The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-26

sociation Meeting. in Denver.
A Farmers Union will be organized
in the Grand Valley on Jan. Z at
mass meeting to be held in Grand
Junction.
The $4,000 clubhouse erected by
the Portland Gold Mining Company at
Cripple Creek for its employees is now
occupied by the miners.
Weld county has one automobile to
every nine families, or one for every
thirty-six residents of the county, ac-
cording to the report of the county
clerk.
The Evans Commercial Club and the
town board are planning to get the
creamery plant that is to be eStab-
lished some place along the Union Pa
cific railroad.
After Timothy Readon, &c years old.
had attempted to wreck his home in
Denver his wife tied him to the bed,
where she kept him several hours be-
fore she called the police.
While whiting on a piece of pine
board, Edward Cunningham of Milli-
ken allowed the knife to slip and cut
off the entire fleshy part of his hand
alongside the little finger.
Popcorn and peanuts raised by the
children in their own garden decorat-
ed a Christmas tree that was the CEN
ter of attraction at a party at the
Minnequa kindergarten at Pueblo.
The Christmas offering of the Great
Western Sugar Company to the farm
ers of Colorado in the form of pay
ment for beets delivered to the facto-
ries of the state, amounted to 50 1885,
600.
Two hundred fathers and their sons
| attended the "Father-and-Son" banquet
given at the Y. M. c. A, at Colorado
Springs, a movement being started to
get the boys and their fathers better
acquainted
| A physical examination of the school
children of Greeley discloses the fact
that 20%o of the 1,10O students of the
public schools are afflicted with some
physical defect that interferes with
their studies.
New mine legislation will be one OF
the important topics considered Jan.
IL, when delegates from thirty coun-
ties of Colorado attend the annual con-
vention of the Colorado Metal Mining
Association in Denver
The death of Miss Emma McCallen
in Denver, following an attack of pneu-
monia, is the fourth that has come to
the McCallen home within two years
During this time four of the five Nc.
Callen sisters have died.
Masquerading in mems clothing
pretty eighteen-year-old Mollie Ullery
formerly waitress in an Alamosa ho
tel, was arrested at Trinidad when
she arrived with ]. w. Trent, former.
ly clerk at the same hotel.
Because he thought that dynamite
caps should be thoroughly cleaned OF
all grease and dirt before being used
A. Bahula, farmer near Masters, is
minus thumb and index finger and
! may lose the sight of one eye.
A. J. Randall, ninety-two, editor
former professor in the Georgetown
high school, and recently an heir to
$4,000, and his former wife, eighty
| five, from whom he was divorced in
1867, were remarked in Kansas City
Saturday, according to word which
reached Georgetown.
Col. James C. Bulger, condemned
slayer of Lloyd F. Nicodemus, who is
awaiting in the county Jail in Denver
the result of a petition for new trial
now before the Supreme Court, is pre-
pairing an application for permission
to be removed to the penitentiary at
Canon City pending the decision of his
case.
After lying twenty-four hours with
his skull beaten in by beer bottle
and his brain exposed through the
wound before medical aid was sum-
moned or the police notified, George
Jackson of Eaton died at the County
hospital in Greeley without gaining
consciousness, two days after the in
jury was received.
gang of poultry thieves is operat-
ing in the Kersey district, using a
wagon to carry off their plunder and
taking as high as four dozen chickens
from one place at time Mrs. Hart
ford lost dozen turkeys in broad day
| light, while she was visiting at the
neighbors and several others have
lost chickens and turkeys.
U. Grant Danford, former city treas
urer of Cripple Creek, who fled, June
| IL, 1913, when shortage of $2S, 600 in
his accounts was discovered, has been
located in Honduras, sixty miles inland
on the railroad from Porto Cortez, ac-
cording to information which has been
received by the Denver authorities
The town is Central American min
ing camp and is about midway be-
tween Porto Cortez and San Salvador.