The Elk Mountain pilot., 1913-09-04
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L O r A o O
Pc EOPLE
Dates for Coming Events.
'estern Nc wspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Dates for Coming Events.
Sept. 2-5-Colorado Stampede and
Roundup at Fort Collins.
Sept. 2-5.--LarImer County Fair at
Sept. s-5.-County Fair and Race
Sept: s.s,-Wiia law West Snow at Fort
Sept. 4-5.-Apple Pie Day at Rifle.
sept, y yS;Isecond Annual Fall Festival
Sept: s-s...Meeting of Royal High
Sept pna rS; County ,InssiSp dnSSsspai
Sept. s-11-weld County Fair at
Sept. 9-i2.-county Fair and Race
Sept s,!2.-Morgan County Fair at
Sept, 9-I2.@Delta County Fair at
Sept 11-12-Eighth District w. C. T.
Sept 17-1s.-Annual Meeting Order
Eastern Star at Grand Junction.
septc i6als--Western slope FAR at
Sept Is 1s.-Annual Masonic Meeting
Sept. Is-eO.-Coiorado State Fair at
Fair and Indian Carnival at Du-
Sept. 2326 Trinidad-Las Animas
County Fair at Trinidad.
sept. 27-2S.-Bankers Convention at
Sept. 30 s-so-Inter- County Fair at
Limon.
Oct ,i-s-state w C. T. U. conven-
Oct. 2-4.-Sedgwick County Fair Mt
Oct, 2-4~Ei Paso County Fair at Cal
Oct. 7-12.-Meeting Society of Ameri-
oo,an can indians. az Denver. A.o-
citation at Pueblo.
Oct. 3c.-Nov. I-Colorado Kennel Club
Jan 24@Nationai Western Stock
Show at Denver
lSl5.-Last Grand Council or North
American Indians. Denver.
Colorado is to have an official good
roads day in October.
Pueblo secured the 1914 meeting of
the Knights of Pythias.
Tracklaying has commenced on the
line between Craig and Steamboat
Springs.
]. w. Graham. seventy-five, for
twenty years a resident of Denver.
died at his home in Greeley.
Grand Junction business men are
planning a stock company to con
vert Enoch's lake on Pinon mesa into
a summer resort.
One hundred and fifty thousand
trout will be released into the Cache
la Poudre river from the new For.
Collins fish hatchery.
A romance of the conclave culmi-
Miss Josephine Steinmetz of Denver.
to ]. d. Edwards of Chicago.
The case OF II. II. Bernard against
Queen Anne" Bernard at Craig for
divorce resulted in hung jury. Two
jurymen out of six stood out for Mrs.
Bernard
Fred Klinefelter. thirty-one,. for
several years trusted. clerk in the
employ of drug company in Denver.
was arrested, charged with embezzle-
ment.
John Poland, prominent rancher of
Collbran, was fatally hurt when he
was caught under his moving machine
drawn by a runaway team, and his
body practically cut in twain.
A 30O-pound bear was captured with
lassoes by Aaron Mckee. James Nc
Rae and Clarence Mckee, Collbran
cowboys, after fight in which Nc
Rae's horse was badly clawed.
The thirty-three boys and girls ex-
PEELED from the various high schools
of Denver last June on account of al
legged frat and sorority membership
will not suffer further suspension.
To rope and hogtie a large bear
bear was the unusual experience OF
Clarence and Aaron Mckee and Jas.
McRae of Collbran while crossing
Cannon Flat on Battlement mesa.
Twenty boy students of the Grand
Junction High school issued an ulti-
matum to the school board, declaring
they would not attend sessions unless
the order prohibiting the football
team from playing in other cities is
rescinded.
Elaborate preparations are being
made by the committees in charge of
the farmers picnic, to be held at
Island Grove park September at
which Gov. E. M. Ammons will de
liver an address on Good Roads and
Marketing"
Canning of tomatoes has COM
menced at Fort Lupton and the cam
paign will last several weeks. There
are SAT acres planted to that crop in
that section. From seventeen acres
last year one farmer received net
profit of $1,000.
In order to take advantage of the
present low water in the Gand river,
the secretary of the interior has au-
thorized the reclamation service to he.
gin at once the construction of the
diversion dam for the government
high line canal at Grand Junction. The