The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-25
COLORADO NEWS
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All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union news Service.


w. H. Burk, aged thirty-three, was
accidentally shot and killed near Pa
onia while hunting rabbits with John
Kline.
Jose Garcia, the Mexican who was
shot in revolver duel with A. Fisher
at Lafayette, died of his wounds at
Boulder.
Charles II. Pelton, one of the last
of the famous band of Custer scouts
uring the Civil War. died suddenly
at Grand Junction.
The eight-hour day for women went
into effect on the Goth and is being
generally observed by all the big
stores and factories.
Fifty students of Colorado Agricul-
tural college were in Denver judging
lice stock at the show, under the su
pervision of Prof. II. E. Dvorachek.
Ralph S. Lewis, pioneer resident OF
Las Animas county died at his home
in Trinidad after short illness. He
was formerly wealthy sheepman.
kilograms announce the death in
Cincinnati of Charles Beverly Hicks,
father of r. e. Hicks of Denver. Sew
eral other relatives reside in Colorado.
The funeral of Mrs. A. f. Willmarth,
who died in Fairplay, was held from
the residence of her father George p.
Dudley, in Denver, with interment at
Fairmount.
Frank p Metcalf, siXty-two years
old, was struck by a street car while
crossing Fifteenth street near Law
renee in Denver and had one rib
broken.
]. S. Brown, the pioneer head of the
Brown & Brother Mercantile Compa-
ny, who died suddenly in Denver, left
an estate valued at approximately
$1,6OO,O0O.
The state insane asylum at Pueblo
and the state home for mental defec-
tives at Arvada are to be rigidly inves-
tigted by the women of various civic
organizations.
Mrs. Claude e. Griffey sustained a
broken arm when she fell from her
mount after making the second hurdle
in the ladies' hunting event at the Dem
yer horse show.
After undergoing an operation that
was not considered of a serious ma
ture, Mrs Irene Robeson, wife Of j
H. Robson, a well-known Denver
mining man, died ut St. Luke's hos
pital.
Miss Margaret Holt, vaudeville ac
tress, playing at a Pueblo theater,
was burned badly in room at no
irh cha
was using to heat curling iron, ex-
ploded.
William A. Easton of Trinidad, who
twice risked his life in an effort to
save Edwin A. Sutton and Robert
Meek following the mine disaster at
Cokedale in February 1911, has re-
ceived a Carnegie medal and $1,000
in cash from the Carnegie Hero fund.
Jumped in the river" was the last
entry in the diary of John Murphy,
who left the book in the snow before
he leaped to his death from the state
bridge at Grand Junction. The work
men engaged in the steel work of the
bridge saw the suicide.
Women of the state, through the
civic federation have asked the Legis-
lature to conduct an investigation of
state institutions and the state civil
service commission to defer the cer-
tification OF certain appointments uu-
til certain facts can be laid before
your commission"
To the University of Colorado medi-
cal school has fallen high honors un-
Il 81, l.
cal Association, which places the
Colorado institution in Glass A, rank
ing next in classification to John
Hopkins university, Harvard and Yale,
listed in Glass y plus.
At the same hour two women of
middle age, one living in Greeley and
the other at La Sale, fell from chairs
and broke their hips. Mrs. E. L. Har-
bottle of Greeley was the victim of one
mishap, and Mrs. Alverna Dean of La
Sale the other. Both women were
reaching for jellies on pantry shelves.
The Denver Woman's Press Club
announce Bonci, the worlds famous
tenor, for a concert at the Auditorium
Thursday evening, February 20th the
proceeds to be used to establish club
rooms for this large and growing or
ganization of newspaper and maya
zine writer's and women of literary
prominence throughout the state.
Mrs. Nettie Parsons, who disap-
peared from Denver December 12, was
discovered in Springfield, H., just as
her husband, William Parsons, was on
the point of leaving for Mexico, where,
he declared, he wanted to be killed by
the rebels because he had lost his
wife. Mrs. Parsons has been working
in restaurant in Springfield ever
since she arrived there about Decem-
ber IL.
The funeral of Edward Krammer. in.