The Elbert County tribune., 1916-09-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

eept' - -<s-Stste Convention b. 4. y. L.
Sept. 2s-3o-Third Annual Pine River
valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
Jan. 2o-27-AnnuaI western stock
show at Denver.
Pueblo is to have a new city hall.
Brush held a successful flow.r
show.
The town of Grover is to be incor-
porated.
An amusement park is planned for
La Junta.
Many new granaries are in course
of construction near Virgins.
Canning factories at Fort Lupton
are busy with beans and pickles.
Cheyenne County Fair will be held
at Cheyenne Wells on Sept 20 to 81.
Ray Stephenson, years old, was
drowned in a pool of the South Platte
river near Greeley.
A cowmen's reunion will be one of
the main features of the Trinidad-Las
Animas County Fair
Between 5000 and 1000 took part
in the second annual field meet of
miners at Trinidad.
Work will be started shortly on a
new building addition to the Del
Norte fish hatchery.
Fort Morgan made elaborate prep.
arations for its Frontier Days festi-
val Sept. 5. 6, and s.
Improvement work on Madrid Res
prynir RI nf Trinidad
water system, is nearing completion.
Charles Evans Hughes made
speech at Estes Park on Thursday
morning before leaving for Loveland.
The Pennsylvania Club of Colorado
will hold its annual corn roast and
picnic at Washington Park in Denver
on Sept. 8.
Investigations are now being made
looking toward the selection of site
in Colorado for the governments pro
posed s2O,00000O nitrate plant
Bad horses and good riding viii
feature the first annual Frontier Day
celebration at Creede, Sept. A. A
realistic western stage hodup" will
also be staged
displays of fruit, farm products or
minerals for the State Fair, to be held
az Pueblo, Sept 1s to 23, will be hauled
free by the railroads from any point
in Colorado and return.
One of the pleasant features Incl
dent to the coming of Charles E.
Hughes to Denver was an excursion
over Lookout mountain for the news
paper men with the party.
Boulder mining men recently paid
more than $500 for beautiful speci-
mems of tellurium which turned out
TO be worthless pieces of Stag coated
with aluminium and copper.
l.. p. Leonard, an engineer. was
caught beneath an overturned clam
shell dredge bucket at the Globe
smelter in Denver and seriously scald-
ed by boiling water and steam.
Colorado Springs is entertaining
more tourists this summer than the
California towns, according to A. E.
Carlton, who returned from three
weeks stay on the Pacific coast.
Shipwrecked twice on her honey.
moon trip in Alaskan waters and eaL III
time rescued is the experience of Mrs
Karl Winchell, a Denver June bride of
this year. formerly Miss Mildred
Morgan.
Denver's plan to transfer the but
falo, elk, deer and antelope from City
Park to Genesee mountain is only
part of a move to create natural
habitat for all the wild animals in
the zoo.
The body of an unidentified man,
with thirty-pound iron weight tied
about the neck, was found floating
in a small lake on the ranch of Harry
\ Snow, two and one-half miles east
of Englewood.
The City of Greeley will purchase
1000 feet of steel twenty-inch pipe
to replace the damaged water mains
of the city water supply in Linder-
mayer Lake district two miles north
est of Fort Collins
Rasmussen brothers. five miles
southeast of Longmont, secured 236
sacks of seed peas from fourteen acres
of ground. After paying for the seed
threshing and all other expenses, tho
crop netted $106 per acre
The passage by Congress AMI the
signing by the President OF the ma
tional park service bill has caused
congratulation and satisfaction in
Estes park. The achievement is the
result of seven long years of fighting
and working.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany has posted notices in various
languages at all of its camps offering
rawards appregatinp S5 mn for I'M for