The Dolores star., 1917-02-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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DATES FoR COMING EVENTS.
March l-3-Nidwintsr ski Carnival at
steamboat Springs.
. sept; 17-31-coiorado state Fair at Pu-
Jacob Gregory, pioneer Denver
merchant. miner and ranchman, IL
dead.
Six arrests were made ut Pueblo in
connection with the killing of Mich
oias Yenezio. . taxicab driver.
Robert T. Palm. Q Sind degree Ma
son. died Of paralysis at the home Of
Andrew Misner in Castle Rock.
Potato raisers in the Fort Collins
district are holding out for S3.75 per
cwt, with 500 carloads on hand.
Farmers In, the nsighborhood OF
Rocky Ford are signing contracts to
raise cucumbers for the Pickle Com
pany. raass 81 5-Es
~ chaloner B. schley. leader in soci-
ETY. Of Denver and Colorado Springs,
died at Colorado Springs after an ex-
tended Illness.
=. C. NJ. Sutherland, 60, of Salina, ten
miles west of Boulder, dropped dead
just after saluting his partner, Mrs.
Mabel Ardourel. in Money Musk.
Residents o. La Plata county have
petitioned the Postoffice Department
Tor the creation Of rural route
along the Pine river. Texas creek and
Wallace gulch districts. .
- Judge. r. E.. Lewis signed the de-
cree of foreclosure on the property of
the Colorado Midland Railroad Com
pany. which earlier in the week he
ordered sold on April 21st. =
The Red Mountain district promises
to be exceptionally active during the
coming year. Extensive plans have
been prepared for the development Of
the Congress and st. Paul mines.
The first of the 81 and 81 legal
tender notes recently issued by the
Treasury Department were received
by Rowland X. Goddard, United
States secret service agent in Denver.
Aspen authorities are considering
the proposition of securing complete
title to the Wheeler Opera House
building for the city and then convert
ing 1t into a city hall and fire sta.
tion. III
Sugar took the biggest jump In
price since the European war started,
in Denver Saturday. 1t advanced soc
per 100 pounds. making the price for
beet sugar $500 a hundred and cane
sugar $40. ,.a-
The Denver Wheat exchange re.
sumed its quotations on wheat, which
were discontinued soon after the dip.
of the violent fluctuations in the Chi
cago market F7--r.a.-0 q
The movement Of eastbound freight
is daily becoming more difficult, re.
sulting in further restriction of ac-
ceptance Of freight destined to points
east by the Burlington. Rock Island
and Santa Fe railroads.
The Rico Mining Company, backed
by New York capital, owners of prob
ably the largest acreage OF patented
mining land in Dolores county, die
considerable work last year and ii
now preparing plans to develop itt
holdings on Newman hill in a thor
ough manner. .'"~
Many subjects of vital interest tc
the tax assessor and the taxpayer
were discussed at the fifth annua
conference of the Colorado tax com
mission and the sixty-three county as
SCISSORS in a three-day program begin
ming Monday in the auditorium of the
state museum building.
The Vernon mine at Ironton is prov
ing somewhat of sensation in the
district, and it is reported that there
are very favorable chances of thu
smelter. which was started few
years ago on the Mono=Baltic prop
erty, being completed and in opera
tion before the year is out.
Present Day Conditions Com
pared with 49," will be the subjec
Of Dr. Charles Aubrey Eaton wher
that nationally-known minister ad
dresses the Republicans of Colorado
at the banquet to be given in Denve
in honor OF Lincoln and Washington
on the latter patriots birthday.
The Rico-Argentine Company, whicl
has been driving tunnel under tn
workings of the old Black Hawk min
to tap the large copper deposits o
the latter at a much greater depth
has struck the ore deposit, which th'
superintendent states is very promis
ing, the vein being eight feet thick.
Charles Russell, IS years old, wa.
shot and fatally wounded by Georg'
C"Tip') Belcher, alias Williams, salt
by the police to be notorious crook
during a revolver duel in which thu
two men engaged in front of hote