The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-08-19

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al Colorado Springs
Aug si-Sept s.-Meion Festival At
Sept. IO-lI-FaIl Festival at Flagler.
sept. l%-l7.-Morgan County Frontier
Days and Harvest Festival at Fort
sept 81 oct s.-Aseting later raational
Oct; s-s.-Fair and Race Meeting At
Oct. ls.-Odd Fellows Annual State
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Threshins has started In the Long
mont section.
Piatteville's Pickle Day celebration
vas success.
About 5000 has been pledged for
. fair at Trinidad.
A cold storage house to cost $50. 900
Is planned for Trinidad.
Arrangements are all complete for
the Boulder County Fair at Loagmont.
Sept 7-9.
John Moore. 76. dropped dead At his
home. three miles east OF Grand juno
ton of heart failure.
Waunita held q four-day celebration
when its new buildings were dedicated
BY the Gunnison Chamber Of Com
merce.
Miss Eta Thomas, %. daughter OF
Charles Thomas, residing west Of Fort
Collins. has disappeared. 1t 10 believed
she has eloped.
News of the marriage Of Charles ].
Clayton, millionaire stockman OF Den
YER, and Mrs. Lillian Beck McManus.
was received in Denver.
Denver's first boot and shoe maker,
Conrad Frick, 70 years old. died Of
heart failure at the home Of his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Floyd Lilyard.
Death claimed George Newton, who
with other pioneers blazed the trail
to Colorado In the early sos, at the
Soldiers home In Danville, Ill.
Adjt. Gen. John Chase of the Colo
RADIO National Guard and fifteen 9th.
ers were fined in Denver Police Court
for violating the bright-light ordt
nance.
Juan Romero, 20 years old, accused
Of Staying his step-father, Don Jose
Romero. beet rancher, near. Long
mont, last month, was taken into Gus
tody at Boulder.
Harry X. Thaw, slayer of Stanford
| White and world-famous because of II
and his subsequent flight and fight fol
freedom from Matteawan, was in Den
yer on his way to the California ex
positions.
Smashing plate glass window with
. brick, two robbers looted the win
dow of the jewelry and curio store
conducted at AT Seventeenth street
Denver. The men escaped with $500
worth Of jewelry in a sack.
The development of eastern Colo
rado and the promotion of closer
financial and trade relations between
this new agricultural empire and Den
yer is the purpose Of an excursion
through the territory planned by the
Denver Chamber of Commerce.
Walter w. Davis, general manager
of the Yak Mining, Milling and Tunne
Company, the largest operating con
Germ in the Leadville district, has just
concluded 100000 bond and lease
on the Alladin group of claims in tn,
six-metal camp.
George Lord, who with George AS
mussen, posed as one of the "twir
bandits" and held up six persons or
Capitol hill and in East Denver before
his career as an outlaw was termi
h, Dnt
fenced to from seven to ten years ir
the state penitentiary by Judge Perr,
in the West Side Criminal Court ir
Denver
The latest railroad story comes
from Telluride. and is to the effect
that a party started from there for
Placerville and thence down the
Miguel canon to Paradox, thence
down the Dolores to Grand Junction.
They are to look over the ground and
make reconnaissance for standard
gauge line from Placerville to White
water
Four inches of the shinbone of the
right leg, transplanted to his spine, re-
placing piece of equal size that had
been removed because of tubercular
condition, was successfully carried
out by physicians at the Denver coun-
ty hospital in the case of Harry
Cooper, "a years old, Of 1O14 Thir-
teenth street. Surgeons view it as a
remarkable surgical operation.
An advance Of per cent of wages
which took effect the first of the
month, applies to the 5000 men on
the payrolls of the American Smeltins
& Refining Company in Colorado
These men are located at the Durango
Leadville. Pueblo and Denver plants
and officers of the company, the dis.
tribution being close to 500 at Lead
vile, 400 at Durango. 1000 at Pueblo
and 600 in Denver and Globeville. The
coal mines operated by the company
are not included in the raise.
An item of unusual Importance t.