The Colorado statesman., 1912-12-28


Training School for Nurses, graduated
sixteen nurses.
Already sixteen national conventions
of Importance have been secured for
Denver for 1918, and the list is grow
ing.
George Billion, "A, died at Victor
hospital as the result of bullet wound
received in Daniels and Miller's cigar
store.
Simon Appel, SO, and pioneer of
Denver. died at Mercy hospital. Death
came after an illness of two weeks and
was due to old age.
Arrangements are practically COM
pleted for the National Western Poul-
try show at the Denver Union Stock
Yards, January 20 to 25.
Oliver Neely, aged %, student of
chemistry at Colorado college, commit
ted suicide at his home in Montrose by
taking mercury bichloride.
A special train is to bring eighty of
the principal American cattle buyers
from Chicago to the National Western
Stock Show in Denver in January.
Orders have been placed by the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad for
1900 new freight cars, to be used prin-
cipally in Colorado and other Western
territory.
Denver's big institutions, as its
banks, it's railroad offices and it's util-
ity corporations, proved unusually lib
eral in the matter of dispensing Christ
mas favors this year.
Calvin A. Frye, the man who prob
ably knows more about the life of Mrs.
Mary Baker G. Eddy, the founder of
the Christian Science church, than any
living person, is in Denver.
Representative Edward T. Taylor
and Mrs. Taylor, his wife, returned to
their home at the Shirley hotel in Den
yer from st. Luke's hospital, where
both had been, recovering from the et-
fects of operations.
A special election will be held in
Denver February IA, at which the tele
phone ordinance, killed by the alder
men, and the question of adoption of
commission form Of government will
be submitted to the people.
I'm willing to concede my oppo
nent's victory by one vote, but thir
teen - never" declared c. F. Parker,
defeated at the recent election by c.
o. Finch for representative of Sedg
wick county, before the state canvass
ing board.
After having made complete restitu
ton for his robbery of the First Ma
tional bank of Pueblo, committed more
than two months ago, when he took
$1,449, and for which he was arrested,
Thomas Benjamin, the negro porter.
will escape prosecution.
Cut off from every other avenue of
escape when fire, which nearly gutted
the residence at 345 York street, Den
yer, trapped him in his bedroom, Carl
Anderson, aged 13, saved himself from
incineration by sliding to the ground
on one of the porch pillars.
A brief was filed with the State
Railroad Commission by Omar Gar
wood, representing farmers along the
old Colorado & Southern road to Colo
rado Springs via Eastonville, asking
that the company be compelled to re-
open its line, abandoned a year ago.
The charges against District Attor-
ney Willis V. Elliott and Assistant
District Attorney Harry S. Silverstein,
by which John NJ. Glover sought to
have Mr.. Elliott and his assistant dis
qualified as officials, were dismissed
by Judge James H. Teller of Denver.
Mrs. Julia Pratt Gilpin, widow of
Governor William Gilpin, Colorado's
first territorial governor, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Lee d. Al
len, in st. Louis, of hardening of the
arteries. Her illness has extended
over many months. The body was
brought to Denver for burial in Mount
Olivet cemetery.
That the defeat of the election pro-
cedure amendment submitted at the
November election. makes invalid the
nine measures declared passed by the
state canvassing board, is the conten-
ton of N. Walter Dixon of Denver in
a supplemental brief filed in the Su-
preme Court in connection with his
fight upon commission government in
Pueblo. 'H"
Denver will not lose the quarter
masters supply depot of the United
States army which has been stationed
there for tewnty years. Major Will
lam G. Gambrill, in charge of the com.
missary, has received orders from
Washington directing him to remove
his headquarters from the Majestic
building in Denver. where the office
has been maintained for the past year,
to Fort Logan. The new offices must
be established and in working order at
the post not later than January 10.
1913.
The alumni and faculty of the West
Denver High School presented Miss