The Colorado statesman., 1912-01-20
The WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DOlNGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

YVES EhN.
That the ravages of spinal meningi-
tbs in Texas have been checked is the
statement of the State Board OF
Health.
Assemblyman John E. Mutually,
member of the last California Legisla-
ture, was shot and killed by three rob-
bers in his saloon in San Francisco.
Mrs. Rachael Sparln, seventy-six
and blind, of Baxter, Kan, burned to
death in her cottage when coal fell
from her clay pipe and set her dress
afire.
According to cattleman from For
est City, S. D. several thousand cattle
are gathered at Swift Bird creek and
hundreds are dying from starvation
and cold.
Three are known to be dead and
ten more or less seriously injured In
Missouri Pacific wreck, which oc-
Cured at a bridge mile west OF
Norton Lyndon, Kans.
D. II. Arnold, a ranchman living
seven miles northeast of Hillrose,
Colo, was probably fatally shot while
pursuing a stranger whom he caught
prowling about his ranch.
Women of Greeley, Colo, who are
members of the Graphic Club, at a
meeting of the organization recently
laid plans for women's club rooms,
Y. w. C. A, more lights and a new
water system.
Charges of misappropriation of
funds of the old Southern Colorado
Light and Power Company against
Receiver Frank P. Read of Denver
are contained in a bill of exceptions
filed in Trinidad in the District Court
Ly the st. Louis Union Trust Com
pany.
After travelling through five states
to find place where they might wed
legally, Miss Anna Sietama of Woon-
socket, S. D., and Sistee Seitsma of
Forestburg, S. D., were married in La
Crosse, Wis. The pair are first cou-
sins and because of that fact were un-
able to marry in South Dakota or the
neighboring states of North Dakota,
Minnesota, Nebraska and Iowa.
With Sheriff on one side and
jailer on the other, Mrs. Alberta Gent
ry, charged with completely in the
murder of her husband, Thomas ].
Gentry, braved the gaze of 5000 per-
sons to be present at her husbands
funeral at Oklahoma City. The serv-
Ices were held at the First Christian
church. Mrs. Gentry refused an op-
portunity to take last look at the
body, thereby disappointing many who
fought to get inside the fashionable
church.
BY order of the secretary of the
treasury, Chief Harry NJ. Moffatt of
the United States Secret Service Of
flee, has seized at the First National
bank of Oakland, Cal, valuable
painting entitled Barrels of Money"
The seizure was made for the reason
that the painting represented $4,000
900 in United States currency, piled
up in barrels. 1t is against the fed
eral regulations to paint, photograph,
or make or exhibit any representa-
tion of the currency or coins of the
United States. The painting is from
| the brush of Y. Dubreuil, a noted
| French artist.
Denver will, before the end of
this year, be the distributing point
on ]. ]. Hills Seattle-to-the-Gulf route
| One million dollars was recently ap-
| propriated by the Burlington road to
build the twenty-nine-mile link be-
| tween Greeley and Hudson, Colo. The
| work will be done within six months.
Freight and passengers from the
| Northwest over the new line will
| reach the old main Burlington line at
| Hudson, twenty-six miles from Den
yer. and thence be brought to Denver.
The other link missing in the new
road is between Thermopolis and Pow
der River, Wyo., distance of sixty,
| six miles. Part of this is now built.
| ALI the grading has been done and it
only remains to lay the rails. This
will complete Hills Seattle-to-Galves-
ton line.
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