Cheyenne record., 1916-02-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES ron COMING EVENTS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Feb. Injecting Colorado Progressive
State Central Committee, at Denver.
Feb. 16.1S--Sports Carnival at Steam
March s-11.SMeeting Western Colo
rado Teachers Association at Grand
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver
April ls-Democratic State Convention
BLACK hand" letters have been sent
to a Pueblo merchant.
A general Y. M. G. A. convention
will be held at Greeley next year.
The Western Colorado Teachers
Association will meet at Grand juno
ton, March Gil.
A ranch of the National Order Of
Cowboy Rangers, with 100 members,
has been instituted at Walden.
Governor Carlson was the guest Of
honor at a dinner given by the Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars in Denver.
Douglas A. Roller and Mrs. Mary e.
Robinson, nurse, were shot by q
burglar in the Roller home in Denver.
Littleton's eleven candidates for
postmaster are reported opposed to
the primary suggested by Senator
Shafroth.
The boarding house at Little Mona
mine, near Silverton, was carried
away by a slide. after the occupants
had escaped.
George Quinn was hanged in the
state penitentiary at Canon City for
the murder of William r. Herbertson
in Denver. Oct. "a. 1914.
Three Denver men accepted year
each in the penitentiary rather than
support their families when they
were arraigned in the Juvenile Court.
Silverton, marooned in the San
Juan mountains by the snow. has be-
gun to kill its dairy animals to OBJ
tain fresh meat, according to an As.
sociated Press dispatch.
In common with a number Of other
cities. Denver is to be made the center
of an active aviation corps in connec-
tion with the national guard organi-
cation.
Charged with being implicated in
the theft of trunk containing silks,
clothing and papers valued at nearly
$4,000. Charles Robinson, %, was ar
rested in Denver.
Human Conservation" was the alb
corhino fbono oP tho fuoDfy.ofohfh
annual state convention Of Young
Mems Christian Associations which
met at Greeley.
Motion for a new trial in the New
man will case, made at Littleton, was
denied by Judge Class. and thirty
days was given in which to appeal to
the Supreme Court.
The directors of the Cripple Creek
Central railroad authorized dividend
of $40 per share, amounting to $780,.
900 on its $2.5Oo.0o0 common stock, at
the annual meeting.
ALI records for the number of hogs
received on the Denver market in one
month were broken at the Denver
stockyards in January. The total re-
ceipts were 4s.096 head, as against
1854 head in December. 1915.
The movement to form the Denver
Civic and Commercial Association, an.
nounced with the completion of the
committee of fifty, is expected to de
vclop rapidly from now on, as much
of the necessary detail work was com.
pleted during the past tour weeks.
Eight thousand acres of state land
were sold for approximately s11S,O0o
at public auction at the offices Of the
land board in Denver. The average
price per acre was STATS. The high
est figure Of the sale was $40 per
acre paid for land in Larimer county.
At the annual state convention of
the Y. M. c. A. at Greeley, subject
of felicitation was that the associa-
tions of the state took in 1898 new
members during the year. At last
years convention the slogan was
1.-TWO Thousand New Members" The
associations came within two mem
bers of reaching their goal
Married year ago by proxy to the
sweetheart in Japan, whom he has not
seen for sixteen years, ]. Arakawa
prosperous rancher of Hazeltine, left
Denver for Seattle, where he will
greet his bride when she steps from
an ocean liner. Immediately on hel