The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-27

Jan. 20-27-Annual w Wes tern Stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. c. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Feb. 2S-March Carnival of Mid-win-
ter Sports at Steamboat Springs.
Gunnison Odd Fellows have moved
into their new hall.
A shorthorn bull, exhibited at the
Denver stock show, was sold for ST.
900.
Bon /. Look, Denver merchant, died
of pneumonia in the home of relatives
at Pekin, ILL.,
Notwithstanding the zero weather.
society night at the Denver horse
show brought out large crowd.
William H. Gabbert, former chief
justice of the Supreme Court, will
make Denver his home in the future.
Governor Gunter addressed the
members of the Mountain States
Hardware Dealers convention in Den
ver
Three hundred grocers attended the
seventeenth state convention of the
Retail Merchants Association at
Boulder.
Many persons inspected the food ex-
hibits and specimens of Colorado's
manufactured products at the Denver
Chamber of Commerce.
The work on the program for lie
community welfare conference at Glen
wood Springs to extend over four days,
has now been completed
The officers of the national forest
service from six states will be in Fort
Collins Feb. 1 for the purpose of study
ing live stock conditions.
A trainload of high-grade Colorado
potatoes were shipped to eastern
markets from Ault and Eaton. The
spuds were valued at $35, 900.
Several elk, belonging to the large
band that range in the lower part o
Mineral county, have been seen in the
foothills near the d. & r. G. tracks.
Philip d. Armour III. of Chicago,
with a party of about forty employees
of the Armour Packing company, ar
rived in Denver to attend the stock
show.
A passenger train from Alamosa
was reported stalled in the snow at
the top of Cumbres pass Monday. The
snow plow was stuck in drifts on the
summit
Wounds received on Oct. 80, when
he was attacked by a mad dog,
caused the death of Virgil Harring-
ton, 15-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
II. T. Harrington of Denver.
and Refining Company of Salida
awarded increased wages of twenty
cents a shift for all employees on the
payroll, beginning Jan. /.
San Miguel county mines shipped
gold, silver, lead and copper ores val
ued at s2,026,1O2 to the American
Smelling and Refining Company's'
plant at Durango during 1916.
Railroad travel to Denver for the
National Western Livestock show, at
the stockyards stadium, was the
heaviest in the history of the show,
according to officials at the Union sta
ton.
Twenty-Five people, all save one un-
acquainted with John Lawrence
Smith, who was shot to death by his
wife, Mrs Stella Newton Moore
Smith, gathered in Denver for the
funeral services.
Predictions that Denver will be-
come the feeder cattle market of the
country within the next ten years
were made by II. A. Jastro, former
president of the American National
Livestock Association, while visiting
Denver.
Roy Solomon, the 7-year-old son of
Charles Solomon, mayor of Edgewater,
is in a critical condition at his home
as the result of skating accident, he
having fallen over the PROSTATE body
companion and having his throat
cut on the other boys skate.
The broad gaging of the Marshall
Pass route and the electrification OF
C, rtain portions of the road is given
out by Grand Junction paper as tnc
two big items of improvement to be
made by the Denver and Rio Grandc
railroad during the present year.
The government report on the snow
fall in the mountains of Colorado at
the end of December shows defici-
ency in the districts which are drained
by the Arkansas river and Rio Grande
river, while nearly all of the other
water sheds of the state have an ex-
cess.
A plan to create a building fund of
approximately 100000 year for the
next ten years and to increase reve
nues for maintenance and operation
costs of the state educational institu-
tons of Colorado will be presented for
the consideration of the General AS
SamhlY