The Colorado statesman., 1913-05-10

Sunday, May IL, is Mothers Day.
Harold Henwood must go to trial in
the criminal division of the District
Court in Denver on the charge of kill
ing George Copeland.
The estate of the late Patrick H.
Mullen, Denver supervisor, who died
suddenly, is represented by his
friends to be worth S1,000,000.
The funeral of Monsignor Henry
Robinson, vicar general of the Catho-
lie Church in the Denver diocese, was
held at the Church of the Annuncia-
tion.
Hosea Cook, fifty, jumped out Of the
third story window of rooming house
at Colorado Springs and was unhurt.
He is being held for investigation into
his sanity.
Jose Benidito Martinez, convicted
two years ago by the Conejos county
District Court, on the charge of mur
dering Fortunate Campbell, July 16.
1910, was granted a new trial by the
Supreme Court.
Two twelve-pounder brass cannon
presented through the efforts of May
or Taylor to the G. A. r. of Trinidad
were received from the government
arsenal at Rock Island, ILL.,, and placed
in Kit Carson park.
A gold strike, with a vein reported
fifteen feet wide, the high grade
streak of which is said to assay $32,-
61S to the ton, has been made in a vir-
gin field at Jasper, thirty-two miles
southwest of Monte Vista.
Because the governor has failed to
name a railroad commissioner to sue
ceed Commissioner Staley, whose
term expired in January, the case OF
R. M. Haney VS.. the Denver G Rio
Grande, has been continued to June 8.
Miss Josephine Roche is still city
inspector of public amusements, with
the pay of city detective, according
| to the civil service commission, which
gave her a hearing and sustained her
appeal from her discharge by the Den
yer fire and police board.
A tribute to the memory of the late
Judge Moses Hallett was paid by
members of the Colorado Bar at a
service held in the United States Dis
trict Court room in Denver. Resolu-
tions regretting his death were in
scribed and copies given his relatives.
At the first meetin.; of the new city
administration at Colorado Springs,
Mayor c. L. McKesson announced the
appointment of Henry c. Hall as
| oif oft hn inf
confirmed by the Council. Mr.. Hall
served one term as mayor several
years ago.
The first effort to secure reduc
tion of the passenger fares over the
railroads operating in Colorado has
failed. The case of o. Clinton vii,
son, against the Denver C Rio Grande
Railroad Company, ct al, was dis
missed without prejudice by the state
railway commission.
The sum of 100000 will be appro
priated at once by the state highway
commission for road building. This
was determined at an executive ses
sion of the board, following hear
ing of the claims set forth by the sew
eral counties seeking to participate
in the appropriation for this work.
At Pueblo a double fatality raised
| to four the death list incident to the
erection of the new Thatcher building
at the corner of Fifth and Main
streets. when Frederick W. Leeds,
thirty-five, of Denver, foreman, and
Edward Organ, laborer, fell seven
stories to the cement basement and
were instantly killed.
Judge Perry of the Denver District
Court held that the wife cannot re-
tain the wearing apparel and personal
effects of her husband after they have
separated and she has filed suit for
divorce. The holding was made in the
case of Mrs. Florence L. Curtice
against George d. Curtice, former
county commissioner of the city and
county of Denver.
S. e. Land, State Inspector of hatch
cries, has finished the work of trans
ferring $4,000 brook trout fry from
the state hatchery at Steamboat
Spring to lakes at CRANKY and Fra
ger, on the Moffat road.
The Greeley Commercial Club has
filed with the state railroad commits
sion a suit asking for a reduction of
the coal rates from the northern coal
fields to Greeley. The points involved
in this case are similar in many re-
| spects to those in cases in which a
| reduction of the coal rates into Den.
| yer was ordered.