The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-07-17

aug. 26-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagle-.
Sept. 27.Oct. s.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Oct. 2-9.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Denver.
An automobile show will be a fea-
ture of the State Fair at Pueblo.
A large number of horses have been
at Pueblo.
Moses Hoover has been named wa
ter commissioner to succeed James
M. Plat in the Boulder district.
The State Public Utilities Commits
sion has issued an order that railroads
must provide every passenger with
seat
Half a million dollars is to be dis
| tributed among the depositors of the
defunct Mercantile Bank at Pueblo as
the first dividend.
A protest was filed with Secretary
of State Ramer against his accepting
the referendum petition of the medi-
cal bill passed by the last General AS
sembly.
mo, could not kill my friend de-
clared Tse-Ne-Gat, the Ute Indian,
when asked if he slew Juan Chaeon,
at his trial in the Federal Court in
| Denver.
Milady's wrist watch, branded as
germ-conductor, is under the ban at
st. Luke's Hospital in Denver where
the edict went forth against its fu-
ture appearance.
The condition of Kenneth Rubidge,
who fired bullet into his head be-
cause he was disappointed in a love
affair, was said to be improving at
st. Anthony's Hospital in Denver
According to word from Glenwood
Springs, Frank La NVoie of Grand
Junction, committed suicide by leap
ing from the railing of the viaduct
bridge over the Grand River at Glen
wood.
The Denver Trades and Labor AS
sembly voted to send three delegates
to the convention of the State Fedora
ton of Labor, if it is held in Denver,
and two delegates, if it is held in
Salida
While other counties were rushed
with suits as the old divorce law was
expiring and the six months statute
going into effect, only one case was
Springs.
That the cost of compensation in
curance to the operators will add at
least rs cents per ton to the cost of
coal to the consumer next winter is
the prediction made by Colorado
Springs coal producers.
Within twenty-four hours after the
burial of his mother, Mrs. Caroline
Bremen, an old resident of Denver
Charles W. Bremen died at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Joseph Nozek, 1913
Galapago street, in Denver.
Blaz Ortega, Mexican laborer, ac-
cused of Staying his employer, Don
Jose Romero, on the latter's ranch
north of Longmont, during a quarrel
over money, gave himself up to the
authorities and denied that he fired
the shots.
Anticipating the biggest business
they ever have done, the alfalfa mills
in Pueblo County have in several in.
stances purchased new machinery to
make possible greater output of al
falfa meal. The season at most of
the mills will open about Aug. l.
Startled by the sound of an explo-
sion in her home at Salida, Mrs. H.
p. Johnson, wife of a mining man of
st. Elmo, rushed into an adjoining
room and discovered that her 5-year-
old daughter Elizabeth had blown off
her left hand with a percussion cap.
Crushed between the end of the
combination coach and the boiler of
the engine, and scalded by gallons of
escaping steam and boiling water,
Earl Keith, fireman on the Denver.
Boulder & Western, met terrible
death in a wreck on the Switzerland
Trail at the Black Swan curve just
below Salina.
Five million dollars is needed to es-
tablish a pension for the aged mini
tiers of the Methodist Episcopal
church in this country, according to
the Rev. E. c. Clemans, field repre-
sentative of the board of conference,
who was in Denver en- route to the
Church Pension Congress in San
Francisco July 21-22.
Misses Marjorie Perry and Char
lotte Perry of Denver. Portia Mans
field Sweet of Chicago, and Miss
Clara Savage of New York, left Den
yer for the dancing colony which they
have organized at Lake Eldora. The
party will look over the camp and pre-.
pare for the coming of the dancers.
July II, the official opening for the
| camp.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Wilson of Mar.
lin, Tex, and their mascot. shep-
nerd dog belonging to the Marlin po-