The Colorado statesman., 1915-04-17

Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Cleanup and paint-up" week in
Denver begins May 10.
Colorado pioneer printers had a
dinner and social in Denver.
The old creamery building at
Rocky Ford was destroyed by fire.
About 1,4OO wagon loads of trash
We're hauled away in Grand juno
tlons cleanup campaign
Cyrus A. Scott, forty-two, was killed
When his motorcycle crashed into
taNicab at Colorado Springs.
A sufficient acreage has been con.
tratted for beets to run the factories
at Las Animas and Rocky Ford.
Longmont farmers are planting
beets. About 10000 acres have been
contracted by the Longmont factory.
Thomas Kyner, ST., seventy, pub
Usher of the Cripple Creek Times,
died of Brights disease in Kansas
City.
Tse-Ne-Gat, the Ute Indian. await
ing trial on murder charge in the
Federal Court, is seriously ill in the
Denver county Jail
Mrs. Marie Cornell Squire, seventy
eight, niece of Ezra Cornell, founder
OF Cornell University at Ithaca, n. Y,
died at her home in Denver.
Mrs. Sarah E. Carstarphen, who
died at her home in Denver, was a
classmate and playmate of Mark
Twain, and was herself famed Tor her
wit.
J. Jensen, thirty-five, and Harry
Willis, forty-one, were seriously in
jured when thrown from the bumpers
on a Rock Island freight train near
Genoa.
Steps are being taken to have Presi-
dent Wilson visit Denver this fall dur
ing the sessions of the International
Dry Farming Congress and to deliver
an address at the gathering.
Plans for giving wide publicity to
scenic attractions of northern Colo
RADIO and for advancing and cementing
its interests as a tourist center, will
be outlined at a meeting in Boulder.
Michael Carroll, Denvers oldest
resident, aged ninety-eight years seven
months and three days, died at the
home of John F. Advert. Bronchitis
caused his death after an illness of
three days.
B. r. WilEerson, travelling man, who
attacked Miss Lille Holbrook, former
Denver university student, on train
en- route from Pueblo to Denver sew
eral weeks ago, was fined S1OO and
costs in Walsenburg.
Louis M. Reeves, expert bank ac-
countant for the Department OF JUS
tice, arrived in Pueblo and began an
investigation to learn if there was
any criminal liability in the affairs
of the defunct Mercantile National
bank.
George Thomas, colored, the trusty
who escaped" from the penitentiary
at Canon City, didn't escape at all
He was found hiding under an unused
stairway in deserted basement after
guards had searched the entire insti-
tuition.
Mrs. Manda Sheldon, eighty-five, a
prominent worker in the Methodist
churches of Denver and widow of one
of the first itinerant ministers of the
Methodist church in Illinois, died at
the home of her son. Watt G. Sheldon.
in Denver.
Cornelia BaXter-Tevis-M Mckee has
acquired a new name. She is now
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According to cable from Paris, the
former Denver beauty was married to
Evelyn Tomley, an Englishman, who
represents Lloyds in Paris.
The largest shipment of thorough
bredS that has ever pulled out of Ell
Paso left there for Overland park to
participate in the race meet TO be
held under the auspices of the Colo
RADIO Agricultural Fair and Racing AS
sociation in Denver.
Cases against twelve men which
grew out of the strike disorders in the
Trinidad district We're nolled in the
District Court by John j. Hendrick,
district attorney. The charges in
cluded picketing, intimidation, assault
to murder, assault with intent to kill
and murder.
Mrs. Mabel Bell Porter formerly
known as the Evelyn Thaw of Den
ver," who was the central figure in a
trial in the West Side Court in jan
uary, 1909, when her first husband,
Burdette Bell, was convicted of killing
C. C. Dury, an actor, whom he charged
with stealing his wife's love, again
is in the spotlight. A few days ago
she obtained divorce in the County
Court from Charles Porter, whom she
married shortly after she obtained a
divorce from her convict husband.
improvements amounting to many
Of dnllnr will IL, nal a.,