The state herald., 1914-01-02
STATE NEWS
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

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| Assn at Colorado Springs,
Jan. 15.-Annual Meeting Colo. Farm
ers' Congress at Agricultural COY
Jan. I 'i5-16.-Meeting Mountain Division
Colorado to the-Gulf Highway Asso-
citation at Colorado Springs.
'"i OF commerciaf Executives at Colo
Jan. 2o-Xnnual banquet Colorado
Jan. -2l-National Western Stock
July Is-1l.-Grand Lodge Session. B.
p. o. Elks at Denver. ~.
Sept. 7.-Coiorado State Fair at Pu-
1si5.~Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Santa Claus did not fail to visit the
children in any part Of Colorado on
Christmas.
The house of Tom Schooler. dairy
man living a few miles north OF Colo
RADIO Springs. was destroyed by fire.
Net earnings of the Denver Gas and
Electric Company for the year ending
Oct. 81. 1918. were $1,377,2SO, ana
gross earnings $3,15S.s73.
The Grand Junction Ministerial ALI
ance inaugurated a campaign to In
duce every resident of Grand juno
ton to attend church on Sunday, Jan.
4.
James w. Murphy, sixty.two years
old, son of the second white man to
settle on the present site OF Milwau-
kee. died at the home of his eldest son.
w. A. Murphy, in Denver.
Mrs. C. l.. Castleton, Jr.. aged thir-
ty-one, wife of the cashier OF the Love-
land sugar factory and a social leader
In that city. died following the birth
of a child The infant also died.
Exertion in walking home from
Christmas call caused the death OF
Mrs. Jennie Ball. aged sixty. house
keeper for President c. G. Bucking-
ham of the State National bank at
Boulder
Almost frozen to death. II. l.. Kline
OF Omaha was picked up on the Hall
ranch near Franklin, where he had
nearly succumbed to the cold. The
man was walking from Colorado
Springs to Pueblo
That Fort Lupton is one of the most
prosperous towns in Weld county is in
dicated by the fact that not one piece
OF property within the corporate
limits OF the town was listed for sale
for delinquent taxes.
J. NJ. Bainbridge has been elected
president OF the La Sale farmers
union. John Craven vice president, r.
NJ. Moore secretary-treasurer Mrs. ID.
s. Johnson conductor and Mrs. J. NJ.
Bainbridge chaplain.
Residents OF Fort Lupton have been
puzzled over n mysterious disease pre-
valent among bull dogs OF that city.
Fearing the animals might bite chill
dren, citizens killed eight. peculiar
feature is that the disease affects
only bull dogs.
Action upon the resolution intro
duced In the national House OF Repre-
sentatiyes by Representative Keating
for congressional investigation of
the Colorado coal strike is expected TO
be taken after Congress reconyenes
from It's holiday recess.
Three negro women and a Mexican
woman who were arrested In Denver
for picking up coal In the Union Pa
cific Yards for the purpose OF re-
lieving their destitute families were
released on their personal recogniz-
ance by Chief o'Neill at the request OF
Humane officer Elliot Ransom
A Mexican giving the name OF por-
frio Dinz. claiming to be the son OF
the Mexican ex.president. was arrested
In Denver by the police as a suspicious
character. His wife. Mrs. Margaret
Blair. living Mt the Roxbury hotel.
told the police that she Is his tenth
living wife and that her husband is a
desperate character
The children OF the striking miners
In the southern and northern Colorado
coal fields were well taken care OF on
Christmas day by the United Mine
Workers OF America The organlza.
tion spent sl.2s5 for shoes for the
children. Friends and members OF
the union In all parts OF the country
"s'''''''' "'"iAf fstvv"s
The committee of the Colorado Fed
Grafton OF Labor. named to invcsti-
gate outrageS alleged to have been
committed by IN. militia In the strike
zone. questioned Robert uhllch. the
union organizer and strike leader now
being held In the county Jail AT Trim.
dad on murder charge growing out
OF the recent battles between strikers
and armed guards In the Ludlow dis.
trict.
Officials OF the United Mine Work.
crs OF America. the Western Fedora
tion OF Miners and the Colorado State
Federation of Labor met In Denver
Monday to decide what steps should
be taken 10 force Congress TO inyosti.
cate the attack upon Charles "A.
Moyer, president, OF tho Western Fed.
cfntlon, and Charles n Tanner b,.