The Colorado statesman., 1912-11-23

A fall of two stories to the ground
did not injure little Dorothy Allen Da.
vas, daughter of Walter C. Davis Of
Colorado Springs.
News of the death of Mrs. Melinda
C. Veasey, widow of John NJ. Veasey
and sister of the late David X. Wall,
at South Bend, Ind, has been received
by C. B. Beach of Denver.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail
road, composed of $500 miles of
track and belonging to the so-called
Hawley system, is seeking an en-
trance into Denver.
w. C. Martin of Boulder, employed
at the Longmont sugar factory, re-
ceived injuries which resulted in his
death at the hospital here, as he was
being placed on the operating table.
The Denver G Rio Grande railroad
has let contract to the Utah Con
struction Company, of Ogden, Utah, to
make the grade for its double track
detour line around Soldier Summit,
Utah, for s1,50O,000.
John Boesch of Platteville is rejoic-
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Buffalo, n. Y, signed by his brother
George, whom he thought was
drowned in Lake Michigan twenty-five
years ago,
BY 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.
Sheriff-elect Henry Won Phul of
Cripple Creek announced his appoint
ment of Hugh Taylor, widely known
newspaper man and chairman OF the
Democratic County central committee,
as his undersheriff.
Suit in which $4,000 damages are
asked against James E. Brockway and
II. H. Eddy of Denver was filed in the
District Court in Denver by the Amer
leans, fraternal organization with
headquarters in Springfield, Ill.
Governor Shafroth will call an extra
session of the new Legislature for De-
cember 80, to elect c. S. Thomas, the
popular choice at the recent election,
to the United States Senate to fill out
the unexpired term of the late Charles
j. Hughes, Jr.
The town of Sugar City and Edward
w. Richards, its mayor filed a contest
against the locating of the permanent
county seat at Ordway, claiming there
was fraud and intimidation used at the
last general election, and at the coun-
ty seat election.
Because her husband did not want
TO take her to a theater, Mrs. Mary
Leslie, aged twenty-eight, wife of Hen
ry Leslie of Denver, sought to end
her life. In fit of temper she swal
lowed part of the contents of a bottle
of carbolic acid.
Three men have been slain, one who
was wealthy has been impoverished in
defending himself from conviction for
murder, the county of La Plata has
spent thousands in prosecution of
feudists, and the Cox-Truby range feud
still RACES at Durango.
Breakers of the law will sit up and
take notice-for there is woman in
Denver who wears a genuine star. And
the victims who transgress on the law
will get just as long sentence if ar
rested by "Denver's policewoman," as
if they had been taken in custody by
cop"
The Platte Canon Improvement As
sociation gave banquet in Denver
and formulated plans for a campaign
to build a road through the canon.
Governor-elcct Ammons was present
and delivered an address in which he
promised his support for the highway
during his term in office.
Mrs. Anna Erven, aged twenty-one,
the wife of Earl Erven, son of veal
thy liquor dealer, and Joseph Jacobs,
an eloping couple from Hamilton, O.,
were arrested by Detectives Hollerain
and Carr in Denver. The pair were
held for investigation in the city jail,
but a charge of white slavery probably
Rio Blanco county, one of the larg
est in the state, holds the record for
absence of crime and lack of litigation.
There has been no session of District
Court in the county this year, owing
to Lack of cases and special term
called for December has just been
abandoned because of the lightness of
the docket.
The lecture room of the First Bap-
tist church of Denver was the scene of
the annual banquet of the Brotherhood
of that society. 1t was probably the
largest gathering of church men in
Denver this year, over 200 being seat
cd at the five long tables, twenty
young men actively engaged in Sunday
school work occupying table of their
own in the center.
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