The Raymer enterprise., 1917-08-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
estsrn Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.


COMING EVENTS.
Aug. ls-lL-Trap Shoot at Oak Creek.
Aug. 25-piekle Day at Piatteviile.
Aug. 2s-Sept. 1.-Prowers County Fair
at Lamar.
Aug. 2s-3o.--Annual Convention X. P.
Grand Lodge. including Uniform
Rank. Pythian Sisters and Knights
OF khorassan, at Colorado Springs
Sept. 4-7.-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept. t-I--Arkansas Valley Fair a,
Rocky Ford.
Sept. s-s-Firemen's State Convention
at Colorado Springs
Sept. ll-ii.-Logan County Fair ~
Sept i7-?2-colorado state Fair at Pu.
sblo.
Two oil drilling rigs are working
near La Junta.
Man arrested at Canon City for
reasonable remarks.
Denver Elks won the drill team
prize OF $500 at Boston.
Man charged with murder at Canon
City arrested In Kansas City.
Lieut.. II. C. Byrnes has been ap-
pointed captain Of Company D.
The Denver peach week" idea 10 to
be spread throughout the state.
Thousands witness flag presenta-
tions at Camp Gunter at Pueblo.
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 s4.0o0.000 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.
A solid train OF nine express cars
OF grapes passed through La Juuta
from California.
There is large increase In the
number OF men seeking work In the
mines about Telluride.
Many railroad section foremen are
re ,oicing over the recent raise in sal.
aries OF $40 per month.
The Alsaee-Lorraine Club OF Den.
yer celebrated its twenty.fifth ami.
versary with dance and banquet.
DIR. Victor c. Anderson has been ten.
dered the presidency Of the Colorado
School Of Mines at salary OF $1,000
year
Mine operators OF the Leadville dis
trict announced an increase OF wages
of 80 cents q day. making a scale OF
81 a day.
Boulders 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 we're federalized. in accordance
with the order Of the War Depart
ment.
Fred Z. Hagen. registrar OF the
University OF Colorado at Boulder, has
received notice OF his appointment to
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
80 approximately 100000 acres Of
government land were filed upon in
Colorado.
The report OF Postmaster Stapleton.
made to the postmaster general at
Washington, shows that the Denver
postoffice did business OF $40, ,606.7S
for July, an increase of }23,S27.94
over July, 1916. or 90 per cent
A 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
Company. In which the company was
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
Gunter were seized with violent ILL
ness which the physician summoned
diagnosed as ptomaine poisoning.
Representatives of the Federal