Cheyenne record., 1917-02-15
COLORADO
STATE. !. NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

OErES FOA COMING EVENTS
March 1-2-Midwinter Ski Carnival At
Sept. ,I7-22-coiorado state Fair at Pu-
eblo.
The State Land Board has sold 20.-
900 acres Of non-irrigated land at $12
per acre.
The Colorado 1917 tourist season
started three months in advance OF the
usual date.
Col. Theo. Roosevelt is an honorary
vice president of the William F. Cody
Memorial Association.
Beet growers have protested against
the passage of the bill before the Leg
islature limiting child labor.
Colorado this year will get $167,.
3S0.2S from the federal appropriation
to aid in constructing post roads.
The United States navy recruiting
station in Denver has received orders
to increase its efforts to obtain men.
Thousands of Denver people, men,
women and children, visited the infor-
NAL opening of the new Children's hos
pital.
David Baumart, 70 years old, who
had lived in Colorado since 1860, died
at the Denver county hospital of pneu-
monia.
Frederick William White (F.W.W.),
dramatic editor and critic of the Den
yer Post for the last twenty years,
died in st. Josephs hospital in Den
yer.
F. ]. Easley has been appointed gen.
eral manager of the Denver & Rio
Grande railroad system, according to
an announcement Of President H. U.
Nudge.
-Four women were badly bruised and
cut. and one man was slightly injured,
when car driven by Sherman Cox of
Denver went into a ditch two miles
from Golden.
Echo Mischief, Hereford bull calf,
was sold by John D. Brunton of Den
yer for $4,000 at Des Moines, la. This
Is the highest price ever obtained for
Colorado calf.
A pageant depicting episodes in the
history of Methodism was given by the
Epworth League of the Warren Memor-
ial Methodist church in Denver. Forty
persons took part
U. s. flags were conspicuous at the
patriotic demonstration given at the
Auditorium in Denver under the aus
pices of the Washington-Lincoln
Memorial association.
German citizens OF the state who
have been anxious concerning their
position in the event war is declared
were told by Governor Gunter taat
they have nothing to fear.
Grief for his dead wife is said to be
largely responsible for the death of
Frank Edward Conboy, veteran rail-
road man, who died at his home at
224S Julian street. in Denver.
DR.. Kurt Ziegler, German consul at
Denver, his wife, and Max Martin, Sec
retary, left for New York Friday to
sail with the imperial diplomatic
corps leaving there on Feb. 13.
Donald Bartold knight, alias Harry
Harrison, an ex-convict, was arrested
In Denver following his attempted rob-
berry of the home of c. ]. Ryan. He
confessed to half dozen recent Den
YER burglaries.
Robert j. Eberle, chancellor of the
consulate of Switzerland, formally
took over the offices of the German
consulate in Denver. acting for Paul
Weiss, Swiss consul who is on his
way home from the East.
Mise Joppio I,,,;ou nE;.-
E. Williams, high school students in
Nederland, sent their names to the
headquarters of the Denver chapter
OF the American Red Cross Society, Of
fering themselves as nurses.
The Missouri Society of Colorado,
composed Of former residents of Mis-
souri,, will give dinner and entertain
ment in Denver, March 3. All former
residents of Missouri, their families
and friends, are invited to attend.
Besides keeping both concentrating
mills running steadily and maintain.
ing regular and heavy shipments of
crude zinc blende and concentrates,
the Wellington Mines Company has
both Of its shafts going down steadily.
Articles of incorporation were filed
in the office OF the secretary of state
for the William F. Cody Memorial AS
sociation, which has been organized
to centralize nationwide movement
for the erection OF, a suitable me.
mortal to Buffalo Bill on Lookout
mountaiR
The Gibson Hill Mining Company. a
Pueblo organization which is working
the New York group on the west slope
of Gibson hill. under a lease and op-
ton. is reported as having encoun.
tered blanket vein of lead and zinc
ore from fourteen to eighteen inches
thick ra