The Raymer enterprise., 1913-10-23
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L O r ADO
PEOPLE
Newspaper Union News service.
Dates for Coming Even,

Noy, 6-S:-Thirteenth Annual Conven-
ton OF Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association at Denver.
NOV. 24-26-Statc Teachers Association
meeting at Pueblo.
Jan l5.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
association Show at Denver.
jan ls-2t.-National Western Stock
SHOW at Denver.
Association at Colorado Springs
lsio.-Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver.
Cleanup day was great success in
Grand Junction.
Henry Decker, a convict escaped
from the penitentiary at Canon City.
Jacob Benner was fined $40 in JUS
ice Court at Loveland for the killing
f pheasants.
Colorado ranks third this year as
producer of potatoes according To-
the acreage titled.
Mrs. Annie Hamilton Pitzer, sister.
in.law of Speaker Champ Clark, is q.
candidate for postmistress of Colorado
Springs.
In fight in the kitchen of the Yale
restaurant in Denver r. J. Lytle, 4
cook. was probably fatally stabbed by
Arthur England, waiter.
While hunting, J. NJ. 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, Il
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 ]. 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
2i'2G, Is to have the best meeting ac.
commodations OF any session in re.
cent years.
George Hargh, said to be French.
man. escaped from the prison grounds
at Canon City and was apprehended
at Portland, following an exciting tus.
sic with six guards.
Members of the canine aristocracv
from every state in the Union are ar.
riving in Denver for the annual show
OF the Colorado Kennel Club to be held
in the Colburn building.
Hayden, one of the Oldest towns II,
Routt county and the county sea. RI
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 at
Oak Creek traffic over the Moilat
road has been greatly reduced and
there Is some talk OF cutting the pas.
sengcr and mail service to three trips
q week.
One dead and three wounded, two
perhaps fatally, Is the toll of battle
between strikers and deputy sheriffs
at Forbes. camp Of the Rocky Noun.
tain Fuel Company. ten miles north OF
Trinidad.
The operations Of well.organized
band OF sheep and cattle thieves was
called to the attention OF the grand
jury at Grand Junction. The COM
plant was made by Charles Mead, a
shcepman, and Charles F. Bowman.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry II. Ross, sixty.
three and fifty.eight years old respec.
lively, living Oh a ranch near Redvsle.
n small farming town In the western
part OF Mnntr0se county, were burned
to death In fire at their home.
Adyices received In Denver from
New York indicated plan to Increase
the capitalization OF the new Denver
Union Terminal Railway Company
from $4,000 TO s3O.OO0.DOD Is being
considered In financial circles OF the
metropolis.
John W. Finch, Denver mining Ell.
glncer. Is one OF ten metallurgists who
have been honored by President vii.
son by appointment to represent the
federal government at the meeting OF
the American Mining Congress in Phil.
adelphla,
William e, Redfield. secretary OF ihr
Department of Commerce. first incum.
bent OF the office since lis creation
last March, viii arrive In Denver DC.
tobor 20, and viii pass several days a.
the guest OF the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce.
Efforts to locate Frank H. Finch.
former editor and owner Of The Arap.
ahoo Herald OF l.lttletoI.. who disap
pcarcd several weeks ago, have failed
and his wife accompanied the body o.
their elcyen.year.oid daughter, Fran.
ces. to oliver Kansas. for burial