Gunnison news-champion., 1917-01-12
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES roR COMING EVENTS.

Western Ns~,pap.r Union News Service
DATES roR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. .e.-A,hIe,Ic Club boxing contests
Jan. is-sT.Annual Food Show at DEN
Jan. ,o-:7-Annual western Stock
show at Denver.
Feb. 3-<-Y. NJ c. A. Annual ConSs
tion At Colorado Springs
Colorado gets ss2.575 for U. 8. road
fund.
Lucinda H. Young. aged so years.
died at her home in Wild Horse pafL
John Lawler. rs. a pioneer rancher.
dropped dead on the streets at DeitAs
from heart failure.
Twelve national and state banks m
Denver had aggregate deposits Oh
Sll4.724.343 at the close Of business o.
Dec. "a.
New Raymer farmers are the firss
in Weld county to take advantage o.
the new farm loan law to organise .
farm loan association.
Sweeping changes in the game laws
Of the state will be urged upon the
Legislature by the Northern Colora0o
Fish and Game Association
Mrs. J. d. Williams. mother OF
Wayne C. Williams Of the State In
dustrial Commission. died Of pneu-
monia at her home near Golden.
The Rt. Rev. Irving Peake johnson.
consecrated bishop-coadjutor Of the
Episcopal diocese OF Colorado. plunged
Immediately into the duties Of his Of
flee.
The threatened walkout Of coal min
ers in the northern coal fields in Weld
and Boulder counties was averted BY
an agreement reached at a meeting At
Frederick.
District Attorney Frank Delaney.
who was married at Meeker on New
Year night to Miss Ruth A. Atwood.
has the distinction of being the young.
est district attorney in the state.
Hearing OF the motion for a new
trial Of Rienzi Dickens. convicted last
spring Of the murder OF his father. will
come up In the District Court at Boul-
der before Jan. Is. attorneys state.
Announcement was made of the
marriage Of Senator william H.
Adams Of Conejos county to Mrs.
Henry p. Mullen, divorced wife of
prominent business man and politician
Of Alamosa.
Gen. Frank Hall, famous Colorado
pioneer and for many years mining
editor Of Denver paper, died at his
home. 1891 Columbine~ street, after .
long illness. He had remained at
work almost to the day Of his death.
In order to represent his constitu-
ents in the Twenty-first General A.
sembly. Representative Frank W. Nur-
ply Of spicer snowshoed forty miles
across the continental divide to the
nearest railroad in operation. That
was at Kremmlins on the Moffat line.
The Michigan Mining and MILLING
Company has been developing the
Michigan group Of mines at Kokomo
for the last three years. and has
been successful in its efforts. The tun-
mel is now in about 800 feet. At about
500 feet 1t cut = big body of lead ore.
1t 10 at least nine feet thick and ship0
at e26 per ton.
That the mysterious third partici-
pant in the NiWot bank robbery, who,
officers thought. escaped at the time
they captured George Ryan and
George Wilson, is the man who mado
possible the break from the county
jail at Boulder. In which Ryan and
Wilson and three other prisoners ~
capped. IL the belief Of the sheriff at
Boulder.
About . year ago the C. H. w. Min
ing Company purchased q group Of
twelve claims in Russell gulch. near
Central City. including the Ham bn.
The company Immediately equipped
the property with first-class electric
plant consisting Of thirty-fivs horse
power hoist and q ten-drill compress
sor. and the property has developed
into one of the steady producers Of
the district.
Owing to more advanced prepared
ness and to the war prices for metals,
there IL more winter work going ON
than il usual in the San Juan district.
Telluride Is as steady as the Legendary
eight-day clock. Silverton is stimu-
lated BY the success of the flotation
process. while near Ouray the graat
Camp Bird Company is pushing ler-
ward the largest item Of mine develop
ment At present under way in Colo
RADIO.
The search for silver mines or for
mines In which silver is the predomi-
mating value. adds fresh interest to
several lons.neglected camps in CEN
tral Colorado. in such counties ~ Pit
kin. Eagle. Summit, Park. Lake, Chat
fee and Gunnison. From BreckenIidee
comes report that the Utah tunnel