The Colorado statesman., 1914-03-07
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c o L o r A DO
PEOPLE
,estern Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS


Apr. 9.-General Irrigation Conference
Sept. 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
1s15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver
Colorado is fifty-three years old.
The annual Denver automobile show
will be held in the Auditorium the
last week in March.
Four prominent Grand Junction men
were arrested on indictments charg-
ing the theft of the Dan Easement cat
tie last fall.
Stanley d. Burno for the past three
years chief of police of Colorado
Springs, has resigned to take the
management of a large ranch at
Kremmling.
Mrs. Mary Russell Wheeler, eighty
two years old, died at st. Luke's hos
pital in Denver. Her death followed a
severe fall three weeks ago when she
broke her hip.
According to the meteorological
summary for the month of February,
out of the 900 possible hours of sun
shine the sun shone 1S4 hours, which
was 81 per cent of the greatest possi-
BILE.
City Attorney Stevens is preparing
to enforce recognition of it's fran
chise by the Denver Gas and Electric
company in the matter of rebates from
excess sales of gas, as provided for
in the company's franchise.
While Harlalambos p. Karuntzos
was unloading cinders near Sugar
City, he was struck and killed by a
Missouri Pacific train. Mrs. Sophia
Karuntzos, his wife. filed suit in the
District Court for $4,000 damages.
Scientific experiments are develop.
ing the uses to which the radioactive
springs of Colorado may be put 1hir-
teen of such springs have been ana
lyZed by Professor Russell ID. George
of the University of Colorado.
The first reduction in the tariff on
sugar made by the Underwood bill be-
came effective with refined sugar in
Colorado selling at $4.35 per 100
pounds, as against $3.50 when the
tariff bill was signed last December.
A bureau to advertise every city,
willing to cooperate in telling the
outside world of its attractions and in.
vestment possibilities will be organ
lied by the All-Colorado committee of
Denver.
Suit for $4,000 damages has been
filed in the District Court by Mrs.
Eva M. Land against C. H. Boley, in.
ventor of the process by which bri.
quette fuel is made. The complaint
asserts that Boley assaulted Mrs.
Land in her home in Denver.
The Denver city council passed the
initiated measure reducing water rates
twenty per cent. All the commission.
ers voted in favor of the measure.
The reduction in rates will become
effective May 1, unless stopped by liti,
cation, or referred to a vote of the
| people.
The following men have been chosen
by Loran T. Peters, coach of debating
at the University of Colorado, to rep,
resent the university in the debate
against the University of Oklahoma
next April: William A. Rauck, Boul.
der; Burtis H. Shattuck, Boulder, and
| Charles Swindler, Dawson Springs,
Kentucky.
Forty-two members of the Montrose
company of the Colorado National
| Guard, who saw service in the south
| ern coal field, have not received any
pay for their services during the last
two months according to a message
received in Denver. The militiamen
hnt
be paid without further delay.
Mrs. Mary Joe Heberton, society
belle of Denver and Colorado Springs,
was granted divorce from DR..
| Charles M. Heberton by District Judge
| Teller of Denver. She was also award
ed 500 month alimony and given
the unconditional ownership Of fifty
shares of Denver Tramway stock. a
former gift from DIR. Heberton.
The March term of the Arapahoe
County District Court commenced at
Littleton with seventy-two criminal
and fifty-three civil cases on the docket
The principal interest of the term cen
ters on Dr. c. C. Fowler's second di-
vorce suit against his wife, in which
He brings twenty charges, including
various forms of nagging. The case
was set for trial on March 23.
With. the return of good weather in
the mountainous section of the county
near Boulder come reports from the
various mining camps indicating a re-
vival of the mining industry. Besides
much activity on the Yellow Pine and
Logan mines, in the Crisman district
the El Dora Mining. Milling and Re-
filming Company, headed by Z. M.
Weods of Denver, is doing much to
revive mining in Ell Dora by taking
out considerable ore from the Mogul
tunnel property.