The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-04

Sept. 7-Kiowa County Fair at Eads
sept 9-1l.-Routt County Fair at Hay
Sept; s-11.-crowley Co. Fair. sugar
Sept. 9-11-Cheyenne County Fair at
Cheyenne Wells.
Sept. 1o;-,Sugar, Day, Sugar City; ;,,o
Sept. l5-1S.-Lincoln Co. Fair at Hugo.
Sept. 19-26.-Race Meet, Denver;
Sept -2S;--Inter-Co. Fair and Race
Sept 2s-24.-Apple Pie Day at Rifle.
Sept 22-25.-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept. 2-25.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
Sept. 2s2s.-El Paso Co. Fair, caihan.
Sept 29-Oct 3-Central Colorado Fair
at Colorado Springs
Oct. 1-3-Grand County Fair at
Oct 6-9.-Coio New Mex Fair at Du-
range.
American Indians at Denver.
Alvin F. Cool, eighty-nine years old,
committed suicide in Denver.
David F. Day, sixty-six, founder and
editor of the Durango Democrat, died
of paralysis.
Adjt. Gen. John Chase announced
the arrival within a few days of 1000
new uniforms for state troops.
Two hundred thousand dollars is
the estimated value of the apple crop
to be harvested in Larimer county this
fail.
Denver was highly praised by twen-
ty-one ticket agents of Eastern rail-
roads who spent DAY there as stop
on tour of the West.
Mrs. Mary Ann Hartman, eighty-one,
died at the residence of her son, John
M. Hartman, lu Denver. Her death
was sudden and was the result of old
age.
Joseph Esser, who for six years was
the Democratic sheriff of Fremont
county, has been made deputy war
den of the state reformatory at Buena
Vista.
Plans for the annual grange picnic
to be held July IA in Platt's grove
near Valmont were completed at a
meeting of the arrangements COM
mittee.
| DR.. Elsie Pratt of Denver has been
elected to the board of directors of the
University of Michigan Alumni Asso-
citation. She is the first woman to re-
ceive the honor.
The Missionary Education Move
ment has announced it's program of
speakers, teachers and leaders for its
first annual summer conference at
Estes Park, July 18th to Goth.
James L. Carney, formerly local
freight agent of the Union Pacific in
Denver, has been promoted to the po.
stion of general freight and passen-
ger agent, with headquarters in Mil
waukee.
Cap pistols, a shortage of ammuni-
ticn and its substitution by matches
mixed in a premature Fourth of July
celebration at Alamosa caused the par
tial destruction OF the property of j..
C. Patterson.
Billy Sunday, evangelist, will not
| permit his name or his services to be
used as capital by the Anti-Saloon
League or the Prohibition party in
their campaign for statewide prohibit
ton in Colorado this fall. Billy Sun
day made his position in this matter
plain in Colorado Springs.
One of the successful leases in the
Idaho Springs section is the Coe lease
on the Gem. The four partners have
divided $4,000 within the last year
Charles Christianson is one of the
partners and the manager of the ope-
rations. For two years a production of
fifty tons daily has been made
A jury in the District Court at
Colorado Springs returned a verdict
for the defendant in the damage suit
of the Colorado Springs company, an
asset of the Gen. William J. Palmer
estate, against the Curtis Coal Mining
Company for s15O,000 damages for al
legged breach of contract in the opera
tion of coal leases north of Colorado
Springs.
The flag of the Austro Hungarian
consulate in Denver will fly at half
mast over the consulate for thirty
| days in honor of the memory of Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand and his NOR
ganatic wife, the duchess of Hohen-
berg. No formal observance of the
| tragedy will be made by the Austrian
colony in Denver. as its members are
comparatively few.
Senator Helen Ring Robinson and
ner daughter Alcyon, who has just
graduated from the Wolcott school,
will leave Denver to attend the Inter
national Parliamentary Union conven,
icn to be held in Stockholm, Sweden,
| On Aug. 1.
Products of the San Luis valley will
| De adequately represented at the ma
!ional convention of the Elks, to be
aeld in Denver, July 10. The Alamosa
Elks have voted 5000 to be used in pro-
Viding large float for the parade
which will contain produce exhibit
Of the valley.