The Colorado statesman., 1914-04-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


July 22-2S.-Cattlemens Day, Gunni-
Aug. 1S-21-Prowers Co. Fair. Lamar.
Aug. 25-2S.-Bent Co. Fair, Las Animas.
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day Las Ami
Aug. 29.-Farmers Fair at Fowler.
Sept Ia kansas Valley Fair
Sept. sSwatermeIon Day, Rocky Ford
Sept 2-5;--Earmers' ard Stockmen's
Fair, Burlington.
Sept 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair, Fort Nor
Sept. 1-4.-Larimer Co. Fair, Loveland.
Sept s-11.-Crowley Co. Fair, Sugar
Sept io-sugar Day, Sugar City.
Sept; 14-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
Sept 14-1e,-colo State Fair, Pueblo.
Sept 1926.-Race Meet. Denver.
Sept 22-25.-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept. -25.-Trinidad Fair. Trinidad.
| Sept 23-26.-El Paso Co. Fair. Calhan;
Sept 2S,$OE1 Mt err County Fair and
1si5,SIast Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver
Mrs. Helen Webster Montague, sew
enty-four years old, one of the oldest
women pioneers of Colorado. died in
Denver.
James S. Clague, wealthy ranch
owner of Greeley, was arrested on a
warrant sworn to by his wife, who
trailed Clague to Denver.
| Thirty armed men watched the Vim
dicator mine for ore thieves, known
in the mining districts as high grad
ers," with whom mine guards ex-
changed shots near Victor.
So enormous has Denvers parcel
post business become recently, Post
master Joseph Harrison has asked
Washington to provide a separate
building for the department.
The discovery of a gold filling in
the tooth of a hog has led to the dis
covery of what may prove one of the
richest placer claims in the state on
the Blue river east of Dillon.
The names of five leading Denver
financiers are being discussed in
Washington as probable members of
the directorate of the regional bank
to be established at Kansas City.
Denver stands an excellent chance
of getting the national sanatorium of
the Loyal Order of the Bull Moose,
according to Arthur H. Jones, past
supreme dictator of the organization.
Mayor Perkins of Denver received
cablegram from United States Con.
sui Heenan at Moscow, Russia, stat
ting James Williams, mining engineer
of Denver, was buried in the Russian
city.
The United States Geological Sur
vey has just issued its first map of
the Longs peak quadrangle, which in
cludes all the territory included in the
proposed Rocky Mountain national
park.
Governor Ammons and Frederick N.
Innes municipal band leader, were
guests Of the Denver Press Club which
held its annual breakfast and inaugu-
ration of officers at the Adams hotel
in Denver.
In many Colorado towns vets and
drys broke about even in Tuesdays
election. Manitou remains wet.
Walsenburg's Union Miners ticket
was beaten. Aguilar's Union ticket
was successful.
The annual report of Auditor James
F. Markey of Denver for the year end.
ing Dec. 81, 1913, were submitted to
the council, and it shows that there
was an actual deficit in the city for
the year of s19S,612.
Information charging embezzlement
against leslie w. Turnbull, resident
manager of the Cribben e Sexton
Company, Chicago stove manufac.
turers, were issued in Denver by the
district attorneys office
Mrs. Spurgeon, wife of the Rev
Otis l.. Spurgeon, who was abducted
from his room at a Denver hotel and
taken out twenty miles on the Brigh-
ton road in a machine, where he was
beaten by the occupants of the car,
arrived in Denver from Des Moines to
be at the bedside of her husband.
Pueblo has launched a campaign
for branch regional bank at that
city, under the parent federal re-
| gional bank of this district Mt Kansas
| City. Fred o. Roof. leading banker
of Pueblo and president of the Colo
RADIO Bankers Association, and other
prominent citizens of Pueblo are at
the head of the movement and have
taken the matter up directly with
Washington.
j. S. Brown, Jr., and Frederick S.
Brown, executors of the estate of their
father, John Sidney Brown. founder
of the mercantile company which
bears his name, who died one year
ago, have filed their final report with
Judge Rothgerber of the Denver Coun-
ty Court The inventory accompany
ing the petition for discharge from
their duties shows that the estate is
worth $1,500,000.
The State Board of Medical Exam
iners has the right to revoke the
licenses of physicians for the publica-
tion of advertisements concerning sex