The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-27
COLORADO NEWS
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stern Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.

Sept. 29-3O.-Inter-Couut Fair at LII
Sept. 3O-oct s.-Montezuma County
oct I-sLState w.c,T.U. Convention at
oct. 2 2-4.~sedgwick County Fair at
oct. 2s4.wEi Paso County Fair at Cal
oct. 7-12-Meeting Society of Ameri-
| can Indians at Denver.
| Oct. 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
Oct. FL: o. OF. Annual Encampment
| at Grand Junction
Oct. 3O-Nov colorado Kennel Club
| Jan. 12-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers
Association Show at Denver.
Jan. 19-24.-National Western Stock
1si5.WLast si5L Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Edward Grace of. st. Paul. Mimi,
was unanimously elected general sec
retary of the Boulder Y. NJ. c. A.
The fourteenth sugar campaign in
the Arkansas valley will mark one OF
the most prosperous seasons for the
farmers.
With 200 delegates in attendance,
the nineteenth annual convention OF
the Colorado Women's Federation was
opened at Grand Junction.
1t was estimated that between half
and two-thirds of the coal miners of
the state obeyed the strike order and
laid down their tools on the 23d.
John F. Wallace, first chief engineer
of the Panama canal, appointed by for
mer President Roosevelt, was in Den
yer, the guest of his son, H. U. Wal
lace.
Amid cheers of "Viva Garibaldi" the
Italians of Denver celebrated their
Independence day, September 20, cor
responding in patriotic spirit to our
Fourth of July.
A total of twenty-five rattlesnakes
have been killed by members of the
convict camp at Hardin in the past
three weeks. The reptiles ranged in
size from one to four feet long.
The faculty of the University of
Texas has appointed as instructor in
French and French literature Den
yer girl, Miss Ethel Glare Norton,
graudate of Colorado college, class OF
1909.
The hearing of the statutory charges
against Francis w. Keeler, a Denver
| broker, and Mrs. Jacquemina Russum
of Chicago, set in the District Court at
Colorado Springs, was continued until
october Z.
Walter C. Barnes, 40 years old, was
taken back to Denver to face charge
of embezziing funds of the Denver
Athletic Club, and after a hearing in
Justice Rice's court was bound over to
the district court in $4,000.
Indecent" With accent on the ex-
clamation, DIR. P. V. Carlin, member of
the Denver school board, declared that
he would vote to eXpel any girl in the
public schools who appeared in class
clad, or partially clad, in a slit skirt.
Apparently in perfect health, An
drew Waller, seventy-two years old,
dropped suddenly dead to the ground
at Erie while watering his lawn, and
physicians say he is suffering from
stroke of paralysis which has affected
his right side.
A faulty adjustment of a stirrup al
most resulted in dangerous injury to
Mrs. Grace Maxwell, Denver horse
woman, when her mount swerved in
horse show of the Bit and Spur club
at Fort Logan.
Damage in excess OF 100000, with
the probable loss of one life, was the
result of a miniature cyclone which
swept the Grand valley from Palisade
to Fruita. The storm was at its height
in Grand Junction, where damage
amounting to about $4,000 was done
by the wind
The Colorado Commonwealth com
mission, an organization designed to
| induce immigration to Colorado and to
settle the vacant lands of the state.
both irrigated and dry, will be formed
with Governor Ammons at the head,
following the last of a series of four
meetings held for the purpose.
The suit for 100000 filed in the
Supreme Court of New York by Robert
A. G. Peterson against the Colorado
Mines, Railroad & Utilities Company
of Colorado, and another suit filed by
Mr.. Peter son to recover ten per cent
of tn property and profits of the Ell
Paso Consolidated Mining Company,
came as surprise to Colorado
Springs mining circles.
Chicago, with its Gathering l. trains,
its cobblestoned streets and its four
| policemen whistling their heads off at
every corner of the Loop district, has
become the refuge of Jack" Hill.
| otherwise known in common ordinary
life as Miss Helen Hilsher, the fem
inine husband of Anna Slifka of Meek
er. Miss Hilsher left Denver for Chi
cago, and there she will remain, never
to return. At least this is the opinion
of DR.. Nina Jones of 4O3 Emerson
street, where Miss Hilsher stayed dur
ing the time she spent in Denver.