The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-22
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COMING EVENTS.

June eli IL y. H. encdtlpment at La
June 1S-19.-strawberry Days, Glen
wood Springs.
Racing Association at Denver
Aug. 81 Sept. 2.-Grand Lodge, X. of p,
Aug. 2G-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagler
Sept. 27-Oct. S.-MeetinE international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
X S. Rhea of Golden has been APP
pointed water commissioner for dis
trict No. Z.
The Mid-Colorado Oil Company at
Aurora reports traces of oil and gas
at depth of 1000 feet.
The Denver Norwegian Association
gave reception and banquet in com
memoration of the Norwegian national
holiday.
Mrs. Mary Knox Colvin, eighty-four,
passed away at the home of her
daughter, Mrs. Charles l.. Parsons, at
Boulder.
The Delta High School track team
won the eighth annual track meet in
which eight high schools of the West
tern. slope participated.
Mrs. John E. Ramer, wife of Sec
operation for tumor in St. Josephs
hospital in Denver
Convalescing from a recent serious
illness, Mrs. Jane NJ Ligget of Den
yer celebrated her ninty-ninth birth
day at her home.
A verdict for 81 900 was awarded to
Mrs. Phoebe A. Cunningham in a $lO-
| in
against the city of Denver.
A $20,000,0OO consolidation of the
biggest producers in the Cripple Creek
district is in the air, according to re-
ports in Colorado Springs mining
circles.
Private interment at the Paramount
cemetery followed the funeral serv-
ices in Denver for Joseph c. Helm,
former chief justice of the State Su-
preme Court.
Angelo Marsh an Austrian laborer,
was given a verdict of $3.50 against
the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
in Denver for injuries sustained in
coke oven accident two years ago
Mrs. Lue Giles of Boulder was
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her niece, Miss l.. NJ Garbarino was
badly bruised when the horse Miss
Garbarino usually drives, became I'M
manageable and ran away.
In Browns park near Craig, the
ranchers are becoming interested in
sheep. Miss Villa Mcclure, school
ma'am of that section, has small
flock which yielded a 200 per cent
lamb crop and averaged better han
a underground clip this season
Five auto loads of Loveland people
left for Highland Lake to join in the
search for twenty one-months-old
Newell Faulkner, son of Harry F.
Faulkner of Highland Lake. The child
disappeared five minutes after com
ing in from play to ask his mother
for cookie and is believed to have
been kidnapped.
A snowstorm that assumed blizzard
like proportions shortly before noon
enshrouded Denver Tuesday and
threatened all former snow records
for the month of May with oblitera-
ton. The thermometer registered 32
degrees at noon, the record tempera-
ture for Man is since the first records
were taken in 1872.
William S. La Fair, one OF the most
prominent catlemen on the Western
slope, died at his Whitewater home,
near Grand Junction. Heart disease
was the cause. He was 81 years old,
and for the last two years had OPP
Grated the only hotel exclusively for
cowboys in the state. 1t was known
as the Cowboys home"
Rev. Father Hugh L. McMenamin,
pastor of the Immaculate Conception
cathedral of Denver, is one of six
priests in the United States whose
names will be rendered to Pope Bene-
dict for the appointment of bishop of
Salt Lake City to succeed the Right
Rev. Lawrence Scanlon, who died
week ago, according to word which
reached Denver
With a declaration that he was
about to pull something funny" Il.
T. Ergood, twenty-seven. commits
sion brokerage expert. calmly raised
a revolver to his breast in the Navarro
hotel office in Denver and. smiling,
sent a bullet crashing into his heart.
He fell to the floor dead. Four per-
sons, standing near, witnessed the
tragedy.
With four square inches OF his skull
cut away. Malcolm Pickett, seven
teen-year-old Warren academy student
who plunged sixty feet over cliff in
Bear Creek canon, is lying at Mercy
hospital in Denver near to death, but
surprise to physicians because of
the way he has chung to life. por.
ton of his skull was removed when it
became apparent that an operation
was necessary in order to give him a
chance for his life.