The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-04

The parcels post law is now in cf-
feet.
Plans have been drawn for a $4,000
electric light, ice and cold storage
plant at Limon.
Alderman John NJ. O'Brien of Den
yer says he is a taxpayer and has
been for 20 years.
John Wynkoop, 81, an old settler of
Logan county, died at Sterling. He
came to Sterling in 1887.
Frank Cole, the last of the gam
blers of the rs gang" died at Lead
vile at the county hospital.
Following an illness lasting more
than five years, ]. NJ. Smith, Supcrin-
tendcnt of the Pullman shops in Den
yer died, at his home.
Edward McLarnon drank two
ounces of carbolic acid in saloon at
Salida and is not expected to live. Nc
Larron is 81 years old and is a cook.
The Postoffice Department at Wash
lngton issued an order establishing
substation No. 26 at 1400 South
Broadway, in Denver, effective Febru-
ary l.
BY action of the Beard of Aldermen
and Mayor Arnold of Denver the
Business Mems telephone bill be-
comes an ordinance effective in
thirty days.
The Supreme Court has considered
it's recent refusal to advance the case
of w. H. Tate against commission
government in Pueblo and a hearing
will be held sometime in January,
The funeral of Levi Booth, pioneer
of Colorado, and the last survivor of
the first graduating class of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin. was attended by
many of the university's alumni now
in Denver.
Larimer county was swept by a
seventy-nine-mile-an gale from
2 until o'clock Monday morning and
reports of damage are being received
from all points in the country. There
are no kown fatalities.
Two romances which began in Aus
tria several years. ago, and third
which began in Ridgeway, Colo, sew
eral weeks ago, ended in a triple we'd
ding-the first to be celebrated in Den
yer in several years.
George Creel, police commissioner,
and Mrs. Creel, who, until her marriage
with the Denver official, November 2S,
was Miss Blanche Bates, noted act
ress, nave returned to Denver from
their honeymoon trip.
C. NJ. Kittredge of the Denver Mid
land Trail Association, received word
from Indianapolis that more than
$1,000,0 has been subscribed to the
fund for building the proposed ocean
to-ocean automobile highway.
r. r. Van Horn, one of the best
known young ranchers of the Little
Beaver section, and Mrs. Mary Fletch-
er put one over on their Meeker
friends by announcing that they had
been married ever since November 3.
The 1913 National Western Stock
Show, which is to be held in Denver
January 20 to 20. will be notable for
the number of prominent society wom-
en- who will participate in the enter
tainment features of the horse display.
Edward Hensley, aged 10, was shot
and instantly killed at Grand Junction
by Deputy Sheriff Steve Nichols while
resisting arrest, after he had succeed
ed in collecting $500 from j. e. Quear,
manager of the Iona canning factory,
with the aid of his father, Joseph ID.
Hensley, and shotgun.
One of the surprises sprung by
Cupid in Greeley during the holiday
season was the wedding of Miss Wv
ienne Abbot, daughter of Professor and
Mrs. r. L. Abbot of the State Teachers
College, who became the bride of Will
lis b. Gilmore, a former student of the
college, who lives in Leadville.
Deserving her husband and five
children, Mrs. Grace Smith, wife Cf
contractor, ran away from her home
in Rocky Ford with q tramp and the
couple was arrested in Pueblo. The
man gave his name as Benjamin Good
and he was fined $500 for his part in
the affair in municipal court The
husband of Mrs. Smith fcrgave his
wife and placed her on train for
Rocky Ford.
The Chamber of Commerce of Den
yer, held a grand civic reception at its
office in its own building, on Champa
street, between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets. on New Years
morning, from IL to IL. Governor
Shafroth and staff. Goyernor-elect
Ammons. Mayor Arnold, Colonel Van
Dusen of Fort Logan. Brigadier Cen
eral John Chase of the Colorado Ma
tional guard, and other prominent Of
, .icials and citizens were in the re-
ceiving line, as were President e. ].
Yetter, Vice President Charles H.
Howe. Vice President Thomas B.
Stearns and other officers and di-
rectors of the chamber