The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-06
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Jan l9-24.-Nationai Western Stock
Show at Denver.
ROADS Assn at Colorado Springs.
sept 7-Colorado State Fair at Pueblo.
'uIy ,iS-l4-Grand Lodge Session. b. +.
Jan. 15.-Annual Meeting Colorado
Farmers Congress- at Agricultural Col
1a15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Even pictures of the tango and tur-
key trot are barred in Fort Collins.
S. N. Nye retired from the manage
ment of the Colorado Springs opera
house after thirty years in the posi-
ton.
The fourth annual convention of the
Colorado Good Roads Association will
be held at Colorado Springs, Jan. 10
and 16.
Word was received at Greeley from
Long Beach, Cal, of the death there
of William M. Boomer, pioneer of
Weld county.
Dru Decker, ten-year-old son of
Town Marshal Hardy Decker of Oak
Creek, was shot mysteriously and IA
tally injured
Frank Hillen, self-confessed bandit,
charged with the killing of Thomas
Chase, must go to trial in the West
Side Court in Denver.
Sidney Logan, forty-eight years old,
a sergeant on the non-commissioned
officers staff of the United States
army, died at Fort Logan.
Denver had 222 hours of sunshine
out of a possible 299 hours during No
vember, according to the monthly re-
port of the weather bureau.
General Edward C. Campbell, aged
eighty-one, nationally prominent in G.
A. r. affairs, was found dead on the
floor of his home at Trinidad.
Pueblo experienced freak in the
weather line. 1t had sunshine, rain, a
hail storm, snow and some thunder
and lightning, all within three hours.
A party of forty non-union miners,
a military guard to the Gray creek
mine near Trinidad to begin work as
strikebreakers.
Robert McCullen, a former mine
guard employed at the Victor-Ameri.
can Fuel Company camp at Delagua,
was shot and killed by Charles Will
COX, mine guard, in a quarrel.
The big landslide on the Short Line,
nineteen miles west of Colorado
Springs, has finally been cleared away.
The slide was in a cut and was 100
feet long and 100 feet high.
Harry B. Kerr, formerly active in
Denver politics, was stabbed and prob.
ably fatally wounded by negro
porter in hotel at Dennison, Tex, ac
cording to word received in Denver.
One of the largest food packing. con
Germs in the country, at meeting ci
its board of directors within the next
few days, will consider the establish
ment of branch factory in Denver
By unanimous vote the Trinidad 10
cal union of the United Mine Work
ers of America rejected the PROPOSE
tion of Governor Ammons and Secre
tary of Labor Wilson for settlement
of the coal strike.
Special collections in many Denver
churches swelled the fund of the Hos
pital Saturday and Sunday Association
which garnered between $4,000 and
$500 from the sale of tags on the
streets.
A record was made by the Denver
parcel post staff two day before
Thanksgiving, when 6,700 pieces were
handled Two hundred and fifty tur
keys were received and 300 were
shipped in one day.
Charles A. Sullivan, twenty years
old, shot and killed himself in the
railway station at Crews a few miles
south of Colorado Springs on the
Santa Fe railroad in the presence OF
Miss Ruth Hollinger, who had refused
to marry him.
The United States government has
selected Denver as the site for its pro
posed plant for the experimental treat
ment of radium bearing ores from the
Paradox valley in cooperation with
tho National Radium Institute recent
ly organized with DR.. James A. Doug
las OF New York at it's head.
The Park of the Red Rocks, located
near Morrison, eleven miles from the
Denver Union depot. will be chosen as
the site of the Pageant of the North
American Indian in 1915, providing the
owner, ]. Brisben Walker, will make
some changes in his proffer to the di-
rectors of the Colorado Publicity
League.
Former comrades and members OF
Colorado Pioneers Society and post
once and police department employees
were the honorary pallbearers, and
Sons of Colorado active pallbearers,
at the funeral of Major Oliver P. Wig
gins. frontiersman scout soldier and
resident of Denver and Colorado for
seventy-five years.