The Elbert County tribune., 1914-06-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News servfss-
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

June ls-July Race Meet. Denver
June 1s-f7.-Meeting Colorado Post
mi masters Convention at Denver;
July l-4-Semi- mi-Centennial Home-Com-
ing Celebration at Fort Collins
}m,,y s@Gherry Pie Day. Manzanoia
July 22-23.-cattlemen's Day. Gunni-
July so.-Democratic state Convention
Ag Aag OF Gfsns Ge snr oaEe and
Unisorm Rank Encampmsnt, Ppeblo-
Aug Ssmbept Il CO 9rI,1 FqiT T, Las Animais. aai
aug. 2s,-Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
sept i-4.EAr s as Valley Fair.
Sept s-watermelon Day. Rocky Ford.
seRo -6;,@Farmers d Stockmen's
Sept. 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. 1-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept 5--Kiowa County Fair at Eads.
seGt S-1i---crowiey Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept s-11.-cheyenne County Fair at
sent 1o.Sugar Day. Sugar City,
ssePf sePDt 1n4-ls-Golo State Fair Pueblo
Sept. 1s-26.-Race Meet, Denver.
Sept 123.-Inter-Co. Fair ane ftace
Sept. s2-25.@Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sent .22-25.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
Sept. 2s-2s.-El Paso Co Fair. calhan.
Oct 1-3-Grand County Fair at
Oct s-s.-Coio.- Mex Fair at Du-
range.
American Indians at Denver.
olney Springs will celebrate on July
Fourth.
The work of harvesting the first
crop OF alfalfa has commenced at
:, Fowler.
The Hawkeye Club of Denver will
give a lawn social and musical enter
tainment June 10.
John w. Langley has resigned his
position as clerk to the Pueblo county
sheriff and left for Telluride.
Denver authorities are searching for
relatives OF Howard Van Cleve, twen-
ty years old. who died of tuberculosis
at the County hospital.
Benjamin w. Bowen, fifty-four, son
of the late Judge James s. Bowen of
Concordia, Kans., died at the county
hospital in Denver from cancer of the
stomach.
The intended construction of an $S,-
900 administration building, which,
when completed. will be one of the
most imposing structures of its kind
in Pueblo, was announced by the Con-
tinental Oil Company.
A plea of guilty to a charge of
burglary was made by Glen Jones. one
of the heirs to 100000 estate, in the
West Side Criminal Court in Denver.
Jones was caught in the Elgin cream
rhn iohf nf
In the thrilling battle against time
and distance and a swift current Dan
iel Fisher, five years old, was rescued
fromfAhe Platte river at Globeville by
Miss Mamie Sardakowski, well-known
amateur swimmer, and her brother
Stanley.
cone hundred business men of Mil
waukee, who are helping to make Mil
waukee famous by visiting all the
principal cities of the West and North
west arrived in Denver and acquaint-
ed themselves with the metropolis of
Colorado.
Fifty Littleton residents searched
all day Sunday for the body of Howard
Young, the eleven-year-old son of the
night marshal, who was drowned in
the Platte while swimming. The river
for miles below Littleton was dragged
without success.
For forty-six hours Mrs Charles
Gordon of Denver sat beside the cot
of her dying child, without food and
without sleep. The baby. John Roger
Gordon, eight months old, died from
scalds received while its mother was
preparing it for bath.
Systematic padding" of payrolls In
the Pueblo offices of the Colorado
Fuel & Iron Company, which may
have extended over a period of years
and have resulted in defrauding the
company of thousands of dollars, has
been uncovered.
For the second time the Lusk- WheeI-
er injunction suit against the city of
Denver to prevent the issuance of the
ss,00O,O00 in bonds for the building of
new water plant came up before
Judge Lewis in the Federal Court, was
defeated and appealed again.
The David H. Moffat estate, for
sulting engineers, in charge of various
mining investments in Gilpin county.
Leadville, Rico and Cripple Creek.
owns the old Victor group on Bull
cliffs. which paid 100000 per month
in 1905, when the control and interest
was transferred to Paris The mine
afterwards played OUT on account of
forced draft" mining. and the control
returned to the Denver First National
bank on loan of some $4,000. The
total production OF the Victor-which
cost Moffat and Smith ISL 900 in 1892
is placed at s2.5OO.O0O, from which