Cheyenne record., 1914-12-10
COLORADO NEWS
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All Parts of the State

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Boulder and Loveland each contrib
uted a car of flour for the Belgians.
Agipita Cruz, section hand, was
found dead in an irrigation ditch near
Aguilar.
Governor Ammons reappointed ]. M.
Dunleavy member Of the state racing
commission.
Private Howard was arrested on a
charge of having taken $4,000 from
the Walsenburg postoffice.
Mrs. Clara M. Eddy, wife of w. H.
Eddy. who died in Boulder on Nov. 22,
left an estate worth approximately
$4,000.
Charles Cowan, sixty-five, Paonia
coal mine operator, was killed while
inspecting his mine in an unloaded
tram car.
A total of $322.69 was obtained in
collections for the Red Cross fund
taken up in the public schools in
Denver.
Contributions received to date by
Consul Jean Mignolet OF Denver for
the Belgian relief fund amount to
$5,455.s1.
Notary certificates on the back Of
mortgages are not subject to tax un-
der the new law, according to Denver
internal revenue officials.
Damage estimated at $4,000 was
done by a fire which destroyed res
taurant, rooming house and several
other buildings at Leadville.
More than 1,500 families near Den
yer are taking advantage of the par
eel post system by which produce Is
being shipped by the grower direct to
the consumer.
Postmaster Harrison, as Denver
representative OF the governments
Santa Claus department, began prep
| arations to take care Of the heavy
Christmas mail.
L Capt. George Plehn Of the Kaiser's
army and for seven years German con-
sui in Denver, has received the Iron
Cross "for conspicuous bravery in the
face of danger"
The commissioners of Ell Paso coun-
ty have fixed the tax levy for 1915 at
$40 mills, which makes the total levy
for all purposes 1898 mills, as against
1925 mills for 1914.
After three weeks of effort to get
jury in the Chandler murder case, a
panel was obtained at Canon City, 440
veniremen having been summoned
from all parts of Fremont county for
examination.
Albert Edward Keller, recently ap-
pointed member of the State Board
Of Accountancy, has been selected Tor
an important commission with the
South American Development Com
pany Of Ecuador.
Lawrence Sullenberger Of Denver,
wealthy clubman, was sued for $780,
900 in District Court by William R.
Stewart of La Veta, who charges that
Sullenberger alienated the affections
of Mrs. Stewart.
Colorado has 247 high schools, with
a total enrolment of 16,4S7 students,
according to report compiled by
Prof. William A. Cook of Boulder, and
recently published as Bulletin No. 10,
volume IA, of the University of Colo
rado.
The report of the Denver building
inspectors office for the first eleven
months of 1914 shows an increase of
IA per cent over that of the same
period in 1913 in point of total values,
and nearly 80 per cent in number of
permits issued. The actual increase
was $4OO,96S!
Failing to kill himself by rifle shot
and by an attempt at drowning, and
after an hours terrible agony, George
Mold, 55, formerly Rio Grande rail-
road conductor, finally accomplished
his purpose by disemboweling himself
and cutting the arteries in his wrist,
at Grand Junction.
Charles F. Quaintance of Golden
was awarded $515 by jury in Golden
for damages sustained to his automo-
bile when A. V. Hunter, former presi-
dent Of the First National bank of
Denver and now president of the Car
Donate National bank of Leadville, ran
into his machine and threw it upside
down In ditch at the side of the road.
Two three-inch cannon of the regu-
lar field equipment of Battery A, for
the second platoon of the Colorado Ma
tional Guard, were shipped into Wal
senburg and are being guarded by
United States troODers Major Good.