Eastern Colorado times., 1913-01-24
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L O r A DO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union news Service.

! Large crowds attended the Denver
Stock Show. Every part of the state
was represented.
Asa G. Sven, pioneer of Colorado,
died at his home in Denver Death was
due to Bright's disease.
The "pay-as-you-enter" car, In
modified form, is to be installed by the
Denver City Tramway Company.
w. M. Tidwell of Denver was elected
secretary of the Western Fruit job
bers Association at It's meeting in New
| Orleans.
Representatives from every part Of
Larimer county met in Loveland and
planned campaign for good roads
movement.
Charles H. Pelton, one Of the last
| OF the famous band of Custer scouts
during the Civil War, died suddenly
at Grand Junction.
Fifty students of Colorado Agricul-
tural college were in Denver judging
lice stock at the show, under the su-
pervision Of Prof. H. E. Dvorachek.
The annual report of the George w.
| Clayton trust commission, filed in the
| Denver County Court, shows that the
Clayton estate is worth $1,O92, 1858.
Mrs. Mary Huston of Axial, aged
eighty-four, one of the best known
pioneers Of northwestern Colorado,
died of inflammatory rheumatism.
A potato banquet, in which practical.
| ly the whole menu was composed Of po-
| tatoes in some form, was feature Of
the potatoe growers convention in
Denver.
England, Germany, France, Austria,
Italy. Sweden, Holland, Switzerland
and Belgium have promised to send
their best athletes to Denver next sum-
mer to take part in the great German
turnfest.
Thomas X. Prout, for two years
sought by the police Of Billings, Mont,
for embezzlement, has been arrested in
Pueblo, where he has been living with
his wife and two children as R. e.
Chapman.
w. J. Walden, aged forty-eight, of
81 Bannock street, Denver, state Or
| sanizer of the Court of Honor lodge
| for Colorado and Utah, dropped dead
at Greeley as he stepped from train
to get little exercise.
Bessie Kidd Jaconson, the seven
| teen-year-old bride Of young Arnold
Jaconson; lies raving in .delirium at
her home In Denver. She calls con-
stantly for her boy husband who is be-
ing held prisoner by his father.
Senator John F. Shafroth has prom
ised to carry banner in the suffrage
parade in Washington at the Inaugural
ton of President Wilson, and Repre-
sentative Edward Taylor will march
beside him, according to dispatches
from the capital.
The funeral of Miss Leila NJ. Stark,
who died from congestion of the brain
within forty-eight house after assum-
ing her duties as county superintend-
ent Of schools, was held from the First
Christian church at Colorado Springs,
the Rev. s. e. Brewster officiating.
Interment was in Evergreen cemetery.
Discontinuance of the pass system
by the railroads operating in Colorado
and the resultant increase in revenues
expected have given rise to the intro
duction in the House of two measures
fixing the mileage charge at cents
mile in the plains district and 3
cents mile in the mountain district.
Through deal recently consummat-
ed with New York parties to finance
the issue Of $550,00O of receivers cer-
tificates, nearly 200\> stockholders Of
the Denver, Laramie &<Northwestern
railroad, have voted to resume the
construction of the road northward
from from Greeley, beginning active
operations about March /.
Plans are being made for huge pa
triotic meeting to be held in the Den
yer Auditorium Tuesday night, Febru-
ary 1S, under the auspices of the
Chamber of Commerce and the various
patriotic societies of the city. The
date for the meeting is fixed for the
18th in order that it may celebrate
both Washington's and Lincoln's birth.
days.
Estimates from prominent sheep
feeders of the valley state that as
| result Of the lamb feeding at Alamosa
this year nearly $1,0OO,OOO in cash will
be returned, Notwithstanding the fact
that only about fifty per cent. of the
number Of lambs usually fed in the
valley were fattened there this season
| nm account 0f a shortage 0f the field