The Colorado statesman., 1913-11-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.

| meeting at Pueblo.
Jan. 12-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
| Association Show at Denver.
Jan. 1924.-National Western Stock
Jan.-MeetIng Colorado Good Roads
Association at Colorado Springs
1915.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Grand Junction is planning to build
fire house on the city hall lots.
1t is reported that a rich strike OF
gold has been made near Collbran.
Worlds Temperance Sunday was
observed in Longmont, when big un-
ion service was held at the Congrega-
tional church.
The funeral of Harry F. Bryan, who
was killed from ambush near La Veta
was held from his home, 1882 Ogden
street in Denver.
Quick work on the part of the mill
| tia dispatched to the La Veta district
after the killing, rounded up eight sus-
pected of taking part in the ambus-
cade.
Potatoes averaging more than two
pounds each have been dug from the
farm of Mrs. A. D. Doughty near Ault.
The field is running 125 sacks to the
| acre.
Bishop Matz of Denver confirmed
class of thirty-two at the Sacred
Heart church in Boulder. The confir-
nation was followed by an eloquent
sermon.
Adams county is going to turn over
new leaf on New Years day and put
quietus to the roadhouses which
line the road between Denver and
Brighton.
Eggs went to new high point in
Denver on the 11th They jumped to
a Pixies Peak altitude of As cents for
the best fresh eggs and to 35 cents a
dozen for "state" eggs.
Buy Red Cross Christmas stamps.
They are of new and more attrac-
tive design and the money obtained is
used for a worthy cause.-the fight
against tuberculosis.
]. l.. Stubbs, sixty-two, general
agent for the Wells-Fargo Express
! Company and prominent in Masonic
circles, died suddenly of pneumonia at
his residence in Denver.
In the arrest of Francisco Gonzales
at Aguilar, military authorities be-
lieve they have in custody one of the
perpetrators of the shooting of Pedro
Armijo, nonunion miner.
Delegates from many towns along
the proposed North and South high
way from Galveston to Billings, Mont,
assembled in Denver for two import
ant good roads meetings.
The one-day-in-seven rest ordinance,
adopted by popular vote last April.
was declared unconstitutional by
Judge w. P. Kinney of the County
Court at Colorado Springs.
A lemon squeezer was used by Rich
ard Chester of Denver, arrested by
federal officers on the charge of man
ufacturing molds for counterfeit
money, to turn out bogus dollars.
Values ranging from SIPS to 81 an
acre are shown in the government ap-
praisal of lands in the abandoned mill
tary reservation at Fort Niobara, re-
Gently opened under registration and
drawing.
Strikers scattered about in the hills
fired a number of shots into the camp
at Delagua, Victor-American Fuel
Company property, according to re-
ports received at military headquar-
ters in Trinidad.
Romance bridged the gap in years
between siXty-seven and twenty-eight
and the marriage of Dr. ]. C. Bliss.
retired physician and surgeon, and
Mrs. Lillian Paul, widow of DIR. L. B.
Paul of Pueblo, followed.
An overheated stove set fire to the
warehouse of the Nave-McCord COM
pany, in Denver, and before the fire
men extinglished the blaze the build
ing and its contents had been dam
aged to the extent of $4,000.
A meeting will be held to arrange
for commemorating the fiftieth an
niversary of the founding of the city
of Fort Collins by appropriate exer-
cises. This anniversary will occur on
| Thursday, August 20, 1914.
Through the activity of the free la.
| bor bureau of the Weld County Com
mercial Club. under the direction OF
Secretary ]. F. McCrery, 352 men and
women have obtained places on farms
in that section in the past three
months.
After two days as the stepmother OF
two young children, Mrs. James P.
Truelson, aged thirty-nine, of Fort Col
Inns, became so discouraged that she
! drank a quantity of carbolic acid
Until Sunday Mrs. Truelson was Miss
Mary A. Kell.
"All laws of this state, whether
passed by the Legislature or adopt.
ed by the people as an initiated meas
ure, will be held constitutional in this
district until otherwise declared by
the Supreme Court" was the an.
nouncement from the bench by Dis,
| trict Judge Harry S Glass at Gnlden