The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-28
COLORADO
S T A TIE NEW S
COMING EVENTS.
Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.
sept. 5-6.-Auto Race Meet at Denver.
sept. lO-11.-Fall Festival at Flagler.
sep. l4-l7:-MorSan County Frontier
pays and Harvest Festival at Fort
Morgan.
Sept, 15-17.-Elks' Annual Reunion at
Sept 17;1s; .-Midsummer Meeting of
Colorado State Editorial Association
at Glenwood Springs.
sept. 27-Oct. s. international Dry
oc FARMING Congress, Denver
oct; 2-9.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct. 1S.-odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Colorado Fair Dates.
Sept 7-1O.-Crowley County Fair As
$50 ISOLATION. Sugar city.
| sept. list. Vrain Valley FAIR As-
ISOLATION, Longmont.
SEPT; 7-1O.-Logan County Fair at
Sept. S-i1.-Cheyenne County Fair at
sept; i5-17.-Routt County Fair at
Sept. 3-1S.-Colorado State Fair AS
sociation. Pueblo.
sept. 15-1S.-Lincoln County Fair at
Sept 21-2s.-Conejos~ County Fair at
Sept; Western Slope Fair at
Sept. 22-24.-Baca County Fair at
Sprln gfield
| Sept 1-24-Trinidad-Las Animas Co.
| o. Fair Association. Trinidad
sept 2l-24.-Montezuma County FAR
Sept. 23-25.-saguache County Fair at
SaSuache
Sept 2-25.-Farmers' and Stockgrow-
ers' Fair at Burlington.
sept. 28-30.-Prowers County Fair at
| Lamar.
Sept. 29-oct Eel Paso County Fair
Aug. 3lSept. 3.-Morgan County Fair
Oct. 6-S.-Colorado New Mexico Fair
at Durango.
Oct. 2-9.-Colorado Agricultural Fair
and Racing Association. Denver
Railroads have attacked the coal
rates fixed by the utilities commits,
sion.
Cracker company employees in Den
YER will form a union as part of the
A. F. of l..
Governor Carlson has filed his
charges against H. W. Risley, and the
latter has made reply.
Thirteen carloads OF Masons passed
through Denver on their way to the
eonvocation at San Francisco.
After forty years residence in Den
yer, John Petre, a veteran of the
Civil war, died, aged so years.
DIR. " w. Porter, mayor of Lafay-
cite, handed in his resignation fol-
owing a quarrel with the councilmen.
A masked highwayman fired six
times at julius Fischer, a Denver
saloonkeeper, because he refused to
hand over $40.
Congressman E. T. Taylor wants a
bigger navy, predicts returns of U. S.
ships to ocean trade and favors 640-
acre homesteads.
Plans are being made to build a
100000 addition to the Union
Printers home at Colorado Springs,
where it is expected the 1917 meeting
will be held.
In common with other civic organi-
cations throughout the West the Den
yer Chamber of Commerce will urge
that the California expositions be con-
tinued another year.
Damage aggregating thousands OF
dollars is reported from districts in
southern Larimer county and eastern
Weld from the hail and rain storm
|
While waiting for street car at
Sixteenth and Curtis streets in Den
yer, Rosa Kleiner lost six inches of
her tresses, which were shipped off
by some unidentified man.
Carl Erickson, alias Brown, con-
victed of the staying of his wife by a
jury in the West Side Court in Den
yer, was sentenced to life imprison-
ment at hard labor for the crime.
1t costs more than 81 900 to hang a
man, according to the figures shown
in tn execution and fee bill issued
on Harry Hillen who recently suffered
the death penalty at Canon City.
Miss Ruth NJ. Stuchfield of Denver
has been chosen from long list of
applicants to fill the position of phys
lcal director of women at the De-
PAW University at Greencastle, Ind.
BY an order of the State Public Util
tiles Commission the rate charged by
the Florence & Cripple Creek railroad
for hauling ore from the Ajax mine
to Victor has been reduced % cents g
ton.
While attempting to steal ride on
a Union Pacific train near Sand
Creek, John zondell, 3S years old, an
Austrian fell and the toes on his left
foot were severed when the wheels of
the train passed over them.
Although his rights were explained
to him in two languages, Juan Ro
nero, accused of Staying his step
father, Don Jose Romero, at Long
mont several weeks ago, pleaded
guilty to the charge of murder, al
Boulder
John H. Elspass of Denver heads g
group of Ault, Greeley and Denver
capitalists interested in the formation