The Colorado statesman., 1913-04-26


Mrs. Elizabeth Kuen and William
Fl. Harris, Logan county pioneers,
died at Sterling.
Frank Honacker, fifty-eight, resi-
dent of Grand Junction for twenty
five years, is dead of pneumonia.
Six men serving time in the state
penitentiary for homicide are seeking
parole or pardon from the State Board
of Pardons.
The cornerstone of the new $4,000
high school building wais laid at
Brighton. The Masonic grand lodge
had charge of the ceremonies.
Two celebrations were held in Den
yer in honor of the one hundred and
thirty-eighth anniversary of the Bat
ties of Concord and Lexington.
Governor Ammons has honored a
requisition for Leroy Williams, who is
wanted in Shelby county, Mo-, on the
charge of embezzlement.
The Boulder Woman's Club will con.
duct a baby show in connection with
an arts and crafts exhibit. Prizes will
1t is understood that about thirty
indictments were returned, several
against alleged white slavers' in
Denver by the grand jury at Pueblo.
The Denver Chamber of Commerce
is against the income tax bill passed
by the recent State Legislature and
now up to the governor for his sigma
ture.
The mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Florence Purdy, seven
teen-year-old daughter of e. d. Purdy
of Denver, was cleared by her return
home.
Harold Cmapbell, who pleaded guilty
to false pretenses in the West Side
Court at Denver, was sentenced to
from four to seven years in the peni-
tentiary.
No action will be taken by the Den
yer city election commission in regard
to the disqualification of candidates
for city commissioners who are not
taxpayers, as required by law.
A. B. Britton. postoffice inspector.
connected with the Denver office
since 1911, but for the last year sta
toned at Provo, Utah, died at the lat
ter city following an operation.
Besides selecting five commission
ers to put commission government in
to effect, the voters of Denver will
have at least six and possibly eight
municipal questions to decide on May
20.
Forty-three young women who wish
to be registered professional nurses
were examined by the state board. In
the eight years the board has been in
existence, 1929 nurses have been lic-
ensed.
Robert Maxwell, the Denver broker,
who, after his marriage on his sick
bed, to Lydia T. Steger, was hurried
to the st. Joseph's hospital, was oper-
ated on and is reported to be improv-
ing but as yet not out of danger.
Actual work on the mountain parks
roads will be begun. There is fund
of $4,000 available for this purpose in
the park board fund and the amount
given by the county commissioners of
Jefferson county and the state high
way commission is about $4,000.
According to advices received from
San Francisco, the authorities there
have in custody the man charged with
forgery, who by his clever penwork
in initiating the signature of ]. Fos-
ter Symes, is said to have obtained
lO1l ir
short time ago.
The estate of Matthew Simpson Nc
Cullough, including the famous
"Grasshopper hill" of Denver which
was ordered re-sold by Judge Ira C.
Rothgerber, of the County Court, two
months ago, went under the hammer
again. The proceeds of the sale
amounted to$25,745, which represents
the price bid for the nineteen parcels
of land embraced in the tract.
That a Missouri Pacific brakeman,
standing on a rear car reached out
and grabbed him as the train passed
| and threw him in such a way that he
| fell beneath the wheels is the charge
| of Harold Hickman, eighteen, who
filed suit against the railroad for &c.,
| 00o at Pueblo.
Two Denver women will be sent as
| delegates to the national conference
of the Fairgrounds and Recreation AS
sociation, to be held in Richmond
Va, May to 10. They are Mrs. Gull
ford Wood and Miss Louise johnson.