The Colorado statesman., 1913-12-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Jan. 12-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Association Show at Denver.
Jan; 1s-24.-National Western Stock
Jan. 15-16.-Meeting Colorado Good
Roads Assn at Colorado Springs
Sept. 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pueblo.
July 13-14-Grand Lodge Session, B. p.
o. L.. at Denver
Jan. 15.-Annual Meeting Colorado
A9i5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Six militiamen on duty at Aguilar in
the coal strike field are stricken with
smallpox.
The Women's club of Colorado
Springs has started campaign to
regulate the billboards.
The man killed by a freight train
near Tunnel was identified at Grand
Junction as Steve Rasnick
John Bergen, Sr, so years old, was
found dead in the snow few yards
from his home nine miles west of Nor
rison.
A golden eagle, measuring almost
eight feet across its wings, was shot
near Edgewater by Postmaster Frank
H. Miller.
Make the Colorado potato bring
twice as much wealth to Colorado as
it does at present-$1O,00O0 900 instead
of $5.00O,OOO.
Ten wild deer were fed by Mrs.
John Puchert near the front door of
her home eight miles south of Idaho
Springs on Chicago creek
rI,lo,,., l,...s- .4.lI.a1
in row in rooming house at Colo
rado Springs, by Dan Sullivan, died.
Sullivan is under arrest
George Yerkes, 76, one of the first
to enter the fruit-raising industry at
Grand Junction, died suddenly of
heart disease on his ranch
A suicide in lonely cabin on Bull
Hill during the blizzard became known
when ten miners entered Victor with
the body of Mrs. Yes Porter.
Little hope is held at Golden that
John Classen, a dairyman, has sur
vived the storm in which he was lost
when within half mile of home
James H. Kelly of Gunnison has
been elected principal of the State
Normal School to succeed c. A. Hol-
lingshead, who resigned in Septem-
ber
Jake Bosmitch, a Hungarian, was
taken to Buena Vista suffering from
frozen feet as result of being lost in
the recent storm passing over that
section.
The impossibility of reaching the
cemeteries during the heavy snow
storm, resulted in the accumulation of
thirty-four bodies of Denver persons
who recently died.
A hand lying in the snow led to the
discovery of the mangled body of an
unknown man half a mile distant from
the hand on the Colorado & Southern
tracks to Morrison.
r. w. Smith, Colorado auto and
good roads advocate, was elected sec
ond vice-president of the American
Automobile Association at it's meet
ing in Richmond, Va.
James Bonham and a young son
narrowly escaped death near Idaho
Springs when huge snowslide struck
wrecking the building.
Twenty head of cattle were killed
outright near Limon when a Rock Is
land passenger train, backing out of
the snow blockade on the Colorado
Springs branch, struck the herd.
A carload of Greeley potatoes were
consigned to Victor Carranza, rebel
leader in the Mexican revolution, the
shipment having been ordered through
one of his agents at Vera Cruz.
The chatham greenhouse at West
Sixth avenue and Inca street in Den
yer, collapsed for a block of its length
through weight of snow. The con
tents of the building are an entire loss
Mrs. Genevieve V. Whitted. wife of
E. f. Whitted, general counsel for the
the Colorado e Southern railroad, and
only daughter and, heir of the late AL
len NJ. Ghost, pioneer Denver real es-
tate owners. will receive her fathers
entire 100000 estate.
With the exception of the Clear
Creek line of the Colorado e Southern
to Idaho Springs and Central City,
and the Morrison line beyond Fort
Logan, the effects of the big snow
practically were lifted from train SER
vice in and out of Denver Wednesday,
With the, fire department stuck in
an impossible snowbank half block
away, men and women i'm their night
clothes fled into the street from the
burning LaVerne apartment house.
in Denver Shivering and in their
bare feet they struggled through the
deep snow and were promptly given
shelter at the homes of neighbors. and
in the wings of the apartment house
which We're not in danger from the