The Holly chieftain., 1914-03-13
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
'estern Newspaper Unt.n News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

July l3-li.-Grand Lodge Session. D.
| III, EIks at Denver. F..i,.- r,onfa,ence
Sept; Colorado State Fair at Pu-
| eblo.
lsl5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The Pennsylvania Society of Denver
will hold its annual dinner March IL.
Capt. R. A. Kincaid was elected ex-
alted ruler of the Denver lodge OF
Elks at the annual election.
Tie southern end OF the San Luis
valley will have larger acreage this
year, with every prospect of an eX-
cellent crop.
Four-yearold Harold Anderson OF
Denver died after eating wild parsnips
found growing near a spring in the
rear of his home.
George McLagan of Pueblo has
been elected treasurer Of the Colorado
State Fair Association for the ensuing
year by the board Of directors.
David w. Meyer, 81, Denver pioneer
and clerk in the office of the auditor
of the Denver & Rio Grande since
The new quarters of the Denver
Press club consisting of suite of ten
rooms in the Denham Theater build
ing, Formally were opened with a
house warming.
Within twelve hours after P. ].
Reiner, twenty-one years old, had en-
tered and robbed a general merchan-
disc store at Brighton he was arrested,
tried and convicted and sentenced.
Alphonse Glady, engineer, was held
up and robbed by lone bandit on
West Twenty-third avenue, between
Clay street and Byron place. in Den
yer. The holdup got s23 and a gold
watch.
For the first time in the history OF
the university, courses in household
science will be offered by the Univer-
sity of Colorado at the 1914 summer
session, which opens on June 90 at
Boulder.
The oldest man in the West and one
of the oldest men in the world is dead
in Denver William Taylor, 10S years
old, veteran of both the Mexican and
Civil wars, died at his home, 1165
Downing street.
Charges that union men tried to an
noy the mire guards in the coal fields
were made at the congressional hear
ing at the capitol by Arthur Langow-
ski, a young miner who was in the
Ludlow tent colony.
The Indiana Society of Colorado is
making arrangements for the biggest
celebration and gathering of Hoosiers
ever held in this state during the sec
ond week in April, incident to the
grand opera season in Denver.
The contemplated passage of the
cruiser Denver through the Panama
| canal, according to the original plans
Of the Navy Department, will be post
poned for some time, according to
word received from United States Sen
ator John F. Shafroth.
The release of G. J. Darris and Viii
| liam Jones who are accused of the
| murder of Noah Beeghley at Superior,
was ordered by District Judge Robert
G. Strong Of Boulder upon the furnish
ing of bonds, $4,000 for Darris and s5,-
900 for Jones.
Mrs. E. B. Braden, well-to-do widow,
was attacked in her home in Denver
by man who gained entrance on pre-
text of renting room. A negro serv-
ant girl, attracted by Mrs. Braden's
screams for help, went to her assist
ance and put the assailant to rout.
Alanson S Hall, who died at his
home in BrOadmoor, Colorado Springs,
bequeathed his entire estate to his
daughter, Mrs. Carolyn Celestine Hall
Sturgiss, wife of William c. Sturgiss,
dean of the forestry school of Colo
rado College. The estate is estimated
to be worth fully $10,000,000.
The right OF the State Tax Commits
sion to order an increase in the assess
ment of the different counties of Colo
rado will be decided by the Supreme
Court of the United States. The case
brought by the B-Metallic Investment
Company against the State Board of
Equalization will be appealed to the
highest court of the land.
An assured water supply, greater In
volume than at any time in the last
three or four years; the replacing of
all speculative theories by conserva-
tive business policies and easy money
conditions as the result of the market.
ing of stock during the winter, are a
few of the reasons why the San Luis