The Raymer enterprise., 1912-11-21
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
January 20-25-Eighth Annual West
ern Stock Show-Denver


Greeley and Denver, was killed at
ong Beach, Calf, when struck by a
street car, while riding bicycle.
Miss Margaret Baylor of Cincinnati,
aEti-"rag" dancing crusader, is in Den
yer prepared to launch a movement
| against grotesQue ballroom dances.
Mrs. Riddle was elected as a mem.
ber Of the Legislature by majority
of nearly 1000. instead of J. N. Coun.
ter. as was announced in the early re.
ports.
The 300 employees of the City of
Denver highway department have or
sanized a mutual benefit insurance
company for protection against sick
ness or injury.
Seized with an attack OF heart fail.
ire, d. c. Hermes, proprietor of the
cigar stand in the Railway Exchange
building, dropped dead on Welton
street in Denver
Albert Hennessy, a tenant on a
farm a mile and half west OF Gree.
ley, shit himself In the right temple
with a .3S caliber revolver and died
almost instantly.
John Hanway, thirty. laborer. report.
ed to the Denver police that he was
held up at Tenth and Market streets
by two highwaymen and robbed Of S.
and gold watch.
Miss Octavla Mcnamara, a former
ST. Louis girl, died at st. Joseph's hos
rital in Denver after an illness lasting
six days. Valvular heart trouble was
the cause Of her death.
The United States government has
filed suit in the Federal District Court
against the Telluride Power Company
asking $3,57575 damages for loss OF
timber on government land in Idaho.
Mrs. Mary c. c. Bradford, state sll.
perintendent Of public instruction.
elect. has appointed as her deputy
Mrs. Alice B. Clark of Garfield county.
Mrs. Clark has had eighteen years ex.
rerience In the schoolroom.
In addition to its projects to reduce
GRADES on Soldier Summit and Mar.
shall Pass at cost Of $5,500,OOO, the
Denver & Rio Grande will proceed at
orce to electrify the Salt Lake division
at a cost Of about s3,OOO,OOO.
The official returns given out by the
elections commission on United
States senator for the long term show
that John F. Shafroth, candidate on
the Democratic ticket, leads all can.
tidates In Denver by large plurality.
Woodrow Wilson is given, plurality
cf 42,29S votes over Theodore Roose.
welt. BY complete returns from fifty.
six counties In the state and incom.
rlete returns from the other six.
Roosevelt led Taft by 1920 by the
same returns
Judge X. |. Perky of Boise, Idaho,
appointed United States senator to fill
the unexpired term of the late Senator
ileyburn, is former Denver boy. He
attended school In Denver and became
b fireman on the old Circle railroad in
The latter part of the sos.
Determined to prevent taintine OF
the atmosphere OF his office with any
form of ""cussin'" In the future, Ad.
Jutant General Chase OF Denver post.
ed an announcement that a fine of s
cents for each cussword uttered would
be assessed against its user
One of the most elaborate banquets
given In Denver In many months wis
held IN the Brown hotel. 1t term.
mated the convention of the Rocky
Mountain Hotel Managers Association
which had been In session in Denver
four days. More than 100 hotel men,
delegates and wives of the members,
offended.
The probable passage of the good
roads bill submitted at the election
November 9Th has resulted In arrange.
II ents by the State Highway Commits.
SION to proceed with the repairing of
roads and improvements Of others
throughout the state as soon as money
Lecomes available after the converting
Of the General Assembly In January
Through the work Of vandal, OF
yandals. inspired, the authorities be-
licve, by spirit Of revenge, or a
drunken idea Of sport. hundreds Of val.
liable pheasants from the famous Kend.
rick pheasantries, between I.ittleton
and Fort Logan, were given freedom,
and perhaps II hundred were killed,
their necks wrung. and carried away
or widespread interest in the social,
the literary and the dramatic world. is
the announcement Of the approaching
marriage OF Miss Blanche Bates, the
Belasco star, and George CreeI, ponce
commissioner Of Denver, which will
take place Thanksgiving Day, ,at the
country place OF the bride.elcct neai
Ossining, thirty miles from New York
City.