The Elk Mountain pilot., 1914-07-30
COLORADO NEWS
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rado Editorial Association. Denver.
Aug. 4-Republican Assembly at Dem
Aug. s.-Crowley Day at ordway.
aug Aug 15s-;;11--Prowsrs Go; E Eair, icdsa sad and
Uniform Rank Encampmsnt. Pueblo
Aug. s7.-santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
Sept LARK AN as Valley Fer'
Sept. s.a-Annual Harvest Festival at
Sept. s.--watermelon Day; Rocky Fora
Fair. Burlington.
Sept. 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Mot-
Sept. l-5.-Larimsr County Fair. Love-
land.
Sept. s.5.-sedgwick County Fair at
sept. s@Rkiowa County Fair at Ead..
Sept s-11.-Routt County Fair at hay
Sept. s-11.-crowiey Co. Fair. suga-
Sept. s.ll-Gheyenne County Fair At
Sept. ll-1s-Colo. State Fair. Pueblo
Sept ls:ls;-Lincoln Co; Fair at Huge
Manassa.
Sept. 1s,1s-Baca County fair at
Sept is-2s Race Meet Denver; p.o.
Sept 2l-2s;;I,Intsr-co. Fair and RACE
Sept: ss-ss.-wsstsrn Slope Fair. Mont
Sept a.-ss.-Monte.uma, Co. Fair a,
Sept. ss-2s.-El Paso Co. Fair. Calh.r,
Sept. 2s-oct. s-Gentrai Colorado FAR
Oct: 1-3,U.Grand County Fair at
Oct, s-s.Mcoio.- New Mex. Fair at. Du-
1sl5..Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver .
Individual group exhibits are to be
featured at the Prowers county fair
which Is to be held at Lamar, Aug.
10. 20 and 81.
Frederick w. Leonhardt. manager of
the Lakewood Country Club. died at
the Park Avenue hospital in Denver
after an Illness Of three days.
The county commissioners at Delta
elected C. 8. Blanchard Of Cedaredge
sheriff to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of c. C. Sampson. eff
fective August 1.
Reports from Altman, thirty miles
southwest of Colorado Springs. noted
as the highest incorporated town in
the world, Indicate a heavy fall of
snow on the 22nd.
The last link in the state highway
from Cheyenne to Greeley, consisting
OF a strip of road fifteen miles long
from Dover to the Wyoming state line.
has been completed.
Mrs. Jack Bell. wife OF a prominent
Denver prospector and newspaperman.
lies at the Park hotel at Ridgway in a
critical condition as the result Of being
thrown over pony's head. l
Spot, the famous Arabian horse
which was presented by the sultan Of
Turkey to Gen. Grant, is lost, and the
Denver Dumb Friends League is max
ing every effort to find him.
That age is no barrier to Cupid and
a secret marriage was proved when
Thomas W. Murray, sixty-one. anc
Mrs. Anna Cabbeen. fifty-four, were
secretly married at Littleton.
Evans G. A. r. and w. r. C. socie-
ties have petitioned the school board
of that place to have flagpole erec,-
ed In the school yard for the display
Of the American flag upon patriotic
days.
Capt. George Thatcher. seventy-four.
of Aspen, one of the Oldest and mos;
prominent mining men of the state.
was knocked down In Denver by an
electric auto driven by Miss Frances
Moffat, 1131 Humboldt street.
Kay w. Chinn, said to be graduate
of the University Of Peking. member
Of the Chinese aristocracy and late
leges In the United States, is a federal
prisoner in the Denver county jail.
charged with white slavery.
After naming 2O3 delegates to the
state assembly in Denver on July 80,
the Democratic county assembly last
wek recessed until 10 a. m. Aug. 6.
Candidates for nomination for the
.ives at the party primary Sept. will
be designated at that time.
In Gilpin county the Homer mine
shipped a lot of first-class ore to the
sampling works, which gave values of
Goa ounces gold. $3.50 ounces silver,
and IL per cent copper. Another lot
OF second-class ore of twelve tons re-
turned 10 ounces gold, 6.6O ounces sill
yer and 1850 per cent copper.
Thrown from a binder when the
horses gave sudden lurch, Clyde
Jones, twelve-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. T. Jones of Pierce, suffered a
dangerous injury that may result in
the amputation of his arm. The boys
arm was caught in the machine and
almost severed from his body.
Miss Kate Barnard, commissioner Of
the bureau of charities and correc-
tions for the state of Oklahoma, is in
Denver for the summer, resting after
the strenuous war she has been wag
ing on alleged grafters Of her state.
who, she says, have looted the Indians