The Elbert County tribune., 1914-03-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union ssws s-rvie-.
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.

p. o. Ellss at Denver
sept, if.-coiorado State Fair at Pu-
isis.-Iast Grand Council of North
american Indians at Dcnver-
Mrs. Margaret Wright. eighty-six.
mother of Mrs. Ira NJ. DeLong. died at
Boulder
State Treasurer M. A. Leddy filed
his report for the quarter ended Feb
ruary 2sth with Governor Ammons.
Commissioner Otto F. Thum OF Den
yer. who has been Ill two weeks with
a threatened attack of typhoid fever.
is convalescing.
Little hope is held out for the re-
covery of Henry Lee. aged Denver
citizen. who was run down by an au-
tomobile two weeks ago.
A new English Lutheran church.
the third to be organized in Denver
was opened with impressive ceremony
at 1850 Williams street.
Preparations are being made to
have the most elaborate automobile
show Denver has yet seen in the Au-
ditorium, March both to April 4th.
| Half a million dollars Will be spent
this summer by the Union Pacific In
the improvement of its Denver-lSansas
City line in eastern Colorado and west
ern Kansas.
A baby girl about five weeks old.
wrapped In swaddling clothes, was
found on the doorstep OF the George
A. Gano home at 1886 East Colfax ave-
nue. In Denver.
The Tonopah Placers Company Is
operating the Reliance gold dredging
boat in French gulch steadily this win
ter, and is supplying Breckenridge
with electric light and power.
An attempt at blackmail is the an
swer made by George w. Heffner TO
the 100000 damage suit for assault
filed by Mics Myrtle Trotter in the
District Court in Denver.
Oscar Cook, who was sentenced to
death for the murder of PatrolInan
William Mcpherson and given new
trial by the Supreme Court. will enter
his plea in Denver April 14th.
A telegram from United States Sen
ator John f. Shafroth. gives positive
assurance that the cruiser Denver will
be the first ship to pass through the
Panama canal from the Pacific side.
The borrowing gentleman holdupv
who has been operating in Denver for
several weeks is believed by the police
to have been caught in the person OF
Frank Hall. twenty-three years old.
William Reynold, ranchman near
ittleton. was fined $42.50 by Judge
William Stuart at Littleton for killing
pheasant on his ranch two weeks
ago. He was found guilty by jury.
Colonel Goethals has promised to
let cruiser Denver go through Canal
on opening from Pacific side at same
time his vessel goes through from At
Iantic side. He Will give one months
notice.
Ralph A. Newcomb. twenty-five
years old. graduate of Manual Train
ing High School of Denver. was killed
instantly at Guernsey. wyo. presum.
ably by electrocution. His parents re
side in Denver.
A gigantic celebration in Denver, In
which all Colorado will be invited to
participate is the plan OF Governor
Ammons for recognizing the opening
of the Panama canal and the passage
through the big ditch of the cruiser
Denver.
The 1914 crops of eastern Colorado
viii bring to that section OF the state
one of the greatest returns in its his
tory. surprising by many hundred
thousand dollars the record estab-
iished for last year. according TO
George w. Martin.
Several hundred thousand rates for
passenger service, revised and cor
rected In conformity with the order OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission,
were placed in the hands OF the print
ers by the Denver & Rio Grande and
Colorado & Southern railroads for ar
rangement In printed tariff schedules.
The special freight rate committee
of the Denver Chamber OF Commerce
} decided to call meeting In Denver
April to 9 of commercial bodies rep
resenting thirteen Western cities In
seven states to consider plans for the
Inauguration Of general movement
for readjustment of freight rates for
the Transmissouri West.
Bernard Steinberg. a tailor. sought
to be excused from serving on a Jury
in District Judge Aliens court in Den
yer on the ground that he could not
concentrate his mind on a trial when
his business demanded his attention.
Judge Allen refused to accept this as
an excuse and impaneled S'einberg.
with reprimand for lach OF pa
triotism.
William j. Bierkamp. Jr., was given
another week in which to plead TO the