The Colorado statesman., 1914-10-03

An extra mail carrier has oeen
added to the force at Montrose.
The Royal Gorge Creamery at
Canon City is now delivering butter
to the local merchants.
Mike Mulvihill, who had been resi-
dent of Palisade for number OF years.
was burned to death on the prairie
near Cameo.
One effect of the war in Europe will
be to bring more than s1.000,000 addi-
tional profit to the farmers growing
beet sugar crops.
Helen M. Foster, II years old. a
bride of three weeks, instituted suit
In the District Court in Denver ask
ing divorce from John T. Foster.
]. G. Davis, Go, a retired farmer,
suffered injuries from which he died
when he fell down the cellar stairs
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Watson
ziegler at Fort Collins.
A corps of surveyors in charge of
w. L. Reynolds, an engineer who has
been in the employ of the public util-
tiles commission, began the work of
surveying the line for a water conduit
from Platte canon to Denver.
! Wishing to be nearer her husband,
Lieutenant Won Schroeder, who is
fighting with the Germans in France.
Mrs. Albrecht Won Schroeder, former
ly Mrs. Barry Sullivan of Denver, en-
listed as a Red Cross nurse
While working in the lobby OF the
new postoffice building in Denver,
Mike Ryan, a structural iron worker,
floor, twelve feet below. Two ribs
were broken. Ryan is fifty years old.
The ashes of his mother, whose
body was cremated two years ago,
were buried at Fairmount cemetery
with the body of E. w. Swanbrough,
the motor car racer who met death in
an accident at Overland park in Den
yer.
Only ten minutes were required by
the jury in the District Court at Pu-
eblo to convict Charles Carter, O Den
yer burglar, of committing a series Of
hotel robberies in Pueblo. He was
sentenced to six years in the peniten-
tiary.
Mrs. o. H. P. Belmont of New York.
director of the Woman's Congress
ional Union, may come to Denver to
help in the unions campaign in Colo
rado, according to statement by Miss
Stevens, Colorado representative of
the union.
The successful floating of the New
York City $10O.000.00O six per cent
loan is looked upon by Denver bank
ers and investors as an evidence OF
the improvement in financial condi-
tions since the opening of the Eu-
ropean war.
An international movement for the
relief of the distressed wives, children
and otherArelatives and dependents of
soldiers involved in the world war has
been organized and is conducting a
campaign for funds with which to
carry on the mercy work.
George F. Keller, who promoted the
Crags Resort Company and several as
sociated enterprises in Denver five
years ago and in which large sums of
money were invested by prominent
people of Denver, is reported to be
near death in Ell Paso, Tex.
Miss Kathryn Beaton, twenty-five,
formerly of Ouray, died at the Cen
eral hospital at Toronto, Canada, aft
er an illness of ten days Miss Bea-
ton was daughter of William Beaton,
prominent mining man of Ouray, for
many years superintendent of the
Camp Bird mine.
Organized horse thieves are caus-
ing apprehension in northern Colorado.
Owners of horses are trying to work
out plan to thwart them. During
the last few months many horses have
been stolen in this part of the state
and few of them have been recovered.
In Weld county the loss has been
great.
Colorado banks will contribute ST.
100000 to the gold pool OF $100, 900 900
which has been arranged by the New
York Clearing House Association and
the federal reserve board to relieve
the present foreign exchange situa-
ton, according to a communication re.
ceived by John Clarke Mitchell, presi-
dent of the Denver Clearing House
! Association.
C.. M. Waters of the United States
postal inspectors office caused the
arrest of Wayman Stubbs, eighteen, on
the charge of forging money order
for $50 at Virgins. The prisoner
pleaded guilty before United States
Commissioner Hinsdale in Denve-. He
was charged with having rifled the
mail of Mrs. Rachel Haskins, who lives
near Virgins, finding the money order
and forging her name to it.
Mrs. Ella NJ. Walker, widow of Hen.
ry A. Walker, a former mining man OF
Idaho Springs, died in Denver at st.
Joseph's hospital after few davs,