Cheyenne record., 1914-03-19
STATE NEWS.
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
May 12-14-State Council of Junior Or
rado Springs. :
July 1s-14.-Grand Lodge Session. B.
p. Q. Elss at Denver.
April s.-General Irrigation Conference
Sept; Colorado state Fair at Pu-
1sl5.-hast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
seventy-five members of. the Penn
sylvsnia Club of Colorado held their
annual banquet in Denver.
A. c. Bartels was elected dictator
of Denver lodge No. 21, Loyal Order
OF Moose. at the annual election Of the
lodge. "}ss-G
SCISSORS with the State Tax Commits
sion will be held March rs and 26 at
the Capitol building.
Congregational contributions collect
ed by the Episcopal churches in the
Colorado diocese in 1913, according to
the annual report, amounted to $685.,
255.
Traditional "jinx" fears of Friday
the thirteenth as wedding day were
cast to the winds by seven couples
who applied. for marriage licenses in
Denver. 20 .'arv ->'.-
= w. w. Jones, for twenty-one years
paymaster of the Colorado Fuel e.
Iron Company in Denver, died at his
home, 40 South Lincoln street. Jones
was seventy-two years old. =; =
Two men and a woman, whom the
police believe to be representatives OF
Canadian cocaine smugglers or swim
dlers Of druggists, were arrested in a
house on Market street in Denver.
The refusal Of the Colorado Yule
Marble Company to meet demands of
union labor men Of Denver may cause
strike on the marble shaft of the
Lincoln monument at Washington.
Belvidere Brooks, formerly in
charge of the Denver office, is to sue
ceed Theodore H. Vail as president Of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, according to information re-
ce!ved in Denver.
The first semi-monthly payday un-
der the charter amendment adopted
Feb. II, occurred in Denver Monday.
Completion of the payroll by the au'
ditor's office occasioned considerable
Joy about City hall. ,ss.es~ ...
Frank G. Smith, wealthy mining
and railroad promoter of Denver, Col.
orado Springs and Cripple Creek and
one Of the best known pioneers of
Colorado, died suddenly OF heart dis:
ease at San Antonio, Tex,
Formal protest against the bill pend
ing in Congress providing for a
change in the form Of the American
flag has been made by members of
Abraham Lincoln Post, Grand Army
OF the Republic OF Denver
Mrs. Anastasia Hrestathulake start
ed suit in the District Court Of Den.
yer to recover $4,000 for the death Of
her son, George Athens Ilrestathulake,
killed in an accident in the Parkdale
mine of the National Fuel Company
at Lafayette, Dec. 23, 1912.
The reopening of heretofore idle
mining properties, an increase in the
dairying industry and the fine condi-
tion in which winter wheat has come
lnIouSu tlle WlulcT, lOT1' d CCUlDIlu-
tion which makes rosy the outlook for
unusual prosperity in Boulder county
this year.
The public utilities commission Of
Denver employed r. w. Meeker for
merly engineer for the Central Colo
RADIO Power Company and later eEgl.
ner of the Laramie Water Company,
to prepare report for the commits
sion Of water available on the West
ern slope for domestic supply for Den
YER.
William Bierkamp, Jr., former pres
ident of the Germania State bank, un-
der arrest charged with a $4,000 con-
fidence game. and Mrs. Margaret ].
Bierkamp, whose matrimonial diff
culties have engaged the attention of
the Denver courts for more than three
years, will probably be reconciled
through the medium of their children.
Denver sons of Erin and the sons OF
other lands had the biggest st. Pat.
ricks celebration ever staged in Den-
YER. A monster parade under the aus
pices Of the Ancient Order Of Hiber-
mans, a solemn high mass at tho
Cathedral of the immaculate Concep-
ton, and a grand ball at the Audlto-
rum were features of st. Patrick s