The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-06

oct. 1b-20.-Annual meeting, Grand
Nov. e-s-Live Stock Show at Grand
Junction.
Nov. 12-1S-Automobile Show at Dem
Nov. 22-24-Rural School Conference in
Denver.
Coloradoans will raise s2o,oOo,oOo
for the second Liberty loan.
George D. Talbot, assistant attorney
general. died at his home in Denver.
Douglas K. Holly. for many years
prominent newspaper man, died at
his home in Denver. ...
The state fish Matching ponds at
Pitkin have between six and seven
hundred thousand trout fry.
For the nine months of the present
year total of $297,62 in inheri-
tance tax collections has been made.
The first Denver organization actu-
ally subscribing for a bond in the sec
ond Liberty loan campaign was Col
tax Rebekah Lodge, No. IL, l. o. o. F.
The town of Penrose has gone dry.
Its big water tank tumbled over with
noise like an explosion and complete
toSo VI idl5e dLuOuuI VI pSlleCliy
good water.
marriage at Brighton united the
two Whitford families of Denver,
when Greeley w. Whitford welded
Mrs. Clay B. Whitford The bride is
the widow of Mr.. Whitford's late
brother.
C. Hendricks of Powderhorn, Gun
nison county, who is in the hospital
at Montrose with both feet amputated,
Is not expected to live. He was
caught by fall of rock in the mine
at Powderhorn.
United States Marshal Samuel ].
Burris, acting upon instructions from
Washington, took into custody Meyer
Friedkin, acting secretary of the Den
yer branch of the Industrial Workers
Of the World
Increased bank clearings, more oil
wells being drilled than ever before.
mining active, an acute shortage of
labor, healthy stimulation in mercan-
tile lines and increased building ac-
tivity in Denver.
Peter McCourt, theatrical man, is
defendant in suit for $4,000 dam
ages filed in the Denver court by Lu-
cile Killian, who charges that the de-
fendant's auto struck the girl while
he was driving.
1t costs the taxpayers of Pueblo
county S726,975.95 to conduct the
schools of the county during the year
closing with June 80, according to the
annual report of Mrs. Lille o. Baker,
county superintendent.
The gift of an insurance policy for
each of 1000 of its employees, for
sum approximately equal to one
$4,000 was announced by the Great
Western Sugar Company.
The anticipated advance in the
price of bituminous coal came Tues
day, when a number of big compan-
les raised their price on prepared
sizes of coal-lump and nut-from
S2.70 at the mine to 81.
Denver bank clearings for the week
ending Sept 9th amounted to 500,
$4,000, compared with $19,523,oOO for
the previous week, and showing an in
crease of 35.7 per cent over the cor
responding week of last year.
Summaries made up by bookkeepers
show that, following its record of net
earnings of s252,0OO made in July, the
Cresson Consolidated Gold Mining
Company made net earnings of ap-
proximately $220,0OO in the month of
August.
George w. Musser, former chief JUS
tice of the Colorado Supreme Court,
has been named as federal mediator
to adjust the differences which have
kept the blacksmiths on the Denver G
Rio Grande railroad out on strike for
more than two months.
The Royal Flush quartz mine in
Routt county is furnishing new sur
prises. A strike recently made on the
300-foot level has developed into 18
inches of high grade ruby silver ore,
rich also with gold of total approx
mate value of many hundreds of dol
lars a ton.
To every newspaper in Colorado has
been sent a bulletin from the agricul-
tural and livestock bureau of the Den
yer Civic and Commercial Association
calling attention to the grave short
age of livestock as indicated by re-
ports from practically every market in
the country, including Denver.
Denver's sleeves were rolled up
Monday morning to lick the Kaiser
with a golden stream of money in
vested in liberty bonds-money that
will be used to clothe, arm. equip and
feed the United States troops which
will soon cross the Atlantic to crush
the despotic German armies on the
front in northern France.
Appeals to the President made by