The state herald., 1914-03-20
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
G O L o r A D o
PEOPLE
Westerh NeWsphper UhIoh NeWs seFVIee'
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

at Denver.
| Sept. 7.--Colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo
| 19l5-i.ast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Seventy-flve members of the Penn
annual banquet in Denver,
A. c. Bartels was elected dictator
OF Denver lodge No. 81, Loyal Order
of Moose, at the annual election of the
lodge.
The annual conference of state as
SCISSORS with the State Tax Commits
sion will be held March 20 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
w. w. Jones, for twenty-one years
paymaster of the Colorado Fuel
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, We're arrested in
| rlAt Oh In
The refusal of the Colorado Yule
Marble Company to meet demands of
union labor men Of Denver may cause
a strike on the marble shaft OF the
Lincoln monument at Washington.
Belvidere Brooks, formerly in
charge Of the Denver office, is TO sue
coed Theodore II. Vail as president Of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, according to information re-
ce!ved in Denver.
The first semimonthly payday un-
der the charter amendment adopted
Feb, II, occurred iE Denver Monday.
Completion of the payroll by the au.
ditor's office occasioned considerable
JOY ABOUT City nan.
Frank C. 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 Hrestathulake,
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
through the winter, form a ccmblna-
tion which makes rosy the outlook for
unusual prosperity in Boulder county
this year.
The public utilities commission OF
Denver employed II. w. Meeker for.
merly engineer for the Central Colo
RADIO Power Company and later engi
ner OF the Laramie Water Company.
TO prepare n report for the commits
sion OF water available on the West
ern slope for domestic supply for Den.
yer.
William Bicrknmp. Jr., former pres.
ldent OF the Germnnia State bank, un-
der arrest charged with a siO.300 con.
fidence game. and Mrs. Margaret j.
Bierkamp, whose matrimonial diffl
culties have engaged the attention OF
the Denver courts for more than three
years. VIII probably be reconciled
through the medium OF their children.
Denver sons OF Erin and tho sons OF
other lands had the biggest ~. Pat
ricka celebration ever staged In ben.
yer. A monster parade under the aus.
picos OF the Ancient order OF Hlber.
Hlahst t'i'Hh hAFh hAahh hA huN
Cathedral OF the Immaculate Conoep.
tion, and grand ball nj tho Audito
rum were features OF 81. Palrlek's
Day.
Mystery turrounds the Identity OF n
man. fifty years old. found dead IN
bed In rooming house at ?229 Blake
street In Denver. which. II unravcllcd.
may reveal the death OF former
wealthy mining man. He was regis.
tered nt the hotel as Robert Scott. n
name linked with tho early develop.
ment Of the Cripple Greek district, on
the dead man were found letters ad
drouacd TO u. @. Wardncr, n miner.
who made big stake In the famous
gold camp In the early nlnetics.
Two hundred Dcnyormado matches
lighted 200 Dcnver.madc cigars In tho