The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-03-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at colorads
Sprinxs.
Nay ..-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
May ls-Democratic State Convention
At Colorado Springs.
Aug. s-Democratic State Asse mbly at
Denver.
The date for the 1917 annual West.
ern Livestock Show will be Jan.
2o-24.
A primary to select q postmaster
for Boulder Is opposed BY many citi,
zens
Edward Scrafford. veteran U. p.
engineer, died suddenly at his home in
Denver.
Mrs. Esther Williams. 90. of Den
yer. lost her life In prairie fire east
of Montclair.
The funeral of DR.. w. l.. Dorland,
pioneer resident and physician, was
held in Pueblo.
The cornerstone of the Denver
Sheltering Home for Jewish children.
was laid Sunday.
Battery B. field artillery of Denver,
has announced its first annual mill.
tary ball in Denver
Ex-Governor E. M. Ammons was re
elected president OF the Western
Stock Show Association.
Judge and Mrs. Ben B. Lindsey,
members of the Ford Peace Expedi.
ton have returned to Denver.
The Festival OF Purim. called tho
Carnival of the Jews, will be cele-
brated in Denver. Sunday. March 10.
The United British Societies. will
celebrate Canadian night Saturday.
March Is. with . concert in Denver.
There will be more than forty-five
classifications of business groups in
the new Denver Civic and Commercial
Association.
A range war has been started In the
Nor Itrose section. and over 200 head
Of sheep are reported slaughtered in
the Dominguez Cafon.
Former State Treasurer M. A.
Leddy has demanded that the state
prove in court the alleged shortage
of over 5000 under his administra-
tion.
A meeting Of representative negroes
Of the United States is to be held In
Denver next June to protest against
the treatment Of the race In this coun.
try.
Clarence H. Olmsted, president Of
the Olmsted Investment Company and
q resident Of Denver for forty years,
was found dead In his office In
Denver.
Announcement has been made that
the American Beet Sugar Company
has made an appropriation Of $751;
900 for the improvement of the plant
At Rocky Ford.
John Babbitt, who made the trip
overland to California in 1S49, and
prospected through Colorado in 1859,
died at his home near Denver. He
was ~ years OLD.
A loss of $4,000 was sustained by
the Colorado Alfalfa Meal Company Of
Niwot, when fire destroyed its $685..
900 mill. and machinery and stock
valued at $4,000.
John Angelo, a miner, was award
ed a judgment for s2,5oO against the
Mutual Coal Company Of Walsenburg
by a jury in the United States Dis
trict Court in Denver
The giant skeleton Of a dinosau-,
the most complete one ever found in
Colorado, is to be exhibited in the
Colorado Museum of Natural History
at Denver City Park.
Henry M. Blackmsr was chosen
president of the Midwest Refining
Company at meeting of the directors
in Denver. following their selection
by the stockholders
In a collision with an automobile
driven by Arthur w. Fawbush, a car
penter Of Denver, Ezra Cooper, 1S
suffered fractures of both legs and
several deep scalp wounds.
The construction Of at least fou,
new mills for the treatment of ore
is contemplated by Cripple Creek dis.
trict operators and it Is expected that
these plants will be ready for oper.
alton some time the coming summer
Prospectors will be pleased to learn
that their samples will be assayed
free by sending them to the Research
and Testing Department Of the State
School Of Mines at Golden. This de-
partment, which was established last
December by DR.. William B. Phillips
makes assays on prospectors' ores
free Of charge. More than 800 sam
pies have been tested and returns
made on them since the first Of the
year.
With the arrest Of eleven persons
eight Of whom are youths II and II
years old, Denver police assert they
have c1ea rod I'm acoraa NJ nutomohtl.