Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-07-31
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Aug. 6.=Crowley Day at ordway.
ASE !s-s7-k !ss7kroMsF. of F. Grand sa sai1 Lodge % and
Aug niferm astgs Rank Eneampmssns Pueblo
AsE Se e Tra sf'E Day s.i Las %ai-
AsSs s.psi ia Fair at valley HSyleE Fair.
Sept. 2-s-AnnuaI Harvest Festival at
ssDs SEPT Lwsssrms,cn Day; RSssE psEa e.
Sept. 1-4.-MoFgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept; snd d1-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept, s;5:-sedgwick County Fair at
Sept. 5..KIewa County Fair a. Eads,
Sept; s-11.-Routt County Fair at Hay
Sept; s-11.-crowIey Co. Fair. Sugar
Sept gS.s.rL. ss.1laGSsSSsnns County Fair at
sssPs. M-1s.@eolo: stsss Eair; Pueblo.
Sept; 1s-l7-conejos County fair at
ssgs; gsr,nTfisid. lSfissIBaea County fair at
Sept is.as.&Race Meet, Denver:
Sept: 21-2s;-IInter-Co. Fair and Race
Sept. ss,S4.-Appie Pie Day at Rifle; Hn,
Sept: 2s-2s.-Monte.uma Co. Fair at
Sept. 2s-2s.-El Paso Co. Fair. caihan.
Sept. 2s-oct. s-Central Colorado Fair
o.a,t at Goiorade Springs, Eo,u,,v Fair a,
oct. aH sls.Mcaio.-Ns Mex. Fair a. Du-
1s15.SLast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Individual group exhibits are to be
featured at the Prowers county fair
which is to be held at Lamar, Aug.
10. 20 and 21.
Frederick w. Leonhardt, manager of
the Lakewood Country Club. died at
the Park Avenue hospital in Denver
after an illness Of three days.
The county commissioners at Delta
elected G. s. Blanchard of Cedaredge
sheriff to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of c. C. Sampson, ef-
fective August /.
Reports from Altman, thirty miles
southwest of Colorado Springs, noted
as the highest Incorporated town in
the world. indicate heavy fall OF
snow on the 22nd.
The last link in the state highway
from Cheyenne to Greeley, consisting
of a strip of road fifteen miles long
from Dover to the Wyoming state line,
has been completed.
Mrs. Jack Bell. wife of prominent
Denver prospector and newspaperman.
lies at the Park hotel at Ridgway in a
critical condition as the result of being
thrown over a pony's head.
y Spot, the famous Arabian horse
which was presented by the sultan of
Turkey to Gen. Grant, is lost, and the
Denver Dumb Friends League is max
ing every effort to find him.
That age is no barrier to Cupid and
n secret marriage was proved when
Thomas w. Murray, sixty-one, anG
Mrs. Anna Cabbeen, fifty-four, were
secretly married at Littleton.
Evans G. A. R. and w. r. C. socie-
ties have petitioned the school board
of that place to have flagpoie erec,
ed in the school yard for the display
of the American flag upon patriotic
days.
Capt George Thatcher, seventy-four,
of Aspen, one of the Oldest and most
prominent mining men of the state,
was knocked down in Denver by an
electric auto driven by Miss Frances
Moffat, 1131 Humboldt street.
Kay w. Chinn, said to be a graduate
of the University of Peking. member
of the Chinese aristocracy and late
scholar at some of the leading col.
leges in the United States. is federal
prisoner in the Denver county jail,
charged with white slavery.
After naming 2O3 delegates to the
state assembly in Denver on July 30,
the Democratic county assembly last
wek recessed until 10 a. m. Aug. C.
Candidates for nomination for the
state Senate and House Of Representa-
tives at the party primary Sept. will
be designated at that time.
In Gilpin county the Homer mine
shipped lot of first-class ore to the
sampling works, which gave values OF
Goa ounces gold. $3.50 ounces silver.
and II per cent copper. Another lot
of second-class ore of twelve tons re-
turned 20 ounces gold, GEO ounces sill
yer and 1850 per cent copper.
Thrown from binder when the
horses gave a sudden lurch, Clyde
Jones, twelveyear-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. C. T. Jones of Pierce. suffered a
dangerous injury that may result in |
the amputation of his arm. The boys
arm was caught in the machine and |
almost severed from his body.
Miss Kate Barnard, commissioner of
the bureau of charities and correc-
tions for the state of Oklahoma, is in |
Denver for the summer, resting after |
the strenuous war she has been wag-
ing on alleged grafters of her state. |
who, she says. have looted the Indians |
of billion dollars worth of land.
Union labor will have a uniformed |
narade in DenYer with 1nnnn men