The Holly chieftain., 1914-03-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

der of American Mechanics, at Colo
rado Springs.
July 13-l4-Grand Lodge Session. B.
p. o Eiks at Denver
Sept; 14.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
lsl5.-Las, Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Mrs. Margaret Wright, eighty-six,
mother of Mrs. Ira NJ. DeLong, died at
Boulder.
State Treasurer NJ A. Leddy filed
his report for the quarter ended Feb
ruary 2Sth with Governor Ammons.
Commissioner Otto F. Thum of Den
yer, who has been i'll two weeks with
threatened attack of typhoid fever,
is convalescing.
Little hope is held out for the re-
covery of Henry Lee, aged Denver
citizen, who was run down by an au
tomobile two weeks ago.
A new English Lutheran church
the third to be organized in Denver
was opened with impressive ceremony
at 1860 Williams street.
Preparations are being made to
have the most elaborate automobile
show Denver has yet seen in the Au-
ditorium, March 30th to April 4th.
Half a million dollars will be spent
this summer by the Union Pacific in
the improvement of its Denver-kansas
City line in eastern Colorado and west
ern Kansas. ~
A baby girl about five weeks old,
wrapped in swaddlng clothes, was
found on the doorstep of the George
A. Gano home at 1886 East Colfax ave-
nue. in Denver.
The Tonopah Placers Company Is
operating the Reliance gold dredging
boat in French gulch steadily this win
ter, and is supplying Breckenridge
with electric light and power.
An attempt at blackmail is the an.
swer made by George w. Heffner to
the $4,000 damage suit for assault
filed by Miss Myrtle Trotter in the
District Court in Denver.
Oscar Cook. who. was sentenced to
death for the murder Of Patrolman
William Mcpherson and given new
trial by the Supreme Court, will enter
his plea in Denver April 14th.
telegram from United States Sen
ator John F. Shafroth, gives positive
assurance that the cruiser Denver will
be the first ship to pass through the
Panama canal from the Pacific side.
The borrowing gentleman holdup"
who has been operating in Denver for
several weeks is believed by the police
to have been caught in the person OF
Frank Hall, twenty-three years old.
William Reynold, a ranchman near
Littleton, was fined s42.50 by Judge
William Stuart at Littleton for killing
a pheasant on his ranch two weeks
ago. He was found guilty by jury.
Colonel Goethals has promised to
let cruiser Denver go through Canal
on opening from Pacific side at same
time his vessel goes through from At
lantic side. He will give one months
notice.
Ralph A. Newcomb, twenty-five
years old, a graduate of Manual Train
ing High School of Denver, was killed
instantly at Guernsey, Wyo., presum-
ably by electrocution. His parents re.
side in Denver.
A gigantic celebration in Denver, in
which all Colorado will be invited to
participate, is the plan of Governor
Ammons for recognizing the opening
OF the Panama canal and the passage
through the big ditch of the cruiser
Denver.
The 1914 crops of eastern Colorado
VIII bring to that section of the state
one of the greatest returns in its his
tory, surprising by many hundred
thousand dollars the record estab.
lished for last year, according to
George w. Martin.
Several hundred thousand rates for
passenger service, revised and cor
rected in conformity with the order of
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
were placed in the hands OF the print
ers by the Denver & Rio Grande and
Colorado & Southern railroads for ar
rangement in printed tariff schedules.
The special freight rate committee
of the Denver Chamber of Commerce
decided to call meeting in Denver
April to 9 of commercial bodies rep
resenting thirteen Western cities in
seven states to consider plans for the
inauguration of general movement
for readjustment of freight rates for
the Transrhissouri West.
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