The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-27
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Ley. -''-hluWlnteF LApoSltluil at
Jan. 12-15.-Colo Poultry Fanciers AS
sociation Show at Denver.
Jan. 1516.-Meeting Colo. Good ROADS
Assn at Colorado Springs.
Jan. 15.-Annual Meeting Colo. Farm
ers' Congress at Agricultural Col
Jan 15-16.-Meeting Mountain Division
Colorado to -the-Gulf Highway Asso-
Jan. 17.-Meeting Colorado Association
of Commercial Executives at Colo
Jan. 19-34.-National Western Stock
July i3-i4..Grand Lodge Session, b.
Sept. 7-coiorado State Fair at Pu
1915%Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
La Juntas big Christmas tree was
set UP in the courthouse park.
For the second time in twenty-six
months, Nora and Ernest Lapsley OF
Pueblo have been divorced.
The provisional battery of artillery,
in command of Capt. John Donovan,
departed from Trinidad for Denver.
The Chicago Society of Etchers has
at Boulder 100 of its master pieces.
Augustus G. Black. prominent Pu-
ebloan, sixty-six. dropped dead at the
steel works, where he was employed.
Ar exhibition of apples grown at
ManZanola, one of the finest fruit sec
tions in the Arkansas valley, attracted
much attention in Pueblo.
Upon the recommendation of both
Colorado senators, President Wilson
appointed Mrs. Mary Wolfe Dargin of
Denver, register of the United States
land office.
Announcement was made at Grand
Junction by the Western Sugar &
Land Company that a cut of so cents
a ton in the price of beets would be
made next season.
Last year the forest service dis
tributed 10000 baskets willow cut
tings; $1,000 to forest schools, 10000
to agricultural experiment stations.
and $1,000 to individuals.
Unable to buy Christmas presents
for his bride of seven weeks, Giovanni
Guazanni, twenty-three years old. an
Italian, of Pueblo, shot himself in the
head and died soon afterward.
Prof. F. R Schrader, who is extern
sively engaged in the poultry business
at Longmont, made clean sweep at
the Kansas City poultry show with his
fancy Rhode Island Red birds.
Samuel B. Morrison, we'll known in
business circles of the west, killed
himself at Colorado Springs by shoot
ing himself with a revolver in his
room at Glockner sanatorium.
That temperature of fifteen de-
grees below zero is worse than sixty
six below in Alaska was the state
ment made by Joseph Montgomery
who Is visiting relatives at Greeley.
The drainage of the lowlands in the
Grand Junction valley has been proved
to be entirely feasible by Engineer d.
G. Miller, the United States expert in
charge of drainage investigations in
Colorado.
The Palisade growers are planning
to establish drying and vinegar plants
and canneries next season, the pro
posed consolidation with the Grand
Junction Association having fallen
through.
The President sent to the Senate
the following Colorado postmasters
nominations: e. C. McAnelly at Fort
Collins, Thomas McCuniff at La lara,
R. L. Newton at ASvada and Christie
pher C. Wilson at Golden.
The United States government has
an 80, oh
worth of timber alleged to have been
Illegally cut from the public domain
near De Beque and F'ruita for less
than one-third of the amount.
Elisha Pinckney Stout, sole sur
vlvor of the seven members of the
company which laid out the city of
Denver, died in Los Angeles. He was
seventy-eight years of age Stout
street in Denver is named after him.
Z Eleanore Anderson, twelve-year old
daughter of Charles V. Anderson of
Eaton. lost the thumb of her right
hand and her arm was fractured in
two places when she became en-.
tangled with the fly wheel of a gaso-
line engine her father was operating.
Ben Tucker, well known restau-
ranteur of Colorado Springs is in a
serious condition and three chauf-
feurs are nursing cuts and bruises as
result of a clash with police Off
cials of Colorado City and Ramona.
the latter wideopen town of half
dozen buildings at the edge of Colo
rado City.
Through his wife, who came to his
beside at the county hospital in Den
yer, the police identified the bandit
who was shot in the temple by l. Fine
silver, when he attempted to rob his
grocery store at 773 Kalamath street.
He is Garfield (GaD Snyder who the
police say is notorious holdup, with
a record that almost equals that OF