Gilpin observer., 1914-05-07
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
CO L O r A o O
PEOPLE

PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR CC.iING EVENTS.
May 14-16.-Race Meet. Durango
May 27.-Log,, Rolling Contest. WOW.
at Loveland.
June ls-Juiy Pace Meet Denver
July o-1l:-Race Meet. Pueblo
July 13-19-Grand Lodge Session. B. p.
Q. Elks at Denver.
July 22-23.-Cattlemen's Day. Gunnl-
Aug. Is-2l.-Prowers Co, Fair. Lamar
Aug. 25-2s.-Bent Co. Fair. Las Animas.
Aug. 27.--Santa Fe Trail Day. Las Ami
Aug. 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
SEPT l.4;LAr kansas Valley Fair
Sept. s:,-Watermelon Day. Rocky Ford.
Sept 2-5;-Farmers' and Stockmens
Fair; Burlington.
Sept. 1-4.-Larimer Co. Fair. Loveland.
Sept: S-11.-Crowley Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept. 9-11-cheyenne County Fair at
Cheyenne Wells.
SEPT SEPT Day State sssea Fair cry Pueblo
Sept; l5-is.-Lincoln County Fair at
Sept. lo-2s.-Race Meet. Denver
Sept. 81 20 = Inter : County Fair and
sept. 22-25.-Western Slope Fair. MON
Sept. 22-25.-Montezuma County Fair
Sept. 22 2 2s.-Trinidad Fair Trin!dad d;Sa
Sept. 2326.-El Paso Co. Fair. Gaihan.
Oct. 6-9-Colorado-N New MexicoaFair at
lsi5.Gnast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
A. M. McGrath has been named
postmaster at Eaton.
Archie l.. Trownseil has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Hebron.
Emma Goldman addressed the Anti
Military League in East Denver Sun
day.
For the first time in four years
Boulder county is without a single
deputy to patrol the strike districts
George Skinner, Jr., of the Bar j. II.
cattle ranch, east of Pueblo. reports
that the cattle in that vicinity are in
fine condition.
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 Su-
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.
The education in the use OF silos,
which has been one of the principal
things done by the agriculturists for
ic hnqrinp
fruit in the Del Norte section.
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.
H. L. Thompson says Akron people
are enthusiastic about the prospects
of striking oil in a well which is be-
ing drilled on section 2, township 2
north, range SO west, which is three
miles west of Akron.
"The federal troops are here to pre-
serve order, and not to take sides"
This announcement was made by Maj.
w. A. Holbrook, in command of the
Second squadron of the Fifth cavalry.
sent from Fort Leavenworth to the
Trinidad strike district, when he ar
rived at Trinidad.
One of the biggest cattle deals in
the history of northwestern Colorado
has just been closed whereby J. l..
Norvelle, mayor of Steamboat Springs,
and d. L. Sellers of Hayden take
0f NJ What.
stone, one of the wealthiest cattlemen
of Routt county.
Mrs. Vitella J. Crosse, resident Of
Denver for thirty-six years, and wide
~ known landscape artist, died at st.
Joseph's hospital from a complication
of diseases. She was painting pic
ture for the San Francisco exposition
in 1915, when she was taken i'll, two
weeks ago. The picture is unfinished.
Denver Typographical Union No. 49
Colorado Legislature to impeach Gov.
E. M. Ammons, demanding the can.
collation. of all coal land leases held
by companies in violation of law, de-
manding state operation of coal mines
and the refusal to pay military ex-
penses incurred in the strike zone.
Howard G. Fletcher, manager of the
Grand Junction Fruit Growers, Asso-
citation, received notice recently of his
appointment to an honorary member
ship in the Luther Burbank Society,
an honor possessed by very few in
the intermountain West and no one
but Fletcher on the Western slope
save Eugene Fl. Grubbs. The society
has headquarters in Santa Rosa Cal.
Although officials of the State De-
partment, as well as the members of
the Colorado congressional delegation.
are exerting every effort to secure
some information concerning Horace
w. Hill, who was living on his planta-