The state herald., 1913-10-24

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Noy. e-s:-Thirteenth Annual Conyen-
| tion of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
NJ Association at Denver: ,o,o,,on
Jan. 12- -15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers
Association Show at Denver. CO..
Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
Association at Colorado Spring.,
lsl5.-Last Grand Council OF North
| American Indians at Denver.
Cleanup day was a great success in
Grand Junction.
Henry Decker. convict. escaped
from the penitentiary at Cafion City.
Jacob Benner was fined 500 In JUS
tice Court at Loveland for the killing
Of pheasants.
Colorado ranks third this year as
a producer Of potatoes according to
the acreage titled.
Mrs. Annie Hamilton Pitzer, sister
in-law Of Speaker Champ Clark. is a
candidate for postmistress Of Colorado
Springs.
In a fight in the kitchen of the Yale
restaurant in Denver r. ]. Lytle, a
cook, was probably fatally stabbed by
Arthur England, waiter.
While hunting. ]. M. jacobson Of Pu.
eblo accidentally discharged his shot
gun and was badly injured, his left
hand being almost shot away.
Diphtheria threatens to exterminate
the entire family Of Edward Chura. a
homesteader on Deep creek, fourteen
miles from Steamboat Springs.
At special meeting the Pueblo
Trades Assembly voted in favor Of a
federal investigation of the present
coal strike In the southern fields.
William Maughan. fifty-nine, fore
man Of the Chamberlain sampling
works of Black Hawk for the past
nineteen years. died of tuberculosis.
Thomas j. Thompson. sheriff OF
Boulder county In 1898 and for many
years one of the leading citizens of the
community. died suddenly near Gold
field, New.
The coming Of the State Teachers
Association In Pueblo on November
24-26. is to have the best meeting &C.
commodations OF any session In re-
cent years.
George Hargh, 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
riving In Denver for the annual show
of the Colorado Kennel Club to be helt
In tho Colburn building.
Hayden, one OF the Oldest towns ~
Routt county and the county seat al
the time Of the Meeker massacre. will
celebrate In Western fashion the com
ing OF the Denver & Salt Lake rail
road.
Owing to the coal miners strike al
Oak Creek. traffic over the Moffai
road has been greatly reduced ant
there is some talk OF cutting the pas
senger and mall service to three trip
week.
One dead and three wounded. two
perhaps fatally. is the toll OF n battl,
between strikers and deputy sheriff.
Mt Forbes. n camp of the Rocky Noun
tain Fuel Company. ten miles north o.
Trinidad.
The operations OF well-organiIet
band OF sheep and cattle thieves wa;
called to tho attention OF the grant
Jury at Grand Junction. The com
plant was made by Charles Mead. 4
sheepman. and Charles +. Bowman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry II. Ross. sixty
three and fifty.eight years old respec
lively, living on a ranch near Redvale
a small farming town In the western
part OF Montrose county. were burned
to death In fire Mt their home.
Advices received In Denver from
New York Indicated a plan to increas'
the capitalization OF the new Denver
Union Terminal Railway Company
from $4,000 to sso.ooo.0o0 is beini
considered In financial circles OF thu
metropolis.
John W. Finch. Denver mining en-
gincer. Is one OF ten methllurgists witt
have been honorcd by President VII
son by appointment TO represent thu
federal government at the meeting o
the American Mining Congress In Phil
sdelphia.
William c. Redfieid. secretary OF th'
Department OF Commerce. first incum
bent OF the office since its creation
last March. will arrive In Denver DC
tobcr 80. and will pass several days u
the guest OF the Denver Chamber o
Commerce.
Efforts To locate Frank l.. Finch
former editor and owner OF tho Arap
ahoe Herald Of Littlcton. who disap
pcared several weeks ago. have faiie,
and his wife accompanied the body o
their cicvenycarold daughter. Fran
ces. TO Oliver. Kansas. for burial.
Involuntary manslaughter." provid