The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1916-01-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 17-1s.-llestInE Colorado Retail
Grocer.' and Butchsrs' Association
Jan. lS.-sixth Annual Convention Of
!. Cole ceH s, Roads Ash g psnys Iio
OCEAN p Hss%.J fs e D.S
Jan: is-ss-western Live stock SHOW
Feb. Ii-is-AnnuaI convention Colo
RADIO Metal Mining Association. at
ehvcr. p,,.
Central Committee i in DsnSsr.
Feb ls.l9.Sports Carnival at steam
boat Springs.
Merchants: Associatios.s FOOD and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Over five hundred auto licenses for
1916 have been issued at Boulder.
Boulder was selected for the next
show Of the Northern Colorado Poul-
try Association.
Mrs. Ida whitford. wife OF former
District Judge Greeley w. Whitford,
died at her home in Denver.
Miss Hazel Bean, employed at no.
tel in Livermore, committed suicide
by shooting herself through the
heart.
The Rev. Phillip Schmidt, pastor at
Loveland. will be forced to defend his
citizenship in the District Court at
Fort Collins.
Effie Thomas. % years old, was the
first woman to be arrested in Denver
for intoxication since the dry" law
went into effect.
Thirty-two arrests have been made
In Las Animas county for alleged vio-
lation OF the Colorado prohibition law
since the law became effective, Jan. l.
Peter Miller. 62, mechanic and
pioneer Of Colorado Springs, was run
down by an auto and died an hour
later from his injuries at a hospital.
The Senate confirmed the following
Colorado postmasters: Charles 8.
Logan, Buena Vista: William u. New
ton, Palisades, and Reita NJ. Vigil,
Trinidad. ...
The Democratic party Of Colorado
opened its 1916 campaign at the Jack.
son Day Dollar dinner in Denver.
More than six hundred men and WON
en- attended.
Suit for $12,S7O was filed in the
District court at Boulder by George
w. Koontz Of Iowa City. Ia. and
others, against the White Cloud Min
ing & Milling Company.
Mrs. Elva Higley and son, James
were arrested at Grand Junction,
when the police raided q roomiEg
house. on charges Of selling. liquor n,
violation Of the prohibition law. Z
A silent search, conducted several
months by his wife, Mrs. Anna Floyd,
owner Of ranch in Arapahoe county.
resulted in the arrest Of N. A. Floyd,
70 years old, on q charge Of bigamy.
Reports have reached Denver that
Frank Biamonte. his wife and six
children, who left Denver a few weeks
ago. were lost aboard vessel en-
route to Italy, which was torpedoed ty
submarine.
The annual congress OF the Saliva
ton Army of the western states
opened in Denver with Commissioner
Thomas Estill. commander of the or
ganizatioh In twenty-six western
states. presiding.
Introduction in Congress of a bill
by Representative Ben C. Hilliar,l q:
Denver to give that city, through
federal aid, the Moffat tunnel by wav
of the James Peak bore, for municipal
purposes. and to complete transcon-
tinental railroad system. was received
with enthusiasm by the Moffat tunnel
commission.
That the recent uprising of the Ute
Indians in Colorado and Utah was the
result of conditions of shameful neg
lect" at the Ute Mountain Indian
agency and of badly bungled" plot
to drive non-reservation Utes off the
public dou,nin and seize their land, is
the charge made in a report by NJ. X
Sniffen. special Investigator of the
Indian Rights Association.
The Rev. Homer S. Salisbury, who
10 among those missing from the pas
senger list of the Inflated liner Per-
STA, which was sunk by submarine in
the Mediterranean, was graduate of
the Boulder Prep school with the class
of 1884. Salisbury boarded the Persia
at Marseilles. The missing man is A
years old. He left Boulder at the
age of IS, Immediately after gradua-
ton.
A peremptory writ of mandamus,
ordering the town of Aurora anil its
officials to pay $4,000 to Samuel G.
Hickman, resident of Pennsylvania.
was issued in Denver by Federal
Judge R. E. Lewis. The writ provides
for partial satisfaction of a $225,0OO
judgment obtained by Hickman in the
United States court last March in a
suit to recover on Aurora water bends
which matured in 1906.
A White Orpington hen belonging tn