Cheyenne record., 1914-11-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Temple in Denver.
John Freeze was convicted of slay-
Ing his wife by jury in the West
Side Court in Denver.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel B. Buchanan
celebrated their 50th wedding ami
versary at their home in Denver.
The Northern deanery of the Epis-
copal churches of Colorado held two
day meeting at st. Peters church in
Denver.
Marcia Ann Gavitt, eight-year-old
stepdaughter of Mrs. Marie Turner
Cooke Gavitt, of Denver is heir to
$11,0OO,OOO
Search was made in Rocky Ford for
two Mexicans who escaped from the
city Jail. They dug a hole through
12-inch brick wall.
The Denver police have been asked
who disappeared seven years ago from
his home in Oxnard, Calf
Regular daily passenger service on
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad be-
tween Salida and Alamosa will be re-
sumed on Thanksgiving Day.
Adeline Zimmerman, the 6-year-old
daughter of G. P. Zimmerman Of La
fayette, was instantly killed near her
home when she fell under the wheels
of an automobile driven by r. L. Fink
of Boulder.
Two men convicted of murder in
the first degree, were sentenced in
the West Side Court in Denver-the
first, John Freeze, to life imprison-
ment; the second, Oscar Cook, to
death.
An army of pretty girls invaded
Denver streets Saturday flying the
colors of stricken Belgium and when
they laid down arms at o'clock in the
evening s2,951.73 had been added to
the Belgian flour fund.
1t is reported that E. H. McClenan-
han of Greeley will be appointed by
Governor-elect Carlson to the State
Public Utilities Commission, the most
sought for office at the disposal Of the
newly elected executive.
That Christmas this year may be
one of the most memorable in the
history of Denver, a movement to com.
bine all commercial and charitable or
sanizations of the city. was begun at
a meeting called by the Advertising
Club Of Denver.
Beet growers of northern Colorado
received $4,016,O00 for their crops.
The amounts are divided to the differ
ent towns in the district-Fort Collins,
$65O,O0O: Lovcland. $66O.OOO; Greeley,
$395,OOO; Windsor, $4,000; Eaton,
100000; Fort Morgan, $530,OOO, and
$909,00O at Longmont.
Voting at the primaries to be con-
Quoted by the Denver Bar Association
during which candidates will be Sc
lected from among the $50 lawyers in
Denver for recommendation to sue
ceed Judge James H. Teller of the
District Court. recently elected to the
Supreme Court bench, was com
menced Tuesday.
After he had been knocked down. he
says, beaten and then elected from the
Trades and Labor Benefit Association
in the Quincy building in Denver, W..
J. OLeary, 3S, bookbinder fired a
shot through the door, which struck
Joseph Leath, a member of the board
of directors of the organization, and
severed an artery in his left arm.
Turkeys, cranberries, sweet pota-
toes and all the other Thanksgiving
"trimmin's" were more plentiful and
cboopor thic year than ever hafora
and about everything needed on an ap-
petizing menu may come from Colo
RADIO. The Colorado farmers have
raised the best and biggest crops OF
turkeys this year in their history.
The $4,000 appropriation made by
the Legislature in 1909 to pay part OF
the cost of the West ColfaX viaduct in
Denver may be turned back into the
state general fund and cease to be
available for it's original purpose un
less the city meets certain require
ments before Nov. 80, according tc
State Auditor Kenehan and State
Treasurer Leddy.
With the arrest in Denver of LIE
vene Battle and Leon Loser, two mem
bers of the old Maybray gang, the
members of which collected more than
$1,OO0,OOO throughout the Wcst ten
years ago by means of fake foot races.
horse races and prize fights, an at.
tempt to swindle Robert R. Blair, a
wealthy retired Nebraska farmer, OF
539 South Grant street, out of $4,000
was nipped.