The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-08-09
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
estern y. wspsper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Aug IS 2o,-Army of the Philippines
Aug. s-22-County Fair and RaA
Meeting at Lamar
Daughters of Colorado. near Little
Aug. 25.--conferenee of Governors at
Aug. 25-27.-Meeting of Philippine Ma
.n niohai society at Denver
aug. 2s-Pumpkin Pie Day at Long
Aug 2s-2s-county Fair and Race
Meeting at Las Animas.
august 2s Pickle day. at Pla,te--
Sept. Sept .. .l,-Temato pay q. Fort Lupson,;
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Sept 2-5-county Fair and Race
sept. a-5,-wiid Nest Show a. For.
sept ,s.-second Annual Fall Festival
Sept. ss.--Meeting of Royal High
ianders in Denver.
and Fruit FAN, at Grand Junction
Sept. s-ll.-weld County Fair at
Sept s-l2-County Fair and Race
Meeting at Sugar City.
sept s,i2-Morsan County Fair at
Sept. e-i2..Las Animas County Fair
at Trinidad.
Sept ll-l2-Eignth District w. C T.
Y. Convention at Denver.
sept l6-1s.-Western Slope Fair at
Sept. 15-2o-Colorado State Fair At
Pueblo
oct l-s-state w. c. T. u conven-
Oct 2-4-Sedgwick County Fair at
n ulssburs
can Indians at Denver
Oct. 2l-Colorado Stale Baptist Asso-
oet sa':Sn so nov S6 rIee5s 9co,oraao kenne, Club
Jan is-2 24.GNational Western stock
Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
Jacob Swetzer, seventy-seven years
old, resident of Colorado since 1860,
died at Georgetown.
Crops which will surpass anything
in the states history are to be Colo
radios portion for 1913
Three thousand men will be en-
ployed at the union station to handle
the crowds coming into Denver for the
Templar conclave.
Physicians are not able to explain
the early spread of typhoid fever
which has broken out in Denver
month ahead OF its usual time this
year.
Tourist travel into Colorado from
Teaxs this season is thrice that of
any preceding season, and the in
crease is largely due to the activity
of the Trinidad Chamber of Com
merce
The International Phypogeographic
excursion. consisting of seventy-five of
the most noted plant specialists in
Europe and America, will spend ten
days investigating the natural vegeta-
ton ON Pixies Peak
The annual Arkansas valley fair to
be Eeld in Rocky Ford September 2,
3, and ), will be the biggest and
best since the movement was inausu-
rated, according tc Lewis Swink Dresi-
dent, and George NJ. Hail. secretary.
Four million fry of rainbow trout
and 100000 of the native variety
will be placed in the streams of the
state by State Game and Fish Com
missioner Shinn. The distribution
will be made from seven hatcheries.
William j. Biercamp, former presi-
dent of the Germania State bank of
Denver, who disappeared more than
month ago. following a series of mat
rimonial difficulties, is in Chicago and
asserts he will never return to Den
yer.
The Oldest pioneer present at the
Colorado Day celebration in Denver
was Eugene X. La Vale, ninety.six
years old his last birthday. His back
is bent and his blue eyes dimmed but
his mind is as clear as it was forty
years ago.
Hurled from the back of burro
which she was riding down q noun
tain near the balanced rock, Miss
Jane Going, society girl of Birming-
ham, Ala, was seriously injured at
Colorado Springs. The girl struck
sharp stone with her chin and cut a
frightful cash in her throat, causing
great loss of blood.
An accidental turning on of gas
without suicidal intents will be the
claim OF attorneys for the late Viii
liam l.. Clayton, former insurance COM
missioner, who died July %, in an ef-
fort to enforce the payment of more
than 100000 life insurance that he
carried. 1t may be shown also that
the gas burner in Clayton's room was
defective.
The mystery surrounding the ident-
ity of the man found drowned in the
Grand river near Glewood Springs sew
eral days ago, is believed to have been
cleared by a statement made by Mrs
Bertha De Wolfe, the Denver mani