The Colorado statesman., 1914-03-14

April 9.-General Irrigation Conference
Sept; 7.-Coiorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo
1sI5-Iast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The work on the new concrete
bridge across the Arkansas river at
La Junta is about completed and it is
now in use.
A conference of managers of ex.
changes in the Pueblo district of the
Mountain States Telephone Company
was held at Pueblo.
Judge N. E. Graham has issued an
order calling for the selection of
twelve men as a special grand jury
for Weld county.
David Epstein, a Denver jewelry
salesman charged with embezzlement,
committed suicide in Pueblo by TAX
ing carbolic acid
Henry Lee, seventy-five years old,
prominent Denver pioneer was run
down and fatally injured by an auto
mobile at Sixteenth and Curtis streets.
Irving Aker, ten-year-old son of l.
G. Aker, Weldona farmer, was acciden-
tally shot and died almost instantly
from bullet wound in the breast
Two pioneers, residents of Fort Col
Inns, died; John McMullin, eighty-five,
succumbing to pneumonia, and Harry
j. Widows dying of heart trouble.
The decision of the State Court OF
Appeals in the Morris and Nordloh
cases at Brighton ends the last of sew
eral political suits which marked the
formation OF the new county.
Despondent over the threatened
foreclosure of mortgage on his home
at 1927 Sheridan boulevard caused
Chris Rowedder, a barber, of Denver
to end his life by taking prussic acid
One of the triplets born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Lyman Shuster of Denver died
The baby was boy and weighed four
pounds. According to the physician,
the mother and remaining boy and
| girl are doing well.
The Denver Public Utilities Com
mission appointed w. II. Bryant, for
mer city attorney, as special counsel
to assist it in active steps to be taken
Immediately for the acquisition of n
municipal water plant.
State Treasurer Michael A. Leddy
returned to Denver after a six weeks
rest. He is much improved in health.
The treasurer spent his time in the
southern Gulf states and was in New
Orleans during Mardi Gras week.
Mrs. Mary Ann Bryley, one of the
first four white women to settle in
Grand Junction, died She was sew
enty-six years old. She and her hus-
band We're among the first people in
Leadville when the boom started.
The Colorado National Bank is the
Denver correspondent of the Boat
mems Bank of st. Louis and has been
for fully forty years. The Boatmen's
is the oldest bank in Missouri and has
an unbroken record of service to bust
ness interests in st. Louis and the
Southwest since :S47, when it was or
ganized.
Revenue and postage stamps for use
by civil government to be estab-
lished in northern Mexico are being
manufactured in Denver. General Vic
toriano CarranZa, leader of the consti-
tutionalists, is now proceeding from
Nogales, Ariz, to JuareZ, Mexico, for
the purpose of organizing the civil gov
ernment.
Unwilling to swear to lie in his own
defense, Antoine Ginter, aged seventy
eight, withdrew plea of not guilty in
the bootlegging case against him at
Grand Junction and admitted his guilt
A fine of 800 and costs were assessed
against him by Judge Black, which he
promptly paid. The other indictment
against him was dismissed.
Marriage at the age of seventy
years proved a failure to Lars Han
sen, a wealthy Palisade rancher, who
is both plaintiff and defendant i'll
| divorce suit filed by him in District
Court at Grand Junction and followed
by a cross petition submitted by his
| fifty-year-old wife whom he married
after a few weeks courtship year
ago.
Thirty three separate charges of
misconduct and violation of army reg
ulations, including serious criminal
misdeeds, such as burglary aud lar
ceny, assault and battery, threats to
kill and receiving stolen goods have
been preferred against Private John A.
Cross of Company X, Colorado Nation
al Guard, who is being tried by court
martial at Trinidad.
Turning loose NANCY coyote that
he had captured and inoculated with
the germ causing mango, II. Piper of
Hereford has commenced an expert
ment that he hopes will destroy all
coyotes in his section by spreading
the disease among those now on the
prairie. The coyotes have been so
troublesome that the farmers have
been unable to keep them out of their
poultry pens.
Colorado's fame as "the radiurl