The Monte Vista journal., 1914-05-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
May l4-16-Race Meet. Durango.
May 27.-Log- Rolling Contest. WOW.
June is Estate Sunday School Con-
vention at, Denver.
June 13-July 4.-tace Meet. Denver
jTiyy jSi5y ha MRase N. Meet, n,Y pusGIo enozano,a
July 13-19.-Grand Lodge Session. B. +.
Q. 1Ilks at Denver
July 222s.-Cattlemen's Day. Gunni-
Avg. Avg 1s;sI.-Prowers &C; Fair LAMA. LANAI,
Aug. 27.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler
SEPT i-4-Ark Kansas Valley fa'r'
Sept 2-5;-Farmers' ard stockmens
Fair Burlington. MI ~. Nor
Sept 1-!.-Larimer CO. Fair Lovsiand L,L.a
Sept: s-11.-Crowley Co Fair. sugar
Sept PS. s.11;-Gheyenne County Fair at
SEPT SEPT pay STATS ssFen FPa.f cf Pueblo
Sept E9,u l5-1s.-Lincoln County Fair at
Sept. 1s-2s-Race Meet. Denver,
Sept 2l ,2s : Inter County Fair and
Sept 22-25.-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept. 22-25.-Montezuma County Fair
Sept Sept PssS Ca Esr f4 TFe!shs
Oct 6-s-Colorado-N New Mexico Fair at
1sl5.-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 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.
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 constitutional
amendment to make Colorado dry"
found that the petitions, to which they
had obtained 10000 signatures, We're
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
half, stopping over for a rest in his
tour of inspection of the Burlington
lines.
Acting under advice from City At
torney Howard, the City Council Mt
special meeting has passed resolu-
ton ordering the telephone company
to remove its lines from the streets
and alleys of Monte Vista within six
ty days.
The Teller county grand jury,
which filed its 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
| $4,000 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