The Springfield herald., 1912-11-29
COLORADO NEWS
NGATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State

AIT OF the 0sose
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
January 2o-25-Eighth Annual West
ern Stock Show-Denver.
The Wheeler opera house at Aspen
was burned.
While he was in his store for few
minutes. E. E. Ellington. a Pueblo
merchant. was robbed of his automo-
bile.
1t il reported that construction Of
the long-contemplated Grand River.
Meeker & Salt Lake railway has been
started.
A. s. wentworth. owner Of pea
canning plant at Norfolk, Neb.. 10
planning to build similar plant in
Montrose.
Potato growers and business men OF
Greeley are planning for state con-
vention of potato growers in Denver
in January.
Henry ("Pappy") Klein. dean of the
Colorado hotel keepers and veteran OF
the Civil War. was buried in the ma
sonic cemetery at Walsenburg.
The Colorado G. Southern railroad
Company will distribute on Decem-
Der LIST from its offices in Denver.
100000 in dividends to stockholders.
The Elks of Denver held burial SER
vices for Bryan A. Tuttle. the druggist,
who died at st. Joseph's hospital. The
body was cremated at Riverside ceme-
terry.
Passengers aboard the Smallpox
special" which was sidetracked at Cas-
tie Rock, were released from quaran-
tine by order OF the State Board Of
Health and allowed to return to their
homes.
After five days of hard work by
prosecution and defense. during which
14O veniremen were examined, jury
was obtained In the penitentiary graft
cases. Each side used all its chal-
longes.
BY a vote of IA to the city board
of aldermen OF Denver refused to fix
the boundaries of the city's voting
precincts in order to allow an election
upon the question of commission form
of government.
1t is now definitely stated that there
will be no extra session of either the
old or the new Legislature to elect a
successor to fill out the unexpired
term of the late Charles ]. Hughes. Jr.
or for any other purpose.
Addison Vandervort. an aged
farmer, formerly of Lincoln, Neb.
is suing Mrs. Mary n. Womptner. a
widow. to recover 1925. which he says
he advanced her to start in the room
ing house business in Denver.
Two Denver physicians and two
midwives were victims of the nation
wide crusade against practitioners
charged with using the mails for Grim
inal purposes, brought to climax in
the arrest of 173 men and women in
the principal cities.
Because her husband did not want
to take her to theater, Mrs. Mary
Leslie. aged twenty-eight. wife of Hen
ry Leslie of Denver, sought to end
her life. In a fit of temper she swal-
lowed part of the contents OF bottle
of carbolic acid.
Denver financial circles took re-
newed confidence in Newman Erb and
his project to build the Rocky Noun
tain tunnel and extend the Moffat road
TO Salt Lake City when they learned
that Erb's hackers are none other
than the Pearson-Farquhar Syndicate
Of New York, Boston and London.
Asserting that sex hygiene is not a
fiji subject for the schoolroom and that
Its teachings will result disastrously
to the sexually-enlightened boys and
girls, the Denver County Federated
Catholic Societies registered vigor-
Gus protest with the School Board
against the adoption of the study in
the public schools of Denver.
Declaring that he will kill President.
elect Wilson If he ever gets chance,
John j. Cohan, one-armed man, ar
rested at Colorado Springs, on a
charge of disturbing the peace, is held
pending word from secret service op
eratives. II not wanted by the gov.
eTHlHeHl, his mental COAultlon VIII ue
examined by local authorities.
Prospective United States Senators
John F. Shafroth and Charles 8
Thomas have pledged themselves for
mally to the Denver Chamber of Com
nlerce to support and work for the
Passage in the national House of Rep
resentatives of the bill which has al
ready passed the Senate providing
100000 for the completion of the Den
yer postoffice and federal building.
One hundred and three members In
itiated into El Jebel shrine rode the
wild ass of the desert, participated in
the bucking horse brigade. saw two
Of their members electrocuted and
rode the ropes to the electation OF
between $4,000 and 1900 Shriners
from all over the United States. fol
whose special benefit the class was
put through the initiation at En- Jebe
temple. in Denver.
Another chapter has been added tc
the Valverde murders of last March
by the death. in Ouray, of Mrs. Flor
ence Shelton, sweetheart of Oscar
Cook. This woman, it is said. drank
herself to death because Cook will
have to die upon the gallows.
Five men, supposed to be members