The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-29
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COMING EVENTS.

June 10 ls;-Strawberry Days, Glen
June 19-Juiy Colorado Fair and
Racing Association at Denver.
Aug. 3l-Sept 2.-Grand Lodge, X. of p.
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 26-2S.-Eall Festival al Flagler.
Sept 27-oct. S.-MeetinG international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
ouray will celebrate July sc.
The trout season opened May %.
Fort Lupton is enjoying a building
boom.
About 100 troops from Fort Logan
left Denver for the coast
Denver is going after on eof the
big political conventions of 1916
Pagosa Springs is preparing for a
celebration on the Fourth of July.
A tag day is announced for Satur-
day, June 3, for the benefit of the
Denver Home for Adult Blind
Reports from Greeley state that the
| damage to crops during the recent
storm and cold spell was not great.
The Masonic bodies at Ouray have
purchased the Opera House building
and will fit up elegant lodge quarters.
The Public Utility Commission has
| issued an order directing a general
| reduction of passenger fares all over
the state.
Leonard w. Clark, rancher living
six miles from Grand junction, fell
dead while working in the field. Apo
| pleXy is given as the cause.
One of Telluride's richest strikes
Mt III, a,
Black Bear mine, owned by the Colo
RADIO Superior Mining Company.
The failure of l.. B. Sylvester and
| brothers to meet their obligations on
outstanding cattle and sheep loans
created considerable stir in Monte
Vista
Loveland welcomed about 800 dele
gates to the fifty-seventh general as
sembly of the United Presbyterian
church. The sessions continue from
May &c to June >.
Secretary of Agriculture. David F.
Houston will be the guest at compli-
mentary banquet to be given by the
Chamber of Commerce at Colorado
| Springs, June l.
Two hundred Italian residents of
Denver have responded to the call of
the mother country and will leave
within few days to fight on the bat
tlefields of Europe
His excellency the maharajah of
Kapurthala, II. II. Jagat Jit Singh
Bahadur, with his wife, the maharanee
Prem Kaur, and his son Prince Karin
| jit visited in Denver. a 3g4,.,
George Matthew Wheeler. a pioneer
stage coach driver and freighter of
| Georgetown and Leadville died in Den
yer of bronchial trouble which he con-
tracted while mining
Gold, currency and certificates of
deposit worth slO5.594.SS were found
late George Filbeck, German pioneer
of Denver, when recently opened.
The beginning of the forest fire sea
son in Colorado is marked by the sta
tioning of a forest guard at the sum-
nit of Devils Head, a mountain 10000
feet high in the Pike national forest.
Miss Alice Patek a well-known
young actress and daughter of Alfred
Patek, former newspaper man of Den
| YER, was found dead from asphyxiation
by gas in the bedroom of her home in
| Chicago.
The city attorney of Denver made
application to the District Court for
the appointment of receiver for the
| Denver Tramway Company Action
on the application will be taken within
twenty days.
The famous Doctor mine on Spring
creek is expected to come to the front
this summer by the Aspen lessees who
have opened what they describe as a
| tremendous body OF zinc-carbonate ore
in the old workings.
The congressional committee now
inspecting the government reclama-
ton projects will be in Colorado be-
tween June % and July >. and will
| go over the two federal irrigation en-
terprises in Colorado.
A total of s4S4,7Oi as indemnity for
deaths and injuries suffered by en-
ployes in the metalliferous mines of
Colorado will be paid under the pro
visions of the workmen's compensa-
ton law during the next three years,
according to estimates made by Fred
Carroll, state mine commissioner.
Harvey Sanderson one of the old
est residents OF Pueblo died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. G. L. L..
Gam. He was 50 years old and was
one of the pioneers and empire build
ers of the West. For years Sanderson
was member of the Sanderson- Bar
low Overland Stage Company, which
ran stage coaches from Kansas City
to Santa Fe. n. NJ.
Five thousand trained Italian sol.