The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-04
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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| oct. 27-Lo.o.F Annual Encampment
at Grand Junction. o, c,,h
Show at Denver
Noy. e-S:-Thirteenth Annual Conyen!-
tion of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Jan. l2-i5-Coiorado Poultry Fanciers'
Association show at Denver. CO..
Jan. 19-24.-National Western stock
1ei5.WLast iiaT as Grand Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The thirteenth annual convention of
the Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems AS
sociation is to be held in Denver Nov.
6,7 and s.
Selling liquor to the Utes and Nava-
jos in Colorado is going to be stopped.
according to the United States mar
shals office.
William Cox Redfield, secretary of
commerce, will be in Colorado Springs,
October 80, to deliver an address be-
fore the inter Night club.
All mines in the Ignite field north
of Colorado Springs, with the excep-
ton of Fike View, are working in
creased forces of union men.
Mrs. Mary Jane Maxwell, seventy
seven years old, pioneer rooming
house keeper, who had lived in Den
yer for thirty-five years, died of old
age.
Mrs. Carrie Viland of Denver died
at the age of ninety-two years. Mrs.
Viland vas born in Norway in 1920
and emigrated to America when very
young.
The Grand Junction chamber of
commerce is preparing for a general
| fight to enforce reduction of insur-
ance rates, both in the city and the
county.
Jason T. Younkers, pioneer OF Den
yer, died at the home of his son. Har-
ley Younker, Bis Franklin street. He
was eighty years old and came to
Colorado in the summer of 1858.
Sent back home as cured after she
had lain in a Denver hospital for
three months as the result of broken
bone in her spine suffered in rum
away, Mrs. J. H. Gilbert died at
Greeley.
H. w. Hartman. close friend of An
drew Carnegie, who died in Denver
hospital, left insurance policies valued
at $4,000 to 100000 payable to his
wife and two sons. The body was
taken to Altoona, Pa, for burial.
Criminal libel is charged in the Dis
trict Court at Cripple Creek in suits
filed by William A. Kyner and Thomas
A. Kyner. each asking $4,000 from l..
A. Van Tilborg, Huse Taylor and w.
S. Copeland.
Mrs. George Stoddard was instantly
killed when a bullet, accidentally dis
charged rom a gun that fell from the
table OF shooting gallery at the fair
grounds at Grand Junction struck her
in the breast, piercing the heart.
The Grand Junction sugar factory
will not be abandoned, following the
construction of a new 100000 factory
at Delta, according to the announce
ment made by r. P. Davie, of the
Western Sugar & Land Company.
Accused of having gone to Eaton
with Goldie Hooper, thirteen, and
Mary Murphy, fifteen, ]. NJ Tracey,
twenty-five, and d. V. Church, twenty
three, of Denver, were arrested,
charged with contributing to juvenile
delinquency.
County Judge RothGerber of Den
yer refused to admit to probate the
will of the late Almira Maudlin, in
which the aged woman left her entire
estate to the Christian Science church,
as a result the church will lose the
$4,000 bequest.
Six mounted deputies have been
placed in the Boulder county coal
fields by Sheriff Buster. The deputies
are armed and have been given in
structions to prevent the strikers
from picketing and threatening the
nonunion miners, and prevent the
mine guards from leaving their stock
ades to transact business in towns or
other places while armed.
For the purpose of trying to origi-
nate a new variety of potato which
shall be drought and blight resistant,
F Y. Moseley, in charge of the agricul-
tural course which was lately made a
part of the curriculum of the Greeley
high school, has asked farmers gem
| orally to save him some of the small
green knobs which appear on potato
vines and which are known as "pota-
to apples"
Four women are in the race for the
job of register of the United States
land office to succeed Charles d.
Ford whose term of office expires
shortly and even the wiseacres in
Democratic political circles concede
that one of them stands a good chance
of landing the plum. The four suf-
fragist candidates are Mrs. Dora
Phelps Buell., formerly secretary of
the state bureau of immigration; Mrs.
Alma Lafferty, Mrs. Katherine Will
| Hanson and Mrs. Mary Wolf Dargin.
Malter Svmon. nineteen- and Irving