The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-07-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Date. for Coming Events.
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.


at Colorado Springs.
July 22-2s.-Cattlemen's Day. Gunni7
July s0-Democratic State Convention
Aqs rsao %sstDs Dsnys9 cGi0
Aug. 4-Repubiiean Assembly at Dem
Aug. Ss.Crowley Day at ordway:.
Aas. ss-37.-k. OF p. Grand Lodge and
Aug asEseR, HseR Goe1%R"Ifn co Far Ias Animas
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 2s.-Farmers'. Fair at Fowler;
SEPT , itEArk an as Valley Faf'
Sept 2,3-AnnuaI Harvest Festival at
Sept sTwntermelon Day; Roeky . rora;
sept z-5-Farmers' Stockmehs
Sept. i-4-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept l-5,-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept, 3-5,-sedgwick County Fair at
Sept. S"Kiowa County Fair at Ead.-
sept s-1l.-Routt County Fair at hay
Sept s-11.-Crowley Co. Fair. suga-
segs s.s.n,. s.iI;.GssSsnns Count, Fair at
Sent Sent i1oIsnEaa pay snEsT E.f CITY Pueblo
Sept l6-l7-conejos County fair a'
SEMI Manassai ssais-p,. county fair a,
springfieid. W '''
Sept. is,as-Race Meet, Denver;
Sept 21-2s.Inter-Co. Fair and Race
Sept, :ss-st.-Appie Pie pay at R,fis, Mint.
Sept s2-2s.-Monts.uma Co. Fair at
Sept. zs-2s-Ei Paso Co. Fair. calh.r.
Sept 2soct Central Colorado Fair
at Colorado Springs.
Oct l-s...Grand County Fair At
Oct s-s.-Coio. New Mex. Fair at Du-
lsl5,-L.ast Grand Council of North
American Indians At Denver.
Ralph E. Bedding has been named
postmaster at Eagle.
Nine cents per pound was paid for
hogs In the Denver market.
Recall petitions against the mayor
commissioner of public records and
commissioner OF highways are being
circulated at Colorado City.
Samuel Bashor. Jr.. aged twenty.
five, was struck by lightning and al
most instantly killed on the Matt Nc
Caslin ranch near Hygiene.
Mrs. Louise A. Bonney. seventy-two
died at the home of her daughter In
Castle Rock. For the last tep years
she had made her home in Denver and
was prominent in church affairs.
Fully fifteen hundred people, most
1y farmers, attended the annual coun
~ grange picnic at Platt's grove near
Valmont and the program carried out
was the best one which the grange
has had in several years.
Carl Floyd. aged eleven. was
drowned while bathing in Bessemer
ditch near Blenda. The boy was the
principal bread-winner of a family OF
seven. His father is an invalid and
the other four children are younger.
The body of Miss Grace McHugh OF
Denver. leading woman for the Colo
RADIO Motion Picture Company. who
was drowned July ! in the Arkansas
river, was recovered three miles east
of Florence by T. R Williams, ranch.
man.
The B. P. o. E. lodge OF the Philip
pine islands was represented at the
reunion in Denver by two prominent
civil service men. They were Samuel
Osborne Scudder, chief surveyor. and
Heinrich w. Gangunuss, assistant au.
ditor of the Islands.
The week OF Oct %, named by the
Supreme Court as the time for Har.
old F. Henwood to hang, will pass
without the sentence being executed.
Through Attorney General Farrar Hen
wood was granted an extension OF
time for the filing of an application for
a rehearing.
After almost a week of parades,
drills. grand lodge sessions and seeing
the town, the Elks who captured Den.
yer went out to visit and see the
state. At both the Union and Moffat
depots Friday a constant stream OF
humanity boarded the trains to spend
the day in the mountains,
The woman over whom Dr. Earl Nc
Gill of Wray was shot went to Denver
to be at his bedside when an opera
tion is performed to remove the bullet
which may cost the physician his life
She is Mrs. McGill No. 2, who married
McGill after he had been secretly al
vorced from his first wife and she
from her first husband. Her former
husband, Daniel Funk. shot McGill to
avenge the honor of his home.
The annual report of the auditing
board of the grand lodge of Elks
shows that the Denver lodge had 80,
500 on hand at the beginning of the
fiscal year; that it received between
March 81, 1913. and the same date II
1914, $54,22S; that it expended durint
the year s5i.S30. and that it has cash
on hand on March 81, 1914, s9.19S
The amount expended for charity dur
ing the year was $5.544 and the ne
assets of the lodge at the end of the
year were S24,531.