The Raymer enterprise., 1912-12-05
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c Of L o r ADO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
January 2O-25-Eighth Annual West
ern Stock Show-Denver.

of Pythias. held its annual ball at e.
Jebel Temple.
Tag Day" added $4,000 to the funds
of the Denver Saturday and Sunday
Hospital Association.
James II. Conklin was the victim of
a peculiar accident at Grand Junction
when he. pulled off his coat and broke
his collar-bone.
w. B. Bamberger of Baltimore, Nd,
has been informed by City Clerk Otto
Thum that in Colorado man cannot
marry his sisters daughter.
The membership fee for admission
to the State Horticultural Society has
been changed from 81 cash to one
large box of extra fancy apples.
Word has been received that w. H..
Williams, well known in Denver. who
was stricken with heart trouble at
Ardmore, Okla, died as a result OF the
attack.
Word was received in Longmont Of
the marriage of Mamie Large and
John Holmes, formerly of Longmont,
the wedding having taken place at
Salt Lake City.
While working In laundry at Eaton
Mrs. A. Baker and Miss Anna Rhoades
were overcome by gas fumes and but
for the timely arrival Of doctor
would have died.
Word was received in Denver of the
death of Samuel A. Wolcott, father of
Roger H. Wolcott and brother of the
late Senator Edward o. Wolcott, at
his home in New London, Conn.
Among the rapidly thinning ranks
OF the pioneers are Mr.. and Mrs. John
Aubrey of Denver. Recently they cele-
brated their golden wedding annivers.
ary, and many were the friends that
came, but few of the early days.
Albert B. SCANNED, for the past six
years county agriculturist Of Mesa
county, has resigned and will 60 to
Atlantic City, N. j., to take up the
study of insect problems under the
United States Bureau of Entomology.
The Western Chemical Company,
whose plant in Denver was destroyed
by fire recently, has begun to rebuild.
The erection of a fireproof building
to cost $4,000 has been started and
the steelwork of the structure alone
will cost $4,000.
The half fare railroad rate Is about
to follow its big brother. the pass. into
oblivion In Colorado. At con.
ference Of officers OF several lines
1t was decided to issue peremptory or.
ders that no official of any line shall
grant the half fare which 1t has been
customary to give to certain classes,
principally laborers.
The hunt for Frank l.. Smith,, coli.
fessed murderer OF Jesse Stingley. and
Jail breaker, has gone beyond the i'm.
mediate province of the Denver police
and the posses of many men that have
secured the country around Brighton.
under the direction of Sheriff Herman
Schloo, since Smith and James A. Sta.
ton escaped from the Jail at that
place.
Thirty.fiye thousand dollars is a
huge sum to pay for a railroad journey
from Cincinnati to Denver. but that is
the amount the United States District
Court of West Virginia has awarded to
Mrs. Catherine Ostenton against Mrs.
Margaret II. Williamson for riding be.
tween these cities in the same state
room, 1t is said, with the formers hus-
band.
In a fit OF jealous rage over the al
legged attentions of Oscar Thompson, a
tailor, to his wife, 4. Il. Callahan, an
upholsterer OF Trinidad, fired five
shots at his enemy. The shooting took
place with Thompson in flight and
Callahan In pursuit, and the race last.
ed for three blocks. All OF the shots
went wide OF the intended mark, but u
stray shot struck Facinda Leyba.
eighteen, in the leg. The wound is
not dangerous.
A daughter was born in New York
to Mrs. Robert H. Livingston, former.
ly Miss Marie Sheedy, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Sheedy. Both
mother and child are reported TO be
doing well. Miss Sheedy's marriage
to Robert Livingston In Denver, Feb,
ruary 10, 1912, was one OF the mos,
notable society events OF the year, be.
ing attended by Denvcr's most exclu'
sive circle and several New York ana
Boston society people.
The Alonzo Thompson matrimonial
difficulties have been tossed back and
forth In the courts and the newspapers
for the past six months but 1t took
just exactly three minutes for them all
to be permanently settled in Judge Al
lens court In Denver. Mrs. Annie I.au
ra Thompson was granted divorce
from the aged philanthropIsl, million
aire and spiritist. There was no con
test. Mrs. Thompson Received $lOO.
400 as alimony, half In cash and halt
' In securities.