The Elbert County tribune., 1913-12-26
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Jan l5Is.-Meetins Colo. Good Roads
Jan. 15.-Annuai Meeting Colo. Farm
ers' Congress at Agricultural Col
lege. Fort Collins.
Colorado to-the Gulf Highway Asso-
citation At Colorado Springs.
of Commercial Executives at Colo
Jan: ls-24.-National Western Stock
Show at Denver.
July la-l4;-Grand Lodge Session. b.
sept, 3IcSiorado e;aS a. DesxsE State Fair at pu-
1si5-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
A fire at La Junta caused a loss of
$4,000.
An Illinois Association will be
formed in Rocky Ford. A reunion will
be held in February.
sixty extra carriers and sixty extra
clerks aided in caring for the Christ
mas rush at the general postoffice in
Denver.
Within few days sub-postal sta
tion, operated by the United States
railway postal service, will be in
stalled at the Pueblo union station
Negotiations for the consolidation
of all the fruit shipping associations
of the Grand valley have been re-
sumed. and prospects are for the final
amalgamation.
Santa Claus visited s,27s coal
miners children, many of them for
the first time in their lives, through
arrangements completed by the
United Mine Workers.
Prof. Henry w. Lamb, assisting in
the department of metallurgy at Col
orado college for many years, died at
Colorado Springs of pneumonia at the
age of sixty-nine years.
The Rev. Strange Brooks, aged
ninety-one, an old soldier and sur
yeyor Of the Quantrel massacres. died
at the home of his daughter at Grand
junction. He was active on his ranch
until two years ago.
S. M. Bell, an Oak Creek merchant,
was severely injured when a crowd
of men, women and children attempt
ed to attack three nonunion men en-
ployed in the mines at Oak Creek.
Jay ]. Bryan of Golden has been
appointed chief of the Department Of
Concessions and Admissions, accord
ing to telegram received from Pres
ident Charles c. Moore of the Panama.
Pacific International Exposition.
Deputy United States marshals ar.
rested Fabrian Martinez and Andrea
Martinez of Ignacia and Rosa Phillips
of Durango on7a charge of selling
liquor to the Indians of the Ute reser-
walton in the southern part of the
state.
The labor unions of Denver have
started an energetic home industry
campaign, and through cooperation
with the civic and commercial bodies
of the city expect to bring about a
greater patronage of Colorado made
products.
Twenty-Five funerals were held at
New Castle in one day over bodies of
victims of the Vulcan mine disaster.
A majority of the funerals were under
the auspices of various lodges to
which the men belonged. Two bodies
remain in the mine, the rescue work
ers not having been able to remove
the debris which covers them.
The Greater Colorado bureau of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce is
sending out circulars to the agricul-
tural districts of the state urging the
farmers to send in the best exhibits of
corn they can supply to be forwarded
to Dallas. Tex, for the sixth annual
corn exposition. which opens in that
city Feb 20.
The enactment of bill that will en-
able commercial travellers to vote in
national elections while away from
their homes will be urged upon Con
gress in a petition containing more
than 100000 signatures, according to
J. Maxwell Gordon of New York city,
national chairman of the Commercial
Travellers Good Government Associa-
tion, who was in Denver recently.
Steps will be taken by the execu-
tive committee of the Colorado State
Federation of Labor to bring about
the recall of Governor Ammons just
as soon as the legal machinery of the
state labor body can get in action. 1t
was ordered Thursday afternoon by
the delegates to the special convention
at Denver which adjourned after a
three days session.
Men whose names are synonymous
with the development of the live
stock industry of the country sill be
in DdHN Jan. 10. 20 and 81 for the
annual h..aeting of the American Ma
tional Livestock Association, which
will hold its seventeenth annual con-
vention in Denver. The dates have
been arranged contemporaneous with
the first three days OF the National
Western Livestock show. to be held
at the Denver Union stockyards Jan.