The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-01

Sept. 27-Oct. S.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Limon is to have a sewer system.
D. NJ. Fox has been appointed post
master at Swink.
Many homesteaders are locating on
dry farms in Moffat county.
Louis Schafer of Slverton took
Miss Erma Chill for his bride.
The Denver Y. NJ. C. A. has
started campaign to get 1000 new
members.
A bunch of lambs shipped from Fort
| Collins sold on the Chicago market at
S11.15 per cwt.
odd Fellows lodges all over the
state celebrated the ninety-sixth ami
versary of the order.
Burglars got away with jewelry and
valuables worth $500 at the home OF
Mrs. John C. Lunn, in Fort Collins.
Rudy Meyer, who killed Walter Nc
Dowell at Frederick and escaped from
a Greeley hospital, was captured near
Boulder.
Thomas NJ. Skerritt, the FIRST white
boy born in what is now Denver, died
of kidney trouble at ~ home in
Englewood.
Joseph Steppler, eighty-nine years
old, the man who first discovered cop
per deposits in Colorado, died at the
family home in Denver.
Mrs. Berta Wright, who shot her
husband when he returned to their
home in Denver, intoxicated, pleaded
not guilty and bail was fixed at Sl5,-
OO0..
Denver will have it's annual Nation
al Western Stock show during the
week of Jan. 1922 next. That was de-
cided at a meeting of the board of
directors.
Owners and managers of several
summer resorts near Denver embraced
in the Mountain Parks district met
and informed the Denver Scenic Trip
Association.
w. l.. Ryan, under death sentence
for killing Attorney Newton Crosse at
Fort Collins last August, was inter-
rupted in an attempt to escape from
the county jail.
The Meeker Masonic lodge cele-
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of
the establishment of the order in that
city-the first Masonic lodge in North
western Colorado.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
zion of the state did welfare work
among $4,000 boys and $4,000 young
men during 1914, according to re-
port just issued.
Jacob Schiff, New York banker,
brings a cheering message to the west
in declaration that the crest of a
great wave of prosperity is in sight for
the American people.
Fred Tannebaker, two and a half
years old, fell from a second-story
window of his parents home at Pu-
eblo and escaped without scratch
20. 1913. The charge against Lawson
Revenge, not robbery, led to the
murder of Frederick W. Matson, who
was shot to death in the lonely lum.
Der company shack near Fort Logan,
says District Attorney Samuel w.
Johnson.
Greed II. Brawner, a veteran of the
Civil war and a personal friend of
Abraham Lincoln, died at his home in
Denver of old age. Brawner was
eighty-three years old and was born
in Kentucky.
The protest against the submission
to the voters on May is of the petit
ton designed to give Denver control
| 1ipl1nr t,-;th
borders was filed with the clerk of
the city and the election commission.
Carl Welsh, seven years old, shot
his brother, Fred, a year younger. at
their home in Denver while he was
trying to brighten him into giving
back one of his pennies that the lit
tie fellow had taken a moment before
On May II the state of Colorado
will offer for sale at public auction
land in Montezuma valley aggregating
approximately 5000 acres, the sale
price having been fixed by the state
for each forty acre tract and ranging
in price from $3.50 an acre to SIS &C.
cording to quality and location.
Mike Eantomo, member of the
section gang at Cimarron, is at the
Montrose hospital with back
speckled with bird shot and Mela San
Gosto, member of the same section
gang, is occupying berth at the
county Jail charged with being re.
sponsible for the speckled condition of
his fellow countryman.
A lengthy legal battle extending to
the highest Appellate Court of New
York has rewarded Mrs Katherine
Wheeler, Denver widow, and her
four children with the establishment
of their right to share in the $780,
900 estate left by the late Mrs. Julia
Butterfield, widow of the late Gen.