The Raymer enterprise., 1913-01-23
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L OR ADO
PEOPLE
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Large crowds attended the Denver
Stock Show. Every part OF the state
was represented.
Asa G. Sven, a pioneer of Colorado,
died at his home in Denver. Death was
due to Bright's disease
The "pay.as.y car, in q
modified form, is to be installed by the
Denver City Tramway Company.
w. NJ. Tidwell of Denver was elected
secretary of the Western Fruit Job
bers Association at its meeting in New
Orleans.
Representatives from every part OF
Larimer county met in Loveland and
planned campaign for good roads
movement
Charles II. Pelton, one of the last
of the famous band OF Custer scouts
during the Civil War, died suddenly
ut Grand Junction.
Fifty students of Colorado Agricul.
tural college were in Denver judging
lice stock ut the show, under the su.
pervision Of Prof. II. L. Dvorachek.
The annual report Of the George w.
Clayton trust commission, filed in the
Denver County Court, shows that the
Clayton estate is worth $l,092, 1855.
Mrs. Mary Huston Of Axial, aged
eighty.four. one of the best known
pioneers Of northwestern Colorado,
died of inflammatory rheumatism.
A potato banquet, in which practical.
ly the whole menu was composed OF po.
tatoes In some form, was feature of
the potatoe growers convention in
Denver.
England. Germany, France, Austria,
Italy, Sweden, Holland, Switzerland
and Belgium have promised to send
their best athletes to Denver next sum-
mer to take part in the great German
turnfest.
Thomas X. Prout, for two years
sought by the police of Billings. Mont
tor embezzlement, has been arrested IN
Pueblo, where he has been living with
his wife and two children as r. L.
Chapman.
w. j. Walden, aged forty-eight, OF
81 Bannock street, Denver, state or.
ganizer of the Court of Honor lodge
for Colorado and Utah, dropped dead
at Greeley as he stepped from a train
to get little exercise.
Bessie Kidd Jaconson, the seven.
teen.year.old bride of young Arnold
Jaconson, lies raving in delirium at
her home in Denver. She calls con.
stantly for her boy husband who is be.
ing held prisoner by his father.
Senator John F. Shafroth has prom.
ised to carry banner In the suffrage
parade in Washington at the inaugura.
ton of President Wilson, and Repre-.
sentative Edward Taylor will march
beside him, according to dispatches
from the capital.
The funeral Of Miss Leila NJ. Stark,
who died from congestion OF the brain
within forty-eight house after assun.
Ing her duties as county superintend.
ent Of schools. was held from the First
Christian church at Colorado Springs,
the Rev. S. Il. Brewster officiating.
lnterment was In Evergreen cemetery.
Discontinuance of the pass system
by the railroads operating In Colorado
and the resultant increase in revenues
expected have given rise to the intro.
duction In the House of two measures
fixing the mileage charge at 9 cents
q mile In the plains district and ::
cents mile In the mountain district.
Through deal recently consummat.
ed with New York parties to finance
the issue of $55O,OO0 OF receivers GER
tificates, nearly 200 stockholders OF
the Denver. Laramie Il Northwestern
railroad. have voted to resume the
construction OF the road northward
from from Greeley, beginning active
operations about March |.
Plans are being made for huge pa.
triotic meeting to be held In the Den.
yer Auditorium Tuesday night, Febru.
ary Is. under the auspices of the
Chamber OF Commerce and the various
patriotic societies OF the city, The
date for the meeting Is fixed for the
18th In order that II may celebrate
both Washington's and I.incoln's birth.
days.
Estimates from prominent sheen
feeders of the valley state that as Il
result of the lamb feeding at Alamosn
this year nearly $l.O0O.OOO In cash will
be returned. notwithstanding the fact
that only about fifty per cent. of the
number OF lambs usually fed In the
valley were iattened there this season
on account OF a shortage OF the field
pea crop.
While removing ashes from n stove
In her home ut Fort Collins, Mrs.
Charles Harnish dropped some hot
Goals. Her dress caught fire asd she
rushed Into the street. The wind
famed the flames and in few rec
onds her clothing was burned from her
body. Two men near by rushed to her
assistance, pulled her to the ground
| aud rolled her over and over until tho