Eastern Colorado times., 1912-12-13

]. Y. Burdick, a resident OF Denver
for twelve years. died at his home.
3941 Osceola street.
Governor-elect Elias M. Ammons
has returned from Chicago. where he
attended the International Livestock
Show.
John A. Rush, district attorney
elect, and Mrs. Rush, left Denver for
Panama, where they will remain until
January 1.
A movement have been started by
residents Of Fruita to petition the
State Legislature for the division of
Mesa county. -
Horance N. Hawkins, Denver, for
| warded to the governor his resigna-
| tion as a member Of the state Civil
Service Commission.
Emil Bochmann, co. a stone-cutter,
was shot and killed by Frank Bed
ford, 80. in front of boarding house
at $40 Grant avenue, Colorado City.
The thirteenth annual championship
show of the Colorado Poultry Fanci-
ers' Association will be held the week
of January 13 at the Denver Audito-
rum.
With the San Francisco exposition
in 1915 as a point on which to con-
centrate. Denver's representative busi-
ness men have formed the Colorado
Publicity League.
Democratic women of the state en-
tertained Colorado's first lady-to-be,
Mrs. Elias M. Ammons, wife of the
governor-elect. at banquet in her
honor in Denver.
A stranger, apparently fifty years
old, who registered at the Oxford ho-
tel as Charles Smith Of Trinidad, took
an overdose Of morphine and died at
Walsenburg hotel.
Julia Won der Lieth Welles, wife of
A. M. Welles and president of the
state travelling library commission,
died suddenly at her home in Denver
from an apoplectic stroke.
The Rev. DR.. Frederick E. Palmer,
pastor of the First Baptist church of
Boulder, has been unanimously cho-
sen by the Colorado State Baptist
convention to be its secretary.
Cantaloupe growers of the Arkan-
sas valley, at meeting at Rocky
Ford, laid plans to organize the small
er growers to effect Independent ship
ping and disposal of their product.
In addition to demanding their own
water and light plants, the people of
Glenwood Springs have decided that
municipal coal yard, public scales
opa r,,unic{po1 coooforv ora m ho do
sired.
In his first message to the Colorado
Legislature on assuming the governor
ship Elias M. Ammons will recon-
mend legislation which will have for
It's purpose the revival of the mining
| industry.
Horribly scalded by escaping steam,
Peter Chinberg, machinist, and Carl
| Carlson, helper, were found uncon-
scious in the Union Pacific roundhouse
at La Sale by fellow workmen return.
ing from lunch.
The passage Of the eight-hour law
in Colorado marks one of the most
significant victories for organized Ia
bor in the history, according to
Charles H. Meyer, head of the West
ern Federation of Miners.
"An idea both novel and painful"
is the way Congressman-elect George
Kindel characterizes the movement
started by the Colorado Springs cham
ber to have a new issue of one-cent
stamps bearing the picture Of Pixies
Peak.
Returning from an extended trip to
Russia, England and France, former
Senator Stephen w. Dorsey arrived in
Denver on his way to his home in
Los Angeles, Cal. He remained for q
few days, visiting his son, Clayton G.
Dorsey.
Mrs. Lucy A. Mott died at the home
of her daughter, Mrs. Ruth Nice, in
Denver, at the advanced age of 81
years, following an attack of pneumo-
mia with heart complications. She
was born in Lackawana, Pa, in 1882
and came to Colorado twenty-five
years ago.
Married in 1870, divorced in 1884,
both taking other mates, losing them,
and marrying again in Denver, is a
short biography of the matrimonial
life of James Franklin Alice, aged 81.
and Mrs. Jennie Hampton, 60, who
were remarked after a separation of
twenty-eight years.
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