Eastern Colorado times., 1913-01-31
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
IN Newspaper Union news Service.

Triumphantly the stock show and
the National Western Horse Show
came to a close.
While trying to climb aboard NOV.
ing wagon at Lamar the small son OF
Tony Cox was Instantly killed.
Denver's twelfth annual automobile
show will be held in the Auditorium
during the week of March to 8.
The cost to the city and county OF
Dcnver for the first days registration
for the special election February IA
was $40 vote.
Four convicted highwaymen were
given the maximum sentences for
their offenses by Judge c. c. Butler
In the West Side Court at Denver.
The constitutionality of the flat tax
on insurance companies by which the
state gets two per cent. of the prem
iums collected was upheld by the Su-
preme Court.
A coroner's jury returned a verdict
at Cripple Creek, finding that Charles
Morgan came to his death through
opium poisoning, taken by himself
with suicidal intent.
One hundred and fifty members Of
the Colorado Stock Growers Associa-
tion gathered at banquet in Denver
to tell of the past>an present great
ness of Colorado's stock show.
After a thrilling battle with a great
golden eagle measuring seven feet
from tip to tip, James Amber of Ray
mer has a magnificent specimen which
he will have mounted.
What promised to be wholesale
Jail delivery was frustrated at Pueblo
when two prisoners in the city prison,
equipped with saws and pipe, were
found forcing their way to freedom.
Fort Logan is to become regimen.
tai post again after having been re-
cruit receiving station for three years,
according to reports circulated in
army circles in Denver during horse
show week.
Extradition papers for J. G. Helbert
of Colorado Springs. charged with en-
bezzling $3S from the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company in Kansas
City, were signed by Governor Am.
mons after four hours hearing.
Edward Powell, young society and
club man, maintains profound 81.
lence as to why he obtained a license
at Littleton June 20, 1912, to wed Mrs.
Gilbert McElveen. fascinating widow
and social favorite of Denver and
never used it.
Charles Taylor, former state boiler
inspector, has been arrested at Globe,
Ariz., under instructions from Sheriff
Sullivan of Denver. Roady Kenehan
state auditor, made the charges of EN-
bezzlement against Taylor upon which
he was arrested.
The Colorado Publicity League will
be asked at it's next meeting to coop
crate with Governor e. NJ. Ammons
Samuel F. Dutton and Frederick P.
Johnson in movement already
launched for an annual midwinter fail
and festival in Denver.
Thomas Richards, matinee idol OF
"The Chocolate Soldier" and stage
partner of Miss Lulu Glaser, has
brought suit for divorce from Mrs
Martha Miner Richards, the Denver
cafe singer who recently went tc
Pittsburg and sued Miss Glaser TO:
$4,000 for alternating the affections oi
richards.
The Colorado Livestock Association
has adopted a resolution conde mining
the action of the Denver Chamber oi
Commerce in opposing government
control of public lands or maintenance
of a leasing system involving those
lands, and has framed resolutions OF
Its own urging government control.
Property valued at $2O029,G3O and
involving insurance of $10,056,571. IS
was threatened by fire during the year
1912, according to the annual report oil
John F. Hcaly, chief of the Denve,
fire department. Tho fire loss dur
ing the year was $3S9,221.3S, of which
k34.93G.3S was covered by insurance
The loss on buildings was $147,286.2S
and on contents, $241,935.10.
The movement to construct a new
drainage tunnel that will bore the
Cripple Creek district at a greater
.depth than the Roosevelt tunnel, has
received an impetus In subscriptions
amounting to 100000, which, it is re
ported, have been assured by the Cres
cent Consolidated Gold Mining Compa
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