The Colorado statesman., 1913-08-15
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

sept S-Il-Weld county fair at
Sept. s-i2.-county Fair and Race
Meeting at Sugar City.
Sept. zs.I2SLas Animas County Fair
Sept. Ii-i2-Eighth District w. C. T.
.. Convention at Denver,
Sept 16-1s.-western slope Fair at
Sept. 15-2O.-Colorado State Fair at
oct. 1eS-state w. c. T. U. conven-
Oct 2-4.WsedgwicR County Fair at
oct. 2-4WEi Paso County Fair at CAL
Oct 7-12.-Meeting Society of Ameri-
Oct: 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
ociati9n 10 At PUEBLO, o, c,rb
Jan. s-24-National Western Stock
19I5GLast Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
James Ferry, horse fancier and
racing enthusiast, died at his home
near Littleton. He was fifty-eight
years old.
With the receipts of the benefit
baseball games at Broadway park in
Denver, the fund for the Craig colony
James G. Elwood, known through
out Illinois as Grandpa Elwood," who
attended the Denver conclave, is
seventy-two years old and has been
Templar for fifty years.
Five hundred and fifty-five men, the
flowers of Templar knighthood, met
in the stadium at Broadway and Col
fa in in 10
drilling tournament in the history of
this Masonic order
Becoming engaged in an argument
as to which was the favorite in the
eyes of maid from Mexico, three
Mexicans decided to settle their diff
| ferences with knives at Palmer Lake
near Colorado Springs.
One of the most cold blooded MUIR
ders in the history of Pueblo took
| place when Frank Dolman, an expo
liceman shot and killed Constable
Norman Patterson. Dolman then COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself.
Twelve counties established temp,
orary offices and exhibits at the
Greater Colorado bureau of the
Chamber of Commerce of Denver to
boost the varied and abundant re.
sources of the state during conclave
week.
After battling for her life for more
than month, Meredith Stunt, five
years old, succumbed at Colorado
Springs to injuries received on July
8. The little girls dress caught fire
from fireworks and she was fearfully
burned.
Mrs. L. l.. Abbott, wife of the COM
mander of Englewood Commandery
No. So Chicago, would rather be a
Mason any time than a voter. There
isn't a Mason in Denver more enthus
astic about Masonry than Mrs
Abbott.
The suit of Mrs. Cyril Broxholm OF
London against Mrs. Frank d. Parks
for the custody of Ethel Marian
Pearce. whom Mrs. Broxholm claims
as her daughter, set for hearing in the
District Court at Grand Junction, was
postponed until August %.
Louis Damn, coal miner, formerly
employed by the Yampa Valley Coal
Company at Oak Creek, has instituted
suit in District Court against the com
pany for $4,000 damages for the loss
of his legs in a singular accident in
the Mckinley mine on June 5, 1912.
Project Engineer Miner at Grand
Junction received orders from Wash
ington to start work on permanent
buildings sufficient to house 100 men.
The camp will be built above Cameo
at the site of the diversion dam for
the high line canal. Work on the dam,
which will cost 100000, will start as
soon as the camp is completed. The
Grand Valley Water Users Associa-
ton, at meeting, approved the con
tract between the government and the
Denver & Rio Grande for the right of
way under their tracks near Cameo.
This contract has been the last OBJ.
stacle in the way of construction.
With the clanking of silver conchos, !
the rumble of twelve-foot bass drum,
the famous Jack Sinclair Cowboy |
band of Pueblo arrived in Denver and
the effete East got sensation seldom
experienced. Denver visitors saw
real cowpunchers doing duty with
zation wended its way up and down |
the streets, cheers were heard on all |
sides.
Fifty Arapanoe Indians entertained |
a crowd of Knights Templar at the |
Denver Press club rooms with war |