The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-10
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

Assn at Colorado Springs.
Jan. 15.-Annual Meeting Colo. Farm
ers' Congress at Agricultural Col
lege. Fort Collins.
Jan. 15-16.-Meeting Mountain Division
Colorado to he-Gulf Highway Asso-
citation at Colorado Springs
Jan; 17.-Meeting Colorado Association
Jan. 2oHAnnual banquet Colorado
an PfnfSas s1iie a Stock
July Ia-i4.DGrand Lodge Session. B.
Sept, 7,-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
19i5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Denver is to be the headquarters for
new Rocky Mountain branch of the
Playground Association, if the plans
of the national organization material
ize.
Child Labor Day" is Sunday, Jan.
%. Throughout the nation churches
will consider the subject of child la
Dor at the instance of the national
child labor committee.
A grand jury was called at Central
City at the request of District Attor-
ney S. w. Johnson, Jr, to investigate
the finding of three dead infants in a
house near Blackhawk several months
ago.
After Imprisonment in the county
Jail since Sept. 20, Frank Goodwin and
John West, charged with attempting
to bunko U. G. Davis out of $4,000
were brought to trial in the West Side
Court in Denver.
Fort Logan broke all enlistment rec
ords in December, since it become a
recruit depot in 1909. From the terri
tory under Fort Logan 306 men were
enlisted for United States army sery-
ice during the month.
Withdrawal of mineral lands with
radium-bearing ore must be by con-
gressional enactment, according to an
admission made by Secretary of the
Interior Lane to Congressman Taylor
and Senator Thomas.
The largest crowd ever gathered at
a horticultural institute in Fremont
county met in the District Court
room at Canon City, for a two-day
session. More than 500 fruit growers
and their families were present,
Mexican citizens of Alamosa have
complained to the state superintendent
of public instruction that the school
board of Alamosa has shown class dis
tinction in building a separate school
house for the Mexican children.
Warden Thomas ]. lyman of the
state penitentiary at Canon City has
ordered the purchase of the buildings
at the fair grounds near that city and
intends using the lumber for the CON
struction OF an amphitheater within
the prison walls.
I'VE must capitalize our resources
for all they are worth. When we do
there will be no state more prosper
Gus than Colorado" said Governor
Ammcns at Lamar at the conclusion
of the days festivities marking the
opening Of the Helvetia Condensed
Milk Ccmpanys plant.
Judge Peter A. Simmons, one OF
COlorado's pioneers. died at st. Lulle's
hospital in Denver. Judge Simmons
was born in Newberg, now part of
Cleveland, Ohio, in 1929. When he
came to Colorado after trip over the
plains in a prairie schooner in 1859.
Denver boasted two houses. The 9th
er habitations were dugouts and tents.
William ]. Sweeney, the Colorado
mining man who fell to his death from
a fourth story window of a Chicago
hotel took the plunge with suicidal
intent, according to the verdict of a
coroners jury. 1t was held that he
was temporarily insane through worry
a Of hi 70 tbA I,
been critically i'll in Denver since
Christmas.
A SNOWFALL battle between bathers
in the open-air swimming pool and
crowd of watchers on the lawn. now
covered with a foot of snow, featured
a New Year jollification at Glenwood
| Springs which the city challenges any
other place in the country to dupli-
cate. A large crowd of swimmers in
the warm water kept the crowd dodg-
| ing snowballs.
AS the result of conference be-
tween State Highway Commissioner
Ehrhart, President e. E. Sommers of
the Denver Motor Club, Calvin Morse
and John Gaffy, held in the statehouse
| it was deciued to hold a meeting of
| the advisory board of the highway
commissioners of the state, the state
highway commission and the board of
governors OF the Denver Motor Club
in Denver.
A roundup and drive of 1000 of the
starving elk in the Jackson Hole
country in Wyoming and their ship
ment to Denver for the Indian pa
geant of 1915 is the proposition ad-
vanced by Manager A. C. Carson of
the Orpheum theater as a publicity
stunt" for the pageant at Denver. In
cidentally the elk would replenish
Colorado's mountains and foothills
with that species of game.