Eastern Colorado times., 1913-03-21

Convention at Greeley.
Aug. 25.-COnference OF Governors at
Oct. 21-Coiorado State Baptist Asso-
citation at Pueblo.
Mrs. Harriet Lewis, fifty-five years
old, was found dead in bed at her
home in Colorado Springs.
Joyrides after dances by young girls
have been tabooed at Grand Junction
by County Probation Officer Emma
Budelier.
The Senate, by vote Of 18 to Is,
killed the Hecker libel bill introduced
at the solicitation of the Citizens
Protective League.
Seventy-five elk from Wyoming
were brought to Denver for distribu-
tion among the parks ond forest re-
serves of Colorado.
The Senate laid over until March %
consideration of Senator Hayden's
resolution for the Legislature to ad-
journ on March 81.
The Senate killed on third reading
a bill for third judge in the Eighth
Judicial District, composed of Boulder,
Weld Larimer and Jackson counties.
E. H. Clark, charged with passing
worthless check for SIS on Den
yer jewelry company, was arrested IN
Georgetown and taken to Denver for
trial.
The Denver Board Of Supervisors
passed the Burlington bill for revoc-
able permit to lay and operate tracks
on Market street, with the referendum,
clause attached.
A project to irrigate 10000 acres of
land near Steamboat Springs has been
launched by Denver men. Work will
begin at once and it is expected thatit
will be completed by fall.
According to unofficial information,
the Denver & Rio Grande soon viii
make announcement Of the expendi-
ture of quarter of million dollars
in improvements in Grand Junction.
A movement to raise $4,000 by un-
ion contributions from all over the
country for the defense of Clarence
Darrow at his trial in Los Angeles
March 81, has been started in Denver.
Contracts have been signed by re-
ceivers and attorneys of the Moffat
road with six Eastern concerns for
S750.0OO worth of equipment, consist
Ing of motive power and rolling stock.
Secretary Likens of the Denver
park board received word from Paris
that the copy of the famous Dussel-
dorf children's fountain ordered year
ago, has been shipped and should ar
rive in Denver by April l.
Governor Ammons issued parole to
Gustave Kostopulos, sentenced to
nine months in the county jail for the
killing Of Mrs. Augusta Robinson,
May 6, 1912. Kostopulos had served
but three months of his term.
Owing to the interest manifested
last season in the care of Loveland
residence property, the Civic Exten-
sion Club, composed Of progressive
women, has offered prizes for the
greatest improvements made on va,
cant lots and also for the best kept
premises during the next summer.
!. While Mayor Arnold of Denver was
waiting in his office for conference
with him, John G.. Schuster, city
plumbing inspector, shot himself
through the head in a saloon and died
in the county hospital two hours after.
Domestic trouble and the filing of di-
vorce papers by his wife two weeks
ago, are given as the cause of the sui
eide.
Miss Anna Gilhooley, sole survivor
of the North German Lloyd steamer
Ludwig der Kleine, and whose adven-
lures have interested the entire civil
lized world, visited the William ].
Fink family in Colorado Springs, fol-
lowing her recent return to America.
Miss Gilhooley's parents and the
Finks were neighbors in Ireland many
years ago.
A young married woman who
teaches school in Denver has applied
to the board of education for long
leave of absence to bear child. The
board has thus been placed in a dilem-
ma exactly similar to that of the New
York school board. The New York ed
ucators refused the teachers applica-
tion for a leave of absence. The Den
yer pedagogues are wondering what
action will be taken there.
Judge Allen in the Denver District
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