The Delta independent., 1917-08-10
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Man arrested at Canon City for
reasonable remarks.
m Denver Elks won the drill team
prize of S4oO at Boston.
Man charged with murder at Canon
City arrested in Kansas City.
Lieut.. H. c. Byrnes has been ap-
pointed captain of Company D.
The Denver peach week" idea is to
be spread throughout the state.
Thousands witness flag presenta-
Assistance of women to harvest
crops in state may be appealed for.
The number of visitors to the Mesa
Verde region is constantly expanding.
Logan county's valuation has in
creased nearly 100000 in the last
year.
Assembly adjourns after passing
most of Governor Gunter's legislative
program.
Second regiment of National Guard
stationed at Camp Gunter now in fed
eral service.
Mrs. J. T. Clark of Pueblo acci-
dentally shot herself in a Colorado
Springs hotel.
OF grapes passed through La Junta
from California
There is large increase in the
number OF men seeking work in the
mines about Telluride.
Many railroad section foremen are
rejoicing over the recent raise in sal
aries of $40 per month.
The Alsace-Lorraine Club of Den
yer celebrated its twenty-fifth anni-
versary with a dance and banquet.
DR. Victor C. Anderson has been ten.
dered the presidency of the Colorado
School Of Mines at salary of $4,000
year.
Mine operators OF the Leadville dis
trict announced an increase of wages
Of SO cents . day. making a scale of
- q day.
Boulder's charter convention, COM
posed Of twenty-one members chosen
at q special election, is now at work
drafting a charter to rule the city.
Colorado's soldiers automatically
became members of the United States
army at midnight Saturday, when
they were federalized in accordance
with the order of the War Depart
ment.
Fred E. Hagen, registrar OF the
University of Colorado at Boulder has
received notice of his appointment to
a commission as captain in the quar-.
termasters' department of the regular
army.
Reports being compiled by the Unit.
ed States Land Office will show that
during the twelve months ending July
50 approximately 100000 acres of
government land were filed upon in
Colorado.
The report of Postmaster Stapleton,
made to the postmaster general at
postoffice did business of $4,000
for July, an increase of s23,S27.s4
over July, 1916, or 90 per cent.
determined contest will be made
by the Greeley Commercial Club
against the closing of the Denver,
Laramie & Northwestern railroad by
its purchaser, NJ. S Radetsky, who in
tends to sell the equipment of the
railway for junk.
A motion for a new trial has been
filed in the District Court at Fort
Morgan in the case of farmers and
land owners in the Niles irrigation
ditch against the Henry L. Doherty
sued for 100000.
Saturday was the big day at Camp
Baldwin at Overland Park, Denver A
great program of athletic and track
events, broncho busting and the mat
inee by the Gentlemen's Driving and
Riding Club. made the day one of the
biggest Denver has ever seen.
Shortly after eating a picnic lunch
at Camp Gunter. Pueblo. eighteen
Ordway visitors, nine of whom were
children and two soldiers at Camp
Guntsr We're seized with violent ILL
ness which the physician summoned
diagnosed as ptomaine poisoning.
representatives OF the Federal
Farmers Association of Colorado ask
that the organization be given repre-
sentation on the state Food Control
Board
Mrs. Frederick o. Vaille. prominent
In religious and literary circles. died
at the Vaille ranch. near Fort Logan.
following an illness of more than u
years duration.
The recent changes in the worlds
demands for silver and consequent ad-
vance In prices are of special interest