The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union news Service.

Geo. Creel of Denver addressed the
Y. NJ. C. A. at Boulder on "A Fight
for Clean City"
Carl Wulsten, pioneer of Custer
county, died at his home at Rosita, in
the West Mountain valley.
Meeker will cut, during the first
carly summer months, entirely for
home consumption, 100000 feet of ma
tive lumber.
Peter Wilson, an old Civil War vet
eran and pioneer contractor of Colo
rado, died while working on mining
property near Globe, Ariz. He was
seventy years old.
James Burns, who shot and killed
w. A. Maxfield, Dec. IA, during a hold
up at Pando, pleaded guilty at Red
Cliff and was sentenced to the state
penitentiary for life at hard labor.
Books of nine leading Colorado cor
porations show that their stocks are
held by more than $1,000 individuals.
The proportion of Colorado investors
in local securities is higher than ever
before.
w. T. Wallace and and Robert Will
son, well known business men and
orchard owners of Grand Junction,
have announced that they will build a
plant fer the manufacture of denatured
alcohol.
Brooding over domestic troubles Dr.
John V. Downs, a physician and sur
geon of Greenville, n. M, 100 miles
south of Trinidad, committed suicide
by drinking the contents of a small!
bottle of laudanum.
Reports of officers of the six nation.
al banks in Denver, each showing
swelye-month period of prosperity just
closed, were made to the stockholders
Of the different institutions at their
annual meetings. l,A4l4i II
Colorado's schools never were more
progressive and up to date and never
in better condition that an present,
according to the biennial report CT
State Superintendent of Instruction
Helen NJ. Wilson.
Joseph Osner of Denver has been
awarded the contract for the compile
ton of the $3,O00,000 Antero irrigation
system which will water 10000 acres
Immediately east of the city. The con
tract price is $750,000.
The Mountain States Telephone
Company has acquired the Mutual
telephone lines operating out of Steam
boat Springs, comprising over 800
phones in Routt and Moffat counties.
thus eliminating the Mutual competi
ton.
Moving pictures of Governor Am
mons and Ex-Governor Shafroth and
Ex-Governor Thomas, who are also Col
orado's new senators, together with q
number of the other incoming state
officials were taken by a moving pic.
ture company.
After having expended his small
fortune in acquiring homestead at
Roggen and weighed down with ad
vancing years, ]. T. Swain, seventy
had to appeal to the county for assis-
tance in his last affliction, that being
the death of his wife.
Fred Farrar of Fort Collins, the new
attorney general of Colorado an
nounced the following appointments:
Francis e. Bouck of Leadville, deputy
attorney general; Frank c. West OF
Boulder, first assistant; Norton Mont
gomery of Denver. second assistant;
Clement F. Crowley of Denver, third
assistant.
Paul II. Jones, Joseph Cobb and Ed.
Brown, thought to be New York gun
men who attempted to escape from
the reformatory ON Christmas and who
have been in solitary confinement
since, confessed to Warden A. r. Stew.
art that they were wanted at Fort d.
A. Russell, Wyo., where they had en-.
listed under the names OF Searfess,
alias Paul ]. Jones; Miller, alias Jo-
seph Cobb, and Salyer, alias Ed
Brown.
That the horizontal cut" of ten per
cent. on all tax assessments in the City
and County of Denver, recently an
nounced by Assessor Pitcher, will go
into effect was decided by Judge
Greeley w. Whitford of the third di-
vision of the District Court, when the
suit brought by the city against AS
SCISSOR Pitcher was dismissed the
Judge holding that the case should
have been brought before the state
board of equalization.
The issuance of $3.50, 900 of receiv.
er's certificates to pay off the indebt.
edness of the Denver, Laramie &
Northwestern railroad and extend il
from Greeley to Severance was ap
proved by Judge Riddle in the District
Court. Judge Riddle also approved the
report of the Continental Trust Com
pany and Marshall b. Smith, receiv
Hrs, accepted the resignation of Re
reiver Smith and appointed H. U. Wal
lace, vice president of the Northern
Colorado Power Company, in his place
The remarriage of a divorced per.