Cheyenne record., 1914-09-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.
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Sept. 22-2s.-Montezuma Co. Fair At,
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Oct. s.s.Mcoio.- New Mex. Fair a. pu-
lsl5;-Last Grand Council Of North
American Indians at Denver.
The Italians in Denver celebrated
their independence day on Sunday.
Sept. 20.
Thieves entered the Catholic church
at Longmont, broke open the poor-box
and made away with the contents.
Construction work has been started
on the state highway which will con-
meet the San Juan basin with the San
Luis valley.
The Denver Union Water Company
has called a special meeting for Oct.
to vote twenty-year extension Of
its charter, which expires this year.
William H. Day, a miner living in
Boulder, was robbed of $40, a suit
case, full of clothing and a gold watch
by bandits who held him up in Den
yer.
Following quarrel with his father,
John Dowty, a ranch hand, shot and
killed his parent and then gave him.
self up to the authorities at Colorado
Springs.
Seven members Of the Denver chap
ter Of the American Institute of Bank
ing left Denver to attend the twelfth
annual convention of the organization
In Dallas, Tex.
Thirty-three pearls in single
oyster, said by jewelers. to be rec
ord breaking number, were reported
found recently by A. L. Digby of PuI.
eblo.
W. E. vaplon of the State Agricul-
tural College at Fort Collins. was in
Grand Junction to organize boys and
girls canning clubs which have been
formed over the state recently.
"As fine grapes as I have ever
seen, as fine as any imported ones,
and to my mind, perhaps better, are
the ones which were exhibited at the
state fair at Pueblo" said Governor
Ammons.
Heart disease from which she had
suffered for four years caused the
death of Mrs. A. A. Tanner. wife of the
Rev. DR.. Tanner. pastor of the First
Congregational church, at her home in
Denver.
Charging that an influence too pow
erful for her to resist was exercised
over her, Mrs. Edith Lillian Samuels-
better known as "Pete," for divorce at
Fort Collins.
News of the death of Mrs. J. w.
Denver, widow of the late General
Denver, former governor of Kansas
and for whom the City of Denver was
named, comes from her home in Will
mington, Ohio.
Railroad activity about Fort Collins
has revived the belief that the Union
Pacific is preparing soon Ito continue
its line up the Poudre canon to Vir-
ginia Dale and eventually to it's main
line into Wyoming.
A reduction of $4,000 in Leadville's
annual water bill" is the latest bene-
fit to be derived from the recently ac-
complished "cash basis" of city man.
agement and the pending settlement
of the city warrant question.
For the sake Of his wife and baby
boy, the twelve Denver Jurors who
tried and convicted Oscar George Of
murder in the second degree, have
signed their names to a petition to
the board of pardons requesting that
he be paroled.
A demonstration run across the con-
tinental divide from Steamboat
Springs to Denver was made by thir-
ty-five automobiles to test the new
forest service road being built over the
Rabbit Ear range. The run was made
in fourteen hours.
A change Of venue from Huerfano to
Pueblo county in the so-called La Veta
murder cases, in which ten members
of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea are charged with the killing of four
mine guards was granted at Walsen-
burg by Judge H. P. Burke.
Archie B. Johnson, instrument man