The Colorado statesman., 1914-08-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Uniform Rank Encampment. Pueblo.
Aug. 25-2S.-Bent Co. Fair Las Animas.
A1s 2sahta Fl tSst6Xn Tra pay at fl@sier Las Anl
aus. 29.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
sept, 2-S-Annual Harvest Festival at
Sept 3.-watermelon Day. Rocky Ford.
sep -5-Farmers Stockmen's
Sept, 1-4.-Morgan Co Fair. Fort Mor-
Sept. l-5.-Larlmer County Fair. Love-
A creamery building is being erected
at Sterling.
A fall festival is to be held at Flag
Ter Aug. 27-2S.
Five thousand Pueblo Slavs are pre-
pairing to rally to the support of Ser
via.
Earl Hoage was reelected president
of the Denver Trades and Labor AS
sembly.
One thousand loaves of bread and
five beeves were provided for the Fort
Morgan barbecue.
The people of the town of Grand
Valley are watching the developments
in the DeBeque oil fields with interest.
Magistrate Rice of Denver fined
eight saloonkeepers $40 each and costs
for violation of the Sunday closing
law.
Thomas Welsh, hardware man of
Grand Junction, is reported to have
been painfully injured in the Telluride
flood.
After living for nineteen months
with a broken back, Christian Frantz,
AZ, carpenter, died at his home in
Denver.
Mrs. Mary Reese, aged 20 years,
died at her home in Rockvale, follow
ing brief illness with cerebral hem
orrhage.
Mrs. Carrie Hess, aged 40, wife of
John G. Hess of Windsor, died at Boul-
der of cancer of the stomach at the
Colorado Sanitarium.
Harry Mathers of Englewood 21 in
jail at Littleton under $500 bond, is
charged by Miss Pearl Cheney, 10,
with having attacked her
Mrs. Georgia Bowman, seventy,
mother of Mrs. John B. Veith of Pu-
bile accident that may prove fatal.
Charles Clyde Barker, Denver attor-
ney, was elected recording secretary
of the Commercial Law League at the
convention which was held in Chicago.
The two MeXicans arrested at Fort
Morgan plead guilty to grand and pc.
tit larceny and were fined $40 and sen
fenced to fifty days in the county jail
Sol H. Jaffa of Trinidad, pioneer
merchant and city treasurer, was by
unanimous vote reelected president of
the Retail Merchants Association of
Colorado.
Two children of Perenio Ruiz,
ranchman, a boy six years and an in
fant three weeks old, were swept away
and drowned in the high water of the
Purgatoire river, near Hochne.
Mrs. p. Martin suffered broken leg,
Mrs. Paul Stewart was severely in
jured and two children, one a baby
were bruised when a team of Shetland
ponies ran away at Fort Collins.
Olive Bradish, sixteen, daughter of
Mrs. Julia Bradish and student in
tho La Junta high school, was drowned
in the Arkansas river. The girls body
was recovered half an hour later.
Suicide and death claimed five res
idents of Weld county in twenty-four
hours One died by his own hand,
two as the result of operations and
two from natural causes. Two were
pioneers.
Miss Veda Foster, popular young
teacher of Loveland, is dead from in
juries received in fall from her
horse. The accident resulted from the
slippery condition of the streets after
a shower.
Mrs Mae Gates Oiler Current. at her
home in Denver denied that she was in
Denver to help her former husband
William ID. Current, who was recently
sentenced to year in the penitentiary
on the charge of fraud.
The secret marriage of John Nor
gan, son of Judge Morgan of the Colo
rado Court of Appeals, and Jean John,
son was revealed in Denver after
young Morgan's mother had left for Il
trip through the East.
That neither w. T. Harpel nor P.
p. Chamberlain was elected mayor of
Eldora last fall, but that each candi-
date had eighteen votes, was the judg-
ment of County Judge Ira c. Roth,
gerber of Denver in the Eldora cleo
tion contest
President Wilson has decided, al
most definitely, to come to Colorado
this fan to aid the Democratic con.
gressional nominees in their campaign
frr D1,
from Washington. 1t was said that
the President probably would make
but one speech and that in Denver