The Colorado statesman., 1922-07-22
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COMING EVENTS.


Aug. 2-4-stampede. Monte Vista.
Aug. 2s-Sept. 1-Larimer County
Sept. 5-swArkansas Valley Fair.
Sept. SIS - Boulder County Fair,
Sept. 5-s-Intermountain Fair and
Stock Show. Grand Junction.
Sept. 5-S-Phillips County Fair,
Sept s-s-washington County Fair,
Sept 12-I5-Delta County Fair
Sept. i2-15-weld County Fair. Gree
Sept. 12-16-LaPiatta County Fair.
sept. 12-15-Logan County Fair,
Sterling.
Sept. 1916 - Baca county talri
Sept. Is-1s-Adams County Fair,
sept. l4-16-conejos County Fair.
Manassa-
Sept. l4-l6-Elbert County Fair,
KeyBor.
Sept 19-22-Western slope Fair,
Montrose.
Sept. 1922 Trinidad-Las Animas
County Fair, Trinidad.
Sept. 20-21-Kiowa County Fair
Eads,
Sept. 2o-22-Rio Grande County Fair
Sept. SI-22-Pueblo County Fair,
Sept. 21-2s-El Paso County Fair
Sept. 21-2s-Lincoln County Fair,
Hugo.
Denver. President Harding has
nominated the following to be regis
ters of land offices: Louis w. Bur
ford at Del Norte, Colo; Charles r.
Smith at Durango, Colo, and Edgar I.
Conquest at Sterling, Colo.
Boulder.-Neil Borden of this city
has been appointed assistant to the
dean of the Harvard University Col
lege of Business and has left for Cam
bridge to begin his work. He was
graduated from Cambridge last June
with special honors.
Durango.-Two are dead and two
others are wounded seriously as a re-
suit of shooting affray at road
construction camp five miles south of
Sllverton, Colo. The dead are Art Ford
and Omer Warren; the wounded Yer
non Allen and Mrs. Omer Warren.
Loveland-Three women, two of
them instructors at the Agricultural
College in Fort Collins, were injured
when new car, driven by one Of
them, plunged over a fifteen-foot bank
at the point near where the road from
Fort Collins connects with the road
from Loveland to Estes Park.
Denver.-Officials predicted that the
blockade of the tunnel on the Moffat
road will be relieved between July 20
and Aug. l. The tunnel has been
blocked for several months. Rebuild
ing of the part of the Moffat shops
damaged by fire July 4 is held up
awaiting an adjustment of insurance.
Trinidad.-Eugene ]. Kerrigan, spe-
cial representative of the Marine In
surance Company of London, has of
fered $4,000 for information that will
lead to the recovery of $4S,500 worth
of Liberty Bonds contained in mail
pouches which disappeared from the
Santa F9 baggage room on the morn
ing of May 81.
Sterling. - County commissioners
from nine northern Colorado counties
unanimously indorsed the proposed &c.
100000 bond issue to be spent on state
highways at meeting held here. The
counties compose the Ninth district
and include Adams, Logan, Phillips,
Sedgwick, Yuma, Morgan, Washington,
Weld and Arapahoe counties.
Rocky Ford.-An educational depart
ment has been added to the features
of the Arkansas Valley Fair, and $50
prizes will be offered for school chill
dren in Otero county. Heretofore the
exhibits of children have been in de-
partments also open to adults. The
change is due to efforts on the part of
Superintendent Walters of the public
schools here.
Boulder.-Three hundred University
of Colorado summer school students
and others attempted to climb Arapa-
hoe peak recently and most of them
succeeded.
Pueblo.-A protest petition against
the proposed flood conservancy district
has been filed in District Court by the
Rocky Ford Canal, Reservoir, Land,
Loan and Trust Company in behalr of
it's stockholders. The petition states
that % $50 acres of the concern are in
cluded in the district, that the forma-
ton of such district is unconstitutional
and prays that petitions favoring such
district shall be dismissed and that
lands of the company shall be excluded
from any such district.
Colorado Springs.-What is declared
the greatest gold strike of recent years
in the Cripple Creek district, once the
foremost gold camp in the world, was
revealed in two streaks of rich four
foot vein at the 2,600-foot level of the
Portland mine at Victor. The ore in
the streaks, one and four inches in
width, will run from $4,000 to $4,000
ton, according to Joseph w. AGy, Jr.,
of this city, managing director of the
mine, while that in the vein, exclusive
of the StreakS will exceed 5000 q ION