The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-08-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.
COMING EVENTS.

Aug. 2s-3O.-Annual CT invention x. p.
Grand Snn Lodge, Lodge, sineiadinss Enitosm nissta
Of Khorsssan, nann a, Ste eoiorade ado Spring..
Sept 3-7-Frontier Day celebration at
Fort Morgan.
County Fairs-
Aug: 2s-sept. l-Prowers County at La
Aug. 2s-s1-Larimer County at Love-
land.
aug; ss-sl-crowley County at Sugar
Aug. s1sept. Farmers Fair at Fow-
Sept. +-7-Arkansas Valley at Rocky
Sept 6-s-sedgwick County at Jules
Sept ll14-Logan County at Sterling
Sept 1s-21-Cheyenne County at Chey-
enne Wells
. Sept 1s-2l-western Slope at Mont
Sept 17-22-Colorado State at Pueblo.
Sept. 20-22-Phillips County at Hol-
Sept. 25-2s-colorado New Mexico at
Sept. 25- 2s-Las Animas County at
Sept. 2s-2s-El Paso County at calhan.
Sept. 27-2s-Grand County at Kremm-
Oct. 2-5-Kit Carson County at Bur-
lrngton.
The Crowley county fair will be held
Aug. 81.
Fifty men working on the Pueblo
city hall walked out.
South Side exemption board OF Pueb-
10 will call second list of 100 men.
State labor convention adjourned
after passing resolutions condemning
constabulary bill.
Team of fine mules valued at $500,
arf,, ~
lightning south of Las Animas.
A terrific hail storm. accompanied
by heavy rain fell at Fort Morgan,
doing damage to beets and alfalfa.
Bears and other wild animals are
becoming numerous on the ranges be-
tween Grand Junction. and Montrose.
Not one of the nine draft districts In
Denver will obtain its quota from the
first call, and second will be made.
Announcement was made of the call
Ing off Of the Pixies peak automobile
races, scheduled to begin on Sept. 8.
The sixty-third annual convention of
the International Typographical Union
opened at colorado Springs on Mon
day.
II is stated that seventy more Colo
RADIO men are to win posts, in addition
to the 900 already commissioned, at
Fort Riley.
Advance Of half dollar per hundred
In Wholesale price Of sugar last week
is expected to be followed quickly by
another smaller raise.
Rex B. Yeager of Denver was elected
president Of the Colorado State Board
Of Embalmins Examiners at the annu-
NJ election in the capitol.
six days In one-all the same
Cheyenne" is \ sentence in the an
nouncement Of the annual rodeo to be
held in Cornish. Aug. 1s.
DR.. F. 8. Bates, a former resident of
Colorado Springs, was killed by bolt
Of lightning during q storm at Fort
Riley, Kan. the officers training
camp
Two new tent villages. occupied not
by tourists. but by miners and pros
pectors, have sprung up near Fremont
Pass, attracted by the Breckenridge
molybdenum boom.
Prof Albert C. Pearson. composer,
teacher and critic. and member of the
faculty OF the Colorado College school
OF music. died at Colorado Springs aft.
er q brief illness.
The total labor shortage that Colo
RADIO farmers will face in harvesting
their bumper crops this year is esti-
mated at 10000 men by H. w. Cornell,
director of the State War Council.
The fourth quadrennial session OF
the Supreme Camp of American Wood
men, a negro organization founded on
the same lines as the Woodmen of the
World, will be held in Denver Aug. 13
to IS.
Two children were killed and seven
persons seriously injured Sunday when
a car driven by a negro known only as
Bud" overturned about a mile north
of Fort Lupton, while going at ter.
rific speed.
Because he tore up an American
flag, Joe Garharici, a Mexican, is un-
der arrest and has been arraigned be-.
fore United States Commissioner
Gates on charges of desecrating the
flag at Pueblo
Suit for $4,000 has been brought in
Denver against the estate of the late
John F. Campion by Mrs. H. A. w. Ia
Dor, who says that amount is due her
because of an agreement between
Campion and Senator Tabor.
The city of Pueblo has saved $173,.
610.75 since the commission form of
government went into effect in Janu.
ary, 1912. according to the report OF
mi q q ~ H..
nance, made to the City Council.
Seven Pueblo men and one alternate
will be sent to the second officers