The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-28


lean Revolution at Colorado Springs.
July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session. b.
T.. o. Elks at Denver.
Sept; 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu
1si5.-Last Grand Council of North
american Indians at Denver.
Petitions to submit to the voters at
the November election the question of
statewide prohibition are being circu-
lated.
Hundreds of people inspected the
exhibits on the Agricultural College
demonstration train at La Junta and
listened to lectures on expert farm
ing.
Walter Anderson, seventy-englt, a
veteran of the Crimean war and for
over thirty years janitor of the Broad
way school, died at his late home i'll
Denver.
Justice of the Peace NJ. E. Corson'
of Pueblo deplores the fact that whip
ping posts are not in vogue. He ad-
vocates lashing for men who show
their pugilistic tendencies at the eX-
pense of women.
Colorado farmers and millers won a
big victory when the United States
Supreme Court held that flour made
from Colorado wheat and bleached
white by an electrical process was
not injurious to health
The force in the office of the col
lector of internal revenue in Denver
is taxed to its utmost. For the last
few days there have ben more returns
received than at any time since the
$4,000 notices were sent out.
James F. Bellew, brother of the South
Platte stage driver who was killed
after a shooting affray year ago, is
being sought by the sheriff as the re
suit of the disappearance OF a livery
mans saddle horse at Littleton.
March 49, on which date the cruiser
Denver will pass through the Panama
canal, marking the opening of that
wonderful waterway to navigation, is
pledged the support of Governor Am
mons as day for celebration in Den.
yer.
There were 1929 votes cast on the
Moffat tunnel bond issue in Denver,
according to the official returns from
the canvass made by the election com
mission. OF this number, 1868 were
in favor of the $3,0OOOOO bond issue
and 6,7S0 against.
Judge George w. Allen of the Den
yer District Court refused to grant an
injunction against the city and county
of Denver on the application of Dan
iel A. Lord to restrain the city from
issuing the bonds for the building OF
the Moffat tunnel.
Joseph Zobaskey, q Windsor junk
dealer, is held on a charge of steal.
ing six miles of copper wire from the
telephone company. The wire had
been laid low by the storm early in
December. Part of it was found at
Zobaskey's place and 500 pounds was
fiahed out of an irrigation ditch.
Destitute and friendless, Thomas
William Neehan died at the county
hospital in Denver of pneumonia.
ABOUT a week ag5 Neehan became i'll
on the street, and as no relatives
could be located he was taken to the
city jail. The following morning he
was transferred to the county hospital.
All the colleges in the state will be
asked by the University of Colorado
to send teams to Boulder or to Den
yer to compete in an intercollegiate
tennis tournament in May. The Colo
rado tennis devotees are enthusiastic
about the meet and do not care par
ticularly where it is held just so long
as they have a contest of some kind
with other state college players.
Charles Gavin, siSty-two, who ac-
cording to police calculators has stolen
more than $10,0OO,000, is in the city
jail in Denver while the authorities
are investigating his recent move.
ments He says he came to Denver a
few days ago from Cheyenne for the
purpose of making a short friendly
visit, hut the police believe that his
arrest prevented him from cracking
several safes.
That proceedings on contempt of
court charges will be instituted at
once in the Supreme Court of Colorado
against State Auditor Roady Kenehan
to compel him to comply with the
mandate of the Supreme Court rela-
tive to auditing the bills incurred by
| the state troops in the strike zone
was the announcement at Trinidad by
Brigadier-General John Chase, com
manderin-chief of the National guard
in southern Colorado.
News of the death of Mrs. Virginia
w. Duer of Baltimore, mother of n.
Walter Dixon of Denver and of former
County Judge John R. Dixon, was re-
ceived in Denver. Mrs. Duer died Of
apoplexy at her home in Baltimore,
where she was born eighty-two years
ago and where she had spent her en-
tire life. She was descendant of Col.
William Stevens, who established the
first Presbyterian church in America,
and was granddaughter of Capt
William White of Revolutionary fame.