The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-01

Durango. -.
Sept 25-29-Las Animas County az
Sept 26-2S-El Paso County at Gaihan
Sept 2729-Grand County at hrenih-
ling.
Oct. 2-5-Kit Carson County at Bur-
lington.
Trinidad's winter Chautauqua will
open Sept. 9th.
Mining men faced with serious
shortage of labor.
Colorado must increase acreage OF
wheat by per cent.
There will be a livestock exhibition
at Monument. Sept 18th.
Fifty Guardsmen with fifty bricks
wrecked a Curtis street candy shop
in Denver.
John w. Morey, of Denver, now
heads the Mountain division of the
American Red Cross.
Farmers near Mead have stacked
their wheat in the straw and started
plowing for new crop.
Union barber shops of Denver-ap-
proximately seventy-five-closea at 10
o'clock on Saturday nights.
A federal market bureau will be
conducted in Greeley during the Weld
county potato shipping season.
Fifty-four persons appeared in the
U. s. District Court in Denver and
asked for second papers of naturaliza-
ton.
Colorado potatoes have hit the low
price toboggan. Within three days
spuds on the Denver market declined
$1.15 a hundred.
With bigger and better exhibits than
ever shown before in that part of Col
orado, the Prowers County Fair
opened at Lamar.
A new 1917 $40 gold piece minted in
Denver will be given to each of 5000
guardsmen as an expression of thanks
for their loyalty to the state.
In the arrest of Major Babcock (Ma-
jor is his name, not his title) at Sill
verton by Sheriff James W. Pearson,
San Juan county has reported its first
Stacker.
Sergt John ]. Summers, for the last
three years in charge Of the treasury
accounts at the army recruiting sta
ton, departed from Denver for Fort
Smelling, MINI.
Employees of the United States For
estry Department in the Denver dis
trict have raised $310 for the purchase
of an ambulance for the forestry regi-
ment" in France.
Denver retail coal dealers have suf-
fered a decrease of from so to 80 per
cent in their business since President
Wilson's scale of new coal prices at
the mines was promulgated.
Colorado will have one, if not sew
eral, aeroplane testing stations, ac-
cording to assurances given to SEN
ator Shafroth in Washington by Off
cials of the War Department.
Miss Florence F. Hutsinpillar,- as
sistant secretary of the Bureau of
Charities and Correction of Denver,
will be the new head of that depart
ment, according to an announcement
made by DR.. w. H. Sharpley of Den
yer.
There will be no Colorado State Fair
this year Announcement to this eff
feet was made when it was discovered
that, with the soldiers at Camp Gun.
ter occupying a majority of the fair
buildings, there will be insufficient
room for exhibits.
Plans are being formed for capitalix.
ing a project to obtain control of the
Denver, Laramie & Northwestern Rail.
road and to prevent it's junking by M.
S. Radetsk, provided that course is
permitted by the decision in the hear.
in hafnra 40 Gtota D,,l
Commission.
Plans of Colorado army officers.
commissioned at the Fourteenth Pro.
visional Training Camp at Fort Riley,
Kan, were changed upon receipt of
official information that they are to
report at the regiment headquarters,
where they graduated recently, on
Sept. or 3.
After being idle for several years,
work was started by lessees on the
Silver Queen mine in the canon of
Bear creek, and as already mapped
out the work promises an exploration
and development of a silver-lead prop.
osition that Is considered one of the
most promising in the Ouray district.
When David William Thompson of
Denver is called for examination in
District he will be told to go to war
and be hero. His wife, Mrs. Bessie
Thompson of Loveland, says he is a
pool shark" and should be made to
use some Of his skill at shooting Ger
mans
Walter Dickinson, one of the wealth
lest cattlemen of Dolores county to-
gether with three of his employees,
were arraiEned before Alfred e Camn