The Elbert County tribune., 1914-05-01
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State

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May i.-isMkkacs Meet, Durango.
May II-Log, Rolling Contest wow
June 1s-July t--Race Meet. Denver.
July a-n@Race Meet. Pueblo.
jug DE Loasc 1sy ssIsnois session
o. Ell<s at Denver.
July 22-2S.-cattlemen's Day. Gunni-
Aug ,s-2l.-Prowers Co. Fair. Lamar.
Aug 20 2S--Bent Co Fair. Las Animas.
Aug. zs'-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug Farmers Fair at Fowler;
seRf Rockx kltEAr kansas Valley Fair.
Sept 3Ewatermeion Day. Rocky Ford.
SEPT gs,-Farmers' T. d Stockmen's
seps. i i-imMotsssn iMdas.an Co Fair. Fort Nor
Sept l!-Larimer Co. Fair. Loveiand:
oePt; sH.-Crowiey Co Fair. sugar
Sept s-11.-cheyenne County Fair at
cheyenne Wells.
sept is--Colo. State Fair. Pueblo.
sept ls-lS'--Lincoln County Fair at
Sept. 4 2s-Race Meet. Denver.
Sept 2l.23. : Inter County Fair and
race Meet at Limon.
Sept. 25.-Montezuma County Fair
Sept az -25.-Trinidad Fair, Trinidad
Sept 2s s-2s--El Paso Co. Fair. Calhan.
Oct 6-s-Colorado- New Mexico Fair AZ
1s15.-i-ast Grand Council of North
american Indians at Denver.
Denver hardware stores profited by
the strike in the southern territory to
the extent OF selling over 500 rifles.
At Colorado Springs Charles Mag
nesson was fined $3.50 on charge
of buying liquor for an habitual
drunkard.
Mrs. Sarah J. Eager. seventy-eight
years old, resident of Denver since
1871, died at the home of her daugh-
ter. Mrs. George Kaylor.
Appointments for road work over
the state amounting to $149.10O have
been made by the advisory board of
the state highway commission.
Denver's first county hospital. a two
story frame structure standing at 1863
Eleventh street, is being torn down to
make way for modern warehouse
building.
r. G. Fitch was struck by Colora-
do e Southern passenger train near
Utah Junction and probably fatally in
jured. He was taken to the county
hospital in Denver.
The charge made In Trinidad that
state militiamen buried bodies on the
Ludlow field to conceal the number
of those who were killed there ap-
pears to be unfounded.
Application for supersedeas from
Judge Denison's custer decree was
made before the Supreme Court by
attorneys for the Mountain States Tel
ephone Company In Denver.
The County Court in Denver ap-
pointed John F. Frary guardian OF
John r. Olson, minor. that the boy
might obtain proper consent to enlist
as marine for Uncle Sam.
A telegram was sent from Denver
to Governor Ammons en- route from
Washington. by the Colorado Single
Tax Association, demanding that he
resign forthwith as governor of the
state.
In letter received from General
Leonard Wood. Col James Bulger,
who is organizing a rough rider regi.
ment in Denver, was advised that the
regiment would probably be the first
volunteer cavalry to be called to the
Mexican war.
Plans have been accepted and con.
tracts signed for one of the largest
and handsomest business blocks in
the Arkansas valley to be erected in
Rocky Ford on the site of the recent
fire on North Maine street. in the
heart Of the business district.
The board OF directors of the Den.
yer Chamber Of Commerce was In.
structed with unanimous vote to ap.
point special committee OF three or
five members of that organization to
make a thorough investigation of the
events leading up to and the circum-
stances connected with the battle be-
tween the troops and strikers in and
around Ludlow last week.
People on the ground are only be,
ginning to realize that Hinsdale coun.
ty is on the eve q a gold excitement
that at this time promises to rival
anything since the early days and to
eclipse anything since the days of
Cripple Creek. And, remarkable
thing, Hinsdale is promised two gold
excitements during the next few
months in two distinct districts and in
two widely separated portions of the
county.
The first rumbles of renewed dis
turbance in the northern coal fields
were heard at Lafayette, when three
non-union men, Pete Angles, Charles
Jacoby and Ed. Warburton. were as.
saulted in the center of the town with
in block of the postoffice by party
of eight strikers. Two of the men
were badly beaten. Peter Ankles and
Charles Jacoby. Warburton was able