Cheyenne record., 1917-11-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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cOMiN0 EvENTs-
Nov. 22-34-Rural School Conference IN
Jan. Is-ss-Live stock show at Denver.
The Pueblo packing house strike
has been settled.
Denver boy students have formed
a class In knitting.
A large crowd was present at the
opening of the auto show in Denver.
The Nurses' Association Of Denver
has become affiliated with the Ameri'
can Nurses Association.
Under orders effective Nov. 1S. the
Union Pacific and Burlington lines
will each take off one Of their Denver
Omaha. Chicago passenger trains.
Food conservation was the topic Of
chief importance at the seventeenth
annual convention Of the Rocky Noun
tain Hotel Mems Association at Dem
yer.
A movement to conserve sugar
among the ice cream manufacturers OF
Denver threatens 3 body blow on Ices
ard glancing shot at chocolate Ice
cream.
The Wild Horse mine on Bull Hill
is a rich one, having produced over
two million dollars. but it is reported
the worst in the Cripple Creek district
for mine gas.
Fifteen Denver girls who work
every day now spend every Thursday
evening knitting garments for the
Samnies in France at the Y. w. 9. A.
rest and recreation rooms.
In Leadville district the Denver &
Rio Grande Railway Company has
completed the standard gauging of the
line to the mines in Big and South Ev-
ans gulches and Breeze hill.
Dividends amounting to $1.769,000
were paid to stockholders of the Cres-
son mine during the thirteen months
that the company has been under the
Carlton management, according to the
annual report of President A. e. Carl
ton.
Plans for alleviating distressing Ia
bor conditions in the metal mines and
mills of Colorado will be considered
at the fourth annual meeting of the
Colorado Metal Mining Association.
which will be held in Denver in jan
uary.
Waving Q big revolver, Mrs. A. N.
Halteman of Denver entered the home
Of Thomas H. Protheroe, 1475 st. Paul
street, kidnapped her 6-year-old daugh-
ter, Dorothy, during birthday party
given in her honor, and vanished in
closed automobile.
District Attorney Samuel w. John.
son filed an information in Golden yes
terday charging Charles O'Malla, 25,
who was secretly married to Hilda
Johnson, 16 years old, in Golden a
month ago, with making false affida-
Wit of the girls age.
Although the production of potatoes
in America exceeds all other crops,
the public has not yet realized the inn
portance of this product, according to
Eugene H. Grubb Of Carbondale, who
told the Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
association how to conserve the pota-
to at luncheon in Denver.
Former Governor Alva Adams,
member of the Scottish Rite Masonic
body of the state, one Of the Colorado
men who recently received the thirty
third degree at the biennial session of
the Supreme Council held in Washing.
ton, has been appointed inspector gen.
eral of the Scottish Rite for Colorado
The decline in silver has not halted
development in the pioneer camps Of
the state, located in Boulder, Clear
Creek and Gilpin counties. Here the
values are various. including gold, sill
yer, lead, copper, zinc, fluorine, mo-
lybdenum. tungsten and uranium, the
latter being confined to Quartz hill,
Gilpin county.
In the La Platas, says a Durango
report, the Columbus mine has opened
a great vein Of ore which promises e1.
traordinary high values. The Tommy
hawk property is working under
leases with a good output. The Bon.
ME Girl, with an o-stamp mill, under
hydro-electric power plant, is pro
ducing to capacity.
A heavy-set man, who said he was
a diamond thief. and who ratified the
contents of satchel to confirm his
statement, is accused Of placing two
revolvers in the faces of Mrs. B. e.
Weatherbee Of Denver. and Mrs.
Smith, her friend, and taking their
auto away from them on the road
about three miles from Platteville.
That the defendants have taken DOS
session of her homestead In Grand
county and have converted 1t into a
mining proposition, damaging her to
the extent Of $4,000, is alleged in a