The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-25
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Nov. 6-s.-Thlrteenth Annual Conyen
tion of Rocky Mountain Hotel men
Association at Denver. ,..to,,
Nov 24-26-state Teachers Association
meeting at Pueblo.
Jan. .1215.-Colorado Poultry tahclers
Association Show at Denver e.,,,
Jan; 24.--National Western STOCK
Jan.WMeeting M Colorado Good Roads
Association at Colorado Springs
19l5.-Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver.
Cleanup day was great success in
Grand Junction.
A taxpayers league was organized at
we'll attended meeting at Grand
Junction.
Identified as one of the men who
held up w. j. Fitzpatrick, butcher in
Pueblo, Donald Mcdonald has been
arrested.
Colorado Springs new $4,000 home
for the Young Women's Christian AS
sociation was formally opened with
public reception.
A bond issue of $4,000 is the pro-
posal which has been submitted to the
city commissioners to improve the
streets of Grand Junction.
Mrs. Anna Pitzer, sister-in-law OF
Champ Clark, has decided that the
public office of postmistress of Coiora-
do Springs is not for her.
Mandamus proceedings to compel
the city of Victor to pay outstanding
warrants to the sum of 100000, were
begun in the District Court at Cripple
Creek.
Sidney Smith, who was thrown and
kicked by mule on October Is at
Merino, died at the Mercy hospital in
Denver from injuries sustained by the
accident.
George Eargh, said to be a French
man, escaped from the prison grounds
at Canon City and was apprehended
at Portland, following an exciting tus-
sle with six guards.
Members of the canine aristocracy
from every state in the Union are ar
irving in Denver for the annual show
of the Colorado Kennel Club to be held
in the Colburn building.
One dead and three wounded, two
perhaps fatally, is the toll of a battle
between strikers and deputy sheriffs
at Forbes, camp of the Rocky Noun
tain Fuel Company, ten miles north of
Trinidad.
Mrs. Lillian Bixby-Farrington-Cl Clark,
few days after obtaining divorce
from Otis B. Clark in Denver was
married to Hume Lewis, faSmerly
business associate of Mr.. Clark, in
California.
Colorado's property valuation was
raised s1S6.551, ,65S by the State Board
of Equalization. The value of state
property was declared to be $1,3O6,-
49S,162, and the state levy was fixed
at 1.30 mills.
The State Teachers Association
will meet this year at Pueblo Novem-
ber "a, 25 and &c. Those in charge
of arrangements for the meeting
think that the attendance at this
meeting will exceed $500.
Mrs. Nora Pumphrey, who, on Sept
8, shot and killed her husband at their
home in Valverde, was sentenced by
Judge Butler in the West Side Court
in Denver, to Imprisonment in the
county Jail for nine months.
Coroner Allen of Montrose, finished
two days investigation of the death
of H. H. Rose and wife at Redvale,
and he has announced that the fire
was accidentally started and that there
was no plot back of the affair.
Asking Governor Ammons to call a
special session of the Legislature to
pass compulsory arbitration law, pc
titions are being circulated through
out the Pixies peak region by union
coal miners of Colorado Springs.
DIR. A. G. Kriger, formerly promi-
nent physician of Monroe, Mich, was
arrested at Greeley, charged with de-
serting wife and seven children, and
Miss Winifred Strauss, blonde, is
detained as the woman in tn case.
Receipts from the sale of national
forest timber in Colorado, Wyoming
and South Dakota, for the quarter end
ing September 30, 1913, exceed those
for the same period last year by more
than $4,000, according to figures com
piled in the Denver office of the for.
est service.
Every improvement necessary to
maintain the factories of the Great
Western Sugar Company in the state
in first-class condition will be made
regardless of the bearing of free sugar
upon the industry, was the promise
given by Horace Havemeyer, son of
the late sugar magnate, director of
the company.
The Society of American Indians ad-
journed it's third annual conference in
Denver. At the last session of the
convention, which held meetings in
Denver for week, a complaint was
made against G. l.. Williams, agent of
the Pottawattomie reservation in Kan.
sas, and a tribute was paid Chief
Wolf Robe of the Blackfeet tribe.