The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1916-03-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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DATES FOR COMING EvENrs.
March ao-Aprii 1-colorado Retail
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
April I5-Democratic state Convention
May First Conversational District
Republican Convention at Colorado
May a.5Republlsan state and Third
Convention at Pueblo.
May 1S-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. s-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
Work on Delta's sugar factory II
expected to start soon.
Fort Morgan's new public library
has been formally opened.
Plans for Loveland's new high
school are about completed.
A stay of execution was granted
James c. Bulger until May 81.
The Laramie County Milk Conden-
sary received an order for 5000
cases.
That better tungsten ore is being
mined is shown by the tests Of ore
being sampled daily.
The highway advisory board has
allotted $593,740 to the various coun.
ties for road work.
The ordinance prohibiting Denver
city employees from assigning their
wages was defeated.
The Western Tungsten Mines Com
pany filed articles Of incorporation in
the county clerks office at Boulder
J. B. Kilian Of Delta is the new
secretary Of the marketing board OF
the Colorado Stock Growers Associa-
ton.
At the annual meeting in Greeley,
J.F. Fezer was elected president Of
the Union Colony Pioneers Associa-
ton.
The public spirited farmers of
Olathe, are putting in dollar for dollar
with the county commissioners to get
good roads.
Denver Ranch No. /, National Or.
der Of Cowboy Rangers, celebrated
the second anniversary Of the order
with a banquet and ball.
Robert M. Jones, well-known Den
yer civil engineer died at Carlsbad
N. M. His death was the result of
overwork, according to physicians.
The board of directors OF the Colo,
RADIO Power Company has declared a
dividend of 1 per cent on its 81 ,OOO,.
600 common stock, payable on
April 10.
A method of certifying the Feb
ruary payrolls Of the state so that
they were approved by both the old
and new State Civil Service Commits.
sions was arranged.
The annual banquet of Fort Col
Inns pioneers. held at Pioneer Cabin
in commemoration of the date of the
birth OF Colorado territory, was n
gay and happy affair.
That Denver has an ideal climate
is found in the fact that February had
but one entirely cloudy day, thirteen
were absolutely clear and there were
fifteen partly cloudy days.
The fifth trial of the sensational
divorce case of John P. Rotge. aged
Texas millionaire, and his young wife,
Grace F. Rotge, was had in the Dis
trict Court at Colorado Springs.
The death of Mrs. Ellen Ground
sell, SIS, a pioneer OF the state and
for eleven years a resident OF De
Beque, occurred one mile from De
Beque at the home of relatives.
Denver's camp for training men in
militar.r tactics and life is to be open
from July 10 to Aug. 80, if plans now
being made by a committee of bust
ness and professional men are carried
out.
The State Highway Advisory
Board determined that the money re-
ceived from the new half-mill road
tax levy shall be expended in the
counties in which the money is raised,
excepting Denver.
Another new record was made in
the Denver sheep market when {;
three-car shipment of fat ewes from
the feed lots of A. w. Durkee of
Greeley. sold at $3.50, the highest
price of the season.
Joseph Smitham, 76 years old, a
resident of Denver for more than
thirty-five years, died in Santa Fe, N.
M, of complication of diseases fol-
lowing an attack Of grip. He was
born in Cornwall, England, in 1910.
For $4,000 w. L. Tanner and ]. q.
Clark bought the Mary Nelson lode in
Grand Island mining district from 6.
Leon Giggey and NJ. E. Giggey, &C.
cording to a warranty mining deed
which was filed at Boulder.
Two snowslides are reported along
railroads in the mountains and, as
far as heard from. no lives were lost.