The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-06

1sl5.-Last Grand Council of North
american Indians. Denver.
Picnics and mass meetings marked
Labor Day in many Colorado cities.
Five thousand people attended Fort
Lupton's Tomato Day" celebration.
Three accidents occurred at Boul-
der in connection with the Labor Day
celebration. Five were hurt.
Nearly one hundred members of the
Clam and Lobster club enjoyed a
clam bake at Hoeckeps ranch near
Denver.
Mrs. Fletcher Campbell, wife Of a
ranchman of Hebron, died at her
home there as result of stroke of
apoplexy.
Fish and Game Warden ]. l.. Gray of
Fort Collins received $4,000 rainbow
trout for the Cache la Poudre river
and tributary streams.
Suffering from an attack of heart
failure due to the high altitude, the
Rev. E. l.. Jarvis was rushed out of
Colorado Springs to Kansas.
Mrs Adelia S. Barnard was arrest
ed a third time at Steamboat Springs
on charge of contempt of court. She
was released under $500 bonds.
/ Colorado Methodist Episcopal min
listers celebrated the semi-centcnnial
of the Colorado annual conference in
q three-day session at Boulder.
A possible beer famine in southern
Colorado is forecast by the strike of
twenty-six men employed by the Pells
Brewing & Ice Company of Trinidad.
Leo Mittendorf, 45, committed sui
eide at his homestead on Deep creek
near Steamboat Springs, because he
was arrested on complaint of his wife
for non-support.
Old settlers of Morgan county are
planning to organize a Pioneers as
sociation here on September II, which
will be Pioneer and Aviation day at
the Morgan county fair.
Seventy-five cars of peaches from
the Palisade and other districts of
the Western slope of Colorado are
passing through Denver daily en-
route to Eastern markets.
new extension of the Moffat road to
Craig pulled out of Steamboat Springs
Sept /. 1t was able to run only a
mile on the new tracks just laid.
In spite of the fact that she is sixty
five years old, Grandma" Annie Boal
of Kersey started on a trip to England
to pay visit to her son whom she has
not seen for twenty-eight years.
A party of tourists arrived at Craig
from Jacksonville, Fla, coming the en-
tire distance by automobile. They will
spend a month or more fishing and
hunting before returning South.
Joseph Luys, homesteader, residing
thirty-five miles southeast of Akron,
swore out warrant for the arrest of
Samuel Cawthra, neighbor, charging
him with assault with intent to kill.
A crusade against slit skirts, dia-
phanous gowns and other extreme,
immodest and suggestive styles in
women's dress, has been started by the
executive board of the Colorado Moth
ers' Congress.
Organized labor made a splendid
showing dI COlOIduO OH l-dDOl
Day The turnout was the opening
feature. There was a marathon in
the afternoon and a big show in the
Garden of the Gods at night.
Sixty persons were baptized in
Rocky Mountain lake, situated in one
of Denver's public parks, during the
conference of the Seventh Day Ad-
ventists of Colorado, which closed al
ter ten days of revival services.
wyoming fish and game officials,
have taken drastic steps recently to
prevent Colorado fishermen from en-
tering that state to fish and return to
Colorado with their catch and as
result several Denver men have been
arrested and fined.
Declaring that labor at last had
come into its own with the national
government at Washington, Congress
man Edward Keating at Pueblo ad-
dressed 5000 people, the occasion be-
ing the annual Labor Day picnic of
the Trades Assembly.
Lewis H. Ames, a Colorado pioneer
and Tor fifteen years a justice of the
pparp nt llttleton, died at his ranch a
half mile south of Littleton at the age
nf etghty.sev years. He had resided
in colorado since June 8, 1860, where
be came from Decorah, Iowa, lured by
the gold excitement.