The Colorado statesman., 1913-02-22

las at Delta.
June-German funniest at Denver.
Oct. 21-Colorado state Baptist Associ-
alton at Pueblo.
Fire which started from defective
flue, threatened the Barnett apart
ments in Pueblo. Tho damage was
$1,000.
Alexander Frazier, a miner, forty
three, single, was caught in cavern
In the Dexter mine at Victor and per-
haps fatally injured.
At special meeting of the City
Council of Rocky Ford, Carl Weld was
appointed night marshal in place OF
Edward Strong, resigned.
The date for the examination of can
didates for state commissioner of i'm
migration and deputy commissioner
has been set for March 4th.
The Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company will have a dou-
BILE attack to face, one through the
courts and one upon its revenue.
Mrs. Harriet Elizabeth Graves, a
resident of Colorado since 1863, died
at Boulder of acute pneumonia at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. c. E. Cou-
lehan.
The Civic League introduced an Or
dinance in the council providing for
permanent city planning commission
to encourage development of Colorado
Springs.
For the first time in the election
history of Denver, women judges and
clerks alone were in charge of an
election precinct at the recent spe-
cial election.
The city council of Boulder voted a
contract to C. M. Hampson for mu-
nicipal light plant in Boulder canon,
six miles west of the city. The price
was $37,50O.
Mrs. Emma NJ. H. Mothander was
her own attorney in the trial of the
suit of the county against her to Sc
cure a right of way through her ranch
east of Colorado Springs.
Palmer S. Balcolm, Colorado pi.
oneer, died at his home in Denver. He
had been ill for several months with
a complication of diseases. He was
seventy-nine years old.
Pointers on how to raise chickens
are supplied in many attractive and in
structive ways in the poultry exhibit
shown by Professor w. E. Vaplon, on
the Agricultural College train.
John w. Shrock, owner of the Kai-
serhof hotel at Seventeenth and Wei
ton street, and pioneer of 1860, died
at his home, 2104 Glenarm place, in
Denver. Apoplexy was the cause.
Nola May Brady, eighteen months
old, fell four stories to her death at
the La Veta apartments in Denver.
The child's head was crushed on the
frozen ground and death resulted in
stantly.
General demurrers to the two and
three cent a mile passenger fares
asked in the suit of o. Clinton viii.
son have been filed by railroads op-
Grating in Colorado with the state
railroad commission.
A prominent Colorado Springs soci-
ETY. woman, whose name is carefully
guarded by the authorities, has ten
dered her cure for the liquor habit to
ty jail because of his many sprees.
The Rocky Mountain conference
meet which will be held at the Audi
torium beginning March l will open
with the crowning of the queen of the
meet, who will be Miss Bessie Am
mons, daughter of Governor Ammons.
Ernest L. Powers, former student
sentenced to three and one-half years
in the penitentiary for swindling j. c.
Bowman out of $4,000 on fake foot
race, has been paroled by the state
pardons board.
That the mail order business fos-
tered by the parcel post is making in
roads into the business of local mer-
chants was evidenced in several ad-
dresses at the eleventh annual conven.
tion of the Colorado Retail Hardware
Dealers in Pueblo.
The Boulder county Sunday school
convention held a two days session
at Boulder in the Christian church.
with John L. Alexander, the boy ex-
pert and author of boys books, in at.
tendance. John L. Carmean, superin-
tendent of the Colorado Sunday
school association, and Mesdames ].
A. Walker and Mabel Costigan of Den
yer were among the speakers.
Denver members of the Midland
Trail Association, organized last fall to
boost for the selection of Colorado as
n link in the ocean-to-ocean transcon-
tinental automobile highway, will be-
gin an active campaign to induce the
Legislature to turn over the 100000
highway fund for the construction of
good roads, and to create interest in
the movement for an additional fund
from the counties