The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-08-16
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
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Western y" wspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Meeting at Lamar.
Aug. 2123--B. +. o. Elks State Re
union al Walsenburg.
Aug 2s = Barbecue by Territorial
Daughters of Colorado, near Little
Aug. 25.-Conference of Governors a,
.nS Goi9Ea5o 9zde Springs y, p,,,,,n,,s Ma.
Aug; zs.@ksisht. q Fyth,a. Grand
Aug. 25- -2s~Grand Lodge and Uniform
Rank Encampment, X. of p. at Trim
Aug. 2s.-rumpkin Pie Day at Long
Aug. 20 2s-County Fair and Race
Meeting at Las Animas.
August % Pickle day. at Platte
Sept. .1.-Temato Day a, Fort Lupton,
at Colorado Springs.
Sept. 2-5.-7Larimer County Fair at
Sept 25.-county Fair and Race
Meeting at Rocky Ford ror,
sePt, 3-o'-"ild West Snow at fof'
Sept. s.:.,second Annual Fall Festival
Sept. s-s.MMee,ing of Royal High
Sept g;11,Mesa ALL, Mesa County ,ndYin5 Indqs,5ial
Sept 9-11.-Weld County Fair at
Sept. s-12-County Fair and Race
Sept s.i2.-Morgan County Fair at
Sept. g: s:l2.-SLas Animas County Fair
at Trinidad
- Sept 1l.l2-Eighth District w. c. T.
Y. Convention at Denver.
Sept. 16-ls.-Western Slope Fair at
Montrose
oct i -3-state W. c. T. U. conven-
et oet' a 24%sedgWes rofs H9siies County Fair at
oct iu,sspuTs ss4~Ei paso County Fair at Cal
Oct 7-12-Meeting Society of Ameri
can indians. at Denver ...o-
citation at Pueblo
Oct. 3o.-Nov. colorado Kennel Club
Jan. is- 24HNational western Stock
1sI5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
James Ferry, horse fancier and
racing enthusiast, died at his home
near Littleton He was fifty-eight
years old.
With the receipts of the benefit
baseball games at Broadway park in
Denver. the fund for the Craig colony
of consumptives was raised TO $500
James G. Elwood, known through
out Illinois as Grandpa Elwood," who
attended the Denver conclaye, is
seventy-two years old and has been
a Templar for fifty years.
Five hundred and fifty-five men, the
flowers of Templar knighthood met
in the stadium at Broadway and Col
fax avenue in Denver in the greatest
drilling tournament in the history OF
this Masonic order
Becoming engaged in an argument
as to which was the favorite in the
eyes of maid from Mexico, three
Mexicans decided to settle their diff
ferences with knives at Palmer Lake
near Colorado Springs.
One of the most cold blooded muir
ders in the history of Pueblo took
place when Frank Doman, an expo
liceman, shot and killed Constable
Norman Patterson. Dolman then com
mitted suicide by shooting himself.
Twelve counties established temp
orary offices and exhibits at the
Greater Colorado bureau OF the
Chamber of Commerce of Denver to
boost the varied and abundant re-
sources OF the state during conclave
week.
After battling for her life for more
than a month, Meredith Stunt five
years old, succumbed at Colorado
Springs to injuries received on July
3. The little girls dress caught fire
from fireworks and she was fearfuily
burned.
Mrs. l.. l.. Abbott, wife of the COM
mander of Inglewood Commandery
No So, Chicago, would rather be a
Mason any time than a voter. There
isn't Mason in Denver more enthusi-
astic about Masonry than Mrs.
Abbott.
The suit of Mrs. Cyril Broxholm OF
London against Mrs. Frank D. Parks
for the custody of Ethel Marian
Pearce whom Mrs Broxholm claims
as her daughter, set for hearing in the
District Court at Grand Junction, was
postponed until August %.
Louis Damn, a 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 singular accident in
the Mckinley mine Oh June 5, 1872.
Project Engineer Miner at Grand
Junction received orders from Wash
ington to start work on permanent
buildings sufficient to house 100 men.
The camp will be built above Cameo
at the site of the diversion dam for
the high line canal. Work on the dam,
which will cost 100000. win start as
soon as the camp is completed The
Grand Valley Water Users Associa-
ton, at a meeting, approved the CON
tract between the government and the
Denver & Rio Grande for the right OF
way under their tracks near Cameo.