Cheyenne record., 1913-10-09
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Dates OF Coming Events.
Oct: 21-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
Oct: s7lfo. OF. dsD2 Annual Encampment
Oct sh2a h2a-2s.-Good Roads Meeting at Pu-
oct; so-Nov. colorado kennel Club
Nov. s-s.-Thirteenth Annual conven-
tion Of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Jan. 1915: s:@coiorado Poultry Fanciers'
jan; is-st.@Nstionai Western Western stock
1sl5.@Last Grand Council Of North
American Indians at Denver.
The grand jury at Littleton indicted
two former county officials.
Governor Ammons in an official
proclamation has designated October
as Fire Day"
Six petitions calling for amend.
ments to the city charter have been
filed at Pueblo.
Changes in the two chief positions
in the Denver postoffice are expected
within the next few days.
One hundred and fifty armed guards
prevented an invasion of Sopris by
striking miners Sunday.
The "wets" filed their petition t6
initiate an ordinance providing for
high license saloons in Grand juno
tion.
Joseph Smith, John Musick and
John Jackaway. inmate of the state re-
formatory at Buena Vista, have es-
capped.
Grand Junction may have munich
pally owned theater. George Bullock,
Socialist attorney, is behind the
scheme.
The first car of honey to be shipped
out of Montrose county this year left
Montrose for Ohio, netting the bee
men $3,700.
Under the proposed administration
of the new currency law, Denver will
get the regional bank for the entire
Rocky Mountain region.
Colorado alfalfa. because of the
drought in other parts of the United
States, is being shipped to the foIr
corners of the country.
The Manitou Mineral Springs prop
erty has been purchased by syndi-
cate from the General William J.
Palmer estate for $250,000.
DR.. William Fowler, fifty-eight, resi-
dent Of Colorado Springs for thirty
years and prominent in social ana
business circles, died in Pueblo.
With roar that was heard for miles,
500 pounds of giant blasting powder
exploded in subsidiary power house
thirty miles north of Trinidad.
What is said to be the largest cleo.
trical pumping plant in the state will
be installed as a feature Of the Moffat
Municipal Irrigation project in Sa.
guache county.
Frank e. Kimball, sixty-five years
old, and in point of service one of The
oldest mail carriers in the country,
died at bis home in Denver after an
illness of two days.
Stephen Rafferty,, aged twenty-nine,
committed suicide in his home in Den.
yer by swallowing carbolic acid. His
inability to secure work is given by
his friends as the cause for his death.
The board of county commissioners
of Teller county announced that the
assigning of wages by county en-
ployes must cease in the future and
that any man assigning his check
would be dismissed.
Vest pocket soup slugs, coffee cap
sules, tea and milk tablets, from the
unique commissary of a party OF
Colorado Springs newspapermen who
departed on an automobile trip to the
Yellowstone park.
Peter Forte, serving life sentence
in the penitentiary for killing his
wife, has appealed to the Supreme
Court asking for a reversal of the
lower courts order. Forte was ar.
rested Sept. 10, 1912.
A war of words, or battle between
BARRIERS, has been started in the
Cripple Creek district as the result of
an announcement that the BARRIERS OF
Victor would hereafter charge a half
dollar for hair cuts, a raise in price
of fifteen cents.
Sava Radakovich, said to have been
driven out of Servia for participating
in killing King Alexander and Queen
Draga, has absconded with $1OO, 900,
the life savings Of hundreds of en-
ployes of the steel mills, according to
the Pueblo police.
The Moffat tunnel contract, as re.
vised and corrected by the city attor.
ney and memhers of the tunno1 .co,,,