The Colorado statesman., 1913-09-13


can Indians. at Denver.
Oct: 2l.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
ciatlon at Pueblo.
Oct. 30 1-Colorado Kennel Club
Show at Denver.
Jan. 12-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Jan. 1s-24-Nationai western Stock
Show at Denver.
l5lo.-lJaSt Grand Council or North
American Indians. Denver.
Briggsdale's second annual harvest
home celebration attracted many visi-
tors.
Secret divorces are taboo in Deu-
YER hereafter" decreed the five dis
trict judges of Denver, sitting en- banc.
Pioneers from all parts of Colorado
attended the funeral of Morse H. Cof-
fin, Colorado pioneer, who died at his
ranch near Longmont.
James Austin shreve, for fifty-three
years a resident of Denver, died at
his home, 1850 Franklin street. Death
was due to pneumonia.
An unsuccessful attempt to kidnap
ten-year-old Elizabeth Wilson Weckel
was made at FrHita by her mother,
Mrs. d. w. Stewart of Grand Junction.
One hundred and fifty-three girls.
including ninety-one from Denver, en-
tered the Colorado Woman's college
in Montclair at the opening of the fall
term.
The National Terra Gotta society,
composed of manufacturers of archi-
tectural terra Gotta in the United
States, held its annual meeting in
Denver.
Margaret, the fiften-year-old daugh-
| ter of Joseph Reynolds, a sheep
rancher on the lower Cucharas, disap-
peared suddenly from her home at
| Walsenburg
Nine bridges below Box Prairie and
the road in Rist canon were carried
awy by cloudburst in the Buckhorn
valley, part of the same storm which
swept the ST. Vrain valley.
Four hundred scientists who keep
their fingers on the pulse of the
United States opened the annual
meeting of the American Public Health
Association at Colorado Springs.
George. Vorhees, a veteran OF the
| Civil war, fell on the sidewalk at
Grand junction and crushed his skull.
He is still unconscious and is not ex-
pected to live. He is eighty years OF
age.
When the motorcycle he was riding
collided with one ridden by J. T.
Thornton, at the intersection of East
Thirty-second avenue and Gilpin
street in Denver, William Davidson
was instantly killed.
An information charging Mrs. Nor
ma Pumphrey, who shot and killed her
husband in their home in Denver, with
murder, was filed in criminal district
Court by Assistant District Attorney
Charles Mahoney. The woman is in
the county jail.
Fifty Swedish ministers of Colorado
and neighboring states held their
twentieth annual session at the First
Swedish Methodist Episcopal church
in Denver. The delegates to the six
day session are ministers of Methodist
Episcopal churches.
Reports at Lyons indicate that the
damages done by the cloudburst over
Allen park and the subsequent rush
of water down the st. Nrain river was
not nearly as great as reported, al
though portions of the Estes park road
are washed away.
That a happening of more than
twelve years ago when he was ac-
cused of killing a COW on farm near
Paducah, KY, entered the demented
mind of Joseph II. Thomas, foreman
of the White Bear ranch near Craig,
and caused him to end his life, is the
belief of the Craig authorities.
The largest ant-saloon mass meet
ing ever held in the Pixies Peak re-
gion was broken up at Colorado
Springs by severe electrical and
rainstorm. Six thousand persons
packed Temple theater to protest
against the town of Ramona, which
is being incorporated as wide
open" city.
Something over s12.OOO,OOO in val
ues now just below the surface of the
farms in Colorado will begin to come
out in few days. 1t is the sugar
beet crop, the biggest by far and one
of the best in saccharine quality ever
grown in Colorado.
Sheep feeders in the Fort Collins
district are hard to please this year
and are buying only the very best of
lambs for feeding which are in good
shape when they come off the range
and which will require only mini
mum amount of feeding to put in con-
dition for the market.