The Colorado statesman., 1914-09-26

at Denver.
l9lo-L.ast Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver.
Mesa county won 1O2 prizes at the
Pueblo state fair.
Health Commissioner Edward W.
Frost of Colorado Springs, died in Ex-
celsior Springs, Mo.
Henry b. Walker, eighty-one, Col
orado pioneer. died at his residence in
Denver from heart disease
Subscriptions to the Red Cross fund
in Colorado Springs doubled in two
days. The amount approXimates ST.
200.
Construction work has been started
on the state highway which will con-
meet the San Juan basin with the San
Luis valley.
James +. Mccartney, 76, who had
lived in Ell Paso county 81 years, died
at his home at Pike View, following
an extended illness.
An examination for assistant forest
ranger will be held at Delta Oct. 10
and 20. Assistant forest rangers re-
ceive a salary OF 5000 to $1,000.
George Newton Rohwer, instructor
in chemistry at the University of Colo
rado, died suddenly at the home of
his mother. Mrs. Lucy b. Rohwer, in
Boulder.
Richard, the three-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Eggleston, was
burned to death in a barn on the E.
V. Blood ranch, near Sedalia, which
the Egglestons have leased.
The branch employment bureau
placed in Grand Junction by Labor
Commissioner Edwin V. Brake has
provided 800 men with jobs of various
kinds since its opening a month ago.
Mrs. Jennie Roberts Wittle, sixty.
one, of Denver, died at ST. Joseph's
hospital from the effects of an opera
tion. She was the wife of William
Wittle, deputy examiner for the state
auditor.
Reports show the postal savings
bank in Denver among the most pros
porous in the United States OF $4S,-
100000 in the 1858 postal savings
banks throughout the country, Aug. 81,
Denver deposits amounted to $430,165.
Lawyers, laborers, clerks, mechan-
lea who are enjoying the benefits of
peace, are asked by the American
Red Cross Society to aid the victims
of the fighting in the rain-soaked
trenches OF Europe.
Paul w. Heinrich, miner, through
his mother, Pauline S. Heinrich, filed
suit in the District Court of Denver
against Mcdonald & Hayes demanding
damages of $1,000 for injuries he re-
ceived last month while moving with
the assistance of horse and wagon
rented from the defendants.
With every prospect for the most
prosperous year in it's history the
Great Western Sugar Company began
harvesting and delivering the beet
crop to its factories The yield is
good, the quality is better than last
year, and the price to the WHOLESALER
is s2.70 greater than at this time last
year. =
Representatives of the farmers un-
ions of Larimer county met at Love-
land and elected board of directors
for the new cooperative milk con-
densery which will be located in that
city. Nearly every union in the coun-
ty was represented, and several rep
resentatives from Weld and Boulder
counties We're also present.
S. p, Morris, director of the mour-
tain division of the American Red
Cross Society Denver, received by
wire copy of a cable which reached
the washington headquarters of the
society from the American ambassa-
dor at Berlin, appealing to every Ger
mar-American to aid in the work of
maintaining an American Red Cross
hospital for the care of the German
sick and wounded.
The married life of Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Bradley, which has furnished
several sensations at Fort Collins, as
sumed a new angle when the couple
disappeared. Bradley and Edith
Lillian Samuels. sixteen, eloped and
were married some time ago. Recent
ly the girEwife returned and had her
husband charged with abduction. Later
they could not be found and are sup
posed to have re-eloped.
The census department has issued
? a bulletin dealing with the ownership
of homes by counties. 1t reports for
Delta county 3,25S homes. OF this
number 1879 are farm homes and l.
SO are in towns. OF the farm homes,
705. or less than half are free from
incumbrance; 6S4 are mortgaged and
2S1 are occupied by tenants. Only
265 of the urban homes are mort
gagged; AIS are free of incumbiance,
and $50 are rented.
]. Knox Burton, city commissioner.
took the people of Pueblo, who com
plain against the morals of the city
and do not assist in making them bet