Cheyenne record., 1917-07-19


COMING EVENTS.
Aug: 1nNational Convention of Afri-
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Aug. s.-is.-state Federation of Labor
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Leadville miners postpone strike
one week.
Rumors of an oil strike near Dover
caused excitement.
Denver Tramway Company may en-
ploy women conductors.
New state prohibition law is de-
creasing liquor shipment.
Five Colorado Springs men sum-
moned to join medical corps.
Large party of Boy Scouts from
Rocky Ford is in camp near Rye.
Colorado Bar Association elects
new officers at Colorado Springs con-
vention.
Federal government refuses to oper-
ate Leadville mines to prevent strike
Of miners.
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ported much damage to crops from
the bean beetle.
Paul Allen, nine-year-old son Of Rob
ert Allen Of Pueblo. was drowned in
the Arkansas river
The annual picnic Of the Denver
Pressmen's Union will be held at
Dome Rock August 18th.
The largest crowd ever assembled
at Holly was present at the picnic
given by the Cow Club.
The canning factory at Fort Lup-
ton has started operations. 1t en-
ploys $50 men and women.
Mrs. Nellie Hollarman, aged 10, at
tempted to commit suicide at Pueblo
by drinking carbolic acid.
Mile posts and danger signs are
being placed along the Thompson
canon road to Estes Park.
Incorporation papers were filed in
Greeley for a new bank at Bucking-
ham, capital stock $4,000.
Proposed extension of Pixies Peak
highway to be inspected by officers
OF the highway association.
Drainage work on several hundred
acres of waste seepage land in the
Sugar City vicinity is being pushed.
Two cows and two steers all fine
stock belonging to George Baxter OF
Granada were killed by lightning.
The meetings Of State Federation of
Labor at Boulder Aug. GIG will be
held at the State University buildings.
Yankee hill at Leadville was named
from William H. Yankee, who died at
Denver. He was an old and success
full mining operator Of Leadville, Alma
and Aspen.
That some OF the sum raised by the
Pueblo Y. M. c.. A. in the recent Y.
M. C. A. war fund campaign is to be
used in Pueblo has been assured the
Pueblo Y. M. c. A.
Two of the largest grain elevators
in the state will be built by the Mesa
County Flour Mill this summer. One
will be located at Delta and the
other at Montrose.
The Loveland sugar factory en-
ployes hold picnic July 10 at the
expense of the company because of
their having made the largest sub
scription to Liberty bonds.
Thomas Johnson. one of the first
Pueblo boys to answer the call for re-
cruits at the beginning of hostilities
with Germany, is seriously Ill with
pneumonia at Pensacola. Fla.
Claire Friedman. 13-year-old daugh-
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who had been missing from her home
in Pueblo. was found playing in car
nival company at La Junta.
Mrs. Maude Simpson, aged 29 years.
wife of Fred Simpson, committed sui
eide by shooting herself through the
head with a high-power rifle at her
home southwest of Monument.
Within two weeks movie picture
houses all over the country will be-
gin showing $4,000 feet OF film depict
ing the scenic, climatic, industrial, ag
ricultural and other features that max
Colorado one of the most desirable
states in the Union.
report from Central City states
that the Evergreen mine in Apex is in
better ore and larger bodies than at
any other time in its history. Work
in the mine is being carried on in the
1OO-foot level, where machines are
breaking ore in stope sixty-five feet
long and from twelve to twenty feet
wide.
The presence of silver. lead, copper
and tungsten in Gilpin county gold
ores, together with vugs of uranium
(pitchblende) in the Quartz hill prop
critics, has marked influence to bring
about the revival of these pioneer
| nronarfies which have added some