The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-09-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
'estern Newspaper Union News Service.
Date. for Coming Events.

sept. 23-26-Mesa County Industrial
Sept, s-ll.-Weid County Fair at
Sept ,s9.1s..ceunty Fair and Race
Sept, s,i2-Morsan County Fair at
seBBt Bs,,.' s-l2'-Delta County Fair at
;, Sept. .11-12-Eighth District w. C. T.
Sept aonysntlon at psrvsS Meeting order
SEPT o,ts tis-ls.-western Slope Fair at
Sept 10 1s-AnnuaI Masonic Meeting
Sept; l5-so.-colorado stat. Fair a.
Fair and Indian Carnival at pu-
Sept 23-26 Trinidad-Las Animas
county Fair at Trinidad; ,t
sept 27-2S.-Bankers' Conventiot at
Sept. s-so-Inter-C County Fair at
Lmon
Oct. i-s-state w. c. T. U. conven-
Oct. 2-4-sedgwicil County Fair at
Oct. s-4~Ei Paso County Fair at Cal
han
Oct; 7,12;;-Mee.ing Society of Ameri-
Oct; n.-coiorado State Baptist Asso-
ciation at Pueblo.
ssoet: Oct: so.-Nov. 1-colorado Kennel Club
Jan. 2-15-Colorado Poultry Fancicrs
7, ASSOCIATION Show at Denver s,,.u
Show at Denver.
1si5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
Mrs. Norma Pumphrey, forty-eight,
OF 1472 West Byers street. Denver.
shot and killed her husband. Charles
H. Pumphrey. fifty. in their home.
Nearly cne hundred members of the
Clam and Lobster club enjoyed
clam bake at Hoeckers ranch near
Denver.
More than fifty babies have already
been entered for the Better Babies
Sept. Is to 20.
Under $1,000 bond, DR.. Bennett
Graft of Denver was bound over to the
District Court at Golden, charged with
bigamy by Mrs. Virginia Graft.
Loveland entertained 10000 visitors
on the second day Of the Larimer Coun-
ty fair. with one of the greatest aft
crnoons-of sport in the West.
Delay in the arrival in Denver Of the
plans for finishing the new postoffice
and federal courthouse may prevent
work on that structure this winter
Mrs. ]. c. Hit. Jr.. is at the st.
Vrain hospital in Longmont, having
been accidentlly shot in the right foot
by her husband, who pointed a gun at
her in play.
There is every indication that the
good roads convention. to be held in
Pueblo September "a and 25, will be
the magnet for at least 1900 visitors
during the rwo days.
Horace Coats. eight. son of w. A.
Coats, a dairyman nd school teacher.
living two miles east of Sterling, was
bitten by rattlesnake as he and sew
eral children were entering the school
house.
Beet harvesting is to begin in the
Greeley district sometime between
the 18th and 18th of the month, ac-
cording to an announcement made by
Manager Officer of the Weld county
factories.
A wet town without water. Ro-
mona. the new town west OF Colorado
Springs, which has been Incorporated
her CO." Las been refused water by
Colorado Springs.
William Bierksfnp, Jr.. the Denver
banker, held in Chicago on the charge
of having deserted his wife, Margaret
and three minor children. escaped ex-
tradition to Colorado by the refusal
of Governor Ammons to issue a reQut
sition.
The assessed valuation for the en-
tire state of Colorado will be $780,
342,1O1 for the year. 1918 under the
new law which requires all taxable
property to be assessed at full cash
value instead of one-third value as
heretofore.
Twenty thousand persons surSed
through the streets of Colorado
Springs in final worship at the shrine
of the carnival gods, and half that
number jammed their way into the
grandstands along kiowa street to
watch and applaud a thousand masked
and grotssQuely attired dancers.
Emma NJ. Marshall. William Ger.
rish and Lula Gerrish Owen. heirs of
the late Alfred H. Miles, who died at
the age OF ninety-three leaving an es-
tate valued at 100000. filed their OBJ
jections in the Probate Court at Den
yer to the appointment of George T.
Miles as administrator of his brother .
estate
Including several million dollars for
s-rTt -
the detour over Soldiers Summit. and
several hundred miles of track laying
in Utah and the broad gauging of the
road from Salida to Montrose by the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad. is part
of q general scheme for the better
ment of its system and service, &C.