The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

COlOradO'8 FOrt1
eth Anniversary of Statehood, at
Aug. 2-National Convention of Rep
resehtatives OF Negro Race at Dem
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly at
sociatton at Denver.
aug: lO-Republican State Assembly at
Aug 11-Progressive State Convention
at Denver.
Aug. lO,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. iS- -ig-Pickle Day and Fair at
Aug. 21-Ceiebration of the opening of
me new State Highway between Del
Morte and Pagosa Springs. at Du-
Aug. ,2225-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. of p. at Greeley.
Rifle. o. sept Apple Fie Days at
Sept. 5s-Boulder County Fair at
Longmont.
Sept. 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
sept Injecting Midland Trail Assn
Sept. 15-16-Harvest Festival at Num-.
Sept "a -29-State Convention b. p. o. E.
at Trinidad
The state collected tax of $780,
569.06 on the estate of Delos A. Chap
pell of Denver
Simplicity characterized the funeral
services of United States Senator
Thomas NJ. Patterson of Denver.
Gordon Jones of Denver has re-
fused appointment as one of the four
members of the federal farm loan
board.
Denver's building permits issued in
July amounted to more than 100000
the largest for the same month
since 1912.
Denver bank clearings for the week
ending July 20 were $10,65S,0OO, an
increase of 6.9 per cent over the same
week last year.
Work rebuilding the five towers of
the Kittimac tram, at Silverton, re-
Gently destroyed by the big forest
fire, is progressing satisfactorily.
Silver ore running 1855 to the ton
has been struck in the Princess mine
at jamestown by Bert Eastman and
II. X. Henderson, leasers of the prop
erty.
Genuine enthusiasm is Indicated
throughout the state in the first an
nual convention of the grain men of
Colorado to be held in Denver Aug.
1 and 2.
Seven cars of an extra eastbound
Denver & Rio Grande freight train
were derailed west of Riverside, be-
tween Salida and Leadville. No one
was injured.
Harry A, Brilliant of Denver was
killed and four daughters were seri-
ously injured. two perhaps fatally, in
an automobile accident near Num-,
twenty miles north of Greeley.
The Western Light & Power Com
pany will spend 100000 within the
next few months on improvements in
its properties in Colorado, according
to II. U. Wallace of Boulder vice
president of the company.
The War Department has notified
state commanders that all college
students mustered in with militia
units will be mustered out of service
in time for them to re-enter their
classes at the opening of the college
terms in the fall.
Colorado convicts working on the
highway to Nederland have struck it
rich in tungsten. About twenty men
are in on the bonanza, found while
building the roads and at the present
time about $4,000 is in the commun-
ity ore store, sacked and ready for
shipment.
The Colorado Pioneer Printers AS
sociation of Denver, paid tribute to
Orville L. Smith, former president
of the organization, in a resolution
declaring him to have been an "emi.
nent and patriotic citizen" and "an
earnest worker for the Pioneer Print
ers' Association"
Eight persons are believed to have
lost their lives in wreck of Denver
& Rio Grande freight train No. "a,
eastbound, six miles west of Pueblo.
Two persons are known to be dead,
but it is believed that at least six
others perished in the flames which
consumed the wreckage.
Mrs. Richard Crawford Campbell,
his only daughter, is the sole heir to
the estate of the late Thomas NJ Pat
terson. 1t became known that Sen
ator Patterson left no will. Instead
the statutory laws of descent will pre-
vail, the entire estate going to the
daughter, the only direct heir.
Attacked by two automobilists. Gus
and X. o. Peterson, brothers, along
the highway near Morrison, and left
by the roadside with fractured skull. |
Samuel C. Pollard of Denver, former
deputy sheriff and recently appointed
special policeman to patrol the foot
hill parks, is dying in the County hos
Dital at Denver.