The Colorado statesman., 1913-06-21

American Indians, Denver.
The new automobile law goes into
effect July Is.
Counterfeit $40 and 500 bills are re-
ported circulating in Denver.
Platoro, the new mining town, now
has daily mail service and a news
paper.
The Colorado Editorial Association
held it's annual meeting at Colorado
Springs.
The Senate confirmed Colorado
postmaster nominations as follows: F.
F. Reinert, Fort Morgan; Bruce Rus
sell, Yuma.
The Rio Grande is contemplating
building an addition to the railroad
hospital at Salida worth from $4,000
to 100000.
Patriotic men, women and children
turned out to celebrate the 136th an
niversary of the American flag in
many cities throughout the state.
Jose Atancis, aged twenty years,
and Charles Ames, aged fifteen years,
were struck by lightning and instant
ly killed while working in the beet
fields at Longmont.
Newton Large, former cashier of the
Florence State bank, is charged with
accepting and receiving money for de-
posits after he knew the institution
to be insolvent.
Alice Petini Clark, deputy superin-
tendent of public instruction, has been
offered the position of school director
of the Argentine republic at salary
of $4,000 year.
NJ. Ortez, Mexican beet-weeder,
who has been working on the ranch
of Frank Hornbaker, a mile north Of
NiWot, is in Jail as the result of a
scrap in which he used knife on Tom
Tobin.
The Postoffice Department has is
sued an order permanently discontin-
uing branch station No. IL of the Den
yer postoffice, Fourteenth and Law
renee streets. The order becomes ef-
fective June 80.
Miss Sarah H. Dorsey, sixty-nine,
one of the founders of the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association in Colo
TduO Springs anu lOl lndny yCdl
prominent in philanthropic and reli-
gious work there is dead.
The United States Supreme Court
denied the motion of the Denver I'm
ion Water Company for rehearins
of the suit recently decided against
the company in the role of trespasser
in the streets Of Denver.
feet square, is being erected on Pixies
peak and will be used especially dur
ing the visit to Colorado Springs in
August of the Knights Templar, who
hold their conclave in Denver.
A penal bond in the sum of $250000
was filed by the Burlington railroad
to insure the carrying out of its con-
tract with the city of Denver in re-
gard to the laying of tracks on Market
street and the paving of that street.
Game and Fish Commissioner
Shinn advises that during the past
two years 100000 trout have been
deposited in the streams of Colorado
and that he expects the number will
reach 30,00O,O0O during the next two
years.
The merger of the five big irriga-
tion projects contiguous to Denver on
the north and east, covering approxi-
mately 535,O00 acres of rich, fertile
lands, is being contemplated by
large Eastern corporation, according
to announcement from New York.
Ten cottages, which are now being
constructed for the Myron Strattou
Home at Colorado Springs, will be
completed and ready to receive adult
inmates before September l, but the
dormitories for the boys and girls will
not be completed before November.
jury in the District Court at
Steamboat Springs has failed to agree
and been discharged in the case of
Robert King, an artist, who recently
attempted to elope with the seventeen
year-old daughter of F. E. Miller mil
lionaire lumberman and hotel proprie-
tor. King was charged with beating
bill at the hotel owned by his sweet
hearts father.
Conscience stricken, woman whose
name is not known, but who is sup
posed to live In st. Louis, has re-
turned to the Cliff house in Manitou
several hundred dollars worth of lin
ems and silverware which she acknowI-
edges in an unsigned note accompany
ing the consignment that she stole
while a guest at the Manitou hotel
last summer.
The body of julius Johnson, twenty
one, farm hand, was found at Long
mont dangling from the end of a rope,
the young man having committed sui
eide.