The Colorado statesman., 1914-11-28
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State

turkeys for Thanksgiving this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel B. Buchanan
celebrated their 5Oth wedding ami
versary at their home in Denver.
David Lash, 81, was crushed beneath
5000 pounds of plate glass which was
being transported on wagon at Pueb-
10.
The Denver police have been asked
to find William Alexander Layman,
who disappeared seven years ago from
his home in Oxnard, Calf.
The four elections held in Denver
during the current year cost, in round
numbers $4,000, according to figures
compiled by City Auditor Markey.
The fourday membership campaign
with an increase of 1896 members
Nov. l the total membership was 2S,-
033.
Miss Helen Franks, one of the
teachers in the Walden high school,
died very suddenly at her home at that
place, after an operation for appendi-
citis.
Inc Light UelNetu luO
county commissioners of Eagle county
in regard to the removal of the county
seat to the town of Eagle has reached
the state Supreme Court.
Unless Colorado City can show good
cause why such action should not be
taken, its. postoffice will be made a
sub-station of the Colorado Springs Of
fire on pr hput Dar
James C. Kenneth, rs, died in Den
yer after an illness OF six years caused
by paralysis. He had been a resident
of Denver for about eighteen years
and was born'in Scotland.
His neck caught in a deadfall
when the heavy lid of a refrigerator
car ice bunker dropped into place, an
unidentified man suffered a terrible
death on a Rio Grande freight train
near Minturn.
Edward Robe, captured while in the
act of blowing the safe of the Moser
& Parker office at Greeley six weeks
ago, was convicted of burglary and
sentenced to from twenty-five to thirty
years in prison.
Roy Ragan, formerly a well-known
bantam weight boxer, who has quit
the ring and become identified with
the temperance crusade, occupied the
pulpit in the Lake Avenue Baptist
church at Pueblo.
After attempting to kill his wife,
Mrs. Loretta Wade, from whom he had
become recently estranged. Harry S.
Wade. blind man, committed suicide
by shooting in a rooming house, 1914
Larimer street in Denver.
Charles Caverno, an alumnus of the
University of Colorado, who is now
over so years old, has recently written
reminiscence of Rufus Choate's
"Eulogy of Daniel Webster" Caverno
is now a Congregational minister in
Illinois.
While Jerome Dreyfuss, convicted of
obtaining $29,70O from Denver banks
by fraudulent methods, stood broken
in spirit in the West Side court in Den
yer, Justice Perry sentenced him to
from two to three years in the peni-
tertiary.
Trailed as spy, arrested in her sis
ters house at Hilzengen, Germany,
and taken before the military authori-
ties there and questioned before she
obtained her release, Mrs Marie
Weber of Edgewater reached her home
after series of thrilling, experiences
in the war zone.
Number 5 of the five-dollar federal
reserve bank notes, issued by the fed
nt.o1
trict, was brought back to Denver by
r. H. Malone, one of the three direct
ors appointed by the governor for the
tenth district. The note is marked
81. 15A." The "J' represents the tenth
district
Advising Governor Ammons to make
ready to accept for the people of Colo
rado responsibility of again being
state and to announce publicly that
the federal troops are soon to be with
drawn from the strike zone, the legis-
lative coal strike investigation COM
mittee rendered it's advisory report to |
the state executive.
Analysis of the registrars books at |
the University of Colorado at Boulder
shows that out of the 1884 students |
registered. 1862 come from Boulder |
county and 343 from Denver county. |
Fifty-one counties in all are represent
ed, with total of 1,119 students. |
Thirty-two other states have 161 rep
resentatives in Boulder.
Sybil Stark, IT years old, who was
held by the federal authorities in Den
yer in connection with charges pre-
ferred against Roy de Ford of Okla
homa, was released. She departed for
Oklahoma accompanied by her mother.
Ford left for Oklahoma in the custody
OF deputy United States marshal
wnere he is to be placed on trial. He
is charged with having abandoned his