Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-07-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Aug: 1-Celebration Colorado's Forti-
eth Anniversary Of Statehood. at
Aug. 2-National Convention of Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Den
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
sociation at Denver.
Aug. l0-Republican State Assembly at
Aug. 1O-12-woman's Party Conference
at Colorado Springs
Aug. 14-Grand Lake Yacht Races.
Aug. 14-Colorado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs.
AuG. !s-i9-Pickle Day and Fair al
Aug. 2l-Celebration of the opening of
the new State Highway between Del
Norte and Pagosa Springs. at Du-
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. OF r.. at Greeley.
Aug: 3l-sert. Apple Pie Days at
Sept. 5-s-Boulder County Fair at
Longmont.
Sept. 6-s-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept. 11-Meeting Midland Trail Assn
Sept. 15-16-TIarvest Festival at Num-.
| Sept. 27-29-State Convention b. .P.o. <
at Trinidad.
Several stores at Pueblo were dam
aged by a midnight blaze.
Stevens Camp in the tungsten dis
trict. Boulder county, has 600 people.
Mrs. Marion Shaw was fined $50
and costs for deserting her baby In
Denver.
Weld county will get approximately
$4,000 from the State Road Fund
this year.
The weekly weather crop bulletin
reports conditions favorable for
growing crops.
A movement for the annexation oil
Englewood by Denver may be started
soon in Englewood.
s. II. Nickel, 60, a wealthy resi-
dent of Longmont for the past twelve
years, died from asthma.
Col. Rider. for forty years a resi-.
dent of Rollinsville, has resigned as
postmaster of that place.
Gen. John N. Ives at Boulder owns
a Jersey COW which in thirty-one days
gave 1,1991a pounds Of milk.
A thief snatched the purse of Miss
Leta Gillum while she was walking
alone on the streets of Denver.
Mrs. John Ballard was badly burned
when she lighted fire with gasoline
in her home at Colorado Springs.
The funeral of John F. Campion.
noted mining and business man, was
held from the Cathedral in Denver.
A branch station of the Golden post
office las been established at the
mobilization camp at the Rifle Range.
Fred T. Newton, miner and veteran
newspaper man of Denver. died at the
University of Colorado hospital in
| Boulder.
Z. E. Gray. late of Sheridan, Wyo,
and formerly a resident of Boulder.
killed himself in room in Denver
hotel by swallowing poison.
Because he learned that his d.
vorced wife remarked. Royal Smith,
| 2S years old, a salesman for n dairy
company, shot himself through the
left breast and died at St. Anthony's
hospital.
Henry Denver, veteran fireman OF
| Springfield, Mass, and cousin of
General Denver. after whom Denver
was named, arrived to see the stat.
house and view the picture of his
illustrous relative there.
Checks were received In Denver for
the regular quarterly dividend of the
Portland Gold Mining Company. This
foots up 100000, or ) per cent on the
capital stock of s3,000,000. Total
dividends to date are $1O,357,0s0.
In the Idaho Springs district the
| ha DaII
Grating in a winze that is down 110
feet, in a level run fifty feet east. has
developed a six-foot vein of mill dirt
that has an average value of 50 per
| ton.
At Leadville the Julia Mining Com
pany, Incorporated, with a capital of
| $4,000, has purchased the Cloud
City and Home Extension properties
in the Down Town mining area now
being drained through the Penrose
shaft.
Rumors which have been in circula
tion in Denver for several days to the
effect that the Denver & Rio Grande
Railway may again obtain control of
the Western Pacific. making con-
tinuous system from Denver to the
Pacific coast, have been in a meas
ure confirmed by New York advices.
After three months steady sinking
and drifting the Aurora Gold Mining
Company. operating a lease on the
Lake vein, has opened up a streak of
solid gray copper and iron ore in the
drift, that measures sixteen inches
wide and will run better than $40 per
ton, and lying alongside of this is a
streak of iron ore twelve inches wide
| that will return better than $50 ner