The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-05

Sept, 9.l1...-C7heXenne County Fair at
Sent. iO-Sugar Day. Sugar city.
Sept. l4-19.EColo. State Fair. Pueblo
Sept. 15-1S-Lincoln Co Fair at Hugo
sept, l6-17-Conejos County fair AZ
Sept, 1e,1s-Baca County fair at
Sept. i5-26NRace Meet. Denver.
Meet at Limon
sept sept assAPPIe is sldps Day rr at Rs Mont
Sept, 2-25.-Montezuma Co. Fair a,
A large crowd attended the Larimer
county fair at Loveland The exhibits
were fine.
DIR. w. E. Dillingham; of Mead was
killed by lightning crossing the Mum
my mountains, mile above timber
line.
August Muench, locksmith, who
killed himself. had his wish and was
buried by the East Denver and the
Social turnvereins.
The University of Colorado will be
unable to operate it's wireless station
this year, or at least, SO long as the
European war lasts.
Frank E. Watson, son of former
Mayor John A. Watson of Meeker,
died in Shoshone, Idaho, of spotted
fever, caused by tick bite.
About $50 old settlers enjoyed their
annual reunion at Central park in
Trinidad. John Conkie was elected
president and ]. c. Baldwin secretary.
Reports from Montrose state that
the body of Vance Cloud, who was
lost in the Paradox country, has been
found in the sands of the Dolores
river.
Postponed three months because of
an injury to the bride, the wedding OF
Daniel l.. Shull of Taft, and Mrs.
Florence Wolf Misner of Boulder was
solemnized.
Two thousand wives, daughters and
mothers identified with the Order of
the Eastern Star gathered at Ell
Jebel temple in Denver in honor of
Robert Morris, founder of the order.
The annual baseball tournament in
connection with the Colorado state
fair. Sept. 1919, for the championship
of the state, will be continued this
year, according to the directors of the
association.
The annual report of the Rocky
Mountain Fuel Company for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1914, which has
just been sent to the stockholders,
shows that the company had net earn
ings for the year of $32S,743.
Mrs. Annie Riggs testified in the
County Court a. Pueblo that she be-
lieved her husband, Samuel H. Riggs,
had beaten her on 100 different occa-
sions. She was granted a decree of
divorce and $40 month alimony.
The Postoffice Department at Wash
ington has notified Representative
Seldomridge that new rural route
will be established out of Kersey
Special mail service was ordered es-
tablished between Ouray and Ironton.
James E. Downey. seventy-four, a
well known real estate man of Pueblo
died at Ann Arbor, Mich, at the home
of his son-in-law, Prof. A. H. White of
the University of Michigan, with
whom he had been living for three
years.
Recognizing the elections commits
sion in the matter of the proposed re-
call of Commissioner of Safety Nisbet
and concurring in its recommendation
city commissioners of Denver official
ly set the date for the election as Oct
1G instead of Sept. 80
President Wilson will not visit Colo
rD1O thic fall in haba1f of tbo eto+a
Democratic ticket A dispatch from
Washington said that a change in his
plans had been caused by the Euro
pean war and the bereavement in his
own family.
Two hundred French reservists
passed through La Junta on their way
back from San Francisco to fight for
the tricolor. All were in high spirits
and eyinced intense eagerness to get
country. The reserves will sail from
New York to Havre. France.
That Denver is entering upon
period of prosperity for all classes is
shown in the monthly report of the
Denver postoffice. The financial
statement issued by Cashier j. p.
Broderick shows an increase of 13 per
cent over August, 1913. The total re-
ceipts were s114,90S.O1, and for Au-
gust, 1918, $101, ,6S6.93.
The putting into circulation in Den
yer of 100000, which is the amount to
be spent by the Santa Fe, Union Pa
cific, Colorado and Southern, Burling-
ton and Rock Island lines for the con-
struction of the new union station,
was commenced in Denver, when the
wrecking of the central portion of the
present structure was begun.
After it is alleged he had given
bogus checks for more than 81 900 in
payment for horses purchased, Charles
Andrews, thirty-five, who, it is said,