The Colorado statesman., 1914-05-02


marked than ever.
Prince Tambon IS dead. The won
derful little baby elephant died IN
Denver of intestinal trouble.
The Denver Ministerial Alliance re-
solved to appoint a committee to IN
vestigate the Colorado coal strike Sit
uation.
The body of Father Frederick Ben
der, Denver priest, reached Cincinnati
where the funeral was held with full
rites of the Catholic church.
Federal troops for the suppression
of strike disorders are now in Colora-
do. With their arrival peace over the
entire state is confidently expected.
Charles H. Green, president of the
Green Canning Company of Pueblo,
Brighton and Platteville, died at his
home in Denver following an opera
tion.
James A. Harris, fifty-two years old,
formerly one of the leading politicians
of Tennessee, and a prominent attor-
ney of Denver, died at st. Luke's hos
pital following an illness of four
weeks.
After lingering between life, and
death from Saturday until Tuesday
after being run over by a switch en-
gine at Sixth and Lawrence streets,
John Coffey, forty-five years old, died
at the county hospital in Denver.
Grim-faced riflemen of the armies of
Aguilar and Ludlow stacked their
arms and buried Louis Tikas, known
as Louis the Greek, who died in the
strike war at Ludlow with three bull
lets in his back and a gaping wound
in his head.
DR.. w. M. Wilkinson, secretary of
the Denver County Medical Society,
received word from the National Red
Cross Society, first aid department, re
questing list of medical men of Den
yer who were competent and who
could be relied upon to go to Mexico
III case of trouble on the border.
A committee of women to be headed
by State Senator Helen Ring Robin
son and Mrs. Alma Lafferty, president
of the Women's Peace Association, is
being organized to go to Trinidad to
investigate Lu6 luIlOW ludSSdCTe anu
to search the field for bodies of vic
tins claimed to be unaccounted for.
The railroad commission took evil
dence in the case of the White Raven
Mining Company of Ward against the
Denver, Boulder and Western in which
the petitioners seek to secure an or
der compelling the railroad company
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trains in operation through the winter
months.
The Twin Lakes irrigation project,
one of the largest in Colorado, has Of
ficially passed into the hands of the
farmers of the Arkansas valley. Aft
er twenty years operation under the
domination of Eastern stockholders,
the Twin Lakes system is being op-
Grated by the farmers under its
bitches.
Mrs. Sullivan of East Tenth street,
Pueblo. her one and one-half-year-old
baby and her mother were seriously
If not fatally injured and Mr. Sullivan
was badly hurt when a southbound
Santa Fe passenger train, which
passed through Colorado Springs,
struck their automobile on a danger
GUS crossing one mile north of Foun-
tain
Telephone users in Morgan county
are requested to withhold acceptance
of the new rates of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. Committees from Fort Morgan,
Brush, Hillrose and Weldon are now
at work gathering facts and figures
relative to the construction of a new
and independent system in Morgan
county.
Plans have been accepted and con-
tracts signed for one of the largest
and handsomest business blocks in
the Arkansas valley to be erected in
Rocky Ford on the site of the recent
fire on North Maine street. in the
heart of the business district.
Harry Eugene Kelly, United States
district attorney, was called to Wash
ingtton and left Denver for the East.
1t was stated at headquarters that the
matter of his being called at this time
had nothing to do with the present
strike situation in the southern coal
fields.