The Colorado statesman., 1916-08-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


the new State Highway between Del
Norte and Pagosa Springs. at Du-
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge K. of p. at Greeley.
Aug, S1-sept. Apple Pie Days at
Sept. 5-s-Boulder County Fair at
Longmont.
Sept. 5-s-FrontIer Days celebration
Sept. 11-Meeting Midland Trail Assn
In Denver.
Sept. 15-16-Harvest Festival at Num-
at Trinidad.
Jan. 20-27-Annual western stock
Show at Denver.
Gen. Thomas Barry, U. s. A, IN
spected the Colorado National Guard
camp at Golden.
Seventy-nine women wore delegates
badges at the Democratic state con-
vention in Denver.
A large shipment of high grade
silver ore was made from the Up-To-
Date mine near Caribou.
Comptroller of Currency Williams
authorized the First National bank OF
Pueblo to increase it's capital stock
from 100000 to 100000.
Eliza B. Mulvaney, 12-year-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Mulvaney of
Pueblo was drowned in the st.
Charles river at Henkle.
Richard Mathews was killed 200
feet under ground by lightning.
Mathews was working in the San
Diego mine at Argentine.
Chas. S. Davis of Colorado Lodge
No. 1, X. p, of Denver, was elected
supl enc vice chancellor at the Grand
Lodge meeting at Portland.
The $4,000 members of organized
labor in Denver are behind move
ment for the erection of labor tenn
pie, and an association for that pur-
pose has been incorporated for $780,.
600.
Eight men and a woman were ar
rested by Denver officers and nearly
100 gallons of whisky and six bar.
rels of beer were confiscated as the
result of four raids made by the po-
lice
Hugh Murphy, president of the Col
orado company operating stone quar-
ries at Lyons, and for years leading
contractor of Denver, died at Bar Har.
bor, Maine, where he had gone on
vacation.
DR.. H. w. White of Fruita lost his
automobile and his kit of surgical in.
struments in cloudburst that swept
over the highway west of Mack, at
point twenty-four miles from Grand
Junction.
The premium list for the annual
National Western Stock Show at Den.
ver has been issued. The dates are
fixed for the week of January 20-27,
and the classification offers over $685..
600 in premiums.
The new water course cut by the
Roosevelt tunnel of the Cripple Creek
Deep Drainage and Tunnel Company
on the Comstock lode and Raven hill
is now flowing at the rate of 1000
gallons minute.
Resources of Holland have been
nearly exhausted by the influx of
Hendrica A. C. Van der Filler of Hol-
land, who is in Denver trying to raise
money to care for the Belgians
At Glenwood Springs the Fourth
congressional district Republican as
sembly designated H. ]. Baird of
Delta and Merle d. Vincent of Paonia
as candidates for the nomination for
congressman at the primary election
Sept. ~.
A reunion and picnic of the Shiloh
survivors was held at the home of
Judge Benjamin Spencer in Platte
Canon. Thirteen of the veterans at
tended and after a luncheon spent
their time telling stories of the Civil
war days.
George Olson, Seattle attorney,
has written the Denver police, asking
them to search for heirs of William
Holt, who died in Seattle recently.
leaving an estate of $150,OOO, most
OF which he willed to a young Japan.
csc woman.
Five funeral ceremonies will have
been held over the body of T. Ma
itow, Japanese proprietor of the Den
yer noodle factory, killed by light
ming while riding his motorcycle be-
fore the ashes will be placed in their
final resting place.
Sister Mary Claire, one of the
founders of st. Joseph's Hospital, in
Denver. who had been connected with
st. Vincent's orphanage as solicitor
and aims collector for the past twelve
years was buried from the mother
house of the Sisters of Charity, at
Leavenworth, Kan, of which she was
a member.
Theodore Barker, a negro of II,
living at 1928 Huron street, Denver,
was shot and killed by William e.
Wilson a whita man IL, -.