The Colorado statesman., 1913-11-01
WEEKS EVENTS
COLO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DnfcS for Coming Events.

Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
1915.-Last Grand Council or North
American Indians at Denver.
Ward Darley has promised Weld
county another sugar factory to be
run on the cooperative plan.
Charles G. Hall, sixty, well known
mining man of Denver and Colorado,
died at his residence in Denver.
Mrs. Bertha Fannin, who was muir
dered by her husband in a roomins
house in Denver, was buried at Crown
Hill cemetery.
More than $50 Colorado men, actual
road builders, convened in Pueblo,
opening the first annual convention OF
new organization.
Clairvoyants and all others of their
llk must cease operations in Denver
This was the decision made by City
Attorney l. N. Stevens.
Another 5000 acres of land at
cost of 100000 is to be put under IL
rigation in Colorado. The land is To-
Gated near Silt, in the western part
of the state.
The Greeley order of Elks was
granted temporary injunction against
the county treasurer and assessor, for
bidding the sale of the orders prop
erty in Greeley.
Harry G. Mead and Fred H. Mon
fore We're dangerously injured at
Grand Junction when an auto in
which they were riding plunged into
Plateau creek.
Hardy and vigorous, in spite of his
seventy-four years, Nelson S. West of
Marsden, Neb., was welded to Mrs
Minnie H. Donaldson of Boulder, thir-
ty-five years his junior.
Nine men, and not one, were killed
in the engagement between guards
and strikers at the Berwind camp
Sunday, according to reports made
by agents of the companies to the
coal operators.
Among those who are acclaimed
heroes of the Dawson coal mine dis
aster is James Laird of Starkville, d
member of helmet rescue crew, who
lost his life in the work of recovering
the bodies of entombed men.
Congressman Seldomridge simpli-
fled the postmastership contest at
Colorado Springs by announcing that
he had eliminated the names of all
who had been mentioned and that ne
would name a prominent citizen.
Eastern bond companies will be
forced to make good an $1,000 loss
sustained by r. A. Mathews, a Grand
htti1 no
Elks temple at Grand Junction and
the Citizens National bank in Glen
wood.
Benjamin Preston, siXty-five, a pio-
neer of Larimer county and q men,
Der of the Board of County Commis
sioners, died at his home in the Har-
mony district, seven miles southeast
of Fort Collins, of cirrhosis of the
liver.
The Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association, composed of hotel men
from Colorado New Mexico, Wyoming
and Utah, which opened it's thirteenth
annual convention in Denver will
wage war on lodging houses and
dives" to prohibit such places from
asserting title to the dignified name
of "hotel." This question is second
only to the liquor discussion.
To form a colony of the Holiness"
religious sect, four Colorado Springs
persons have sold their property and
gone to africa, Chile. Leading the
nucleus for the colony in Mrs.
Katherine Cragin, who organized the
pCrty during the summer. Included
in the party are Mrs. Cragin's fifteen
year-old son Paul, Mr.. and Mrs. c. S.
tanderman and Charles V. Manning.
John j. Kelly, thirty-two, miner of
Victor, left his home a week ago to
work in the Portland mine. Since
then he has not been seen by his wife
or friends. His failure to return home
caused a search to be made by the
police and the sheriff's office, but no
trace of him has been found Shafts
and mine workings have been in
spected under the impression that he
may have fallen into one of the holes.
The only clew was the finding of his
dinner bucket at the Portland mine.
G. S. Bilheimer, who has been gem
eral secretary of the Denver Y. NJ G.
A. for the last four years, and who
has been identified with association
work in Colorado since 1899, has ten
dered his resignation, to take effect
January l, when he will become gen.
eral western secretary for the execu-
tive committee of the Y. NJ C. A. in
ternational committee, with Colorado,
Wyoming, New Mexico. Texas, Okla
homa, Kansas, Nebraska, Arizona,
Montana and Utah, under his jurisdic-
ton.
The city of Longmont has secured
12O acres of land on the north fork
of the st. Vrain, near Aliens Park, for
a reservoir site. The land includes
the Copeland lake, which at present