Cheyenne record., 1916-11-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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IrWeatern Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 1-e-Poultry SHOW at Denver.
Jan, lo-Athletic Club boxing contests
jan; so-;sEAnnu.i w..t.rn stock
Feb; Sol s-4,T: :, N. e 4. Annual convsn-
A ski club has been organized at
Yampa.
A new Blue Bird cottage is being
planned for Boulder.
Fort Collins has abolished hitching
posts on paved strees.
Not in twenty years have there been
SO few vacant houses in Pueblo.
Beet pulp wagons are prohibited
from using the streets of Fort Collins.
Over $50 carloads of lambs were re-
ceived at the Fort Collins yards in
three days.
Shipments of cattle from Hugo in
the last fortnight have ranged in value
around s15O.OOo.
There are 200 people in Rollinsville
and there are new families moving in
every day.
B. H. Moon has sold section Of
non-irrigated land to L. H.. Gerstenber-
ger Of Byers for $4,000.
Mrs. Anna Nagel Schirmer, wife Of
Godfrey Schirmer, died of heart dis
ease in her home in Denver.
The Espy Ice Company is building
q new dam above Rollinsville, twenty
five feet high and 200 feet wide.
Plans to purchase both the Soda
Springs park and the Mansions park
are being made by Manitou citizens.
Thomas H. Gibson, deputy in the
Denver city attorneys office, must
pay his wife, Dorothea, $40 a week
temporary alimony.
The Pueblo Trades and Labor AS
sembly has indorsed plans for the pur-,
chase of the Wade building in that
city fora labor temple.
r. Ranchmen in Routt county are ad-
: rertising for laborers. offering So a
{. day and board for able-bodied men
who can handle farm work.
Friendless and alone, although ap-
parently possessed of some means,
Martha Scanlon, 81 years old, died in
q reoming house In Denver.
IL U. Nudge, reelected president of
the Denver & Rio Grande at the an
nuai meeting of the board OF directors,
returned from New York to Denver.
There were 1,2oe candidates on nine
tickets for Colorado voters to select
from at Tuesdays election. Eight
special measures were. also on the bal
lot.
Miss Agnes McKenna, q teacher in
the Cheltenham school, is In serious
condition at her home in Denver as
the result of blow over the heart
from golf club. -.
The city Of Colorado Springs has In
creased its holdings of lands on the
north OF Pixies Peak by the addition
Of the tract on which is located the
Half Way house.
Joseph Fitz-Owen Brind, Denver
manufacturer for thirty-six years, se-
Ncured divorce from his actress-wife,
Mrs. Antoinette le Brun Brind, before
the District Court of Denver. -
If present plans are realized for the
construction of new road through
Deer creek, the distance between Dem
yer and Baileys will be reduced by
twelve and one-half miles.
All Delta mourns over the tragic
death of "Ted" Widney, the popular
fullback Of the Delta High school foot
ball squad, as result of an injury re-
ceived in the football game in Paonia.
The Colorado School of Mines at
Golden has been designated as the
first school in the United States to
become a federal military college un-
der the provisions of the national de-
fense act Of June 8, 1916.
Twenty-three exhibitors have pledged
themselves to make displays at the
free flower show to be held In the
Auditorium Nov. 10 and IL. under the
Sauspices of the Denver Society of
Ornamental Horticulture.
A mangel wurzel beet weighing fif-
teen and one-Quarter pounds was pro-
duced on the. truck farm Of F. w.
Smith, at Wheatridge this season. The
crop, grown on small garden patch
' for COW feed, ran more than thirty
tons to the acre.
Horace G. Benson was accorded the
/, right to run as the Peoples party can
. didate for district attorney as well az
the candidate of the independent vot-
ers in Denver when the Supreme
Court reversed the decision given by
District Judge Sheafor.
Mrs. Margaret A Campion filed suit
in the District Court in Denver
AGAINST the Denver Tramway Company