Cheyenne record., 1917-11-22

N1y. 2a-24-Rural School Conference In
Jan. ls-2s-Live stock show at Denver.
United Mine workers plan new
wage scale.
Telluride has night school for ed
ucating foreigners.
The second November thunder
storm In thirty years. occurred in Pu-
eblo Nov. 15.
Margaret Manning shot and killed
herself In the office Of James M. Cling
rich in Denver.
About 1000 pounds of express pack
ages have been sent from Denver to
the soldiers fol Christmas.
Turkeys In Denver this Thanksgiv-
ing will be scarce and prices will be
high. Denver grocerymen say.
More than 5000 packages have been
mailed from Denver to soldiers in
France, according to an estimate made
by postal officials.
Eloise Horton, the two-day bride of
f. S. Horton of Denver, swallowed
five grains of bichloride Of mercury
with suicidal intent.
A showing of oil has been encounter
ed in the well OF Oil Creek Petroleum
Company on Oil Creek, five miles
northeast of Canon City.
The Engineers Corporation of Den
yer has begun operation Of lease on
the Barton mine near Ouray and is
taking out fluorspar from large vein.
Working through group leaders
from its own student body, Colorado
Teachers college, at Greeley. has con-
war work
George w. Miller aged 60, from Den
yer. working in the Primos Chemical
Company's mines, was struck by a
swinging timber, and died in Tellu
ride hospital later.
The Denver Y M. C. A. campaign
committee, together with the local
Y. w. C. A. and Recreation and Play
grounds Association, reached the
$4,000 mark.
Denver bank clearings for the week
ended Nov. 8, as reported by Brad
streets, totaled $24,595.OOO, an in
crease of COS over the corresponding
week of last year.
Peter Prison, As, one of the oldest
brakesmen on the Colorado Midland
in point of service, was killed at AS
pen when engaged in switching cars
at the Smuggler mine.
Two Colorado men, G. ]. Broulland
of Gold Creek, and c. F. Hayes of
Walden, have been wounded while
fighting in Europe with the Canadian
expeditionary forces, according to the
casualty list given out at Ottawa.
The formation in Denver of a col
ored woman's auxiliary that is doing
work for the colored men sent to the
front has been reported to the Wom-
ans Advisory Council to the COVER
nor.
Mrs Charles H. Jacobson, chairman
of the organization committee of the
Woman's Advisory Council to the gov
ernor, is suggesting that men be urged
to subscribe to the food conservation
principles as well as the women.
An unidentified Austrian sliced off a
poi tioh VI W. lNts tS HOot III btH-
yer when Reyes. a Mexican. objected
to remarks he made concerning the
government of the United States and
its part in the war against the central
powers.
Through the mediation of Charles j.
Tobias. federal trade commission ex-
aminer and Hiram Hits, chairman of
ha Ctnt In ;n1 thn
strike of 215 miners at the Puritan
and Shamrock mines, near Frederick,
was settled.
Chairman w. II. Kerr of the COM
mittee on markets of the Colorado
Council of Defense says the Grand
Junction apple crop was moved better
than ever before and that the states
tomato crop was moved unusually well
without loss.
A report was made by W. II. Kerr,
chairman of the markets committee
of the state council of defense, that
despite the amount of potatoes frozen,
the seasons output will surpass that
of last year. The potato increase this
year is estimated as 2,25O,0O0 bushels
over last season and the total crop is
reported at 9.15O,000 bushels. There
has been a frost damage of about 10
per cent.
Orson Adams, Grand Junction bank
er, whose financial failure brought
about the closing of the Mesa County
Bank, and admission from the Father
of the Grand Valley" that he was
technically guilty OF misapplication OF
the Institutions funds. and his subse-
quent sentence to the federal peniten.
tiary at Leavenworth for a term of six
years, has been released on parole.
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