The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1915-05-27
COLORADO
STATE N EWS
COMING EvENrs.
w..t.r. Newspaper U.,os View. service.

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June 1s.ls,-strawberry Days. Glsa-
June ls-July 2-CoIorado Fair and
| RACING Association at Denver.
Aug si-Sept. 2.-Grand Lodge. h. Of r..
at Colorado Springs.
sePt. I1-Oct S.-Meeting Interna tional
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
The trout season opened May Is.
Wesley Foster. of Boulder. shipped
two cars of bees to Idaho.
A farm house on the Hodges farm.
near Fort Collins, was destroyed BY
fire.
Twelve more men have been added
to the force Of the Poudre Canon road
gang near Fort Collins.
A. X. Barbour, sixty-two, was found
dead In his bed at his home near
Fruitdale. west of Denver.
The Salvation Army will conduct Q
ten-day campaign to raise $1,000 to
erect a home in Greeley.
Mrs. Banta of Grand junction was
convicted on a charge of bootlegging.
and sentenced to ten days In jail.
Freddie Pellegrina, two-year-old son
of John Pellegrina of Denver. choked
to death at his home on a prune seed.
The miners and prospectors
throughout the west lost mother in
the death of Mrs. Katherine O'Brien
Peit at Ouray.
One hundred candidates were ini-
ttated into the Denver lodge of the
Modern Brotherhood Of America 1t
the l. o. T. M. temple.
Confidence in the industrial condi.
tions in Denver and throughout the
state marked the meeting of the Dem
YER Trades and Labor Assembly.
Hassan ALE. . section hand living
near Hygiene. was arrested and fined
$25 and costs and sentenced to thirty
days In jail for violating the hunting
law.
The entire estate of David 8. Lsh-
man, vice president of the National
Jewish hospital at Denver. amounting
to about 100000. will 90 to his wid-
ow. Alma S. Lehman.
George Matthew Wheeler, . pioneer
stage coach driver and freighter Of
Georgetown and Leadville, died in Den.
yer of bronchial trouble which he con-
tracted while mining.
The Albuquerque district confer
ence Of the A. M. e. churches OF
Southern Colorado and New Mexico.
held at Trinidad. was largely attended.
and great interest manifested.
Allan d. Weitbrec, thirty years old.
son Of R. F. Weitbrec, pioneer Colo
rado railroad builder and contractor,
committed suicide in Central park,
New York city. by drinking poison.
Charles NJ. Dunsmore, pioneer OF
Colorado and known over the country
as . horseman, died at his farm at
Redvale. Mr.. Dunsmore was seventy
five years old. Kidney trouble brought
death.
Sam Bernard, an Italian, was run
over by Rio Grande train at Grand
Junction and had his left arm
crushed so badly that amputation was
necessary. His skull was also frac-
tured.
David Starr Jordon, celebrated edu-
Gator and noted economist, will give
the opening address of the Colorado
Sociological Conference, which will
begin at the University of Colorado
at Boulder July 4.
Greeley is in deep grief because of
the serious. and what may prove the
fatal, illness of DR.. 2. X. Snyder, pres
ident of the State Teachers College,
and acknowledged one of the great
educators of the country.
A search for Ellis B. Thrush, former
peace justice and assistant secretary
of the Clayton trust fund in Denver, a
discrepancy of $512 in whose accounts
was recently disclosed, was dropped
when his wife made good the short
age.
The celebration of Colorado Day on
August /, which is usually one of the
largest celebrations of the year, will
be one in behalf of peace, II the Sons
of Colorado and the Daughters of
Colorado, who have charge of the pro
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them by the Colorado branch Of the
National Woman's Peace party.
To the surprise OF merchants who
had regarded with skepticism the
"Pay-Up-Week" campaign launched by
the State of Colorado's Committee on
Unemployment and Relief, many old
debts were paid up in Boulder the
first day of "Pay-Up-Week," accord
ing to reports at the office Of the
Commercial Association.
With declaration that he was
about to pull something funny" L..
T. Ergood, twenty-seven, a commits
sion brokerage expert. calmly raised
a revolver to his breast in the Navarro
hotel office in Denver and, smiling,
sent bullet crashing into his heart.
He fell to the floor dead. Four per.