The Colorado statesman., 1913-02-01

Feb. 1S-20-Colorado Retail Hardware
and Implement Association at Pu-
March S-S-Twelfth Annual Automobile
Show at Denver.
Denver's twelfth annual automobile
show will be held in the Auditorium
during the week of March to s.
The cost to the city and county of
Denver for the first days registration
for the special election February IA
was $40 vote.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley was the guest
of Denver doctors at luncheon given
in his honor by the Denver County
Medical Society.
Four convicted highwaymen were
given the maximum sentences for
their offenses by Judge c. C. Butler
in the West Side Court at Denver.
The constitutionality of the flat tax
on insurance companies by which the
state gets two per cent. of the prem
iums collected was upheld by the Su-
preme Court.
Charges and counter-charges of cor
poration influence and politics are be-
ing banded about as a result of the
election held by the Denver Trades
and Labor Assembly.
From a commanding position in the
railroad world to abject poverty in
six years is the record of Frank A.
Dunlap, 3S, who died in the county
hospital at Walsenburg.
The number of candidates to sue
ceed Edward Keatng, congressman
elect, as president of the State Land
Board March /, when he will depart
for Washington, has reached 151.
Fellows who make their signs talk
and let their lights shine, met in Den
yer 200 strong. They are delegates
to the fourth annual convention of the
National Association of Outdoor Ad-
vertisers.
Andrew Cushner of Fort Collins and
Thomas Dunn of Denver were un-
doubtedly killed when a snowslide
wrecked their cabin at a point twenty
miles north of Grand lake, where they
were prospecting.
The state bank commissioner has
taken charge of the affairs of the
Morrison State Bank, located at Nor
rison. shrinkage of deposits and
bad loans are said to be responsible
for the condition of the bank.
Edward A. Vorhang, one of the early
scouts and trappers, well known to
the old-timers of New Mexico and Col
orado, died at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. John A. Atkinson, in Denver.
Death was caused by pneumonia.
A rich oil strike believed to be one
of the largest in the state and to lie
in the center of vast oil field, was
made by ]. w. McLees while devel-
oping an old abandoned shaft one and
one-half miles southeast of Morrison
DIR. Oscar Hayes, appointed to the
Health Department by Mayor Arnold
last June, has been selected by City
Health Commissioner Perkins to sue
ceed DR.. r. Abb as superintendent of
the Steele Hospital for Contagious Dis
eases.
No cocktail imbibing in cafes by
the ladies'" no cigarettes nor cigars
under any circumstances during work
ing hours, are some of the rules laid
han for the guidance of his office as
sistants.
The Wade Hampton ranch, one of
the finest in the Grand Valley, To-
Gated in Garfield county, has been sold
by ]. d. Whitmore to Mayficld Bros.
of Longmont, for $4,000 The new
owners will go into the blooded stock
business.
Denver police have been asked to
search for Annie Gano, a 17-year-old
Loveland girl, who disappeared from
her home and is supposed to have
gone to Denver in company of a wom-
an who was ordered out of Loveland
by the city marshal.
Within week and eight hours after
he had help up two Denver saloons,
Paul Schewe, 81, a former soldier, had
been arrested. tried in the West Side
Court, sentenced to the penitentiary
from eleven to thirteen years, and had
been started on his way to prison.
Without telling his brothers or clos
est friends, Thomas A. Cosgriff, mil
lionaire banker, financier and stock
man, president of the Hamilton Ma
tional Bank of Denver, was quietly
married in Cheyenne to Miss Rose A.
Martin, daughter of a prominent Chey-
enne family.
A suit to secure a reduction in pas
senger transportation fares in Colo
rado has been filed by Omar Garwood
with the State Railroad Commission.
Garwood seeks to have. rate of 2
cents mile on prairie lands of the
state and 8 cents mile in mountain
Gus territory established by the com
mission in lieu of present rates of
to cents a mile, charged by railroad
and transportation companies.
With the policy of economy of tho