Cheyenne record., 1913-12-11
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Jan. 12-15.--Colorado Poultry Fanciere'
Jan; 1s-24.-Nationai Western Stock
Roads Assn at Colorado Springs;
July 4@Grand s1ass Lodge Sc Session, 81 B. r.
Jan. anaui is.9Anaaal Meeting colorado
!ege, Fort. Collins.
1sl6.-Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver.
The Ruxton hotel at Manitou was
sold to w. X. Greene, a Pueblo banker
The consideration is said to have been
$4,000.
Two hours after shoveling snow in
the front Of his home in Pueblo
De Long Williams sixty-eight, died Of
heart disease.
James H. Kelley has been elected
principal Of the State Normal school
At Gunnison to succeed c. A. Hollings-
head, resigned.
Convicts Willis and Monroe, who es-
capped from the state reformatory at
Buena Vista, were captured and taken
back to the institution.
The body of Mrs. Yes Porter, who, II
was learned at Victor, committed sui
eide in her home on Bull hill, was
brought to Victor under unusual cir
cumstances.
Two men were injured seriously in
a collapse of three one-story build
| lngs on South Pearl street in Denver,
caused by the heavy weight of snow
on the roofs.
The Pueblo City Federation of
Women's Clubs has received a con-
| signment Of $4,000 Red Cross seals.
and 1t is expected that all will be sold
before Christmas.
Railroad traffic in and out of Den-
yer was resumed Monday with but few
exceptions. The Rock Island line to
Chicago was still tied up, but it was ex-
pected it would be cleared.
The body of Frank Rededes. fifteen,
for whom searching parties had been
hunting for twenty-four hours. was
found Sunday half buried with snow
on the outskirts Of Dacono.
| With a plentiful supply of coal in
Denver for all uses until the railroads
can resume shipments, Denver suf-
fered Friday from coal famine be-
cause the storm made all streets i'm
passable.
Plans under which the committee
now is operating indicate that the
Mid-winter exposition, to be held in
Pueblo, beginning Dec. 20, will be one
of the biggest things of the kind ever
| ATTEMPTED in that section
Dividing themselves into seven COM
mittees, more than 100 members Of
the Denver Press Club began work in
preparation for their festivities Round
up week, January 10 to "a, during the
convention Of the National Western
Stockmen's Association.
The big snow wrote a romance at
Fort Collins for Carl Schaefer and
pretty Molly Schmidt of Windsor. At
Fort Collins for dance Friday night
and unable to return home, they de-
cided to stay. They were married Sat
urday.
Denver Sunday threw off the shack
les of the storm. Thousands of per-
sons, held prisoners in their homes
since Thursday, thronged the re-
claimed portions of the streets and
waded through the drifts of snow
which still remained.
When rescuing crews working in
the Golden Cycle mine slide at Vic
tor broke through ten feet of solid
rock into the raise where Frank M.
Woods, Jr., Samuel Sorenson and
Patrick Kevany, were working when
the slide started several days ago, all
hope of finding the bodies Of the
three miners was abandoned.
Dr.. James H. Baker, president of the
University Of Colorado for the last
twenty-five years, has rendered his
resignation to the board of regents of
that institution. President Baker will
retire Jan. 1, 1914, under provisions Of
the Carnegie pension fund for educa'
tors. He will be succeeded by Living
ston Farrand, noted professor Of an
thropology at Columbia university.
When death claimed John. Mclean,
seventy-two, lawyer, civil engineer,
trapper, scout and hermit, in a Pu-
eblo hospital, there came an end to a
feud of dozen years duration which
had existed between himself and
the members of the H. Metcalf family
over irrigation water, that resulted in
one almost fatal shooting affray and a
term in the penitentiary for Mclean.