The Colorado statesman., 1913-11-22

Jan. iS-s4.NNationai Western Stock
Show at Denver; -, p,ds
Association at Colorado Springs.
1915.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The skip-stop service was voted
down unanimously by Denver's COM
missioners.
A reduction of 80 cents a ton on
steam coal was made in Denver by the
large coal operators of the state.
Mayor Cherrington announced he
would use the work pile to put an end
to bootlegging in Grand Junction.
The Denver G. Rio Grande and Mid
land railroads have commenced the
confiscation of coal from the Cameo
and Garfield mines.
George w. Thompson, county COM
missioner from the Clifton district.
has disappeared and a months search
has failed to locate him.
George j. Langman, a landscape
gardener, forty-five, was caught under
his overturned automobile at Colora-
do Springs and instantly killed.
Chicago people will see peck of
fine Greeley potatoes which will be
placed with the Colorado exhibit in
the Burlington depot in that city.
Morton Rogers, son of Joseph E.
Rogers, pioneer and probably the
wealthiest man in Park county, was
drowned in a well on the Rogers
ranch at Howbert.
Six people narrowly escaped death
when two automobiles collided NJ
Nioy1 or irr
Denver, known to automobilists as
Dead Mans corner"
Fort Collins farmers were paid
$780, 900 for their October delivery OF
sugar beets. OF the 100000 tons raised
this year all but about 10000 tons
have been delivered.
For the first time in history, a NOV
ing picture film, taken in Colorado,
is to be used by military authorities
to prove who took part in battle be-
tween strikers and their foes.
Asphyxiated by gas, the body of
Mrs. Beda Lind, twenty-nine years old.
was found in her bed in the home of
William A. McCutchen, in Denver.
where she was employed as maid.
Ten thousand dollars is the price
placed on number Of stolen kisses
| by Daisy Reese, a nineteen-year-old
cashier in a suit filed in the Denver
District Court against S. c. Hoover.
The Colorado State fair for 1914 al
ready is being considered, and the di-
rectors elected have commenced the
task of arranging to present the best
exposition ever held in the state at
Pueblo next autumn
! With bullet hole through his head,
R. N. Woodford, grading contractor,
was found dead in the alley between
Twenty-first and Twenty-second. Lar!-
mer and Lawrence streets in Denver,
| by Patrolmen Hamlin and Mann.
Miss Dolores Worrell is lying near
death at ST. Lul1e's hospital, the result
of runaway accident at Eighteenth
and Stout streets in Denver. Her
skull is fractured and the attending
physicians hold out little hope for her
| recovery.
The Queen City Foundry Company
| of Denver will extend it's operations
to the manufacture OF steel castings
after January /. A huge steel
verter, with daily capacity of 10000
tons, will be installed within the next
| few weeks.
Phillip Madron, for twenty years a
resident of Cripple Creek, prominent
in Socialistic circles and a candidate
for many state and county offices on
that ticket, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the heart
with a rifle.
From five field crops alone-pota-
toes, wheat, corn, barley and oats
Colorado farmers this year will re-
ceive more than s25,000,000, according
to the estimates made by the United
States Department of Agriculture is
sued from Washington.
The coal operators sent a letter to
the editors of the state accepting the
terms proposed at the editorial con-
ference for a settlement of the strike.
At the same time the policy commit
tee of the United Mine Workers sent
a letter positively refusing to consid-
er the proposition.
Although a large percentage of the
teachers present will be from the Pu-
eblo city schools, it remains a fact
that the rural school is to come in for
! big proportion of attention during
the coming State Teachers conven-
tion, which will be held in Pueblo dur
ing the week beginning November 20.
Postal savings depositors may ex
change deposits for government bonds
by making application at the office is
suing their certificates on or before
December /. 1913. The registered or
coupon bonds will be issued in denom-
nations of 500, s100 and $500, bearing
interest from January l, 1914, at II
rate of 21s per cent, payable semi-an-
nually.