The state herald., 1914-12-04
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO


The Otero Gas Company COM
menced work ON its new plant in West
La Junta.
The Denver police have been asked
to find Ethel Lightner, who left her
home Oct. Z.
The Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company has applied for a
new franchise at Rocky Ford.
Byron N. Sanford, elghty,eight. a
Colorado pioneer, died Thanksgiving
day at his home in Denver.
The Colorado district of the Swedish
i.uthern church held its annual con-
ference in Boulder and Loveland.
A crop Of milo maize, averaging al
most sixty bushels to the acre, has
been harvested by w. r. Gilmore, east
of Haswell.
The National Monument Dealers
Association probably will hold its an
nual convention in Denver in August
Of next year.
Earnest l.. Autland, 81, and Miss
Marie Erbe, 10, were married at
Boulder following an elopement from
their homes near Yampa.
l. d. Couch. "a years old. is dying
at the Southern Colorado General hos
pital. after having been thrown under
load of hay that tipped over.
The Denver Zionists are planning to
do their share in raising 100000
which the federation of American
Zionists will collect to continue with
its work in Palestine.
Twenty-six carloads Of flour, rang
ing from $4,000 to 10000 pounds to a
car. for the starving noncombatants
of Belgium are assured for the train
that will leave Denver for New York.
Louis Persinger. famous violinist
whose boyhood was spent in Colorado
Springs. was a soloist at the concert
given by the American colony in Ber-
lin for the benefit of war sufferers on
Thanksgiving day.
Efforts to locate friends or relatives
OF John Gostorach, killed by falling
under a northbound d. & r. C. pas
senger train at Southern Junction,
three miles south Of Pueblo. have
been unsuccessful.
w. L. Smith. seventy.four. pioneer
OF Garfield county and one of the best
known ranchers and cattlemen OF the
Western slope, died at the hospital In
Salida as the result of an operation
for kidney trouble.
A freight wreck on the Burlington
railway near Keenesburg. thirty-six
miles east OF Denver. reduced ten
cars heavily loaded to kindling wood.
according to reports which reached
the Denver officials.
The display OF the work of the stu.
dents in the Haswell schools which
won first prize at the Colorado State
Fair In September. probably will be
shown at the meeting OF the State
Teachers Association in Denver.
The remains OF Leonard ]. Dreyfus,
thirty-three, instructor OF forestry at
the State Agricultural College at Fort
Collins. were sent to Shreveport, La.
for burial. Death was the result OF an
operation performed at st. Joseph's
hospital.
TO devote his time to personal mat.
ters. George w. Ballantine. president
OF the Denver Union Stockyards Com.
pany and connected with the company
Ia various capacities for the last
twcnty-eight years. will sever his con.
nections with II about January next.
Mrs. J. Borden Hartman, New
York and Washington. ID. C., society
leader. niece by marriage to the late
+. II. Hartman and u member OF the
federal Industrial relations commits.
sion. will attend the commissions In.
vestigntion In Denver OF the Colorado
coal strike. according TO word re.
ceived by George r. West. the organ.
ization's special agent Mt Denver.
Arguments for new trial in the
case OF Mrs. Ida =. Mercer, con.
dcmned to life Imprisonment for the
murder OF her son.in.law. Carl Grerer.
son. were presented In the West Side
Court In Denver by her counsel. The
arguments lasted five hours. Among
the causes presented to secure anoth.
or trial was the alleged fact that ono
OF tho jurors flirted continually dur.
Ing the former prococdings with the
Girls in the courtroom.
A number OF old scars. similar In
shape and size to hatpln wounds
which the Denver police authorities
expected TO find on the murderer OF
Signc CarlE.n, were discovered on the
body OF John Freeze. convicted wife
slayer. when he underwent physical
examination At the Canon City penl.
tantiary. where he In serving n life
sentence. That signc caflzcn died
fighting for her life on the lonely
prairie mile east Of IN. Fourth Ave
nue ear line In Denver IN. nlsht oi
Aug. .. 1912. waA Indicated. the police
believe. when her body was found
with the stub OF n hat pin ciuiehed
tightly In her hand