for tn,
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
Man." committed suicide in his home
at Denver by cutting his throat with.
a razor.
Almost 100000 was paid to Weld
and Larimer county beet growers. OF
this amount s42O,OOO twas paid at
Greeley, $329 600 at Windsor, $3.50, 1000
at Eaton, $4O1 900 at Loveland, and
$50O,OOO 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
search for R. W. Morgan, glib-talk-
ing youth, wanted in Denver for OBJ
tanning $10O 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 plurality Of 1913
over Governor Carlson, his Republican
|
cording to figures tabulated by the
election commission In the canvass OF
the Denver vote. Gunter polled 4O,3S6
votes in Denver.
| Not an idle house in Breckenridge,
Kokomo, Robinson or Montezuma is
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 word to the bed.
side of his wife, who lay very i'll In a
rooming house at Pueblo, Charles
Niece, a 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 100,
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
rict, Colorado holds an important
place in the dividend disbursements
from American mines in the month of
October. The list Of the known (or
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 $12.326.705, compared
with $5,911,791, paid by thirty-one
companies in October. 1915. showing e
gain of $6,414,914, or 11O 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