Gilpin observer., 1914-04-09
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L O r A D. O
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES For COMING EVENTS

Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
May 12-14-State Council of Junior Or
der of American Mechanics. at Colo
May 14-16.--Race Meet. Durango.
June 1s;-July 4;-Raee Meet, Denver.
July is-i4-Grand Lodge Session. B.
July ss-as.cattlemen's asls "a snssr Day. eunnl
Aug. 1s-21.-Prowers Co. Fair. Lamar,
Aug. 27.-santa Fe Trail Day. Las Ami
Asai A1S sg1Fasmsrs Fair at vss,s1 FEwler Fair.
Rocky Ford.
Sept. S:-Watermelon Day. Rocky Ford.
Sept. 2-2;-Farmers and stockmen's
Sept. 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
SEPT SEPT CO CO. PaiE Far snEs
Sept io-sugar Day, Sugar City; pn
Sept 14-Is-Colo. State Fair, Pueblo
Sept 2S-S5.-Western Slope Fair, Mont
Sept S2-Ss.-Trinidad Fair, Trinidad
| Sept 2326.-El Paso Co. Fair. Calhan;
| Sept 2S-3O.-I err County Fair and
Race Meet. Limon. 49,.
l9lo.-I4ast Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver.
Jacob Lenhart of Greeley was dan
gerously injured when his motor cycle
struck a phone pole at Fort Collins.
Mrs. Helen Webster Montague, sew
enty-four years old. one Of the oldest
women pioneers OF Colorado, died in
Denver.
| The State Department has ben ap-
pealed to save the life Of Theodore
Jones of Pueblo, who is in prison in
Topic, Mex, for killing a convict at
Guadalajara.
"Denver's army of unemployed is
not as large as in other Cities" said
Henry A. Atkinson Of Boston at a
luncheon of the City Federation OF
Clubs in Denver.
Petitions to initiate an amendment
to the constitution extending the term
of office of the county assessors from
two to six years will be circulated in
every county in the state.
Thirty armed men watched the Vim
dicator mine for ore thieves, known
in the mining districts as high grad
ers," with whom mine guards ex-
changed shots near Victor.
So enormous has Denyer's parcel
post business become recently, Post
master Joseph Harrison has asked
Washington to provide a separate
building for the department.
The names of five leading Denver
financiers are being discussed in
Washington as probable members of
the directorate of the regional bank
to be established at Kansas City.
Mayor Perkins of Denver received
cablegram from United States Con-
sui Heenan at Moscow, Russia, stat
ting James Williams, mining engineer
of Denver, was buried in the Russian
city.
The United States Geological Sur
vey has just issued it's first map OF
the Longs peak quadrangle, which in
cludes all the territory included in the
proposed Rocky Mountain national
park.
Governor Ammons and Frederick N.
Innes, municipal band leader, were
guests of the Denver Press Club which
ration of officers at the Adams hotel
in Denver.
Preliminary plans looking toward
the perfection of party organization in
preparation for the state election CAM
paign this fall were laid at initial ses-
sions of the state conference of Pro
gressives in Denver.
The creation of an agricultural de-
partment, to cooperate with state,
county and national bureaus of sim
liar nature and with the farmers di.
rect, was announced by the Denver G.
Rio Grande railroad.
Charles C. Morse, president Of the
Panama Pacific exposition, has asked
the aid of the Denver Chamber Of
Commerce in securing the passage Of
the bill appropriating 100000 for q
government exhibit at the fair.
Mrs. d. M. Smith, a pioneer, was
found dead in bed at Longmont. Acute
stomach trouble was assigned as the
cause of death. Mrs. Smith was "A
years old and a native of Sweden. In
1863 she settled on farm six miles
east of Longmont.
Leasing of public lands of all kinds
was announced as inimical to the In
terests of the West, at meeting OF
the Denver branch of the Colorado
Metal Mining Association in the repre-.
sentatives' chamber at the Capitol
building in Denver.
Assurance of Denver's cooperation
In making the new Kansas City re-
gional bank district, of which 1t will
form part, complete success, was
conveyed to the Kansas City Clearing
House Association and the Kansas
City Commercial Club by Gordon
Jones, who headed the joint committee