The Raymer enterprise., 1913-01-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union rev. Service.

While trying, to climb aboard NOV
ing wagon at Lamar the small son of
Tony Cox was Instantly killed.
Denver's twelfth annual automobile
show will be held in the Auditorium
during the week of March 3 to s.
The cost to the city and county of
Denver for the first days registration
for the special election February IA
was $40 vote.
Four convicted highwaymen were
given the maximum sentences for
their offenses by Judge c. c. Butler
in the West Side Court at Denver
The constitutionality of the flat tax
on insurance companies by which the
state gets two per cent. of the prem
iums collected was upheld by the Su.
preme Court.
A coroner's jury returned verdict
at Cripple Creek, finding that Charles
Morgan came to his death through
opium poisoning, taken by himself
with suicidal intent.
One hundred and fifty members OF
the Colorado Stock Growers Associa-
tion gathered at banquet In Denver
to tell of the past and present great.
ness Of Colorado's stock show.
After thrilling battle with a great
golden eagle measuring seven feet
from tip to tip, James Amber Of Ray.
mer has magnificent specimen which
he will have mounted.
What promised to be wholesale
Jail delivery was. frustrated at Pueblo
when two prisoners in the city prison,
equipped with saws and pipe, were
found forcing their way to freedom.
Fort Logan is to become regimen.
tai post again after having been re.
crult receiving station for three years.
according to reports circulated in
army circles In Denver during horse
show week
Extradition papers for J. G. Helbert
of Colorado Springs. charged with EN-.
bezzlng s3S from the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company in Kansas
City, were signed by Governor Am.
mons after a four hours hearing.
Edward Powell. young society and
club man, maintains profound 81.
lence as to why he obtained a license
at Littleton June 30, 1912, to wed Mrs.
Gilbert McElveen. fascinating widow
and social favorite of Denver and
never used it.
Charles Taylor, former state boiler
inspector, has been arrested at Globe,
Ariz., under Instructions from Sheriff
Sullivan of Denver. Roady Kenehan
state auditor, made the charges Of EN-
bezzlement against Taylor upon which
he was arrested
The Colorado Publicity League will
be asked at Its next meeting to coop
crate with Governor Z. NJ. Ammons
Samuel F. Dutton and Frederick p
Johnson In movement already
launched for an annual midwinter fall
and festival in Denver.
Thomas Richards, matinee idol OF
"The Chocolate Soldier" and stag,
partner Of Miss Lulu Glaser, has
brought suit for divorce from Mrs
Martha Miner Richards, the Denver
cafe singer who recently went tc
Plttsburg and sued Miss Glaser 70:
$4,000 for alternating the affections Of
richards.
The Colorado Livestock Association
has adopted a resolution condemnlng
the action Of the Denver Chamber Oi
Commerce In opposing government
control Of public lands or maintenance
OF leasing system involving those
lands. and has framed resolutions OF
its own urging government control.
Property valued at $2O.O29, 500 aud
involving Insurance of $l0.O5G,57l 81
was threatened by fire during the year
1912, according to the annual report o
John +. Hcaly, chief of the Denver
fire department. The fire loss dur
ing the year was $3s9,221.3S, OF which
$34,93G.3S was covered by Insurance
The loss on buildings was sli7,2SG.zS
and on contents. 24l.935l0.
The movement to construct a new
drainage tunnel that will Bore tht
Cripple Creek district at greater
depth than the Roosevelt tunnel, has
received an impetus in subscriptions
amounting to 100000, which. It Is re.
ported, have been assured by the Cres.
cent Consolidated Gold Mining Compa.
ny and the railroads affected by the
Cripple Creek ore business.
The Supreme Court handed down 4
decision refusing to answer the Quts.
ton propounded by the Senate as to
who Is entitled to hold the office OF
lieutenant governor. Justices Hill and
dlssented from the majority opinion Of
the court The court. while refusing
to consider the question and give q
final decision on the case ut this time,
declares that Stephen X. Fitzgerald 10
the dc facto lieutenant governor and
that as such his acts must certainly
bo legal and binding.