The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper UnIon News serviee.
Dates for Coming Events.

Noy. 6-S--Thirteenth Annual Conven-
ton of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association at Denver.
Jan 12-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
1an AssTeiation iSlat show at an Denver stool.
SHOW at Denver.
Jan,mMeeting Colorado, Good Roads
1e15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
A $4,000 theological seminary will
be built in Fort Collins by the Ger
man Evangelical Church of North
America.
Two Denver men, who were crushed
one under a steam roller, the other
under pile of bricks, died from their
injuries.
B. A. Smith, veteran Clifton fruit
grower, packed two cars of fancy ap-
pies to be shipped to Europe. The APP
pies are of the Newton Pippin variety.
The Colorado State conference of
bricklayer, ma5ons and plasterers held
its annual session in Pueblo with
President NJ. r. Leonard Of Colorado
Springs presiding.
In head-on collision between the
motorcycle on which they We're riding
Lou Dittemore were painfully injured
at Colorado Springs.
w. r. Payne, fifty-two years old,
day laboreT, was probably fatally in
jured when brick wall collapsed and
buried him at Fifteenth street and
Cleveland place in Denver.
C. A. Policy, bookkeeper for the
Poudre Valley National bank at Fort
Collins, suffered a broken ankle and
Mrs. Polley's shoulder was dislocated
in an automobile accident near. Ault
The military post at Fort Logan
will not be abandoned, according to
word received in Denver from Arthur
C. Johnson, Washington correspon-
dent for the Denver Chamber of Com
merce.
Fifteen-year-old Cline Dale, youth
who claims he has travelled via side
door Pullmans in every part of the
United States, is to be reformed by
the juvenile authorities at Colorado
Springs.
Because of the shortage caused by
the strike, the price of coal took an
other jump in Denver. Bituminous
lump advanced from Sc to $3.50 ton.
Nut coal is still selling at SC and
coke at $3.50.
An examination for a fireman in
the mint and assay service at SIS a,
month will be held soon in Denver.
Application blanks may be obtained
from the civil service commission in
the postoffice.
Thirteen girls took competitive
examinations in Denver for scholar
ships in the public library training
class which begins November 8. Only
eight of the young women will be
chosen as members of the course.
George Haigh, a convict at the peni-
tentiary at Canon City, who escaped.
was recaptured at Portland, after he
had put up desperate battle with
his fists against six men who sought
to capture him. He broke away
twice, once twisting off handcuff
chain that bound him to a prison
guard
The formal complaint upon which
the federal grand jury investigation
of the Colorado coal strike is based
is made against the United Mine
Workers of America 1t charges that
the mine workers organization is vio-
lating the Sherman antitrust act by
means of conspiracy to restrain in
terstate commerce.
With the signing of the Moffat tun-
mel contract by the directors of the
Denver & Salt Lake Railroad Compa-
ny, the question of issuing bonds to
build the tunnel is now up to the tax
paying voters of Denver, who will
probably be given an opportunity to
vote on the question at special cleo
tion which will be held in January.
A skirmish between guards and
strikers, precipitated by the assault
by strikers on a camp marshal at
Segundo; the capture and detection
of fifteen deputies by strikers on one
of the main streets of Trinidad, and
the restoration to their husbands of
two women taken prisoners by strik-
ers at Ludlow, We're events that
marked the twenty-flrst day of the
coal strike in southern Colorado.
Over 5000 acres of grazing land
fifty-two miles from Denver have
ben bought by Ben Kemper and the
firm of Degan brothers for the fat
tening of cattle for Denver markets.
The price paid for the S,2s2 acres was
a trifle over 100000 and in addition
to grazing their stock on the newly
acquired land the purchasers will use
a portion of the land for the raising
of hay, grain and truck garden pro-
ducts.
AT the meeting of the Democratic
state central committee held in Den
yer John t. Barnett, former attorney
general, was recommended for the