The Ordway new era., 1917-06-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
COMING EVENTS.
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COMING EVENTS.
July lo.-aood Roads meeting on sum
init Of Pixies Peak.
Aug; lmSstlSnHa p,Ss II, b.nS.e Gonvent''n OK ~
Sept; i7-s3-coiorado State Fair AZ f0'
J. w. Anthony, IS. member OF the
Colorado Pioneer Society. died at Vic
tor.
Survey being made in Pine Cliff dis
trict for a new road from Arvada to
Nederland.
On July gath Boulder will have
special election to choose twenty-one
delegates to city charter convention.
A mass meeting was held in the
Denver Auditorium to celebrate the
raising of 100000 for the Red Cross
fund
Harry Bird. with his brother. Chas.
Bird, is putting in the largest acre
age of potatoes ever planted in Routt
county.
Plans are now being perfected by
the 1s5 members of the Durango Mo-
tor Club for a sociability run to Man.
cos. July 4th.
George F. Roach. 80 years old. Of
Salt Lake City, Utah, accidentally shot
and killed himself at the municipal
camping grounds.
Ed L. Doyle. for many years secre-
tary and treasurer Of the United Mine
Workers in District Is, has gone to
work as miner at Walsenburg.
An echo OF the enthusiastically row
at the Colorado School Of Mines came
when the board of trustees failed to re-
elect Howard C. Parmelee as presi.
dent
Full military honors were accorded
the body of Walter Gray Ragland, 10.
late of L troop, Eighth United States
cavalry, who was drowned in the Rio
Grande river June 10Th.
BY large and impressive gathering
of the Denver Association of Masonic
Officers the 200th anniversary of the
grand lodge of England was observed
in the Central Presbyterian Church.
Thirty-three alleged slackers were
brought before United States Commits
sioner Stone in Denver to be bound
over for trial at the opening of the
Federal Court Nov. 9th. Those una.
BILE to furnish $1,000 bond will be held
in Jail.
Blacksmiths and helpers employed
on the Denver & Rio Grande system
in Colorado and Utah went on a strike
following failure to secure an adjust
ment Of a demand for an increase in
to{r Sp ha
strike.
At Trinidad there is being Organized
volunteer company of automobile
men, who may perform valuable ser
vice to the nation in the transporta
tion of troops, or supplies in the event
of an emergency that requires quick
movement.
The city council Of Boulder has
granted permission to the Denver
Interurban Company to remove its
tracks from Pearl street and Twelfth
| street, and to operate its cars along
the Colorado & Southern right of way
into the Boulder depot.
In spite of labor shortage, which is
noticeable, If not acute, grea. deal
way in the Cripple Creek district, with
such properties as the United Gold
Mines, Granite and Modoc Increasing
their product by 25 to so per cent over
that in the earlier months of the year.
! George W. Bruce OF Delta, was nom.
mated by President Wilson as re-
ceiver of public moneys at Montrose.
Final figures of the registation under
the selective service law have been
compiled> by Provost Marshal John
Evans for Colorado, and disclose a
total registration of 1854.
Although orders have been received
by the adjutant generals office to
stop enlisting registered men in the
Colorado National Guard after June
26th. no such restriction applies to
the regular branches OF service, and
the army, navy and marine recruiting
stations are continuing their efforts
to complete their quotas as soon as
possible.
will be called into the federal service
sooner than originally planned, ant
that the resources of the state will
have to be ready for government soor
is speeding up the work Of the state
legislative committee. Gov. ]. c. Gun
ter is expected to issue his call fol
a special session Of the Assembly no
later than July LIST.
A carload of equipment. cable, pull
leys, buckets, ETC., for the aerial tram
way under construction for the Gran
ite Gold Mining Company, and extend
ing from the ore house at the Dillol
mine on Battle Mountain to the load
ing station in the yards of the Mid
land Terminal and Cripple Creek AM
Colorado Snringa railroad Yards a