The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-05-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Ee.terr Nen.papeE rnLon News serllce.
DATES FOR CcIiNC EVENTS.

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May lt1s.-Race Meet Durango
May Z7--Log Rolling Contest. wow
June Is-ls-state Sunday School Con-
June ls-July ..-Race Meet. Denver.
July 7-1l.--Raco Meet. Pueblo
Iuiy 13-ls-Girand Lodge session. p. p
July % 2S-cattlemen's Day. Gunni-
Aug. 1s 2I.-Prowers Co, Fair. Lamar.
Aug 25-es Bent Co FAIR Las Animas
Aug 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug 2s-Farrners' Fair at Fowler.
Sept la k ansas Valley Fair.
sept Watermelon Day. Rocky Ford
sept 2-5-Farmers' and Stockmens
sept i-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. s-ll.-Crowley Co Fair. sugar
sept s-11-cheyenne County Fair at
sept. 1o@sugar bay. Sugar City
/ Sept. l4le-Colo. state Fair. Pueblo
sept I5-ls.-Lincoln County Far at
Sept. 1s-2s-Race Meet. Denver
sept y 20 ~ Inter County Fair and
| Race Meet at Limon-
Sept. 2225-w western slope Fair Mont
sept 22- 25.-Montezu.na county Fair
SEPT 22 25,-Trtnidan Fair, Trinid;nd h5;sa,
{ sept GsIk-E.I IaSo 60 l. dt t-bihdh'
4 Oct s-9-Colorado- New Mexico Fair at
1915 LAST Grand Council OF North
/ American Indians at Denver
For the first time in four years
Boulder county is without single
| deputy to patrol the strike districts.
The city of Ordway wins the legal
| tight with Sugar City as to which is
% be the county seat OF Crowley coun-
ty, according to an opinion of the Su-
preme Court.
| Major c. ]. Symmonds Of the
| Twelfth United States cavalry passed
! through Denver en- route TO Louis
Vile to take command OF the United
States troops there.
| A suit for libel asking $4,000 dan.
ages. was filed against the Denve-
/ Transit and Warehouse Company py
/ the Merchants Transfer Company, in
/ the District Court in Denver.
| The education in the use OF silos.
which has been one of the principal
things done by the agriculturists for
many months past. is now bearing
fruit in the Del Norte section.
I ~lICe lutE nave bEtI pI ott'ttu u'ii
| ing the entire season by the state
game laws, there has been a marked
| increase in the number OF elk on tue
White River national forest reserve.
| The sentence of life Imprisonment
| passed on Peter Forte, convicted OF
numbering his wife in September,
| 1912 was upheld by an opinion
handed down by the Supreme Court.
Advocates of state wide prohibition
who desired to submit a constitutional
amendment to make Colorado dry"
found that the petitions. to which they
| had obtained 10000 signatures, were
| invalid.
| In fear of spreading his disease
among his countrymen, and in despair
of being cured, Isamu Nakahara, twen-
| ty-seven years old editor of the New
York Weekly Times. shot himself
through the head in his room in Den
| yer.
| Darius Miller president of the Bur
lington railroad. left Denver after pre-
dieting bumper crops for Colorado.
Miller was in Denver for day and
tour of inspection of the Burlington
| lines
| Acting under advice from City At
torney Howard, the City Council at
special meeting has passed a resolu-
ton ordering the telephone company
| to remove its lines from the streets
and alleys of Monte Vista within six
| ty days.
| The Teller county grand jury,
| which filed its report, censured the
| city administration for federation OF
violation of state liquor and gambling
laws and criticized irregularities in
| the offices of the city clerk and police
magistrate.
The Utah Copper Company, con-
| trolled by Colorado capital, is plan
! ming to erect new mill of 10000 to
| 1900 tons daily capacity at Cripple
| Creek. and only about a year or lit
tie more will be required for its act
| ual construction.
In the general scheme of good road
building, mapped for Colorado this
year, one of the most important high
ways is the Rabbit Ear road This
road was begun last year by the for
est service of the government The
| eighteen miles to the top of the range
on the Western Slope will cost. ac.
cording to the engineers estimate,
$4,000.
Having for its object the quadru.
| ping of the output OF hogs in Colorado
an industrial movement of wide sig
nificance has been started through
the cooperation of railroads and lead.
ing live stock interests of this state.
According to estimates 250,OOO hogs
We're produced in Colorado last year
while at this time there is a demand