The state herald., 1914-01-30
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L O r A D o
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


p: O. Elks at Denver.
sept. 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
lsl5,-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Karl Johansson committed suicide
1t Pueblo.
John Wolfer, fifty-four. pioneer
ranchman, died at the University hos
pital in Boulder from injuries received
last summer on his ranch near Louis
Vile.
Five thousand employees of the Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron Company's steel
plant at Pueblo are to be vaccinated
because of the discovery of one case
Of smallpox in one of the mills.
Never before have there been as
many entries in the poultry exhibit at
the livestock show as this year. The
classes were well filled and many
showings OF high bred fowls made.
BY the accidental discharge of a
} rifle in the hands Of boy companion,
Claud Peak, fourteen-year-old son Of
Hugh Peak Of Loveland suffered in
1uries which may cost his life.
Governor Ammons was the guest of
honor at the Denver horse show Thurs
day. A record-breaking crowd filled
every seat in the stadium at the stock
yards. and packed the standing room.
A lead-silver mine in Mexico. the
product of which. for time, was util-
lied by General Carranza's army for
bullets, is part of the estate left by
George II. Nelson of Kansas City and
Denver.
Miss cecil Desmond, twenty-five. a
stenographer was probably fatally In
jured when she fell from the second
floor to the basement in the elevator
shaft OF the Tabor Opera House block
In Denver.
Arrested in chihuahua City on or
ders from General Francisco villa,
Mrs. Jennie Wenner. charged with the
murder OF Philip l.. Roberts. Jr., in
December was placed in jail at FL
Paso. Tex.
Dan Williams was indicted for MUIR
der as result of the grand jury in
vestigation at Central City of the find
ing of the mummified bodies Of three
babies In the attic of house in Black
Hawk, Sept. 25.
Ruth Brison. the fifteen-year-old
high school girl who was abducted
from Denver by two men and wom-
an, and escaped from the trio at Love-
land, returned to Denver with her faith
er, ]. II. Brison.
Buyers from Illinois. Iowa, Missouri.
Kansas. Nebraska, South Dakota and
other central and Middle Western
states were the principal bidders at
the auction sale of feeder cattle at
the stock show in Denver
The verdict Of the coroners inquest
into the death OF Peter ]. Mcdonald.
slain in n roominr house In Denver
held that Mcdonald came to his death
from stab wounds inflicted by George
W, Beetehel with felonious intent.
]. A. Babarick. thirty. OF Denver.
Colorado & Southern brakeman. was
probably fatally injured at Gorham
when he was crushed in attempting to
couple an engine and freight caboose.
His left leg was broken and he SUI.
fcrcd internal injuries.
The first prize winner among single
Show. shorthorn steer from the Colo
rado Agricultural College. weighed ! :,
0G0 pounds. and sold for $3.50 per
hundred. or s2.25 per hundred better
than the champion carloads.
Thomas NJ. Howell. district deputy
OF the order OF Moose. returned 10
Denver from visit to the lodges OF
the order In southern Colorado. lie
states that the agricultural and metal
mining prospects are better than nj
any time within his memory.
President Wilson nominated the fol
lowing Colorado poatmns,ers: Charles
=. McMallen. Brush. Hiram W Smith
Glenwood Springs Robert c. Walker
Grand Junction: Marion II. Mccauley
La Juntn: J. u. Traxler. Lamar,
Thomas J. Sanford. Mnnitou; Homer
r. Medford. Plnttcvillc: Oscar N
Marihurh. Idaho Springs.
The sudden death OF Curtis olin
two years old, called for nm invcstign
tion by the coroner at Colorado
Springs. and II developed that tn,
boys death. directly due TO blood
clio, on the brain. probably was caused
by an accident that happened several
weeks ago. when he fell into tub oI
hot water and was scalded on the hips
That n secret agent In the cmplo,
OF the government has been main
tnined IN the coal fields OF southern
Colorado 10 ferret out the true htrik,
conditions and the causes OF disorder
was reported when Joseph =. Myers
special agent OF the Department OF La
bor. passed through Denver on hi
way TO Washington with full rcpor'
OF tho conditions.
George u. Mnxill. convicted OF hny
Ing panaad n forged check for 1914