The Arvada enterprise., 1912-10-24
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over tho
State Worth While.

near Stoneham.
William Hessler, five, died from in
juries received by being run over by
loaded wagon at Longmont
William Shivers, twelve-year-old
colored boy of Denver fell twenty-five
feet and suffered sprained ankle.
w. H Wentworth, fifty-eight, for
several weeks a patient at the Denver
hospital died as a result of sneezing.
The board of managers of the Colo
RADIO Woman's college in Denver voted
unanimously to build $4,000 addi-
ton.
J. NJ. Armstrong, who died in Long
mont, left a considerable fortune as
result of his operations as peanut
vcnder
Victor G. Hills of Denver was seri-
ously injured at Cripple Creek when
a timber fell on him. Three ribs were
broken.
Stepping directly in front of an out
bound Seventeenth avenue car, Mrs.
w. P. Gilbert of Denver was run down
ana Sllgntly injured.
Horace Havemeyer, the only son OF
the late H. A. Havemeyer, worth mil
lions, was in Greeley and inspected
the beet sugar factory.
The assessed valuation of property
in the city and county of Denver for
the current year shows an increase
over the 1911 assessment of s6S0,597.
Struck and run over by a Denver &
Rio Grande freight train near Garcia
Plaza, Toribo Mascarenas, a gardener,
sustained injuries which resulted in
his death.
William Leigh, quarterback, and
Richardson, center, for the Aggies in
sheir game at Colorado Springs with
the Colorado College Tigers, were both
seriously injured.
The Pueblo Hotel Company, owner
of the Congress hotel. one of the two
largest hotels in Pueblo was served
with notice Of bankruptcy proceedings
filed against it in the Federal Court.
While her husband sat in another
room, calmly reading newspaper, Mrs.
Rose Casey. thirty-four, of Pueblo
drank the contents of small bottle of
carbolic acid and died a few moments
later.
Mrs. John C. Frees, sixty-two, died
from the effects Of burns received dur
ing 4 fire at her home at Montrose
three weeks ago. She was a pioneer
and her husband was the first merch-
cnt there.
With all the fervor OF their primi-
tive religion thirty dusky redskins
the visiting Taos Indians from the
New Mexico reservation-danced on
the lawn of the select Wolcott school
for young women in Denver.
Capital amounting to S60,000,000 for
Investment in Colorado and Wyoming
has been obtained by Werner z. Reed,
financier and promoter Of the Mid
West Oil Company of Casper. Wyo., in
the East and Europe, principally in
Paris.
Approximate figures given out by
the election commission indicate that
there will be 10000 voters registered
to cast their ballots at the election
November 5. The registration is not
only the heaviest ever recorded in
Denver, but is greatly in excess of all
expectations.
Captain Alvin Schrontz of Longmont
was killed in football game between
{. Denver high school and the Long
mont team when his skull was frac-
tured; Captain Frank Burgess of Wy
oming university received serious in.
juries to his back in the game with
Colorado college.
The funeral of Lester B. Bridaham,
formerly vice president and general
manager of the Davis-Bridaham Drug
Company, was held from the home OF
Mrs. Bridaham's uncle, Charles \.
Knowles, 1920 Detroit street, Denver.
The services were attended by ABOUT
200 former friends and business asso-
Ciates.
1t was stated in Denver financial cir
cles that the Havemeyer brothers, rep
resenting the great sugar interests,
have completed plans to invest mil
lions in Colorado. AS a starter they
will, it is said, put 100000 into the
purchase of the Denver & Northwest
orn electric line, now owned by the
Denver Tramway people.
A perpetual and irrevocable" per.
NIT to use the streets and alleys of
Denver is claimed by the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany in an answer filed in the Dis.
trict Court to the complaint of Clin-
ton Wilson and other taxpayers, who
declare that the telephone company is
operating in Denver without a fran
Chise.
That the second coming of Christ
will occur within ten years and that all
of the Biblical prophe cies as to the
condition OF the universe at Christs
second appearance on earth have al.
ready been fulfilled, was the startling
statement made at Boulder by Dean A.
c. Peck OF Denver in his closing ser.
mon at the evangelistic services which
ne has been conducting for the past
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