The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1914-04-25
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Newspaper Union News Service
DATES roR COMING EVENTS.

RADIO Springs.
May lt-16.-Race Meet Durango.
July 5-l1.--Race Meet. Pueblo
Juis iIetx isI!@GranG r.f lodge Lti "sts session. B
July 90 2as,-cattiemen's Day. Gunni-
Aug S-el-Prowers Co. Fair. Lamar,
Aug 2S-Bent Co. Fair. Las Animas'
Aug 27--Santa Fe Trail Day, Las AM
Aug 2s-Farmers Fair at Fowler,
SEPT -4-A ansas Valley FAIR
Sept. 3,-watermelon Day, Rocky Ford
Sept 2-5-Farmers ard Stockmens
Sept. 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sep, II-4,-,Larimer ! Co, Fair, Lovsiand.
seei Giiy' s-il--cr0"ley Co, Fair sugar
Sept s-ll.-cheyenne County Fair at
Sept. icc-sugar Day: Sugar city yy,,o
sept 15-ls--Lincoln County Far at
Sept. lses.-Race Meet Denver, -,
Sept 2l,23 : Inter County Fair ano
Race Meet at Limon.
Sept. -25-Western slope Fair Mont
Sept. 22-25--Montezuma County Fair
at Cortez
Sent, Sep, G Fair t,,Tr Trin!ana Oldham
Oct. 6-9--Colorado-N New Mexico Fair at
lsl5-..asr Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
The strike of Oil in Dry creek basin,
San Miguel county has caused great
excitement in that part OF the state.
The Grand junction banks agreed
to pay 3 per cent interest on the
court house fund, now amounting to
$4,000.
Il am confident there will be no
war between the United States and
Mexico" said ]. A. Ortiz, Mexican
consul at Denver.
ST. Georges day, April %, was cele-
brated in Denver by scores of mem
bers of the order of the Sons and
Daughters of st. George, at a banquet.
Harry B. Shockey. a locomotive fire
man, filed suit in the District Court
in Denver to collect $4,000 for per-
sonal injuries against the Burlington
railroad.
Robert Hess, clerk of the American
District Telegraph Company in Den
yer, suffered broken leg and other
serious injuries when he fell from his
motor cycle.
Naval officers on recruiting duty in
Denver declare the fleet of battle
ships, cruisers, many destroyers and
scout vessels are ample to patrol the
Mexican coast.
Two automobiles collided head on
on the Colorado Springs boulevard.
The occupants of both machines, num-
bering nine persons, had miraculous
escapes from death.
Mrs. Mary C. c. Bradford is the
latest Democrat to shy bonnet into
the political ring. Mrs. Bradford says
she will run next fall for reelection
as state superintendent of schools.
While he was attending moving
picture show, the home of Fred Cole
of Colorado Springs was completely
destroyed by fire. The loss was about
$4,000 The cause of the fire is not
known.
That at least thirty-three members
of the Ludlow tent colony perished
either in the battle or by the fire that
swept the colony, is the declaration OF
the local officials of the United Mine
Workers of America.
Miss Cornelia Barnes, librarian ct
the Sarah Platt Decker library. in Den
yer, has just received an appointment
as librarian at the congressiona!
library at Washington, and will ac-
cept the position.
Robert Hilliard, the actor who re-
Gently closed an engagement in Den
yer in THE Argyle Case" and Mrs.
Olga j. Williams, a wealthy New York
ur<Nr, rix,I to-,
the Rev. Orrin W. Auman. pastor of
the Grant Avenue Methodist church.
in Trinity Methodist church.
Boys searching for George w
Bruner, the aged man who had been
missing from La Junta, found his
body in an unoccupied stone house
two miles below that city. A razor
lying outside the house gave the clew
and the boys found the man lying or
the floor with his throat cut.
Marjorie Hamilton Cunningham, the
beautiful calendar girl, whose sale of
the famous quadruple combination
system for the reduction of fat and
the removal of the double chin
brought her to trial before the United
States District Court in Denver last
summer. is suing her husband, Walter
c. Cunningham, mail order expert, for
an annulment Of their marriage in
Chicago.
Colorado women will be first to
pledge the President and the govern
ment their support should war with
Mexico be declared. The members OF
the Daughters of the American Revo-
luton and the Daughters of the Revo-
luton, and even some of the members
of the Women's Peace organization,
have already come out strong for the
support of President Wilson in what
ever course he sees fit to pursue.
Mrs. r. H. Walker, a society wom-
en- of Trinidad and one of the leaders