United labor bulletin., 1914-11-14


close of business Saturday. OF this sum
25,9S5.ZO was in city and special
funds, and $206,6S .65 in county funds.
By stipulation Saturday the city
agreed to pay Mrs. Grace L. Messler
$4,000 for the death of her husband, who
was run over by one of the fire chiefs
autos at Speer boulevard and Broadway
last spring. Mrs Messler's attorney. c.
A. Irwin, is to receive $500 of the So. 900.
State Auditor Roady Kenehan has is
sued warrant for $4,000 as the
states share of the cost Of the West
Colfax viaduct. Monday Treasurer Led
dy paid the money into the treasury Of
the city of Denver. This is the largest
warrant issued by Kenehan during his
term of office
District Attorney John A. Rush was
the first victim OF the recently enacted
ordinance against glaring auto head
lights, which became effective last Sat
urday. Shortly after dusk Police Chauf-
feur Bucholz and Humane Officer David
stopped Rush's touring car and served
him with notice to appear in Police
Court.
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week two Curtis street cabaret cafes
are already in trouble. The Mozart at
l647 Curtis has placed its business in
the hands of trustee for benefit of
creditors and the Louvre at 1880 Curtis
closed its doors when the Neef Brewing
Company refused to extend further
credit.
The Coal Consumers League, dissatis-
fled with the freight rates of 65, 60 and
55 cents on three grades of coal from
the northern fields to Denver, ordered
put into effect November 80 by the
state public utilities commission, has
filed u petition for rehearing within
ten days, according to its attorney, AL
bert L. Vogl.
Plans for a civic center shelter sta.
tion We're received this week by Com
missioner of Property Otto Thum. The
structure, to be erected at West Colfax
avenue and Broadway, will be s by 20
feet and will cost about $3.50. Thum
said he would undertake to induce the
Denver City Tramway Company to bear
half the expense.
Clarence Darrow, the famous Chicago
attorney and advocate of labor's rights.
will deliver a lecture in the Denver Au-
ditorium on the night OF Friday, Novem-
Der 27, under auspices of the Colorado
Single Tax Association The subject of
his lecture will be THE Single Tax"
and an admission fee of 25 cents will be
charged to defray expenses of the meet
ing.
Coors' brewery at Golden is to be dis |
mantled and the plant moved to Cali |
fornia in June Or next year, according
to well authenticated information from
San Francisco. Adolph Coors, Sr, is |
now in California, and although not on
business trip is inspecting prospective
sites for the brewery. 1t is believed the
new site of the brewery will be close to
Oakland.
To fill engagements for ten speeches
in the cause OF woman's suffrage in
New York state. Mrs. Mary c. c. Brad |
ford, state superintendent of public in
struction, has left for the East and will |
place herself at the disposal of the New
York Political Equality League. She
will later attend the forty-sixt ma !,
tional convention of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association |
in Nashville, Tenn.
total of IL ,638 persons have been |
arrested by the Denver police depart |
ment during the last ten months. OF |
this number II ,l95 were men and ,453 |
women and girls. Single men are
shown by the reports to have been in !
difficulties more frequently than mar
ried men, bachelors registering at head |
quarters numbering 1900 as against q
929 married men. The average, the po-
lice say, is approximately the same from
year TO year.
Free concerts by fhe Denver munich |
pal band, an organization of so union |
musicians conducted by Frederick Neill |
lnnes, will begin in the Auditorium to- i
morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. These
concerts will continue through the win |
ter months every Sunday afternoon. |
There will be 20 in all, and they include |
both vocal and Instrumental solos Of !
high order. This year the band will be |
stationed in the center of the big Audi |
torium and better sound effects are
expected.
1t will be a night off for the "hello |
girls" of the Mountain States Telephone |
Company when the members of the |
Telephone Benefit Association give II |
vaudeville and dance at the Woman's |
Club building this Saturday evening,
The entertainment will be under the sn
pervision OF the board OF directors OF
the association, composed of the Misses
Georgia Hewison, Anna Henry, Mar
guerite Sullivan, Marguerite Mills and |
Gertrude Livingston.
GERS are scattered throughout the conn
try.