The Colorado statesman., 1913-10-11
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Oct. 27-2S.-Good Roads Meeting at Pu-
Oct 30-Nov. 1.-Colorado Kennel Club
Show at Denver.
Nov. 6-S-Thirteenth Annual Conven-
Association at Denver.
Jan. 12-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Association Show at Denver.
| Jan. 19-24-National Western Stock
19I5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The grand jury at Littleton indicted
two former county officials.
The new $4,000 Y. w. C. A. home
at Colorado Springs has been COM
| pleted.
Sugar beet money for this years
crop will begin to circulate through the
state in short time.
Mrs p ]. Johnson, who came to
Colorado in 1869 from Sweden, died
at Boulder of old age.
At meeting of taxpayers and citi'
zens it was decided to install sewer
system at Fort Lupton at cost OF
$4,000.
Miss Kate Erickson of Nj Wot was
the victim of an "unloaded" gun at
Boulder and received about dozen
birdshot in her face and neck.
The new st. Louis Catholic church
at Englewood was dedicated with
Bishop Matz, Father Donovan, Father
Donnelly and Father Hagus offici-
ating.
Denver is expected to send several
delegates to the annual convention of
the Electric Vehicle Association OF
America to be held in Chicago Oct.
81 and 2S.
Robert Harris, sentenced to death
for killing Marshals j. B. Craig and
Jacob Ripper at Rocky Ford, has
been granted a new trial by the Su-
preme Court.
Ovid Plum, for forty-three years
resident of the Greeley district and
who lacked only one week of being
ninety years old, died at his home af-
ter a long illness.
Sheriff Sanford d. Buster of Boul-
der has some sleuthing to do on his
own account, as some miscreant stole
his kit of tools and the buttons off the
electric lights of his automobile.
Ida Wilk of Windsor, eleven years
old, has confessed to the police that
she has taken bits of ribbon, jewelry
and valuable trinkets from the homes
of neighbors for the last two weeks.
For the fourth time in the last two
months Mrs. Irene King, twenty-four
years old, made an unsuccessful at
tempt to commit suicide by swallow
ing bichloride tablets in her room in
Denver.
Mrs. Jacquemena Russum, who ap-
peared in the District Court at Colo
RADIO Springs as co-defendant with
Francis w. Keeler, a Denver broker
obtained further postponement of the
trial until Oct. 13.
Five more Arapahoe county officers
were placed on the roll of those in
dicted by former grand jury sitting
in Littleton, when warrants were
served on the mayor and four town
trustees of Sheridan.
William G. Evans, for years presi-
dent of the Denuver City Tramway,
rendered his resignation at a special
meeting of the board of directors in
the Tramway building, and his resig
nation was accepted.
Too i'll to sit up, Miss Bernice
Shirley of Denver was married at
Coloado Springs to Henry James, Il
New Mexico ranchman, eliminating
romance begun on her husbands
ranch two years ago.
Friends of ]. S. Dreyfuss appeared
hof ich of
yer and gave bond for his appearance
at the West Side Court on the charge
of swindling the Hamilton National
bank out of more than $4,000.
The September report Of Denver
postoffice business shows an increase
of 1873 over the receipts of a year ago.
Last month the business of the post
office were $105.575.65. In Septem-
ber, 1912; the receipts were $93,5S2.04.
Grief, occasioned by the loss of his
fortune during the panic of 1898,
caused Jacob H. Smissaert, fifty
eight, ex-nember of Hollands royal
family, to end his life by swallowing
morphine and inhaling chloroform
at Denver.
The Colorado tax commission recon-
mended to the State Board of Equaliza-
ton that the assessments returned by
county assessors throughout the state
be increased $1S6,55 ,65s, and that OF
this amount Denver county be in
creased s101,902,0SS.
Marion McAdam, thirty, an es-
capped convict and the suspected mur-
derer of Walter Irwin, ranch hand,
near Cripple Creek year ago, was ar
rested by Detectives McAuliff and
Hollearin, Humane Officer Ransom
and Marshal Everhardt of Edgewater.