The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1913-06-05

SEPT; Rs,.Is -'S.-coioTsdo STATE Fair at
ei..: Postmsstsrs. st p.axsr.
Oct l-3-State w. c. T. Z. Convention
Oct; .l;-colcsade state Baptist Asse-
lSl5.-I.ast Grand Council - North
American Indians. Denver.
Fruita will celebrate o. July I.
A business mems association has
been organized at Fruita.
Glenwood Springs will celebrate her
strawberry festival June 20 and 81.
Swift Z Co. will build $4,000 but.
terine factory in Denver.
Garwood Burkett won first in the
Rocky Mountain News first annual
Marathon at Denver ON Memorial Day.
Among the Colorado postmasters
named by President Wilson are e. F.
Street Of Englewood and T. Donovan
Of Longmont.
Louis Wyman Of Silverton. who was
candidate for state highway commits
sioner when Thomas Ehrhart received
the appointment, was named by Ehr-
hart as state road supervisor. One of
Wyman's duties will be to personally
examine all work In which state
money is used.
A reservoir that will irrigate all the
east side Of Flag creek, the most fer.
tile farming section of Rio Blanco
county, and bring under cultivation
many hundreds of acres that are now
practically valueless. has been under
taken by H. A. Wilson, one of the
wealthy cattlemen Of Meeker.
With honors for the old soldiers in
the land Of the living and tears and
wreaths and flowers for those who
have passed into the Great Beyond,
Memorial Day was celebrated in Der
yer as In hundreds of cities and thou.
sands Of towns throughout these
United States.
Governor .Ammons is in communica-
tion with practically every Western
governor concerning methods to be
discussed at the conference between
the executives Of the states to be held
In Salt Lake City. The sole purpose
Of the conference is to devise a way
Of determining whether the states
shall control their natural resources.
Lured by the successful escape of
the three bandits who attempted the
robbery of the Bank of DebeQue three
weeks ago, three Debeque boys, all
under sixteen, broke into the Bales
Mercantile Company's store and stole
merchandise valued at $500. Twenty
four hours later they were arrested
and returned their loot to Charles F.
Schrader.
That love was too ardent to allow
even numerous attempts at death to
separate them has been shown in the
case of DR.. Sherman M. Kessler, aged
seventy-three, and Miss Irene De Bolt,
twenty-three. who, were married at
Littleton. Their wedding is the cul-
mination Of courtship which kept the
police authorities busy for the last
three years investigating alleged at
tempts at murder and attempts at sui
eide.
Work has been commenced on the
relocating OF the north and south
highway from the Wyoming state line
through Craig and Moffat county to
the Rio Blanco county line. Money is
awaiting expenditure upon this road,
but before the funds are available it
must first be relocated and estab-
lished as a state road. 1t Is one Of the
most historical highways in the West
and was much used by troops in the
early days.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. D. Schaefermeier
and their son, Clarance, five. were Sc
riously injured at Steamboat Springs
when their automobile, which was be-
ing driven by the child, struck tele-
phone pole. Mrs. Schaefermeier, who
expects soon to become a mother, WAS
thrown to the cement sidewalk ami
WAS picked up unconscious. Schaefer.
meier, who was riding In a rear seat,
was thrown under the machine. The
child fell on top of his mother.
Mrs. Anne Bernard Of Steamboat
Springs, notorious in the earlier his
tory of northwestern Colorado as
Queen Anne" Of the bandits and cat
tie rustlers in the Robbers Roost"
section of Colorado, Utah and Wyom-
ing, in being sued for divorce by H.
H. Bernard, on charge Of desertion
| Queen Anne is now awaiting trial
in the District Court for cattle rus
tling.
The Colorado State Land Board has
granted oral leases to 10000 acres Of
grazing land at price ranging from
cents to 81 an acre for one year.