The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-08-21
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


Aug 23.- Barbecue by Territoriai
Daughters of Colorado. near Lit'ie
Aug. 25.-conferencs of Governors at
Aug. s5aSS..Meeting of Philippine Ma
Aug; 2s-knishts Of .,,I I;Sah pythh,ns Grand
Aug. 5-2s.-Grand Lodge and Unirorm
Rank Encampment, X. of p, at Trim
Aug. 2s.-Fumpkin Pie Day at Long
Aug -ss.-county Fair and Race
Meeting at Las Animas
August % Pickle day. at Platte
sept sept rsmat0 klSs Rsy Il iaaa% Hl' resPiSa
at Colorado Springs.
Sept. 2-5.--LarImer County Fair AZ
Sept. .2-5.-County Fair and Race
Meeting at Rocky Ford. q, Fort
sept. S.o.-Wiid west sho" u.
Sept. s-second Annual Fail Festival
Sept. s-s.MMeet,ns of Royal High
Sept, 9,lii.Mesa all County ,,nasiap Indpss1ia'
Sept. ,s-1l.-weld County Fair at
Sept. aSe.iy2.-county Fair and Race
Sept. .s.i2,-Morgan County Fair at
Sept. o-I2.sLas Animas County Fair
Sept. 1-I2-Eighth District w. Z. A.
y. Convention at Denver,
Sept. 16-19.-western slope Fair at
Sept. is-so.-coiorado State Fair at
Oct. I-a-state w. C. T. U. conven-
ton at Fort Collins. C.,r .t
Oct. S-4"Ei Paso County Fair at Cal
Oct 7-12.-Meeting Society of Ameri-
can Indians. at Denver.
Oct. 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso
Oct so.-Nov Colorado Kennel Club
Show At penyeri; ria, western stock
Show at Denver. r,,
I9l5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians. Denver.
The first bullfight ever attempted
in Colorado was held at Lakeside in
Denver.
Delightfully."- informal was the dance
given at Ell Jebel in Denver as
final sendoff for the visitors and Tor
Denver Masons.
r. H. Mcdowell. who was well
known to the people of Fort Collins
of twenty years ago, was killed by
passenger train in Reno, New.
Mrs. F.. A. Meredith. age seventy
eight. mother OF the noted author and
suffragist. Ellis Meredith, died at the
home of her daughter in Denver.
Death claimed another pioneer Colo
radoan in Los Angeles when Henry
A. Davis, former Denver commits
sion man, died after long illness.
Divorced on July 2s, Mr.. and Mrs.
Oldham of Colorado Springs found
that the decree was too expensive ana
remarked IN an effort to save the
fees and use the money to buy a
home.
With $4,000 cheering to the echo.
Detroit Commandary No. l, Knights
Templar, gave what is termed one OF
the most pleasing and intricate drills
of the entire conclave, at the stadium
in Denver.
Mrs. Emma G. Selden of 312 Lin
coin street was appointed superinten-
dent of the Denver schools to sue
ceed Mrs. Honora r. Mcpherson, ap-
pointed by former Mayor Henry J.
Arnold.
Beets in the Grand valley will be
ready for digging by September l.
according to Manager Fred q. Holmes
of the Grand Junction sugar factory,
and orders to that effect will be Is
sued within few days.
Morris S. Wilson, sophomore at
the School of Mines at Golden, shot
himself through the right temple In
his room, at 1856 Clay street. and
died on the operating table at the
county hospital thirty minutes later.
Harry s. James, George o. Dostal
and Arthur Ponsford of Denver are
the incorporators of a new irrigation
company, capitalized at 100000, which
purposes to take over and develop wa
ter rights and properties formerly
owned by the Golden Land and Reser-
voir Company, in Jefferson county
Friends of former Senator l.. A.
Van Tilborg of Teller county, who
served in the Eighteenth and Nine
teenth General Assemblies, an
nounced that they would urge Van
Tilborg's candidacy for Democratic
national committeeman for Colorado
to succeed the late Thomas ]. McCue.
Hanging by her hair from cell
door in the Denver city jail. Mrs. lola
Friend, a widow, was discovered by
Police Matron Archer in time for her
to be saved dangerous injuries. The
woman had attempted to take her life
in the torturous manner in preference
to leading an impossible" existence
as waitress.
The Denver & Salt Lake railroad,
formerly known as the Moffat road.
which was recently taken over by
Newman Erb and his associates. has
entered into an agreement with the
Pullman Company of Chicago, by
which the rolling stock of the road
will be increased in october by $220.-
600 worth of freight cars.