The Colorado statesman., 1916-03-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Onion News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

March 20-April 2.-Color O Retail
Merchants' Associations Food and
April 13-Democratic state Convention
May First Congressional District
SSspnblican Convention at Colorado
April 2s--Annuai Convention Western
Colorado /. o. o. F. at Grand juno
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
convention at Pueblo.
May 1S-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs. ~
aug. S-Democratic State Assembly at
Tungsten prices advanced from $75
to $50 per unit at Boulder.
President Wilson nominated w. A.
King postmaster of Sterling.
r. w. Speer has announced him
self a candidate for mayor of Den
yer.
Jewelry valued at $1,000 was stolen
from the home of c. F. Shollenberger
of Denver.
Arvada citizens have raised $4,000
for improving the road from Denver
to Boulder.
Mrs. M. E. Crowley, 81, of Lead
vile, claims to be the original pioneer
woman Of the west.
An appropriation of over 100000
has been made to improve the Rocky
Ford beet sugar factory and farms.
At Leadville pumps throwing out
1000 gallons of water per minute
started the work of unwatering
Fryer Hill.
Bolus Bolus, 9 years old, and Leon
Schultz, ~, were killed in Littleton
by the caving in of large sand bank
in which they were digging caves.
Stephen w. Dorsey, formerly
United States senator from Arkansas,
died at Los Angeles. Mr.. Dorsey
lived in Denver six years, from 1891
to 1897.
Approximately 100000 will be spent
by the county of Ell Paso on its roads
this year, according to an announce
ment by the county commissioners al
Colorado Springs.
DR.. Edward F. Eldredge, formerly
of Denver and Grand Junction, died
in San Diego, Cal, where he had
been living for the last two years. He
was 60 years old
Nearly 100000 trees will be plant
ed in the national forests of the
Rocky Mountain district this spring
under the supervision of S. ID. Smith |
Planting will begin April 1.
Claude Maddox, self-confessed burg
lar, pleaded guilty to two of three
charges in Criminal Court in, Den
yer and was sentenced to serve from
five to eight years in the penitentiary |
A committee of fifty women was
appointed at the Woman's Club in |
Denver by the advisory board to con
duct membership campaign to in
crease the number of members to |
1000.
The advisability of requesting thai
a special district Judge be called tc |
Denver to hear exclusively prosecu
tions under the prohibition law is be
ing considered by the Colorado Anti
Saloon league.
Bernard Cummings of Denver, a
member of the Signal Corps, will be
the first National Guardsman of Colo
rado to receive instruction in avia.
tion preliminary to the establish
ment of this branch of military serv.
ice in Colorado.
May will be election day in Den
yer, not only for the charter amend
ment now on file with the city clerk
and certified to by the election com.
mission, but for all other amendments
and propositions to go before the
voters this spring
With the top of his head blown Oft
by shotgun used in hunting coyotes,
the body of Harold Smith, 25, Oldest
son of Lemuel j. Smith, former secre
tary of the Denver Park Board, was
found hanging in wire fence on his
fathers ranch near Rifle.
Indications of revival in the sheen
industry in Colorado, meaning an In,
vestment in 1916 of approximately SIS.
100000 by sheep owners, $4,000 900 OF
which already has been expended fu,
sheep, are seen by federal officials in
the proposed utilization of the 5000,
600 acres of grazing land available in
the national forests of Colorado, a
circumstance unprecedented in the
district United States forestry serv.
ice.
Peace in Mexico will depend upon
the ability of Gen. Carranza to or
ganize his government on the basis
of sound financial responsibility" sal
Bishop F. j. Mcconnell of the Metho
dist Episcopal church upon his return
from Mexico City to Denver. "Unles.
the Carranza government can estab
lish financial stability in the republi,
a revolution of serious propoi ton
may be precipitated at any time anu
the troubles of Mexico will be In
definitely perpetuated"