The Colorado statesman., 1916-10-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Jan. 2O-Athietic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
jan 2o-27aAnnual western Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. c. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Denverites are planning 100000
hotel.
mills by the state board of equaliza-
ton.
large class was initiated into the
Knights and Ladies of Security lodge
at Pueblo.
Registration at Colorado Springs
shows a gain this year of 1900 over
that of 1912.
The Denver Trades and Labor as
sembly has gone on record against the
so-called herd law.
One man was killed and another
man was fatally injured in accidents
in Denver Sunday.
Warden Capp has been granted a
stay of sixty days in the custer suit
brought against him.
Mrs. Harriet McMillin, 9S years old,
died at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. o. H. Lotus, in Denver
Mrs. w. H. Wolfesberger, 61 years
old, of Denver, died of heart disease
while bathing in pool at Steamboat
Springs.
Mrs. Harriette M. Mcmillan, proba-
bly, the Oldest resident of Denver, died
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. o.
H. Lotus, in Denver, aged 9S.
With four children, nine grapdchil-
dren and one great-grandchild pres
ent, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. F. Ireland cele-
brated their golden anniversary at
Eaton.
Fourteen more motorists paid SIS
fines in Denver city court for viola
ton of the bright lights ordinance.
Six others were fined and one dis
| charged.
Fire. believed to be due to an in
cendiary, destroyed an old concentrat-
ing plant at Fox and Ellsworth
streets, in Denver, causing an estimat-
ed loss of $4,000.
A suit for $4,000 was filed in the
District Court in Denver for Miss De-
light Howell Kuehne, against Joe
Bonds, pugilist, who is billed to fight
Fred Fulton in Denver, Nov. 6.
A mining deal involving $4,000 was
closed at Boulder when E. ]. LevinQ
& Co., of Philadelphia, bought four
tungsten lode claims from Robert Ker.
mack and Harold De Vries.
The Elkton mine in the Victor dis.
trict was closed down, the reason as
signed being that the ore bodies had
been worked out down to the 1,64O
foot level, which is that of the Roose-
welt drainage tunnel.
A municipal community center of
recreation will, to a considerable ex-
tent, eliminate the many sex prob
lens which are confronting the juve-
nile courts, according to Miss Joseph
inc Roche, investigator for the Den
yer Juvenile Court, in her address to
the Mothers Congress at the Denver
Woman's club.
From the main office of the Port
land Gold Mining Company in Colo
RADIO Springs checks were sent out for
the usual quarterly dividend, 8 per
cent on s3,000,000 in outstanding cap
ital stock. This foots up 10000, max
ing S360,000 for 1916, and a grand to-
tai of $10,537,0S0 in dividends since
the company was organized.
Denver prices for flour, which ad-
vanced Monday from $41O to s4.2O,
took an even more spectacular Jump
Tuesday. The price on one grade ad-
vanced from $4.20 to $4.25, and on an
other from s4.20 to $4.45. This ad-
vance follows the announcement made
of increases in prices on potatoes and
number of brands of canned goods.
The effect of the car shortage in
Colorado is beginning to be felt at
the dinner table of every Denver
household. The shortage of cars to
move Colorado's potato crop is declared
directly responsible for the high cost
of potatoes in Denver and unless relief
is forthcoming within a short time 1t
will only be a matter of weeks before
the tubers will have reached such a
high price as to make them prohibi- |
tive in many Denver homes.
The entire country contains no more |
enthusiastic believer in the future of |
Colorado as the national playground |
of the world than Theodore Roosevelt, |
former president, noted hunter and |
lover of nature. In one of the inter-
walls in the program outlined for the |
Oyster Bay statesman in Denver Tues
day, he stopped to express in his terse, |
positive and effective style his appre-
citation of the beauty and charm of
the scenic wonders of the state, and
the possibilities for their future de-
velopment.
A tax of 70 cents per capita was de-
cided upon this year by the Independ-