The Elbert County tribune., 1913-08-15
COLORADO NEWS
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All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR CoMrNG EVENTS.

Meeting at Lamar.
union at walsenburg.
Aug 20. = Barbecue by Territorial
Daughters of Colorado. near Little
Aug, 25.--Conference of Governors at
Aus GoieTade s5aa9 inig,nx springs :, p,r,,,,,. NJ,
Aug; 2sSKnishts q Pyihla. Grand
Aug s5-2s.@Grand + Lodge 'saa and Uniform
Rank Encampment. K. of p. at Trim
Aug. 2s.-Pumpkin Pie Day at Long
Aug. 2s-2s.-county Fair and Race
august % Pickle day. at Platte
Sept. 2-i.-shan Kive Indian Festival
al Colorado Springs.
sept. 2-5..Larimer County Fair at
Sept. .2-5.-county Fair and Race
Meeting at Rocky Ford.
Sept. sIsecond Annual Fall festival
Sept. s-s.@Meetlng of Royal High
landers in Denver.
and Fruit Fair ess at ISnnS GpanSy Juncsion, neasa
sept s-11--Weld County Fair at
Sept. s-12.-County Fair and Race
Meeting, at Sugar city.
Sept s;i2.-Morgan County Fair at
at Trinidad
Sept 1I-12-Eighth District w. C. T.
U. Convention at Denver.
sept. I6-1s.-Western Slope Fair at
Sept. l5-2O.-Colorado State Fair at
Pueblo.
Oct. 1,s-state w. C. t. U. conven-
Oct. 2-4.-sedgwick County Fair at
Julesburg:.
Oct 7;12|,Meeting Society of Amer.-
Oct; 21.-Colorado State Baptist ksso-
citation at Pueblo.
Jan 24,@NatonaI western Stock
1sl5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
All the public offices in Denver
were closed during the Knights Tenn
plar parade.
Over 100 pilgrims and their wives
left Fort Morgan Sunday for the
Knights Templar conclave at Denver.
Otto Grandstrom, seventy-one years
Mount Baldy. near French pass at
Breckenridge, by his son.
Free Masonry does not live in repu-
tation, but in character" declared the
Rev. Elmer e. Higly from the pulpit
of Grace Methodist Episcopal church
In Denver.
Ten freight cars were smashed in a
rear-end collision on the Santa Fe
near Swink. One freight train was
standing on the track when the other
train struck it.
]. NJ. Sampliner. Ollie Bannister and
G. Il. Bond left Grand junction for the
East to purchase the furniture for the
new Elks' home. The furniture bill
will total nearly 10000.
The taking of evidence in the Wyo-
ming-Colorado suit which involves the
question of the diversion of water
from the Laramie river, will begin at
Cheyenne. August 1S.
The annual convention of the State
Federation of Labor at Trinidad
August Is promises to be one of the
stormiest and largest conventions in
the history of that body.
Mrs. Anna Barnard, known as
Queen Ann" and conceded to be one
of the most beautiful women who has
ever lived in northwestern Colorado,
has returned from Texas to face a
second trial at Steamboat Springs
Seized with cramps while swimming
in deep pool near West Fifth avenue
and Alcott street, in Denver. Win.
field Scott Nesbit. aged seventeen,
was drowned, despite heroic efforts
by Frederick Lewis, eleven, to rescue
him.
Burial services of the Late Thomas
]. sS>Cue. former state senstor from
Deliver county and Democratic ma.
tional committeeman of Colorado, took
place in the Cathedral of the Immacu,
late Conception in Denver. The body
d. was inferred at Mt. Olivet.
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 OIL June 5, 1912.
Benjamin Longrigg, ninety, died in
Denver at the county hospital from q
complication of diseases He had
ill ten years. Longrigg was born in
England in 1923. He came to Denver |
in 1881 and while he was in good |
health. was a newspaper man, both a |
printer and reporter. He was widely
known in Denver and throughout
Colorado.
With words of welcome and good
cheer. the Very Rev. Dean H. Martyr
Hart, greeted the visiting Knights
Templar who gathered for worship in
st. Johns cathedral Sunday morning
He likened the architecture of the
cathedral to the symbolic cross of the
order and proclaimed. that structure
especially fitting as place of Knight