The Colorado statesman., 1913-02-15


Show at Denver
Juae-German funniest at Denver.
Two highwaymen held up A. NJ.
Begarty, clerk in Denver and got $1.5O.
They missed $40, which he stated was
in his coat pocket.
The total value of the estate left by
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker was $97,6O5,
from which the state will get an in
heritance tax of S116.
Marketing farm products to more
economical advantage was the great
subject at the state meeting of the
Farmers Union in Denver.
Announcement has been made that
the lower rates of fire insurance,
which will save the people of Greeley
between $4,000 and $4,000, are in eff
feet.
On his second trial at Kiowa, George
King was again convicted of the mur-
der of Peter Jackson, but this time
the punishment fixed was life i'm
prisonment.
Mathew Mast rescued his wife and
six children from their burning home
on a ranch west of Grand Junction,
after they had been almost overcome
by smoke.
w. H. Sidley, a Chicago merchant,
father of Mrs. Henry S. Foster of Den
yer, died at Coronado Beach, Cal, at-
ter long illness. Cerebral hemor'
rhage was the cause.
With a revolver purchased with
money he secured by mortgaging his
piano, Isaac Eyer, aged 6S, a piopeee
of Pueblo, ended his own life by send
ing bullet through his brain.
Patrick Code, tried at Brighton for
killing Detective Jesse Stingley, was
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree in the verdict returned by the
jury and life Imprisonment fixed as
the penalty.
The state house of representatives
voted to drop the contest of Juan A.
Torres and John w. Guynn against
the seating of Representatives Boyle
and Mayer of Las Animas county on
charges of election fraud and bribery.
Announcement has been made that
work on the United States theater
building, 100000 moving picture
house for Denver, will begin about
May /, when the lease on a restaurant
near Sixteenth and Curtis streets, ex-
pires.
Investigation of the state peniten-
tiary and Warden Thomas j. Tynan's
conduct of the affairs of that institu-
tion will be made by Governor Elias
M Ammons and the State Prison
Board as the result of formal COM
plant against lyman having been filed
with him by James Stone, an eX-con-
vict.
Harold B. Paige, alias John S. Smith,
alias John Rockwell, was arrested at
Julesburg on information from Meri-
den, Conn, charging him with the
killing of Harold Ford. Paige denies
his connection with the crime, but ad'
mits he is a deserter from the United
States infantry stationed at Fort ID. A.
Russell in Wyoming.
The body of William NJ Yeger was
found in his cabin near Montrose with
a bullet hole in his right shoulder. He
had evidently been dead several days.
was standing in the stable nearby, and
had not been fed or watered since the
man was killed. There is no clew to
the person who shot him.
Edward Morris of Rapid City, S. D..
a visitor at the home of e. Head, a
rancher near Brighton, suffered frac-
ture of the left arm, and he and four
friends had a narrow escape from
death when Heald's automobile, in
which he and his friends were driving
to Denver, overturned on the Brighton
road, ten miles northeast of Denver
BY resolution of the board of direc-
tors, r. F. Watkins, assistant treas
urer of the Denver G. Rio Grande rail-
road, has been authorized to serve as
acting treasurer of the company, pend
ing the appointment of a successor to
Joseph w. Gilluly, treasurer of the
Denver & Rio Grande for twenty-sev-
en- years, whose death occurred re-
Gently.
The Denver depot commission,
which year ago opposed the grant
ing of a revocable permit to the Bur
lington railroad for the use of Market
street and Walnut streets, at a meet,
ing with Mayor Arnolds outlined the
conditions upon which it will with
draw all further objection to the ap-
plication of the railroad company.
Representative of the Colorado
State Federation of Women's Clubs
have started campaign at the state
house to arouse interest in a number
of bills endorsed by the federation.
Among them are: Bills to abolish cap
| ital punishment: for a minimum wage
scale for women and children: for
social centers, and providing changes
in Juvenile Court laws.
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