The Raymer enterprise., 1917-03-22


May i7-20-Conventlon Colorado Sun
day School Association at Colorado
Springs.
Notices were posted calling for an
election April to decide whether the
town OF Estes Park shall be, incorpor.
ated
Loyeland churches and Sunday
schools have started a campaign TO
have 500 men in the Sunday schools
by Easter.
Announcement was received in Den
yer that Z. L. Brown has resigned as
president Of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis railroad.
Thorndike Deland will yacate the
position Of secretary Of the Denver
Civic Association April to engage In
private business.
Loyal Irishmen throughout Denver
and the state will join in feasting and
celebration in honor Of st. Patrick, pa
tron saint Of Ireland.
A convention OF the United Mine
Workers OF America for District Is,
which John r. Lawson had called for
Pueblo, has been abandoned.
Seventy-five men are now enrolled
in the citizens training class and are
drilling twice a week regularly at the
military headquarters In Denver.
April 7th has been decided upon
for the annual state meeting and cleo
ton Of officers for the Colorado diyi.
sion. Travellers Protective Associa.
tion.
A coroner's jury in Littleton re-
turned a verdict ordering John Peter
Whtson OF Logantown to be held for
the murder Of his wife, Mrs. Allie
Whitson,
Last month was the banner month
for the Rico mining industry as there
has not been such large amount OF
ore shipped from that city in one
month for twenty-four years.
James Z. Tressel OF Denver died
In the county hospital of injuries in
flicted six hours earlier. when he was
mistaken by alleged bootleggers for a
police stool pigeon" and beaten and
strangled.
Mrs. James B. Grant, society and
club woman Of Denver, has been
named by the state chapter of the
Daughters Of the American Reyolu-
ton, to succeed Mrs. Charles Thomas,
as national vice president, resigned.
The women OF Ouray, dissatisfied
with ticket placed In nomination for
city officers by men at caucus, have
made up ticket of their own. Most
Of the candidates are men, but the
women call 1t their own ticket"
The Indians OF Colorado, remark
ably abstemious, have a clean record
for the past year as law-abiding resi-
dents. according TO the annual report
Of the commissioner Of Indian affairs,
copy of which has been received by
Henry Larson. special inspector in
charge OF the Denver Indian Bureau.
Despite the fact that the second
contingent of Colorado troops were
four hours late In arriving In Denver,
the reception accorded them was such
as TO put real zest into the cheers
given by the troopers for the reeep.
tion committee at the conclusion OF
the dinner served at the state house.
Corporal James F. Logsdon, mem.
Der OF the signal corps OF the Colo
RADIO National Guard, has been highly
praised for his bravery In saving the
life OF a woman entrapped in blaz-
ing hotel and probably will be recon.
mended for medal by Gen c. G. Nor.
ton OF the United States border forces.
The mill record of the United States
Gold Corporation, Boulder county,
shows that In 1916, 16.459 tons of ore
were treated. The average recovery
OF values was IS per cent, with the
product in the form of bullion, on
which there were no further deduc-
tions, as II was turned directly into
the mint.
III people in Denver generally
knew how to grow potatoes they could
save themselves, in the aggregate,
100000 this summer" said P. L.
Clarke, principal of the Berkeley
school, suburban agriculturist and
garden expert and enthusiast, who is
at present engineering a number OF
horticultural schemes for lowering
the high cost of living-summer liv.
ing at least-in Denver.
Leadyille. the leading ore district
OF Colorado In both tonnage and val
ues, opens the season of 1917 with a
strike Of rich ore, described as the
largest In the district during the last
ten years, not forgetting the wonder
full body of gold-copper ore revealed in
the Ibex;Garbutt groups. by the Cat.
tellini lease, in the spring of 1915
The scene of the new strike is the
| Optario tunnel near tho head NJ Jowa