The Colorado statesman., 1912-11-09
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring over the
State Worth While.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
A score of women and men in their
eight clothes were driven into the
street when the Touraine hotel in
Denver caught fire.
Horace w. Clark, former vice presi.
dent and general manager of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad, died at
Frederick, Maryland
Contracts for 1000 acres of beets
for the proposed independent sugar
factory at Greeley are being asked of
farmers in the Ault district
E. p. Shove, banker and mining
man of Colorado Springs, was elected
president of the Associated Charities
to succeed Irving w. Bonbright.
Mrs. Rebecca Smith, widow of Jo-
seph H. Smith, county clerk and re-
corder of Denver for twelve years, died
at the family residence in Denver.
Jack Davis of Num-, went through
a bridge with a traction engine, fall
ing fourteen feet. The machine top
pied over, but he escaped without a
scratch.
Bishop MatZ of Denver successfully
underwent an operation, resetting the
tendon in his right leg, injured last
July, when he fell on board ship
bound for Rome.
Mayor Arnold of Denver, was strick-
en- by ptomaine poison while at work
IN his office at the city hall. He was
taken to his home Immediately and
given medical assistance.
Approximately $500 was raised for
the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Soci-
ETY. through the efforts of a score of
Jewish women, who completed a can
vass of Denver.
Arrangements have been made for
the annual football game between
Denver university and Colorado col.
lege, which will be played at Colorado
Springs on Thanksgiving day
While the Varsity was tying a few
knots in the Tigers tail the State
Preparatory boys lost hard battle
with the Eaton High school boys on
Gamble field at Boulder by to 0.
The total cost of the election in the
city and county of Denver November
was $2S,S76.60, according to figures
given out by Miss Ellis Meredith,
president of the elections commission.
Just one week to the hour and al
most the minute after her husbands
death, Mrs. Sarah NJ Kurtz, aged thir-
ty-five, suffering from broken heart,
| died at her home in Colorado Springs.
John S. Holland of Greeley, has
SNOWFALL bush ladened with flowers.
Although the nights have been chilly
end the trees in the yards are stripped
of their leaves, the bush is as green
as it was in June.
A victim of wounds received during
the Civil War, during which he par
ticipated in more than half-hundred
battles, Captain Neal Smith, a Den
yer pioneer, died at his home, 1896
Meade street. He is survived by his
| widow.
Wayne Williams, elected county
judge at the municipal election in
Denver in May, takes exception to the
decision of the Supreme Court in hold
ing that the office of county judge is
state office, and has filed in the
Supreme Court a petition for a re-
hearing.
Enraged at the outcome of law
suit in which H. NJ. Hogg, former con
gressman from Colorado appeared as
counsel, Thomas Fowler, a farmer,
welded his wooden leg on Hogg with
such effect that the statesman is in
Cortez hospital in a serious condi-
ton.
The funeral of Charles NJ. Kruger,
fifty, Denver pioneer, former chief
clerk in the federal land office and
past exalted ruler of the Denver Elks,
was held at the Elks' home, Four
teenth and California street. 1t was
attended by nearly 200 Elks and a
larger number of other friends.
Harry Kelly, a widely known horse
man, who because of his political as
sociation with Esconda Lenda,
nephew of Porfirio Diaz, was forced
to flee for his life from Mexico City
at the outbreak of the Madero insur-
rection, died suddenly at the office
of a physician in Denver, where he
had gone to undergo a slight opera
ticn.
A good showing is being made by
the Missouri Pacific railroad, which,
for the three months ended September
| 30 last year, was unable to pay its
interest charges by $1,412,000. For
| he corresponding period of this year
the road reports a surplus of S2S2,000
over all charges. In September, 1911,
the deficit, after paying charges, was
S304,O00. This year there was sur
plus in September of $4,000.
Benjamin Griffith. attorney general,
has filed bill of particulars in the
Fremont County District Court in the