Cheyenne record., 1913-11-06
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Jan. 12-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
,. Assoeiation Show at Denver: s.o,x
Show at Denver
Jan.-Meeting Colorado, Good Roads
1s15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Fire destroyed three business build
ings at Ouray, entailing an estimated
loss Of about $4,000. ~
w. l.. Hainley, a laborer, attempted
to kill himself in a saloon in Denver
by drinking carbolic acid.
Colorado day" at the Anglo-Amer-
lean exposition in London from May
to October, 1914, will be September II.
The income tax. the first provision
Of which became operative Nov. l, had
an effect upon the visible money sup
ply among thousands of Denverites.
Lewis s. Tuttle, sixty.seven years
Did, former Denver police official and
at one time acting chief Of the de-
partment, committed suicide at his
home in Denver.
The ninth annual dog show Of the
Colorado Kennel club closed in Den
YER with the presentation Of cups and
medals and the parade of the winners
around the arena.
Mrs. Norma Phumphrey, sentenced
to nine-months' term in the Denver
county Jail for killing her husband,
Charles Humphrey, has been made a
"trusty" at the Jail.
Should military activity in the
southern coal camps be long drawn
out it will mean the loss of a years
study to a group Of State university
students at Boulder.
The Wild West carnival of the FIRE.
mont county Cattlemen's Association
was held at Canon City. Public Of
Ulcers and business houses closed dur
Ing the afternoon.
Because she used a forged check as
means of collecting money, which
she says was due her. Mrs. Minnie
Walker, twenty-seven years old, dress
maker, was arrested in Denver.
A man whom Edward Donahue had
befriended, giving him clothes. food,
shelter and job, turned on his bene-
factor and at the point of a revolver
robbed him of $55 near Broomfield.
Bituminous lump coal, which sold at
$4.75 and IS a ton before the strike in
the southern fields went into effect,
now is quoted>at s725, with prospects
of it soaring still higher. according to
Denver dealers.
Adjutant General Chase declared at
Trinidad Saturday that unless the
strikers give evidence of better faith
than is indicated by the surrender OF
their arms, he would use force to
make them comply with the mandate
of the governor.
While hurrying for a car to attend
the funeral of his siX-months-old baby,
Victor Nelson dropped dead a block
from his home at Herrick's Crossing.
jefferson county. The body was
found by passersby and taken home.
Death was due to hemorrhage
brought on by excitement.
Safecrackers gained entrance to the
Farmers bank at Timnath, ten miles
from Fort Collins, made an unsuccess-
full but desperate attempt to dyna-
mite and break open the safe, ham
mered their way through a steel graf
ing. tore open number Of safe de-
posit boxes and escaped with only
$3.50 in money, so far as known.
Henry Rockwell Baker, favorite
nephew of the late John w. Gates,
who becomes the prospective heir to
the Gates millions through the sud-
den death of his cousin, Charles G..
Gates, at Cody, Wyo., is i'll with tuber-
culosis, and left Colorado Springs a
few days ago for Arizona where it is
feared he will not survive the winter.
The monthly report of mines and
smelters of the Cripple Creek district
shows that SS,61S tons were turned
out with gross bullion value of ST.
26O,G24 in October. During the month
dividends were paid amounting to
$176,1S5.04. These were distributed
as follows: Portland 100000; Golden
Cycle, $4,000: Vindcator $4,000;
Mary Mckinney, $26,1S5.O4.
Secretary of the Interionr Lane, in
a communication to State Engineer
John f. Field, announces his willing
ness to submit the differences exist
ing between the state and the govern
ment, relative to irrigation matters, to
a committee of three competent en-
gineers. This is the proposal Field
made by Secretary Lane during the
latter's visit in Denver recently.