The Colorado statesman., 1914-02-14
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L O r A DO
PEO PIE
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Feb. 22-washington Day banquet at
March 10-11-Eleventh annual con-
ference, Colorado Daughters of Amer
lean Revolution at Colorado Springs,
July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session. B
p. o. Elks at Denver.
Sept; 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo.
1s15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
A cutting affray west of La Junta
took place at Mexican camp and re-
suited in the death of Gabino Ribera.
The knights of Pythias of Denver
will hold their golden jubilee celebra-
ton at El Jebel temple Thursday, Feb.
10.
The first train from Leadville for
eight days reached Breckenridge on
Tuesday. The road is now clear to
Denver.
Hans Hort, twenty-nine, dairyhand,
hanged himself in barn in Arapahoe
county, according to report received
by Denver police authorities
Charles Rhodes, fifty years old, was
ground to bits in Denver in the sight
of fellow workmen at the plant of the
Western Chemical Company, where he
was foreman.
Nine fat women, of average weight
247 pounds, are ready and willing to
again appear in court to disprove the
reducing qualities of the Hamilton
Cunningham simplex" method at
Denver
Mrs. Mary S. L. Short, seventy-five,
was found dead in the kitchen of her
home, in Denver, by Mrs. M. P. John
son, neighbor. Fear caused by the
bursting of water pipe is believed to
have caused her death.
Neuman Erb, president of the Den
yer & Salt Lake R. R., paid the city
S17,50 for his share of the proposed
$3,0OO0OO bond issue election, at
which he hopes the city will vote s3,-
100000 to help him dig the Moffat tun-
mel.
That the illness of Mother" Jones,
which was reported recently at Trini-
dad, was framed up in order to create
sympathy on the eve of the congress
sional investigation, is declared by the
military authorities in charge of the
strike district. +,
A conference of Western governors
to devise new financial plans for slim
ulating the growth of new irrigation
projects and effecting solidity of ex-
listing irrigation securities in the West
is proposed by Secretary of the In
terror Franklin X. Lane in letter re-
ceived by Governor Ammons.
The congressional subcommittee be-
gan it's investigation of the Colorado
coal strike and indicated that it would
go into both political and social con-
ditions in the coal fields to determine
whether conditions are such that the
provisions of the constitution and the
law can be and are observed.
The first suit to be tried in Colo
RADIO under the new Interstate Com
merce law governing the stealing from
freight cars containing articles des-
tined for interstate commerce resulted
in the conviction of Edward Murphy,
thirty-five, in the United States Dis
trict Court at Denver.
The gross earnings of the Mountain
States Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany for the year ending Dec. 81, 1913,
were $3.50, ,210.90, an increase of $685.
624.65 over the preceding year, ac-
cording to the report of the company
submitted to the stockholders at their
annual meeting.
John Roy Dew, the ladies' man,
heart breaker and impersonator of
Adolphus Busch Ill. of st. Louis, is
married man and has been for two
years. This came out in the West
Side Criminal Court in Denver, where
he was sentenced by Judge Charles C.
Butler to serve one to two years in the
penitentiary.
Marrying her stepson within a few
days after divorcing his father, Mrs.
Lenora Otto now lives in Denver as
the wife of John s. Otto, whom she,
eight years ago, established IA mothers
protection over by marrying Christian
Otto, wealthy sheepman of New Mexi-
co and widower of a cousin of the sec
ond wife.
Declaring that he had seen an Italian
strike-brealer shot and killed in the
Victor-American mine at Delagua in
December, and that the body was car
ried out by four soldiers, Sam Valenti,
a Sicilian, told his story to the House
coal strike investigating committee.
Valenti said he did not know who
shot the Italian. He was, for three
years, soldier in the Philippines.
The Longmont Farmers Protective
Association has adopted a resolution
rejecting the offer of the Great West
era Sugar Company of $475 a ton for
beets for the coming year. The men,
bers of the association are willing to
accept $4.75 a ton for beets containing
| twelve per cent sugar content as
basis. but demand a sliding scale in
crease for all beets containing more