The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.

Jan. Is-26-Live stock show at Denver.
Over $4,000 joined the Red Cross in
Pueblo.
Canon City had a municipal Christ
mas tree.
A home guard unit is being organ
lied at Holly.
Mum has organized home guard
unit with fifty members.
Broom corn to the amount of $4,000
was sold at Holly recently.
The NJ. E. church people of Ignacio
are building new parsonage.
Dark nights now at Colorado
Springs Thursday and Sundays.
Kurtzville is the name of new
town seven miles north of Hotchkiss.
The Hornbeck ranch of 240 acres
near Avondale has been sold for $780,
OO0
Broken glass was found in a pack
age of breakfast food by Mrs. F. H.
Neunier, of Denver.
A grand masquerade ball will be
given at Recreation hall, Fort Lyon,
on New Years eve.
John S. Logan, near Canon City,
cNt and shipped to Sugar City car
load of Christmas trees from his own
land.
La Plata county commissioners
have purchased two carloads of CORFU
gated steel culverts for use on the
roads.
with nthnr
citizens of Aspen, has constructed
fish hatchery to stock the neighbor-
ing streams.
Only the utmost vigilance of patrols
and mounted troops prevented an out
break of anti-German rioting at
Buenos Aires.
The Rio Grande drainage district
the winter because of at least foot
of frozen ground.
]. G. Clark is planning extensive
work on his holdings in the Caribou
district, which group is noted for high
grade silver ores.
The total ore output of mines in the
Cripple Creek district in November
WAS $4,000 lOuo, Win loloi
value of s1.O44,697.
Operators of the Tomboy mine at
La Plata county have discovered ore
at twenty-three feet, in vein two
and one-half feet wide.
Warden lyman of the state peniten-
tiary at Canon City has granted per-
mission to 300 convicts to knit for
ha cd nanh
New buildings and mill are being
erected on the Genesee-Vanderbilt
and Yankee Girl properties at Red
Mountain in the Ouray mining dist
rict.
Denver bank clearings for the year
1917 were SS5S,531 ,67564, as against
$682, ,799,556 for 1916. This represents
an increase of about 25 per cent for
the year.
The trustees of the Modern Wood
men sanitarium, Colorado Springs,
have approved plans for 100000
worth of improvements and new
buildings.
Shelters in Colorado during the
last five years have made a net profit
of ninety-five cents a ton, according
to a report of the special ore sales
and investigation committee of the
Twenty-first legislature.
Earl w. Pope, the fifth Pueblo boy
to lose his life in the service of his
country, died at Camp Funston, Kan,
after a short illness from pneumonia.
His wife was at his bedside when he
died.
Denver, in company with other big
cities thruout the country, broke all
Christmas marriage license records
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. eve-when per.
mits to wed were issued to thirty-four
couples at the recorders office in the
courthouse.
All records for content of sugar in
beets have been broken this year by
an assay of 1877 per cent from beets
grown by ]. w. Meador of Craig, on
unirrigated land The price obtained
for the beets was $S.12h per ton, at
the Longmont refinery.
Though it was not a white Christ
mas, the yuletide spirit of old per
meated Denver when the 2,700 soldiers
who are quartered in the city prior to
Heing transferred to cantonments,
were banqueted in private homes, at
Dotels, by clubs and by societies.
John Stankovich was found guilty
Of murder in the first degree and SEN
fenced to life imprisonment by jury
in Judge Essex's division of the dis
trict court at Pueblo. He was charged
with the murder of Sava Rogich in
Bessemer in September, 1916.
On account of the interruption to
operations at the Grand junction