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Show PANAMA-PACIFIC 1HTER- NATIONAL EXPOSITION Tho Colorado State Board of Health Is demanding that a grand Jury called In Denver investigate tho roller towel. tow-el. Tho law of tho State says that no roller towel Bhnll bo uced In any public building or public place. Tho law Is generally regarded as n Joke. Half n million dollars In ready money was spont at tho Cheyenno Frontier Days celebration. A big show Is a grand thing for n town. Denver's Festival of Mounta'n and. Plain has "como back." October 14 to 19 is the date sot. Committees aro working now nt top speed to mako tho show u success. Whllo opposed to capital punishment punish-ment Governor Shafroth of Colorado Bays ho will not reprieve Louis J. Wcchter condemned to die sometimo during tho weok beginning August 25. Wechtor killed W. Clifford Burrowes, hardwaro man, In a Denver restaurant whl'o attempting to hold up tho place. Tho expenditure of n fow hundred do!-lars do!-lars would hnvo saved Wechter's neck temporarily at least. Had tho petition been circulated for nn Initiated bill to abolish capital punishment tho governor would have reprieved Wechtor Wech-tor until such tlmo ns tho pooplo voted vo-ted on tho measure. But no such bill hns been proposed nnd now it is too late. It Is estlmnted that thero aro less than 1000 puro bred survivors of the ancient Aztec race which, at ono tlmo ruled America. Some of theso will bo brought to tho International exposition expo-sition to be held ",n San Diego in 1915. San Diego hns $3,500,000 In Its ex- position building and operation fund; $1,000,000 In its exposition, park im-provement im-provement fund; $1,000,000 In Us municipal mu-nicipal wharf fund, nnd $000,000 in Its wnter and sower fund. Also It has Just completed ronds and boulevards boule-vards to tho oxtent of $1,230,000. The population of tho city now Is 75,000, gain In two years, 212 per cent. Through diplomatic channels on Its own motion tho government Is transmitting trans-mitting to foreign nntlonB invitations to participate In) tho Panama-Paciflo Exposition which will open in San Diego, January 1, 1915. Wyoming is enjoying one of tho most prosperous years In Its history. Thero nro no vacant stores or houses In Cheyenne nnd money Is circulating freely. Severn! extensive irrigation projects pro-jects In Moffat and Routt counties, Colorado, are pushing ahead this summer and boforo tho Bnow; files a number of big reservoirs will have been, constructed. Brazil will erect a building and Install In-stall an exhibit nt tho San Diego Exposition Ex-position that will cost $1,200,000. Tho building alone will cost $300,000. Plans are bolng laid for tho organization organ-ization of a good roads association, which will tako In all tho states west of tho Mississippi river. A central of-flco of-flco will bo established and by systematic system-atic methods It Is proposed to run a good roads movement. |