The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-09-24
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
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PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Oct l-s.-Grand County Fair at
Oct. s-s.-Coio New Mex Fair at Du-
range.
American Indians at Denver
Durango Woodmen expect soon to
erect large lodge building.
The sugar factory at Fort Morgan
will begin operations on the eSth.
The Italians in Denver celebrated
their independence day on Sunday,
Sept. 20.
at his residence in Denver. Hefwas
seventy-three years old.
The Denver Union Water Company
has called a special meeting for Oct.
to vote twenty-year extension of
Its charter, which expires this year
William H. Day. a miner living in
Boulder, was robbed of $40, a suit
case full of clothing and gold watch
by bandits who held him up in Dem
yer.
Thirty-three pearls in 4 single
oyster, said by jewelers. to be a rec
ord breaking number, were reported
found recently by A. L. Digby of Pu-
eblo.
Mrs. l.. F. Nicodemus, widow of the
late l.. F. Nicodemus of Denver, who
was shot and killed by James Bulger.
was operated on for appendicitis at
st. Luke's hospital.
Following a quarrel with his father.
John Dowty. ranch hand. shot and
killed his parent and then gave HIM
self up to the authorities at Colorado
Springs.
According to letters received by the
French consul of Denver, DR.. A. Bour-
quin. several hundred Frenchmen.
residents of Mexico. have left for
France to take active part in the war
w. E vaplon of the State Agricul-
tural College at Fort Collins. was in
Grand Junction to organize boys and
girls canning clubs which have been
formed over the state recently.
LAS fine grapes as I have ever
seen, as fine as any imported ones,
and to my mind, perhaps better. are
the ones which were exhibited at the
Ammons.
John Sarrison. a miner from Parlin.
paid $2.5S9.55 to get rich quick, and
the Denver police are looking for two
clever swindlers who got the money
by the time.worn scheme of switching
the tin box"
Railroad activity about Fort Collins
has revived the belief that the Union
Pacific is preparing soon to continue
its line up the Poudre canon to Vir-
ginia Dale and eventually to its main
line into Wyoming.
A reduction OF $1,000 in Leadvilles
annual water bill" is the latest bene-
complished cash basis" of city man
agement and the pending settlement
OF the city warrant question.
For the sake of his wife and baby
boy. the twelve Denver jurors who
tried and convicted Oscar George OF
murder in the second degree. have
signed their names to a petition to
the board of pardons requesting that
he be paroled.
Denver's greatest patriotic celebra-
ton was held at the Auditorium when
the school children and the grown
folk Of the city filled the building to
honor the centenary of the Star
Spangled Banner" and its author,
Francis Scott Key.
John App. fifty. retired Denver
merchant. attempted suicide three
times within a week because of de-
spondency over the recent reverses
suffered by the German hosts in tine
European conflict and worry over a
mortgage on his home
The Rev. Hugh l.. McMenamin of
Denver has written to Cardinal Fal-
COMO. formerly apostolic delegate to
the United States. now stationed at
Rome. asking him to secure the re-
lease of the Rev. Joseph Bosetti from
military service in Italy, If possible.
Forty-nine suits for damages of
1921. .655.60 arising out of the Cherry
creek flood in July, 1912, were be-
Tended in Judge Aliens division of the
District Court in Denver. The hear
ing of the several actions. consoli-
dated in order to expedite trial. was
begun before a jury.
Forty-five years member in good
standing in one order. That is a rec
ord to be proud of. 1t is the record OF
A. Roscower. one of Trinidad's pio-
neer merchants who recently received
from the grand lodge of Odd Fellows
a forty-five year jewel. the only jewel
of its kind in Colorado. Mr.. Rascower
ing Of the grand lodge in Denver.
Val Horning, forty-five or fifty
years old, a night watchman in the
new Denver postoffice building. was
found dead He Was living crllmnIed