The Holly chieftain., 1914-05-15
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c Ok r A o
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

at Loveland.
June ls-ls.-state Sunday School Con-
fehtlon at Denver. -.
June Juiw 1s-Juiy 4;-Raee Meet; 2esS,d Denver
Jmiiy Iiy ,s.Cherry Pie Day, @ Manzanopa p
p Elks at Denver
July 22-25.-Cattlemen's Day. Gunhi-
Aug. Is-21-Prowers Co. Fair. Lamar
Aug. Is -2s.-Bent Co Fair. Las Aninas'
Aug: 27.-santa Fe Trail Day Las AMI
Aug. 2?.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler
seRt Roc,. l'EArk kansas Valley FAR
sept. s;-Watermelon Day: Rocky Fora.
Sept i-I-Morgan Co Fair. Fort Nor
Sept Sept is-1,-Larimer CO; FaiT Lovslnnd; snsar
Sept s-l1.-Cheyenne County Fair at
Cheyenne Wells
sept Io.-sugar Day. Sugar city; yy,eh,o
SEPT Ruso 1S-ls-Lincoln County Fair al
Sept !s-2s-Race Meet. Denysri, md
r. Race Meet at Limon. ,,,
Sept: 22-25.-Western Slope Fair Moh'-
Sept. 225-Montezuma County Fair
Sept. 22-25.-TrInidad Fair. TRINIDAD
sept 23-26-El Paso Co FAIR. Gaina,;
lsl6.-i.ast Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver.
The state convention of the M. 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 ob-
served
The postoffice at Strong, 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 s250,000 fund
for Denver university.
Representative Heating has recon-
mended Edward o. Russell of Manzan-
ola, Robert Tandy of Del Norte, and
Herbert Sabine OF Alamosa 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 2 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.
Tke bulk of the $4,000 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.
H. w. Haig, wealthy land owner
| Of Nebraska, died at ST. Joseph's hos.
pital in Denver. Three operations
were 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 Womens Peace organization to
aid the Ludlow refugees, received an
urgent appeal from its chairman. Mrs.
Lee Campion. now at Trinidad. fer
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 H. A. Frey Of, the
Chamberlain sampling works for 81
500, which is the net return to them
on carload of high grade wire silver
ore.
Possible state supervision of coal
mines and the withdrawal of all coal
lands under lease, a proposed income
tax on amounts over $4,000 to pay the
strike Indebtedness, and plan to lay
by nest egg of some $250,000 for fu.
ture military operations In strike
zones, were included in House delib-
erations last week.
Sinking the main shaft at the Dill
lon 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 1,400 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
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