The Colorado statesman., 1914-10-24

at Denver
The state tax levy has been fixed at
1.39 mills.
The Weld county beet harvest is
now on in earnest.
William Jennings Bryan spoke at
Colorado Springs and Pueblo Wednes-
day.
Ninety thousand persons in Denver
county are entitled to vote at the
election November 8.
Fort Collins has million-dollar
corporation. 1t is known as "The
Cclorado-Nevada Mining and Milling
Company"
1t is feared Ute Indians will cause
trouble in Rio Blanco county this
fall and the state is making prepara-
lions to check them.
Many Masons and Knights OF Pyth-
las attended the Billy Sunday meet
ing at the tabernacle in Denver We'd
nesday night.
A marriage which came as a sur
prise to Denver society was that OF
Mrs. Florence d. Snedaker and
Charles Francis Tabler.
The Denver mint is soon to start
the coinage of $4,000 in gold and sill
yer for the use of the Eastern banks
turing the holiday season.
DR.. Victor B. Ayers has been ap-
pointed physician-surgeon of the state
reformatory at Buena Vista to sue
ceed DR.. A. E. Leary, resigned.
Otto Maupin, 2S, living at 953 Acoma
street, is at the county hospital with
a broken back caused by falling from
a freight car in the depot yard in
Denver.
John Harmon, a boilermaker was
arrested at Colorado City on war
rant charging him with non-support,
having left wife and two children
in Delta.
Mrs. M. z. Timberlake of Sterling,
resigned as vice chairman of the Re-
publican state committee. Mrs. Lucius
Cuthbert of Denver was chosen as her
successor.
The body of NJ. C. Nelson, who died
at Summerville as the result of injur-
les received in fall of rock in the
Big Horn mine, was taken to Boulder,
where the funeral was held.
Twenty-three California high school
boys, winners of farm prizes, were
the guests of the Denver Chamber of
Commerce. They were sent on a trip
over the United States by their state.
A full complement of new clothing,
blankets and other military stores ar
rived in Greeley for Company d, First
Infantry, having been sent by express
to meet the demands for immediate
use.
One hundred automobiles, carrying
500 happy people on pleasure bent, at
ended the Poudre picnic at the pres
snt terminus of the Poudre road at
Hills gulch, twenty-one miles west of
Fort Collins.
DR.. ]. Douglas Herben, the black
Billy Sunday, representing the New
England , evangelists of the National
Baptist convention, opened a. ten-day
campaign in Denver at the Bethlehem
Baptist church.
John c. Shaffer of Chicago, editor OF
the Denver Times, the Rocky Noun
chased the Northern View estate of
5000 acres near Wolhurst as site for
new summer home.
George Louis Hames, vice president
of the First National bank OF Eliza
beth, director in the Kiowa State bank
of Ebert county and Denver realty
operator, died of heart failure at the
wheel of his motor car in Denver.
Robert West and Frank Miller, the
automobile and made a spectacular es-
cape from the penitentiary, were taken
back to Canon City in chains from
Syracuse, Kansas, and are now behind
grim walls of the prison.
Pretending that he had been sent by
the Telephone Company to fix the tel
ephone, a man entered the home of
Francis ]. Knauss, 1142 Steele street,
Denver and left with pocketbook be.
longing to Miss Mable Stiff, contain.
ing a diamond ring and 500.
The Denver city commissioners, pre-
siding as a board of equalization, at
meeting called for the purpose, flat,
ly refused to saddle the taxpayers OF
Denver with an increased assessment
of $90,000,000 as ordered by the state
tax commission. A resolution to that
effect was adopted by the board as a
whole.
Early predictions of a high sugar
content in the beets grown in the
Wellington district are being more
than fulfilled. In fact, some of the
tests are running higher than ever
known before, and are as good as the
best in the United States. The ton
mage is also very satisfactory, run.
ming well on the average and in many
places going very high.