The Colorado statesman., 1915-03-20

Two homes in Keenesburg were de-
stroyed by fire, together with a sum
OF money and some valuable jewelry.
The citizens of Denver during 1914
paid $7,lS2, ,606.2O, or 5000 per capita
Tor tramway, gas, electric and tele.
phone service.
The persons named by Judge Lind
sey OF Denver in his charges that
conspiracy to defame his character
exists made denial OF his accusations.
Joseph l.. Gray, deputy fish and
game commissioner has been advised
OF large mountain lion having been
trapped and killed in the Laramie
river.
Mayor Thompson of Aurora has be-
gun campaign to secure much
needed improvements on the Colfax
avenue road through that city to
Denver.
Judge H. McGarry of Colorado
Springs was formally chosen president
at meeting of the new directors of
the Ell Paso Consolidated Gold Mining
Company.
parade and patriotic exercises
were held in Denver or st. Patrick's
day, the days events closing with the
thirty-ninth annual dance given by
Hibernian clubs.
The Denver, Boulder & Western
railroad has announced an increase of
20 per cent in freight and passenger
rates on its line to Eldora and Ward.
Tourist rates will not be affected.
BY unanimous vote of the House of
Representatives, sixty members voting
and five absent, Representative w. w.
Howland was expelled from the House
March is, and his seat declared
vacant.
That the case of Robert ]. Mason,
charged with conspiracy in the mur-
der of Ruth Merriweather, be set for
March 20, was the request made by
Masons counsel, in the West Side
Court in Denver
Grace Wells Rose, 6, died of scarlet
fever at the University hospital in
Boulder while her mother, Mrs. Lillian
Rose, and her aunt, Mrs. Eunice Ba-
ker, were lying dangerously ill with
the same disease at their home in
Salina.
One year and one day in the fed
eral prison in Leavenworth, Kan, was
the sentsnce pronounced in Denver on
X. F. Lounsberry by Federal Judge
Robert e. Lewis. Lounsberry pleaded
guilty to charge of using the United
States mails to defraud.
The big Fourth Street viaduct span
ming the Arkansas river and the Den
yer & Rio Grande and the Santa Fe
railroad tracks at Canon City, which
has been under construction during
the past five months, is completed and
thrown open to travel.
Justifiable homicide was the verdict
rendered in Denver at the coroners
inquest into the killing of r. e. Sho.
walter of Loveland by Clayton Patti
son, in Curtis street rooming house,
where Pattison had found Showalter
and Mrs. Pattison together
One day after her release from the
Denver county Jail, where she was
sentenced by Federal Judge Robert e.
Lewis for raising United States postal
money orders, Claudine Stokes, 20,
alias Dora Carney, was arrested for
the same offense, according to Post
office Inspector F. T. Frawley.
Unless a compromise is reached
within the next few days contest
will ensue over the will of the late
James w. Hair, wealthy retired coal
operator, whose death six weeks ago
at the home of Mrs. Rose Deahl in
Denver revealed that he had led
dual life for more than twenty wears.
Railroads serving Colorado have
announced tourist rates for the com
ing season, effective June /, and good
until Oct. l. The same favorable rates
as have been in effect during the tour.
list season for many years will be in
effect this year, despite the general
tendency to raise passenger rates
throughout the country.
Commenting the members of the
House of Representatives for their
action in purging their membership,
the first time on record that ma
jority has expelled a member of its
own party, Governor Carlson delivered
in person message to the Twentieth
General Assembly and urged speedy
accomplishment of the pledges of the
Assembly and the administration.
John H. Ballenger, the man who
originated the city directory business
In Colorado and who published the
first directory of Denver more than
forty years ago, when only 6,OOO per.
sons could be found along the Platte
river to fill the pages of the book. died
at his residence in Denver after a pro |
longed illness. Ballenger was II
years old and came to Denver in 1872. |
Six thousand dollars was introduced
as evidence in the trial of three SOL |
diers charged with connection with a
$4,000 robbery of the Walsenburg |