The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-04-18
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
May l2-14-State Council of Junior Or
der OF American Mechanics, at COLO
May 14-i6-Race Meet. Durango.
June 1S-July 4-Raee Meet, Denver
July 13-l4--Grand Lodge Session D.
slks at Denver c,x
July 22-2S.-Cattlemens Day, Hnhhi-
Aug. 1S-a1-Prowers Co. Fair. Lamar.
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las Ami
Aug. 2s-Farmers' Fair at F1wler
Sept 3.-Watermelon Day. Rocky Ford
Sept. 2-5,-Farmers' a r d Stockiheh
Sept. l4.-Morgan Co, Fair, Fort MOI
Sept l-4-Larimer Co. Fair. Loveland
Sept. s-ll.-Crowley Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept, 9-l1-Cneyenne County Fair at
Sept lo-sugar, Day. Sugar city ty,,o
Sent. 15-ls.-Lincoln County Fair at
Sept. 26;-Race Meet. penvsr, sr,r and
Sept. 2l23. -- Inter County FAR aHo
Race Meet at 1.imon.
Sept 2-25.-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept, % 25.-Trinidad Fair. Trinidad
Sept 23-26.-El Paso Co. Fair Calhan.
Oct. 6-s-Colorado-N o-New Mexico Far at
lsl5.-l.ast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
The secretary of the Colorado State
Fair is compiling list of fairs and
race meets in Colorado this year.
A. j. Dean of Ordway is near death
from stab wounds inflicted by his
brother-in-law, J. c. Wilbur, rancher.
Patrons of the Mountain States Tele-
phone and Telegraph Company in Fort
Lupton have decided not to submit to
the proposed increased rates.
Roy Samuels, twenty-five years old,
negro. thought to be the man who
shot and killed P. A. Petty, the Flor
ence merchant, was arrested in Pu-
eblo
The finest depot of the entire Mof-
fat system is to be located in Craig,
construction work upon which will be
begun as scon as material for it can
be hauled.
Damages for $4,000 We're awarded
at Fort Collins to James l.. Catlett
and his wife. plaintiffs against the
Colorado & Southern railroad, for the
death of their son.
Archibald Harley. pioneer mining
man of Empire. died in Denver of a
complication of diseases. Harley was
"A years old and lived at Empire for
more than twenty years.
| ]. II. Swan. seventy-one, wealthy
| property owner and former county
commissioner, committed suicide at
his home at Fort Collins, by cutting
his throat with razor.
| Admiral George Dewey, wired Gov
ornor Ammons his regrets that he
cannot be in Denver as the guest
| of the city and state on May 1, the an
niversary of the battle of Manila.
According to information received
| by Attorney General Farrar, the
| United States Reclamation Service
| may intervene in the Colorado Wyom-
| ing case affecting rights to the water
| of the Laramie river.
| Evidence connecting the Rev. Ed
ward C. Cameron, Baptist minister,
who disappeared from Palisade, a
month ago, with a syndicate OF Texas
| diamond thieves, operating from Hous-
| ton. was discovered by Denver detec.
| tives.
| The long-drawn out fights OF school
| teachers for small sums OF pay under
| contracts We're finally won against
| school district No. 8, Clear Greek
| county, when the Court of Appeals at-
firmed judgments in favor of the
| teachers.
| The state Court of Appeals declined
| to reverse the judgment of the FL Paso
| District Court whereby Nellie NJ Marr
was granted damages OF $500 against
the Colorado Springs Street Railway
| Company, although eighty-one errors
were cited as cause for a reversal.
The sheriff and every availabl Of
! ficer at his command for twentY-fOur
| hours secured the community for
| Juan 1reio. Mexican. who entered
| the house at Morley, a Colorado Fuel
! & Iron Company coal camp south of
| Trinidad. and fired three bullets into
! the body OF his wife inficting wounds
! from which she died at the hospital in
| Trinidad.
| ~Nhile racing with another machine,
| six miles west of La Junta, en- route to
| Rocky Ford, an automobile driven by
! Allen Phillis turned over when a tire
! blew out. throwing the occupants OF
! the car into the road. Mrs. Lee sus-
| tanned broken rib and Mrs. Grimslitt
| fractured arm. Phillis sustained a
| concusson of the brain, but he will re-
! cover.
Indictments charging Frank c. Nu-
, gent, Bonney J. Sylvester, Jerry Cron-
| in, William p. Dolan, Frank Soran and