The Colorado statesman., 1912-12-21

eTn STOCK SnOW-DenNtT.
S. S. Walker, fifty-five, Mason and
Shriner, died in Denver from Bright's
disease.
Charles Price, 3S years old, and his
common-law wife, W ere arrested in
Denver on charges of forgery.
The Denver Teachers Association
objects to school janitors receiving
more pay than school teachers.
The second Japanese to be charged
with murder in Weld county within a
year was placed on trial in the District
Court.
B. F. Montgomery, lieutenant-gover-
nor-elect, who underwent an opera
tion at st. Lukes hospital in Denver
is reported slightly improved.
Members of the Oldest civilized In
dian tribes in the world will probably
assist in making Denver's 1915 festival
the greatest Indian congress of all
time.
Mrs. Mary c. c. Bradford, newly
elected state superintendent of public
instruction, is ill at her home in Den
fel, Stlu W Ue Ou Iuc Nci sc VI PhCu
monia.
The funeral of William F. Robinson,
one of Colorado's most widely known
newspaper men, who died in Denver,
was held from st. Marks Episcopal
church.
Impressive ceremonies in memoriam
to Mrs. Julia Won de Leith Welles, one
of Colorado's most notable women,
were held at the Woman's Club build
ing in Denver.
Denver will be represented by'a del
egation of five men on a national tar
iff board to be selected from the cham
bers of commerce of New York, Chi
cago, Atlanta and Denver.
The scene for the legal struggle for
the possession Of Marion Ethel Pearse,
five-year-old adopted daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Frank A. Parks of Mesa
county, shifted to Grand Junction.
Denver has two social centers, one
of which is in full swing at 4S09 Race
street, in Elyria Park. The other is
the old Harmon town hall, near the
country club, in the Fourteenth ward.
Reduction in salaries of employees
in almost every department of the
Denver city government has been
agreed upon by Mayor Arnold and the
finance committees o. the boards of
aldermen and supervisors.
The Denver G. Salt Lake Railroad
Company, with s10,000.000 capital, has
been incorporated under the laws Of
Colorado with power to acquire all <he
properties and franchises of the Den.
yer, Northwestern & Pacific.
The case brought against the city
of Denver by Mrs. Carrie Wheeler and
Frank Luft, in which the right of the
public utilities commission to exist is
questioned, has been set for hearing
in the Supreme Court on January 6.
A bill providing for the general
purging of the columns of newspapers
and other publications of pernicious
advertising will be presented at the
forthcoming Legislature through the
agency of the Denver Advertising
Club.
Additional pledges amounting to
$4,000 were obtained by President w.
F. Slocum of Colorado Springs, toward
the Colorado College endowment fund.
This leaves $3S,6OO to be raised, s1O,-
600 of which must be raised in Colo
RADIO.
While acquittal was the verdict in
the celebrated penitontiary graft case
after seventy-four hours deliberation
at Canon City, the jury found the de-
PENDANTS guilty of gross negligence,
but held that the evidence was insult
ficient for conviction.
Without tho knowledge of some of
his most intimate friends and almost
as quietly and secretly as he married
the beautiful Jane Oaker, who played
with him at Elitch's several seasons
ago, Hale Rice Hamilton secured
divorce from her November IA ana
was married to Miss Maud Myrtle
Tannehill of New York.
That as a result of the new parcels
post law Denver will be made the
center of large mail order business,
is the belief of local postoffice author
tiles. They base their opinion on the
number of inquiries received at the
poStoffice regarding rates and KINDS
of goods which can be shipped
through the parcels post.
If Alonzo Thompson. Jr., known as
the "best dressed man in Denver"
desires to inherit his fathers million
dollar estate, he will have to prove his
worth in the remaining few years
which his fother, Alonzo Thompson,
Sr, expects TO live. The elder Thomp
son declares that if his son makes a
success in life before he dies, he will
bequeath him his entire estate. II
the son fails ito make good" in the
world, the father says he will cut him