The Colorado statesman., 1913-05-17

National Society, at Denver. Pad
Men, at Denver. ors ar
Aug, 25.--Conference of Governors at
Aug. 26WKnirhts of Pythias Grand
Lodge Meeting at Trinidad. ,,,r.t-
Sept-National Association OF
Class Postmasters, at Denver. A.so-
Oct 21.-Coiorado State Baptist Asso-
. citation at Pueblo. -, North
Ig15.-Last Grand Council Oh Noi'
American Indians, Denver.
Dealers are contracting at Rocky
Ford for the seasons cantaloupe crop.
The price of gasoline advanced one
cent, now selling at 10 cents in Den
yer.
Two girls and a woman were in
jured in three automobile accidents
in Denver in one day.
Miss Josephine Roche was sworn N
as deputy sheriff under Sheriff Dan
iel NJ Sullivan of Denver.
Marion Mallory was seriously in
jured in bad fall from motorcy Gle
on the fair grounds race track ct
Grand Junction.
A meeting of good roads men was
held in Colorado Springs and the
question of having uniform signs at all
crossings was discussed.
John Agarth, aged fifty-nine, was
fatally burned when boiling grease
exploded at the Smith Brothers pack
ing plant at Globeville.
An elk dinner is one of the feat
ures of entertainment planned for the
delegates to the conference of gov
ernors to be held at Colorado Springs
in August.
The State Board of Charities and
Correction held it's annual election N
Organ was elected president and
Lafayette Hughes vice president.
For seven years care and attention
he received from A. w. Grant and
Mary Rebecca hewitt of Florissant,
Frank j. Burnham, cripple, left the
couple his estate, valued at $4,000.
The late Moses Hallett left no will
but left property of the value of $3.50
500, according to the petition of Lu-
cius F. Hallett, his son, for letters Of
administration, filed in the County
Court in Denver.
Without a clew to the Grewsome
circumstances surrounding their
deaths, the bodies of the two-months-
old infant and the middle-aged man,
discovered in the Platte river at Den
yer, were buried in the potter's fled.
Before the terrified gaze of hun
hn int Of
Fifteenth and Welton streets in Den
yer, Ralph ]. Mertz, sixteen-year-oid
son of Charles Mertz, was crushed Sc
meath the hoofs of fractions horse.
o. C. Frantz of the Rocky Ford Poul-
try Farm, shipped 2,230 baby chicks
for which he received $S56.50. On the
same day he also shipped 200 pounds
of spring chicks for which he received
40 cents per pound at Colorado
Springs, thus making the two months
old Leghorns net him 60 cents each.
A bulmper winter wheat crop is the
prospect for Colorado this year. There
will be 211,000 acres harvested, ac-
cording to the latest report of the
United States Department of AgricIl-
is placed at ga per cent, as compared
with SS per cent. last year. The con-
dition of rye is 80 per cent, two per
cent higher than last year at this
period.
Norvin McQuown, former East Den
yer high school pupil and graduate of
the University of Wisconsin, has
sailed for the Philippines, where he
has accepted a civil service position.
Fruita is competing with Grand
Junction for the main line new termi-
nails and roundhouse of the Denver &
Rio Grande on the Western Slope,
construction of which was recently
decided upon.
State Auditor Kenehan has an
nounced he will hold up the pay Of en-
ployes of the state civil service COM
mission, the state bureau of labor,
free employment bureau, factory in
spection department, board of char1-
ties and corrections, game and fish
department Society of Natural His
tory, State Humane Society, state law
examiners, geological survey and the
state free travelling library until At
torney General Farrar gives him their
classification.
William Damann, a ranchman, for
ty-three, at Fort Lupton beat his wife
severely and then killed himself by
putting bullet through his head.