The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-15
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DATES FoR COMING EVENTS.

june Is1s,-state sunday School Con
vention at Denver.
July f-ii1Race Meet Meet Pueblo.
July s-cherry Pie Day. Manzanols
July ~; ~, ls.Grand Lodge Session. B. p
suly 2225--Cattiemen's Day. Gunni-
Aug IS 21.-Prowers Co Fair. Lamar.
Aug. 25-2S-Bent Co Fair. Las Animas-
Aug 27--Santa Fe Trail Day. Las Ami
Aug 2s-Farmers. Fair at Fowler.
SEPT Pdc,, i.4EAr kansas Valley Fair.
Sept 5;-Farmers' ina stockmen's
Sept, 1-1--Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept Sept &C cJ FaF Fa+ EovslnaS sassr
Sept s.lI.-SSheyenne County Fair at
Sept. 1o,.ssugar Day. Sugar city.
sP isfRs STATE eeaRiy Ppi' rais pHs'iS at
Sep, Sept. lg2s-Raee Meet. Denver, -,
Sept. alss'1Wests&D s " '%n1s Slope Fair. Mont
Sept 22-25.-Montezuma County Fair
at Cortez.
Sept. 25-2s-EI l'naao raso co ar Fair. caihan.
Oct e-s-Colorado-N New Mexico Fair at
1sl5--Iast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The state convention of the NJ. w.
A. was held at Pueblo, with delegates
from all parts of the state present.
Friday was good roads day, accord
ing to proclamation issued by Cover
nor Ammons, and was generally OBJ
served.
The postoffice at Strong. a mining
camp near Walsenburg. has been loot
ed and number of books Of blank
money orders taken.
Four hundred volunteer workers
will give their time in the big ten-day
campaign to raise the s250,00O fund
for Denver university.
Representative Keating has recon-
mended Edward o. Russell of Manzan-
ola, Robert Tandy of Del Norte, and
Herbert Sabine of Alamose. for ap-
pointment as postmasters.
The State Railway Commission has
issued an order requiring the Denver,
Boulder & Western road to operate
weekly train between Sunset and
Ward after June for period of two
years.
At Trinidad Major Holbrook furn-
ished guards for the paymasters OF
both the strikers and mine operators,
refusing to let the men have their own
guards. The strikers. received their
union benefits.
The bulk of the s25 900 estate left
by Mrs Ella Clark, wife of the late
Rufus Clark of Denver. will go to the
training school on the West African
coast which Rufus Clark endowed a
few years ago.
II. ". Haig, a wealthy land owner
-of. Nebraska, died at st. Joseph's hos
pleal in Denver. Three operations
we've performed in an effort to save
his life. He was the founder OF Haig,
(Neb. He was fifty years of age.
= The relief committee organized by
the Women's Peace organization to
aid the Ludlow refugees, received an
urgent appeal from it's chairman, Mrs.
Lee Campion, now at Trinidad, Ter
clothes for babies and women.
E. B. Hill and "Jap" Reed, leasers
on the Yellow Pine silver mine, To-
Gated near Crisman. six miles west of
Boulder. have just received check
from Manager II. A. Frey of the
Chamberlain sampling works for $4,-
500. which is the net return to them
on a carload of high grade wire silver
ore.
Possible state supervision of coal
mines and the withdrawal of al, coal
lands under lease. proposed income
tax on amounts over $4,000 to pay the
strike Indebtedness. and plan to lay
l,rv of o. o.,
ture military operations in strike
zones, were included in House delib-
erations last week.
Sinking the main shaft at the Dill
Ion mine on the south side of Battle
mountain. Cripple Creek, one OF the
Granite Gold Mining Company's prop
critics, Is under way, the purpose be-
ing to extend the shaft to the common
water level, which is believed to be
somewhere between 1,40O and 1900
feet from the collar of the shaft.
The undertaking of the lessees of
the Guadaloupe property at Jasper in
driving cross-cut tunnel to intersect
the vein at great depth has been sue
cessfully accomplished and the Guada-
loupe vein at the point of intersection
is found to be a body of solid quartz
twenty-three feet in width from the
foot wall side to the hanging wall
An important strike of rich ore is
reported to have been developed in
the Caledonia mine, on the extreme
northern slope of Gold hill in the
Cripple Creek district. by Thompson
and Company, lessees. who began op-
erations only short time ago The
ore shoot is about six feet wide and