The Colorado statesman., 1913-07-18

Aug. 26.-Knights of Pythias Grand
Lodge meeting at Trinidad 1n,on
Sept. 2.4.-Shan Kive Indian Festival
sat at celorado Springs. ,, High
Sept. 11-I2-Eignth District w. C. T.
g. ConXention at Denver; =.
Oct: ie$-state w. C. t. U. conven-
Oct. 7-12.-Meeting Society of Ameri-
can Indians, at Denver:
Oct; 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
Oct sO.-Nov. 1.Colorado Kennel Club
Show at Denver.
19l5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
fair will be held at Nucla.
Work on the excavation of the
High Line canal has been started
near Cameo.
The fruit season is on in the Love-
land districts and shipments to the
markets are increasing.
A freak hail and windstorm in Weld
county damaged crops within ten
miles of Greeley to the extent of
$4,000.
AS the new chief of police in Gree
ley, NJ. H. Morgan is going after the
speed maniacs. Seventeen autoists
were fined for exceeding the speed
limits.
Bertha M. Wilcox, twenty-three, a
college graduate and student of phil
osophy, killed herself with a revolver
on the banks of creek two miles
from Golden.
The office of Attorney General
Farrar was closed during the fun
eral of Robert Montgomery, three,
son of Morton Montgomery, second
assistant attorney general
Louis Leiser, nine years old, son of
l.. Lesser, grocer, probably was ia
tally shot by his best friend and
chum, Harold Rickard, ten years old,
at the latters home in Pueblo
One thousand musical instruments
will shake Denver with strains of
Onward Christian Soldiers" dur
ing the grand parade of the knights
Templar, Tuesday, August II.
The Trinchera Land Company has
been incorporated at capitalization
of 100000. 1t owns the old Trim
chera land grant of large tracts in
the southern part of the state.
H. w. Ramsey, sixty, large sheep
owner of Delta, committed suicide at
sheep camp forty miles from Gunni-
son by shooting himself above the
right eye. The top of his head was
blown off.
Miss Ina Miles, sixteen-year-old
Grand Junction girl, is a victim of
suicidal mania at the home of Mrs
William Hopping in Colona, and has
made within week three desperate
attempts to kill herself.
A letter of thanks from Theodore
Stempfel, president of the North
American Gymnastic union, for the
part Denver played in the recent ma
tional Bundles Turnfest, has been re-
ceived by Mayor Perkins Of Denver.
Willie Manke, who was shot two
weeks ago, continues to puzzle the
doctors at the Fort Collins city hospi.
tai, because of his vitality, equally
as much as he is puzzling the police
authorities as to how he came by his
wound.
M. c. Norris, for seven years resi-
dent OF Eldora, mining camp twen-
ty miles west of Boulder, was found
dead in the cabin of Saul Grove, an
other miner. Death was due to car
bolic acid, swallowed in a fit of de-
spondency.
With every clerk and official going
10 of
office accommodated more than 1000
persons who were anxious to file
their pplication for licenses and
registration under the new automo-
bile law.
Foreclosure sale of the Colorado
Midland railroad, with all its proper
ties and franchises, is asked in
bill filed by the Central Trust Com
pany of New York in the suit of that
corporation against the Colorado Mid
land, Denver G Rio Grande and Rio
Grande Junction railway companies
in the federal court.
After mourning his sister as dead
for forty years, Philo ]. Hecox, sixty
six, of Colorado Springs, received
letter from her. The sister. Mrs.
Helen NJ. Richards, is seventy-one
ears old and lives at Cedar Falls,
Iowa.
Miss Edna P. Alter, who was one OF
several persons killed in an electric
train collision in Los Angeles, was
The daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. James
NJ. Alter of Colorado Springs. Miss
Alter was a trained nurse and lef.
several years ago to make her homo
n California.