The Colorado statesman., 1912-12-07

ern stock Show-Denver
The law prohibiting the sale of a.
grettes became effective December l
A forest fire is raging on Mount
Harvard, eight miles west of Buena
Vista.
The public schools of Walsenburg
have been closed on account of an epi
demic of scarlet fever
A. F. Wehrle, Colorado pioneer.
died after an operation for appendi
citis at his hotel in Los Angeles.
A young Englishman, Arnold Evans.
was thrown from horse at Fort Lup
ton and so badly injured that it is
expected he will die.
There is great interest in Denver in
the reports from Berlin that serum
that is a positive cure for tuberculosis
has been discovered.
Marshall Call, IS years of age, was
probably fatally injured when he fell
from third-story window at the Carl.
ton hotel in Denver.
E. H. Clark, formerly of Boulder,
pleaded guilty in the District Court
at Georgetown to drawing a check
without having any funds in the bank.
An insane stranger, who gave his
name as Michael Long, rs years old,
was arrested in Denver for breaking
plate glass windows in business
houses.
A call has been sent out for the
third annual convention of the Colo
rado Good Roads Association, to be
held in Denver during the second
week in January.
Otto Meyers, the fiance of Candace
Wheeler, who was drowned in Bowles
lake, near Littleton, will receive the
insurance on the young woman's life.
amounting to $12,500.
Donald Leedham, %, son of DR..
Leedham, in sudden fit of despond-
ency at Las Animas, blew his brains
out with revolver and died without
regaining consciousness.
That $4,000 in merchandise has
been systematically taken from the
Pueblo Star Grocery and Market dur
ing the past four years, is the charge
of the manager, l. Swarz.
Awakening from a dream of white
sailed ShamrockS and easily Gifted"
silver cups, Sir Thomas Upton, Den
ver's most distinguished guest, spent
a busy day as host and guest OF
friends in Denver.
All Colorado railroads will probably
follow the lead of the Denver & Rio
Grande and Colorado & Southern and
abolish the free pass in this state, ex-
cept those provided for by the Inter-
state Commerce laws.
Mrs. H. d. Patrick of Denver, re-
ceived letter from her son, Albert
T. Patrick, the first since his release
from the New York prison. In this
letter Patrick declares that he will
see his mother soon.
An information charging murder
was filed in the West Side court in
Denver against Martin w. Trester.
employer of Miss Maud White, who
died at Tresters home from the ef-
fects of criminal operation.
Governor Shafroth, in honor of his
majority at the polls on the senate
rial ticket, was rendered a banquet
by the Missouri Society of Colorado.
Both Governor and Mrs. Shafroth
came originally from Missouri
Newman Erb telegraphed the receiv-
ers of the Denver, Northwestern &
Pacific railroad from New York that
the contract for the grading of the
first fifty miles of the road beyond
Steamboat Springs had been let.
Miss Dorothy Londoner, 10, of Den
yer, although OF legal age under the
laws of Colorado, must have a guar
dian to act until she reaches the age
of 81 in order that she may share in
the benefits of the 100000 insurance
left by her father, the late Wolfe
Londoner.
Mrs. s. R. Wright. aged so, and for
many years resident of Colorado
| Springs, was killed by Rio Grandc
train in the railroad yards. She held
a Bible in her hand and was wander
ing aimlessly about when struck.
Both feet were cut off and she died
in the Rio Grande baggage room.
Crime is ON the decrease among
the women of Colorado. That is the
statement made by Thomas ]. lyman,
warden of the state penitentiary.
There are only five Colorado women
now in the state penitentiary, this be-
ing the smallest number in many
years.
Mrs. Jesse H. Stingley, the wife of
the detective murdered by Frank L.
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ton six weeks age, is dying Bereft
| of her reason as result of worry
over her husbands death and stricken
with paralysis, she lies at deaths
door at st. Josephs hospital in Den