The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR Cc1IING EVENTS.

at Loveland.
June 1e-1S-state Sunday School Con-
Yention at Denver
June 1s-July 4.-Race Meet. Denver.
}9miiyy a-llc.L;1Raeo Meet, PueblS
| July IL 19.-Grand Lodge Session, b. T.
Q. Elks at Denver.
July 2-23.-Cattlemen's Day. Gunni-
A%g A%g 51Ss.5SsI-PEoweers Co Fair. aimas L%mar.
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AM
Aug. 29.--Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
sept, l-4-Ar kan Valley Fair'
Sept. Watermelon Day. Rocky Ford
sept. 5EFarmers' and stockmehs
Sept i-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept 1-4.-,Larlmer Co. Fair Lovesiand:
Sept. s-11.-Cheyenne County Fair at
Sept 1o--,sugar Day. Sugar City; a,,o
sept. l5-1S-Lincoln County FAR at
Sept is-2s.-Race Meet. Denver.
sept. II -2S. - Inter County Far anu
Sept -25.-Western Slope Fair, Mont
Sept, % 25-Montezuna County Fair
Sept 22-25.LTrlnldad Fair. Trinidad.
Sept 23-26.-El Paso Co. Fair. Calhan;
Isl5.-i.ast 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
fight with Sugar City as to which is
to be the county seat of Crowley coun-
ty, according to an opinion of the SUI.
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 dam
ages, was filed against the Denver
Transit and Warehouse Company by
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.
Since they have been protected dur
ing the entire season by the state
game laws, there has been a marked
| increase in the number of elk on the
| 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 a
half, stopping over for rest in his
tour of inspection of the Burlington
lines.
Acting under advice from City At
torney Howard, the City Council at a
special meeting has passed resolu-
tion ordering the telephone company
to remove it's lines from the streets
and alleys of Monte Vista within six
ty days.
The Teller county grand jury
which filed it's 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 a new mill of 10000 to
10000 tons daily capacity at Cripple
Creek, and only about 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 it's 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 i've stock interests of this state.
According to estimates 25O.OO0 hogs
were produced in Colorado last year
while at this time there is demand
for markets already established for
100000 porkers.