The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-19
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
'.stern Newspaper Union News Service,


Sept 2a-25.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
seps. 2s-2s-EI Paso Co. Fair. calhan
sept. 29-Oct. 3-Central Colorado Fair
Oct l-s.1Grand County Fair At
oct s-s"codio. New Mex. Fair a, Du-
lsl6.SLast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The Johnstown-Milliken power line
has been completed.
The movement of Elberta peaches
is now on in full swing in the Paonia
| district.
Through the State Department at
Washington word has been received
that Miss Frances Moore and Mrs. Per
imam, both of Denver, are safe in Eu-
rope.
The date of the Nisbet recall cleo
ton was fixed for Oct. 16, by the city
council of Denver after reconsidera-
ton of the vote of the last council
meeting which placed it on Nov. IT,
According to letters received by the
| French consul of Denver, Dr. A Bour-
luin. several hundred Frenchmen,
residents of Mexico, have left for
France to take active part in the war.
The coroner's jury which investi-
gated the death of Harry Taylor, who
was run down by an automobile driv-
en- by l.. c. Stevenson in Denver
held both men to blame for the acc-
dent.
Albert ]. F. Siggel, Denver's Oldest
bandmaster, died after several years
of illness. He was sixty-three years
old and had led bands in Denver for
thirty-six years. He leaves a wife and
a daughter.
Capt. John d. Howland. scout. In.
dian fighter, soldier and artist, died at
his home in Denver from hemor-
rhage induced ten days ago by lace
ration of the throat when a bone
| lodged in it.
An appeal has been sent out to aid
in the building up of relief fund for
| stricken Belgium by natives of that
country living in Denver. Several sub
stantial contributions already have
| been received.
The new county grand jury was
charged to make an investigation of
the police and sheriff departments u1l-
der Commissioner of Safety Nisbet by
Judge John A. Perry in the West Side
Court of Denver
Col Alfred G. Sharpe, U. S. A. who
was stationed in Denver as infantry
instructor and inspector of the Colo
rado national guard for two years. has
been retired from service since he is
| SiYty-fOnr old "a n "a
limit.
DR.. C. B. Wilcox, recently resigned
from the pastorate of the Trinity
| Methodist Episcopal church of Den
| yer, will have charge of Asbury Meth
odist church in North Denver, accord
ing to his appointment by the confer
ence of the Colorado Methodist Epis-
copal church at La Junta. His serv-
ices with the new charge will begin
Immediately.
H. d. Yee, son of Han Yee, million
aire tea and coffee merchant of China
and president of the Oriental Supply
Company, incorporated, visited Denver
and departed with the announcement
that he is arranging to bring suit
against the city of Pueblo for $4,000
| damages for his false arrest and seven
weeks Imprisonment in that city. The
suit is being brought through ex-Con-
gressman John d. Martin, whom he
retained as his attorney.
The Denver Press Club and the Den.
yer Motor Club will see to it that Den
verites have little excitement this
fall in the way of motor races, both
in the air and on land. Oct. Z, the
Press Club announces, will see Barney
Oldfield and Lincoln Beachey in com
petition at Overland park. Sept. %
and 26 will witness the automobile
show and races held under the aus
pices of the Denver Motor Club
Miss Alta O'Donald of Dawson, n.
M, probably saved her own life by
grasping the front axle of an auto
mobile that crashed into her and
knocked her to the street at Sixteenth
and Curtis streets in Denver. Her es
cort, Harry Taylor of New York, also
hit by the automobile, was more Sc
riously injured, and is in a critical con.
dition at the county hospital Physi
| clans fear fractured skull he sus.
tanned may cause his death.
The Union station presented a typl-
| cal Oriental scene for an hour whel
110 Chinese students stopped in Den.
ven en- route to Eastern colleges from
Pekin, China. More than twenty
Denver Chinese met their countrymen
at the station and the sounds of their
language predominated above every.
thing else during their stay. Four OF
ehe students left the party at Denver
to attend the School of Mines at Gold.
en-. They are Chang Lu Ching, Hsueh
Kwei Lun, Ii Chan Hung and Yuan
Eao Chang.