The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
WesLern Newsnnrer linIon News serylce.


Aug. l-Celeb:ntion Colorado's Forti.
eth Anniversary of Statehood. at
Aug. 2-National Convention of Rep
Iesentatives OF Negro Race at Den
| ver
Aug. 8-Democratic State Assembly al
| Platteville.
Aug. .2225-Annual Convention. Grand
. Lodge X. OF r.. at Greeley.
Sept. 5-8-Frontier Days celebration
at at Fort Morgan:
at Trinidad.
Battery C, of Colorado springs re
ported at Golden Tuesday.
An Antonito manufacturer has Of
fered sixteen motor trucks for use of
the army.
The Pueblo recruiting station has
been offered the services of 130 cow
boys in the regular army.
Rube Pratt, of Seibert, six feet and
nine inches is said to be the tallest
Guardsman in the country.
Emmett O'Connor, graduate of the
Salida High School, has been ap.
pointed to West Point by Senator
John Shafroth.
The next convention OF the West
ern division of the American Union
of Swedish Singers will be held in
Denver in 1920.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Colorado Funeral Directors
and Embalmers' Association was held
at Colorado Springs.
A $500 bond issue carried by
vote of nearly three to one for the
purpose of erecting a new hign
school building at Bristol.
Daniel Dillon, an American news
paper man who was imprisoned at
Mexico by the Carranza government,
was released from custody.
Maj. Gen. Frank D. Baldwin, U. S.
A, retired, is IA years of age. The
event was celebrated quietly at his
home in Denver.
John McLennan, president of the
Colorado State Federation of Labor,
is being suggested as the commander
of a militia company of union labor
men.
The most disastrous fire in the his
tory of Fruita occurred causing loss
of at least $4,000. For a time the
entire town was threatened with de-
struction.
Twenty-three flags OF the state OF
Colorado and two service flags we're
| presented formally by 4 committee of
the Sons of Colorado to the different
units of Colorado's National Guard.
George w. Vallery, receiver OF the
Colorado Midland hailroad Company,
was honored by the grand encamp-
n-ent of the Knights Templar at Los
Angeles with election to the post of
grand junior warden. Lee S. Smith
of Pittsburg was elected grand mas
ter of the encampment.
Following tile example set by their
brothers who have enlisted in the
Colorado National Guard, nine nurses
in training at the Bethel Hospital in
Colorado Springs have written S.
Poulterer Morris of the American
Red Cross in Denver volunteering
their services for hospital work in
Mexico.
During the ten days his wife, the
Denver police and the sheriff of Lin
coin county were hunting for Alfred
T. Browns, Denver attorney and real
estate man, he was lying dead by his
own hand. His body was found in an
abandoned corral one and half
miles north of Golden by party of
workmen.
The Rocky Mountain Rangers, COM
posed chiefly of Colorado volunteers,
experienced in military service, re.
newed the offer of it's services to the
United States War Department. This
cavalry regim ent is said to be ranked
as highest in efficiency among the
volunteer organizations of the coun.
try and has the support of a large
group of regular army officers.
A Labor Day celebration in Den
yer in which all nearby Colorado
towns have been invited to partici-
pate, to include a morning parade
with line of march surpassing any
thing of its kind in past years, and
picnic in the aft neon and even
ing, is being arranged by the jont
Labor Day committee OF the Trades
Assembly and the Building Trades
Council. Labor Day this year is
Sept. 4.
Eighty recruits are needed at the
Golden Rifle Range. Until this num-
-er of acceptable volunteers is avail
able. the first Colorado contingent
OF guardsmen will not be eatrained
for the border. Twentv infantrymen
and sixty cavalry recruits are neces-
sary in order that the four compan es
of infantry which L AXE up the first
battalion, and the four troops of cav.
airy which comprise the mounted
squadron, may take the field.
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