The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

IN Denver.
Sept 15-I6-Harvest Festival at Num-.
Sept. 18-23-State Fair at Pueblo.
Sept. 2O-23-Cheyenne County Fair at
Cheyenne Wells.
stock Show at Holyoke.
Sept. 27-z9-state Convention B. p. O. E.
Sept. 2S-3O-Third Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
at Ignacio.
Jan. 20-27-Annual w IS ern Stock
Show at Denver.
A three-day count of tourist automo-
biles passing Flagler showed a total
of 407.
Pueblo is investigating sites for the
proposed installation of municipal
bath house.
The estimated output of Honey Dew
melons in the Crowley county fields
is $4,000 crates.
The state convention of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians held a two-day
session at Pueblo.
The town board at Ault is receiving
proposals for the installation of an
electric light system.
The third annual Pine River valley
and Southern Ute Indian fair will be
held at Ignacio Sept. 2S and 30.
AS far as the railway brotherhoods
in Denver are concerned, the proposed
railway strike is thing of the past.
Six thousand Denver Sunday school
children participated in the largest
children's parade ever held in Denver
Emma Goldman, the anarchist, and
nr Ron T., Rnitmap bpr
rived in Denver from New York city.
The Florence chamber of commerce
is calling attention to the desirability
of Florence as the site for a canning
factory.
Window exhibits of home products
have been installed at Grand Junction
under the auspices of the Chamber of
Commerce.
An inspector of the Postoffice De-
partment will visit Las Animas soon
to look into the matter of free mail
delivery for that city.
Jerre Leggett, 70, died on his farm
ten miles from Boulder, where he had
lived continuously since 1872, when he
took it up as a homestead.
The Colorado Single Tax association
held its annual banquet in Denver in
honor of the seventy ?seventh anniver-
sary of the birth of Henry George.
In celebration of the recognition
gained by the Masons of Colorado this
summer in Los Angeles and Buffalo,
| the order will hold a barbecue at STRAIT
| ton park, Colorado Springs.
The county commissioners of Mesa
county have ordered two steel bridges
| to replace two wooden bridges in
Plateau valley recently destroyed by
flood.
Colorado during the month of Au-
gust consumed 2,245,14S gallons of
gasoline, an increase Of &C per cent of
the amount used in the state for the
same month last year.
The following mining companies
have been Incorporated: Ross Mining
Company, capital 100000. Tom and
Jerry Mining Company, Chandler,
Colo; capitalization, $4,000.
The field artillery of the Colorado
National guard left Golden for three
days hike to Fort Logan. 1t will re-
turn through Denver and thence to
the rifle range after parade through
the downtown streets.
Giving battle to mountain lion at
tempting to attack a corral of horses
belonging to ]. Brown, two miles from
Bailey, a thoroughbred stallion lost
his life, but saved the drove of other
horses from the lion.
John Johnson, Sr., Sc years old, was
almost instantly killed and his son,
John Johnson, Jr., 30, was seriously
injured when Seeing Denver car
struck a small roadster automobile in
which the Johnsons were riding, in
Denver
Mrs. Charles B. Cronin, wife of a
taxicab man, has started action In tn.
District Court in Denver against Mrs
Alice Baxter Burkhardt, wife of Jacob
Burkhardt, to recover 500, 900 damages
for the alleged alienation Of the affec-
tions of Mr. Cronin. Mrs. Cronin asks
body judgment.
Bearing American flags in token of
their loyalty to country and wearing
commemorative buttons that signi.
fled devotion to the principles of
unionism, thousand children, be-
tween the ages of and 1G, all from
workingmen's families, marched with
their elders in the Labor day parade.
The government needs about 200
stenographers and has announced civil
service examinations, to be held Sept.
10 and 26 at the fOllOwinp placas in
Colorado: Denver, Colorado Springs.
Durango, Grand Junction, Greeley,
Montrose and Pueblo. The initial