The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-05-07
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union New. Service,

der of American Mechanics. at Colo
rado Springs.
May 27.-Log- Rolling Contest. WOW.
at Loveland
June }i ls-Juiy Pace Meet Denver
July s-Cherry Pie Day. Manzanola
July 13-19.-Grand Lodge Session. B. +.
July 2-23-Cattlemen's Day. Gunni-
son.
Aug. 1s-sl-Prowsrs Co; Fair. Lamar
Aug: 27-santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Sept. 14;-Ar * a Valley Fair.
Sept. sE-watermelon Day; Roeky Ford
:, Fair. Burlington.
Sept. 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort MOT
Sept. 1-4.--Larimer Co. Fair. Loveiand:
Sept; s-11.-Crowley Co. Fair. sugar
Sept s-11.-cheyenne County Fair at
=. Cheyenne Wells.
Sept lo.Sugar Day. Sugar CITY y,,o
Sept. i5-is.-Lineoln County Fair at
Sept. is-2 2s;-Raee Meet. Denysr,, and
Sept. 2l-23. = Inter County FAR anu
Race Meet at timon. ,,,,,-
Sept. 22-25.-western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept. 22- -25.-Montezuma County Fair
Sept. ss.-Trin!daa Fair; TT Trip!a5nSS, Ha5San.
Oct. 6-sTColorado New Mexico Fair a.
Durango
American Indian. indian a. Denver.
Denver is to be the host Of the Colo
rado State Sunday School convention
June 16, II and IS.
Six men were wounded in the all
day battle in and around the Hecla
mine at Louisville.
Pneumonia caused the death OF the
Rev. John Fitzpatrick Of Omaha
while he was visiting in Denver.
Four hundred members of the Colo
RADIO Division of the Travellers Pro-
tective Association of America held
their annual reunion and banquet N
Denver.
The total circulation Of the Denver
public library for last year was $780,
$40 volumes, an increase OF 173,372
over 1912, as shown by the annual IL
brary report.
A trio of Denver pawnbrokers have
asked the police to look for John Kan
trane, jewelry salesman. who disap-
peared after obtaining $500 worth OF
diamonds from them on consignment.
The Denver city commissioners
have decided that no change will be
made in the office of mayor until
June, 1915, and that all council ap-
pointlments shall stand until that
time.
The Good Government League. an
organization to aid in settling the
Colorado coal strike. was the outcome
OF secret melting held by forty Den
yer women in the Young Mems
Christian Association building.
Miss Margery Werner Mary Cecilia
Reed and Joseph Werner Reed. daugh-
ter and son of Werner z. Reed of Den
yer, were honored in Rome when, aft
er their confirmation. they were re-
ceived in private audience by the
pope.
There were five or six vacancies in
the list of senators and representa-
tives when the special session OF the
Legislature met Monday. as result
of federal appointments made since
the Legislature was in regular ses-
sion.
Walter B. Fraser, appointed by
Governor Ammons on January 26 last.
was declared state game and fish
commissioner by District Judge Deni-
son in Denver when he decided the
quo warranto proceedings instituted
on behalf OF Fraser against James A.
ShiIn, the former commissioner.
against Shinn.
The railroad men of northern Colo
RADIO are making arrangements to
take up with the officials of the Colo
RADIO & Southern. Union Pacific and
other lines the question of their per-
sonal safety in the coal camps. Some
are now out OF service because they
refused to endanger their lives and
haul troop trains.
Rainfall in Denver last month, to-
falling 375 inches, was greater than in
forty Of the last forty-three Aprils.
The only Aprils with a greater pre-
cipitation were in 1885. when 4.94
inches was measured; in 1900. when
the total for the month was 8.24
inches. and in 1905, when the meas
urement was 4.95 inches. The aver
age for April for forty-three years has
been only 2.17 inches. the excess In
the month just ended having been 1.5S
inches.
That developments in the Mexican
situation indicate inevitable war with
the United States, is the opinion of
Alphonse p Ardourel. representative
in the Nineteenth General Assembly,
who has just returned from the rebel
lion-stricken country to attend the ex-
ira legislative session. Conditions in
Mexico, he declares. are beyond the
control of any Of the factions, and
chaos exists everywhere. in the gen.
eral turmoil that prevails, he consid-
ora a clash with the United States