The Colorado statesman., 1914-01-17
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Pioneer Printers, Society at Denver.
July i8-i4.eGrand Lodge Session. B.
Sept. 7.-Coiorado State Fair at Pu-
19i5.MLast Grand Council of North
| American Indians at Denver.
Montrose voted to establish a COM
mission form of government by a ma
jority of 172.
| Warrants we're sworn out at Fort
Collins charging Denver brewers with
selling in dry territory.
The Colorado State Bookeepers AS
sociation will hold its annual conven-
ton in Denver, Jan. 20 to 81.
David l. Cramer, seventy, promi.
nent FARMER of Sedalia, died of pneu-
monia at the Colorado sanitarium in
Boulder.
Manitou lost it's title to part of the
scenic rocks comprising the Garden of
the Gods by a decision of the Colora-
do Supreme Court.
Two of Boulder's most prominent
citizens, Capt. Samuel West and Mrs.
Jennie Cattermole, died there each be-
ing seventy-six years old.
NJ. P. Capp, former sheriff of
Boulder county, has been named war
den of the state reformatory at Buena
Vista, to succeed A. T. Stewart.
Captain Dorm, in charge of the
militia in the Oak Creek district, took
possession of two of the saloons
that of William Doyle and Ray NJ.
Spears.
Claiming that he had been robbed of
a trunk containing antiques valued at
$4,000, Nils Grandald, a minister, ap-
pealed to the police of Colorado
Springs for assistance.
Julian Wilensky, forty-four, opera
singer in Europe and New York for
more than twenty-five years, died at
ST. Anthony's hospital in Denver, the
result of an operation.
Making ladder out of blankets and
bedding, three women inmates of the
Pueblo city Jail, one of them being
held Tor disposing of cocaine, opium
and other drugs. escaped.
The case of the United States
against D. c. Beaman for the recovery
of coal lands worth $1,000 per acre
near Walsenburg was dismissed by
United States District Judge Lewis in
| Denver.
The most unusual Christmas tree
ever seen in Pueblo, appreciated, al
though tritle tardy, was prepared by
the kindergarten pupils of the Mime
qua school, and the birds were the
beneficiaries.
E. E. Shumway, fifty-one years old,
died at his home in Denver after an
illness of two weeks. Shumway be-
came i'll shortly after taking charge
of rescue work following the Vulcan
mine disaster.
While assisting Mrs. Eulid lobe,
eighteen years old and her baby, to
escape from Hope Cottage, rescue
home for women in Pueblo, Harry
Harmon of Fort Collins was arrested
and held by the Pueblo police.
Clements Knaus, seventy, wealthy
Boulder county pioneer, died at his
home six miles southwest of Long
mont from cancer. Knaus came to
this section in 1861. He made for
tune in farming and business enter
prises.
Without a sign of emotion Harry E.
Hillen, convicted of killing Thomas
Chase in an attempted holdup, re-
ceived sentence at the hands of Judge
Butler in the West Side Court in
Denver. The court confirmed the
sentence of death imposed by the jury
and decreed that the young self-con-
fessed bandit shall hang during the
week of April 20.
Miss Wilma Meyer, the girl in the
case of J. R. Dew, whose letters we're
discovered in Dew's' pocket when he
was arrested by the Denver police
for attempting to impersonate Adol-
phus Busch. Ill, millionaire heir of
the ST Louis brewer, broke the si-
lence she has maintained at her home
in Portland, Ore, since Dew's arrest
and admitted their engagement.
Claim to the $1,OOO,OOO estate in the
process of probate in London, Eng
land, in which the living heirs of
Mary Ann Jones Tonkin are named as
beneficiaries will be filed by Mrs. A.
G. Spears of Central City Mrs. Spears
is the divorced wife of the husband of
Mary Ann Jones, both of whom are
dead and it is upon this relationship
that she seeks to recover part or all
of the estate.
Since the announcement of the plan
proposed by A. C. Carson. for round
ing up herd of the 10000 starving
elk in Jackson's Hole, Wyo., and plac-
ing them in Colorado foothills, the
governor, state game and fish COM
missioner, the Colorado Publicity
League, several hundred influential
citizens of Colorado and three of the
largest motion picture concerns in the
| world have ,hecome Interested