The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-07
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

lean Revolution at Colorado Springs.
July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session. b
Sept; 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu'
1si5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
President Wilson nominated O. w.
Ward to be postmaster at Colorado
Springs.
Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa will
be the principal speaker at the Lin
coin day banquet which will be held
at Ell Jebel temple in Denver, Feb. II.
A detail of militia left Florence for
Pueblo to escort the thirty-five strike
breakers of the Radiant mine, whose
train was fired upon and driven back
from Williamsburg.
The eleventh annual conference of
the Colorado chapters, Daughters of
the American Revolution, will be
held at Colorado Springs Tuesday and
Wednesday, March 10 and II.
A campaign to raise $4,000 of the
100000 endowment fund of Denver
university has been launched by the
Clarion, the student newspaper, and
already over $1,000 has been pledged.
The appointment of lady cop" by
Commissioner of Safety Nisbet of Den
Yer to supervise the morals and con-
duct of the public amusement places
will probably be made within the next
few days.
Theodore C. Henry, formerly one of
the wealthiest men in Kansas and
later promoter of large irrigation and
industrial projects in Colorado, died
at st. Lukes hospital in Denver from
the shock of an operation.
The sheriff and police at Pueblo are
now working on the theory that
Floyd Reed, Vineland ranchman
killed from ambush on his way to Pu-
eblo, was shot by mistake for Joseph
F. Reilly, agent for a Denver brewery.
The body of Charles E. Randall, six
ty years old and well known at Olney
Springs, was found in a water hole on
the Hackworth ranch. Although there
is theory of foul play, the coroner's
jury returned verdict OF death from
accidental drowning.
Sustaining the findings of the state
Railway Commission, from which the
case was appealed by the railroads,
District Judge Perry of Denver or
dered a reduction in rates on coal
from the northern Colorado fields to
Denver.
Judge Denison of the District Court
of Denver ordered that the proposed
amendment to the city charter foi~tne
purpose of abolishing civil service in
nearly all city and county departments
shall not be place on the ballot at the
election, February II.
The testimony of Esther Osborne of
La Junta, arrested at Pueblo with ".
F. Incl on a charge of disposing of
fake jewelry, will cost Incl thirteen
years of liberty, as he was arrested
one day before his parole from the
Kansas penitentiary expired. Incl
hanged himself in his cell, but a jailer
cut him down.
After six months of married life
with the prettiest girl in Texas, Harry
r. Coates, twenty years old, filed suit
for divorce at Pueblo. He charges
that Mrs. Coats is of quarrelsome ma
ture, that she paid no attention to
her household duties and manifested
no love for him short time after hav.
ing become his bride.
Reduction in the tax levy to offset
the increased valuation placed on the
city and county by the State Tax Com
mission and approved by the Supreme
Court will be such as to make the tax
to be paid by each property owner
the same as if the valuation had not
been increased, according to the Den.
yer city commissioners who met to
take up the new levy.
Judge w. S. Morris of the District
Court at Colorado Springs sustained a
demurrer filed by the city in the case
OF Henry Abbey, Ramona saloon pro-
prietor, and another against the city OF
Colorado Springs. The case was
brought to prevent the city from re-
fusing to supply water to the saloons
of the newly incorporated town. The
plaintiffs will appeal to the Colorado
Supreme Court.
ut was not like that in the olden
days, in the days of long ago." said
Mrs. Julia A. Houghton, mother of the
Rev. John H. Houghton, pastor of ST.
Marks Episcopal church of Denver
She said it as one who spoke with au-
thority-from a wealth of experience.
1t was the ninety-first anniversary of
her birth. She spoke of the fads and
fancies of the modern social world
IN days gone by, girls used to know
how to cook and sew and keep house.
Now they know how to play auction
bridge. They used to dance the
minuet. now they dance the tango.
Verify things have changed"
That the government will make a
mess of the radium business and that
little or nothing will be accomplished
If the Foster bill is passed, is the pre-