The Colorado statesman., 1914-12-19
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
gestern Newspaper Union News servlee.

Is out of debt, with small surplus
in the treasury.
Mrs. Martha ]. Cowan, who celebrat-
ed her eightieth birthday last August,
died at the home of her son, II. w.
Cowan in Denver
Mrs. Anne Valiant Burnett Johnson,
wife of Charles A. Johnson of Denver,
who died Dec. 2, left an estate valued
at approximately $4,000.
The first two white children born in
Denver attended the twenty third an
nual banquet and ball given by the
Pioneer Ladies' Aid Society in Denver.
The smallest Judgment remembered
in Pueblo county has been granted in
the suit of C. w. Shaver against Lee
Coats, in which Shaver was allowed 40
cents
Governor-elect Carlson will make
his home in Denver at Ills Downing
street, formerly the residence of Judge
Lewis of the United States District
Court.
A sneak thief stole s420 from John
Covonikes and $13 from his roommate,
George Bascos, while they were asleep
in their room at 1922 Larimer street
in Denver.
Prominent Jews of Colorado
Springs rendered a reception to
Madame Fels, widow of Joseph Fels,
Israel synagogue.
A readjustment of salaries paid Den
yer city and county employees is to fol-
Low an investigation into payrolls be-
gun by the five commissioners and
the city auditor.
Nicholas Metropolis, 23 a Greek, is
being held in the Pueblo county Jail
as suspect in the killing of the
mother of a Greek priest in Salt Lake
City two weeks ago.
]. ]. Cogan, formerly messenger
boy for the Cripple Creek Short Line
railroad, has been appointed general
| superintendent, to succeed Jesse H.
Waters, late president.
George Quinn, slayer of William r.
Herbertson, was sentenced to death
| by Judge Perry of the West Side
Court in Denver after his petition for
a new trial had been denied.
The body of John Nordstrom, an
oiler of the No. boat of the Tonopah
| Placer Company, who was drowned in
the dredge pond, was buried at Breck-
enridge in Valley Brook cemetery.
The condition of William Barth, the
Denver multimillionaire over whose
fortune a spectacular contest has
been waged for months, was serious
enough to cause apprehension among
his friends.
A carload of the best flour was
shipped from the La Junta Mill and
Elevator and sent to Denver to be
forwarded to the suffering Belgians.
This flour was the joint donation from
the citizens of La Junta and Rocky
Ford.
The fifth annual convention of the
Colorado Good Roads Association will
be held in Denver Jan. 90 and 81, fol
| lowing Immediately the meeting OF the
| State Association of County Commits
sioners, which will be in session Ian
| Is and 10.
The committee in charge of the
| plans fer holding an Indian pageant
next year says that it has $4,000 at
| its disposal and that a syndicate is
ready to underwrite $4,000 more, pro
vided Denver citizens subscribe an ad-
ditional $4,000.
The first week of the Denver Fed
Grated Charities campaign closed with
$21 900 added to the treasury. Head
quarters viii be maintained until the
| 100000 needed to run the twenty-one
institutions, for which the federation
is sponsor, has been raised.
Mai. Gen. Frederick Funston visited
in Denver with friends with whom he
went to college at the University of
Kansas. Funston was on his way to
the Presidio at San Francisco where
he is fastening in order to see baby
he has never yet held in his arms.
Bobbie Thirlaway, the eight-year-oId
boy, who broke into the Louisville
postoffice and stole about s2s, may
have to go to the industrial school.
Nothing can be done with him by the
juvenile authorities of the county, for,
under the state law, child under ten
years of age cannot commit crime or
misdemeanor
To avoid that provision of the di-
vorce decree which he secured a few
days ago, forbidding him to marry
again within n year, Harold H. Shaw,
a Boulder teamster, went to Cheyenne
with Miss Hazel Briscoe, the l7-year-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd
Briscoe, and was married. The mother
of the young bride gave her consent
to the ceremony ard the couple re-
turned to Boulder to make their home.
Mrs. William Walter, twenty, a Pu-
eblo bride of one year, killed her three
months-old son and then tried to COM