The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-04-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
May 12-4-State Council of Junior Or
der Of American Mechanics. at Colo
May 14-i6.-Race Meet. Durango
May 27,-Log, Rolling Contest, wow
June 1s-Juiy Race Meet. Denver.
July 7-11.-Race Meet. Pueblo.
July s@Cherry Pie Day. Manzanola- %
T, @ Elks at Denver
July 22-23.-Cattlemen's Day! Gunni-
Aug. 25-2s-Bent Co Fair. Las Animas.
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug, 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
Sept IA; 4;-Ark nsas Valley Fair.
:, Rocky Ford
Sept. 2-5.-Farmers' ara Stockmen's
Fair, Burlington.
Sept. 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. 1-4-Larimer Co. Fair, Loveland.
sept s-l1.-Crowley Co. Fair. sugar
Sept. s-11.-Cheyenne County Fair at
Cheyenne Wells.
SSeptt' ii9,Tsugar gar Day: sugar r,r Ci's; 'gsn;eblo.
sept. l5-1S.-Lincoln County fair at
Sept. 1s-2s.-Race Meet. Denver,
Sept, 2l,2s. = Inter County Fair and
Sept. 22-25.-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept. 22-25.-Montezuma County Fair
Sept. -25.-Trinidad Fair, Trin!dinsd; I!disar
Oct. 6-9-Colorado- New Mexico FAR at
Isi5,-sast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Denver hardware stores profited by
the strike in the southern territory 10
the extent of selling over 600 rifles
fnr-
nished the themes for many OF the
sermons delivered in the Denver
churches.
Some of the Denver and Cripple
Creek guardsmen mutinied when Or
dered to the strike zone, on account
of not having been paid for previous
services.
Mrs. Sarah ]. Eager, eighty-eightra
resident of Denver for forty-three
years, died at the home of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. George Kaylor. wife Of Pa
trolman Kaylor.
Six hundred and fifty rifles were re-
ported purchased from hardware
stores of Denver Thursday and
shipped into the coal strike region of
southern Colorado.
Sergeant Perry of the marine SER
vice opened the recruiting office In
Colorado Springs after an absence OF
several months. Eight applicants ap-
peared the first day.
Application for supersedeas from
Judge Denisons custer decree was
made before the Supreme Court by
attorneys for the Mountain States Tel
ephone Company in Denver.
A Denver chapter of the National
Red Cross Society was formed for SER
vice in Mexico. Its chief object is to
supply funds and medical supplies for
hospitals along the border.
George B. vallerchamp died at his
home in Edgewater. He was fifty
eight years old and had lived in Den
yer nearly thirty years,Sand at Edge
water for twenty-five years.
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.
Mrs. ]. ]. Brown of Denver and
Newport, heroine OF the Titanic, has
offered to give $1,000 toward the sup
port Of a troop of Colorado women and
to lead them In battle against Mexico.
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.
A dozen residents of Ludlow and vi
cinity are in Pueblo, some injured, but
others merely fleeing from the trou-
BILE zone. They tell stirring stories OF
the battle between strikers and mill
tia last week.
Protests against a dilatory special
session OF the Legislature to investi-
gate the coal strike, with problemat-
ical action some time in the remote
future, when quick work and instant
wise decision we're needed. were filed
with statehouse officials and members
of the Senate and House last week.
Thirteen of the victims of the bat
tie of Ludlow and the fire in the tent
colony were buried in graves in the
Catholic cemetery at Trinidad. Fifteen
hundred men, women and children
from the strikers camps formed an
escort in the funeral procession, that
passed through Trinidad from the
Holy Trinity Church to the cemetery
east of the city.
While duck shooting near San Aca-
clio on Sanchez lake, an immense arti-
fetal reservoir belonging to the Cos
tilla Estate Development Co.. j. Chap
pin, thought to be one of a party of
homeseekers from Oklahoma. was
drowned. Chaplin had shot duck
out on the lake and in attempting to
reach it fell into the lake, and, it is
supposed, was seized with cramps in