The Colorado statesman., 1914-07-18
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.

a. springs.
July 22-2S-Cattlemens Day. Gunni-
July 3o.-Democratic State Convention
Aug. 1zS.--Midsummer meeting Colo
rado Editorial Association, Denver.
Aug. 4-Republican Assembly at Den
Aug. 6;-Crowley Day at ordway.
AVE: Anss: 33Ss2211--Prowers 3S21 co. Fair. Lamar;
Aug. 25-2s.-Bent Co. Fair. Las Animas
aug: H.-santa Fe Trail Day. Las Ami
Aug. 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler.
eRt, Rooi,,. it4.RA * as Valley Fair.
sept: 2-3-Annual Harvest Festival at
Sept, s--watermelon Day Rocky Ford.
sept. 2-5.-Farmers q n d Stock me n 5
Fair. Burlington.
Sept 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept 1-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept, 375.-sedgwick County Fair at
SEPT ts5fEi 5@RIewa County Fair at Ead..
Sept; s-ll.-Routt County Fair at hay
sept s-11.-crowley Co. Fair. Sugar
:, Cheyenne Wells
ssePt sePPt 1oiISugar Day; Sugar City
sept 15,1S.-Lincoln Co Fair at Hugo.
Sept 16-17-Conejos County fair at
Sept, 1s,,1S-Baca County fair at
Sept -2e,-Race Meet, Denver;
sept 2l-23:-Inter-C Fair and Race
Meet at Limon.
Sept. 2s 24.-Apple Pie Day at Rifle.
sept 22-25.-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept 22-25-Montezuma Co. Fair at
Sept 2s-2e.-El Paso Co. Fair. calhan.
Sept. 29-oct. 3-Central Colorado Fair
at at Goiorado Springs. r.,
Kremmling
Oct. 6-s.-coio New Mex. Fair at Du-
1s15:sLast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Beef steers sold on the Denver
market at $3.50 per cwt., the highest
for this year.
The Cheyenne Elks had about 200
bronchos in Denver for their use dur
ing the Golden Jubilee convention.
Ten thousand Elks attended the Col
den Jubilee convention in Denver.
Fully 10000 visitors were in the city
at the time.
P. B. Jenkins announced that he had
purchased the old Burdick coal mine
north of Hotchkiss and would resume
its operation.
Joseph Cole, eighteen years old. OF
Sultmer, Kan, fell beneath the wheels
of d. & R. G.. train at Pueblo and
lost both legs.
Longmont and the entire st. Vrain
valley was one of the best-represented
sections of Colorado in the big parade
OF the Elks' jubilee in Denver.
Among the visiting Elks' wives IN
Denver is Mrs. Elmer e. Meade of Los
Angeles. who was well known to Den
ver society as Mrs. G. P. Reynolds
Mrs. Meade formerly lived in Denver
Four hundred members of the La
.Iunta order of b. P. o. E., accom-.
panied by a thirty-piece band and an
industrial float for Otero county, at.
tended the Elks convention in Denver
The total membership in all subor
dinate lodges of the B. P. o. Elks April
1 was 42S,479, according to the report
of Edward Leach, retiring as grand
exalted ruler, which was presented to
the grand lodge.
Mrs. Lulu Richardson, seventeen
wife of Louis Richardson, mine guard
and former non-union employee at the
home in Valdez by shooting herself
in the breast with her husbands rifle
Ten thousand visitors and residents
were thrilled by the exhibition fire run
of thirty-two pieces of apparatus down
Fourteenth street from Colfax avenue
to Larimer street in Denver. The
horses got the real applause, too
which shows that the people have not
lost their love for the faithful animals
Henry Gibson, fifty-two, of Colorado
Springs was killed near Green Noun
tain Falls when he fell from an excur
sion train. Gibson had just been
warned by his wife to leave the rear
platform where he was riding, when
the train shot around curve and be
was hurled to his death.
Carrie Marks, thirty-one, owner of q
rooming house at Pueblo, proved her
self a heroine when she saved Flor
ence Ore, fifteen, from an attack by
Juan Garcia, a Mexican. Garcia met
the girl on the street and induced hel
to accompany him to his room A strug
gle ensued, at the height of which
Miss Marks opened the door with a
pass key and knocked the Mexican
down with her fists. The Mexican was
C. S. Wark, who has lease on the
Pioneer mine and mill at Empire
Clear Creek county, seems to be in
luck. The mill has been running day
and night right along and is kept
busy with shipments from the Sharpe
and Kane lease on the sixth level
which are in good ore. They drilled
out 45O tons last month, and the saw
ing on the plates run $3.50, besides
thirty-eight tons of concentrates which
were shipped to Idaho Springs, which