The Raymer enterprise., 1916-02-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES For COMING: EyENrs


DATES FOR COMING EVENTS,
Feb. Injecting Colorado Progressive
| state Central Committee at Denver
rep. l6-lS-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
March 9-ll.-Meeting Western Coio-
Tado Teachers Association at Grand
March 20-April 2-Coio Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
april l3-Democratic State Convention
at Pueblo.
Black hand" letters have been sent
to Pueblo merchant.
A general Y. M. C. A. convention
will be held at Greeley next year.
The Western Colorado Teachers
Association will meet a. Grand juno
tion. March 9-11
A ranch Of the National Order Of
Cowboy Rangers, with 200 members.
has been instituted at Walden.
Governor Carlson was the guest Of
honor at dinner given by the Vet
erans Of Foreign Wars In Denver.
Douglas A, Roller and Mrs. Mary E.
Robinson, a nurse, were shot by
burglar in the Roller houe in Denver.
Llttleton's eleven candidates for
postmaster are reported opposed to
the primary suggested by Senator
Shafroth.
The boarding house at Little Mona
mine, near Silyerton, was carried
away by slide, after the occupants
had escaped.
George Quinn was hanged in the
state penitentiary at Canon City for
the murder of William R. Herbertson
In Denver, Oct. "a, 1914.
Three Denver men accepted a year
each in the penitentiary rather than
support their families when they
were arraigned in the Juvenile Court.
Silyerton, marooned In the San
Juan mountains by the snow, has be-
gun to kill its dairy animals to OBJ
tain fresh meat, according to an As.
sociated Press dispatch.
In common with a number OF other
cities, Denver is to be made the center
OF an active aviation corps In connec-
tion with the national guard organi.
zation.
Charged with being implicated in
the theft Of trunk containing silks,
clothing and papers valued at nearly
$4,000, Charles Robinson, %, was ar
rested in Denver.
Human Conservation" was the alb
sorbing theme of the twenty-eighth
annual state convention Of Young
Mems Christian Associations which
met at Greeley.
Motion for new trial In the New
man will case, made at Littleton, was
denied by Judge Glass, and thirty
days was given in which to appeal to
the Supreme Court.
The directors of the Cripple Creek
Central railroad authorized a dividend
Of $40 per share, amounting to $780,
900 on its $2,50O,O0O common stock. at
the annual meeting.
All records for the number of hogs
received on the Denver market in one
month were broken at the Denver
stockyards in January. The total re-
ceipts were 1906 head, as against
Ss.614 head in December, 1915.
The movement to form the Denver
Civic and Commercial Association, an
nounced with the completion of the
committee Of fifty, is expected to de
vclop rapidly from now on, as much
of the necessary detail work was com
pleted during the past tour weeks.
Eight thousand acres of state lanI
were sold for approximately $lls,000
at public auction at the offices OF the
land board in Denver. The average
price per acre was s14.75. The high
est figure of the sale was $40 Der
acre paid for land in Larimer county.
AT the annual state convention of
the Y. NJ. G. A. at Greeley, subject
OF felicitation was that the associa.
tions of the state took in 1898 new
members during the year. At last
years convention the slogan was
Two Thousand New Members" The
associations came within two men,
bers of reaching their goal.
Married year ago by proxy to the
sweetheart in Japan, whom he has not
seen for sixteen years. j. Arakawa
prosperous rancher OF IIazeltine, left
Denver for Seattle, where ne will
greet his bride when she steps from
an ocean liner. Immediately on her
arrival, they will be married at the
dock, in conformity witt the regula
tions of the immigration laws,
Mrs Emerson j. Short of Denver,
former president OF the South Side
Womans Club. has been appointed
Denver chairman of the enrolment
committee OF the woman's section of
the Navy League OF the United States
by Elizabeth Ellicott Poe, general Sec
retary OF the Organization. The aim
Of the organization is to enroll 1,00O,.
900 members by March /, who viii