The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-03
COLORADO NEWS
HERED FROM
All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Jan. 1o-Farmers' Short Course at Ft.
Collins.
Jan. 15-I6-Meeting Colo. Good Roads
Assn at Colorado Springs.
Jan. 15-Annual Meeting Colo. Farm
ers' Congress at Agricultural Col
lege. Fort Collins.
Jan. 15-16-Meeting Mountain Division
Colorado -to-the-Gulf Highway Asso
eiation at Colorado Springs
of Commercial Executives at Colo
rado Springs.
Jan. 20-Annual banquet Colorado
Jan. 1y-24.-National Western Stock
Show at Denver.
July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session, b.
p o. El<s at Denver
Sept, colorado State Fair at Pu-
1915&Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Harry w. Brown, 60, who came to
Colorado in 1878, died at the residence
of his daughter in Denver.
Several hundred farmers gathered
at Pueblo to participate in the mid
winter exposition at the Mineral pal
ace.
Denver clubdom staged many
watches on the evening of December
81, and number of receptions on
New Years day.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of the Juve-
nile Court and his bride will be ten
dered a reception upon their arrival
in Denver about January 20.
The midwinter Holiness convention
for the Colorado district of the Pente.
costal Church of the Nazarene con
vened in Denver December 81.
Platteville's town board has fixed
the levy of the municipality at Is mills
on total valuation of $219,000, by
which it is expected to raise $32S7.
More than 400 editors in Colorado
Utah Wyoming, New Mexico and Mon
tana have accepted the Denver Press
clubs invitation to attend the Brand
Iron" dinner TO be held January Is at
Denver.
Charged with sending obscene mat
ter through the mails, Charles Willard
Caryl, founder of THE Brotherhood of
Light" and other so-called religious
cults, was fined $50 and costs, amount
ing to $3.50 by Judge Lewis at Denver,
when he pleaded guilty in the United
States District Court.
Everett jackson, who was awarded
the Rhodes scholarship by committee
of college and university professors
which met in Denver, is the son of
w. S. Jackson, a retired millionaire
banker of Colorado Springs. Young
Jackson is one of the most popular
students at Colorado college.
Agitation for the exclusion of op-
cratic music in the Catholic churches
of Denver has begun. According to
the decree of Pope Plus x, in 1896,
such compositions as the famous Mo
zart masses are illegal. The new
music calls for male voices, soprano
parts being taken by boys.
a veteran of the Seminole war of
1859, a survivor of the Fortress Mon
roe disaster of 1S40, and a fighter in
the Civil war, although pensioned at
that time, is the military record of q.
f. Rawson, who died at Maher, in the
eastern part of Montrose county, ac-
ccrding to word received at Olathe.
Led by the mining interests of the
state, whose stand is backed by Gov
ernor Ammons and Thomas r. Hene-
hen, state mine commissioner, Colo
rado is preparing to combat the plan
of Secretary Lane of the interior de-
partment to withdraw all lands con-
tanning pitchblende and carnotite from
the public domain.
Mrs. Sophie Gertrude Stratton, who
claims to be the widow of the late
Winfield Scott Stratton, millionaire
mining man, and who is endeavoring
to obtain a half of his estate, institut-
ed suit in the District Court in Den
yer, in which she seeks to eject the
owners of the Brown hotel, which is
a part of the Stratton holdings.
When motions to quash the infor-
nations against Jerome Dreyfuss,
whose confession last September dis
closed the fact that he had swindled |
the Hamilton National bank out of
$29,700 by false salary assignment
slips, came up in the West Side court
in Denver, Judge Charles C. Butler
ordered Dreyfuss to appear in court
with an attorney.
Lamar, in the Arkansas valley,
promises to become the largest dairy
center in Colorado and one of the
largest in the. entire West Begin
ming January l, farmers living in
forty-mile stretch of territory along
the Arkansas river, of which Lamar is
the center, will milk nearly 10000
cows every morning. The milk thus
produced will approximate 100000
pounds daily.
from postal cards and letters found
in room in the Rialto hotel in Den
yer by the proprietor, George Wade,
the names and addresses of the hus-
band and mother of Mrs. Loula Elder,
who shot Frank Gregory and then COM
mitted suicide in room in the Rialto
have been learned. Also the letters
furnished conclusive proof that Loula