Eastern Colorado times., 1913-01-17
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
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Two children were found frozen to
death in wagon between Rifle and
Meeker.
This is expected to be record week
for changes in the state government
in Colorado.
The House of Representatives has
passed the short appropriation bill of
46S,799.57.
Express service is now reality
with the Montclair and Aurora patrons
of the Denver City Tramway Company.
A $4,000 mangle ironing machine
was completely wrecked in a steam ex-
plosion occurring in the Bouldry laun-
dry plant.
The annual budget Of the Mountain
States Telephone & Telegraph Compa-
ny provides for the expenditure Of $S,-
100000 in 1918.
Peter Forte, on trial at Pueblo for
the murder of his wife, took the stand
and proved an excellent witness in his
own defense.
Albert T. Patrick's daughter, Lucille,
whose romantic marriage to Dart
mouth student, Paul Martin, took place
last July, will seek divorce.
In an attempt to end his life. Harry
Nash, a bartender swallowed solution
Of half dozen bichloride of mercury
tablets in his room in Denver.
The fourth child to be accosted by
an unknown man in the neighborhood
Of the Elmwood school in Denver, is
Rosemura Stettler, eight years old.
The frozen body of William ConLlin,
magistrate of Lakeside, and champion
skater at the White City, was found
in his cottage, just outside the gates of
the park.
Annual passes have been issued for
the first time to members of the state
railroad commission by the Denver G.
Rio Grande and the Colorado & South
ern railroads.
Sister Superior Donata, for the past
twenty-one years in charge Of the st.
Clara's orphanage In Denver, died fol-
lowing two-weeks' illness and q sud-
den attack of pneumonia.
Governor John F. Shafroth delivered
his farewell message to the Nineteenth
General Assembly on Monday and Gov
ernor E. M. Ammons delivered his
inaugural address on Tuesday.
= The fifth white woman to settle in
Denver is dead in Chicago. She was
Mrs. Isadora Badollet, eighty-three.
The death occurred at tho home CT her
daughter, Msr. Louis Powell of that
city.
Denver's national banks may open
savings accounts and pay four per
cent. interest on deposits, according to
a resolution adopted by the five banks
composing the Denver Clearing House
Association.
Governor Ammons was the guest at
a banquet in his honor at the Albany
hotel in Denver, given by the Demo-
cratic Club and by the members of the
Democratic state and county central
committees.
Sam Sweeney and F. e. Kelly, the
two Denver convicts who escaped from
the reformatory at Buena Vista, were
captured eight miles north of town by
Charles Kurr and Ben Wright, two
mere boys.
L. s. Birkle, banker, farmer, sheep
feeder and one of the wealthiest res
idents Of Weld county, is at his home
in a critical condition as the result of
being shot in the leg by his small son,
Dee, with an air rifle at Platteville.
Registrar of Vital Statistics A. E.
Howe reports for the unincorporated
territory Of Boulder county during the
month of December there were thir-
teen deaths and twenty births. OF the
births eleven are males and nine are
females. -.
Senator Henry w. Lake, eighty, q
pioneer Colorado mining man and a
member Of the First General Assem-.
bly, Of Colorado in 1877, died at his
home, three miles west of Fort Logan
on the Morrison road. He had lived
there since 1885.
A lunacy charge has been filed in the
County Court at Colorado Springs
against John ]. Cohan, who has been
in the county Jail since November 81,
charged with having threatened the
life of President-elect Woodrow Wilson
and other notables.
Mrs. c. M. Howard saved herself