The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-12
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c o L o r DO
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| WOOD Springs
June l9-July 2-Colorado Fair and
Racing Association at Denver
aug ~ Sept 2.-Grand Lodge. X. of P.
at Colorado Springs
| Aug. 26-2S.-Fall Festival at F'lagle-
sept. 27-Oct. S.-MeetinG International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
A foot of snow on June sets new
record at Breckenridge
Greeley is to have an old-fashioned
Fourth of July celebration.
The Farmers Union will build a
grain elevator at Longmont
VIM. e. Mahood, prominent ort
Collins stockman, died at Diller, Neb
Frost in various parts of the state
sunday night broke all previous rec
ords.
Auditors have been employed to
check the books OF, the officers of
Arapahoe county.
A fight is being made in Denver to
save Harry Edgar Hillen, the boy
bandit, from the gallows.
b. Emden, loyal Texas of Houston.
presented Governor Carlson by mail
with a tiny chain carved out of Texas
watermelon seeds.
Grand Junction postoffice will be
raised to first-class rank on July 1, as
result of stamp sales exceeding
$4,000 the past year
Out of total enrolment of ninety
eight in the Platteville public schools
there was an average attendance the
past year of ninety-two.
A dividend of $3.50, 900, amounting to
10 per cent of the deposits of the
Mercantile National bank of Pueblo,
will be paid depositors.
Miss Margaret Reed of Boulder and
Miss Clara Ruth Mozzor. of Denver
have graduated from the Univerity
OF Colorado law school
The number of saloon licenses in
erect in Denver was 405 on May 81
this year, as compared with 40 on
Oct. 81 of last year, a decrease of 65
At the graduating exercises of the
Massachusetts Institute of Techn-
| ology held in Boston, three Denver
boys were among those who received
honors.
Chalmers Hadley of Denver was
nominated for second vice president
of the American Liberty Association
at the annual convention held in San
Francisco.
DR.. William II. Sharpley, newly
elected commissioner of social vel
fare, was elected mayor of Denver at
the first council meeting under the
new administration.
Mrs. Alice Harrison of Denver has
passed the century mark in years and
while she is of an optimistic turn of
mind, she told friends that she lived
Just twenty years too long.
c. w. Scott, convicted of white
slavery, was sentenced to serve from
three years to five years in the peni-
Tertiary by Judge John A. Perry in
the West Side Court in Denver.
Lauro Garcia. Mexican, under SEN
| tence to hang for the murder of c. E.
Brockman, town marshal of Fort Col
Inns, has been granted a new trial by
decision of the Supreme Court
The Colorado jurisdiction of the
Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
held convention in the House of Rep
resentatives hall at Denver and were
welcomed by Governor Carlson. About
200 delegates were present
A rumor of three attempts, suppos.
eddy on the part of Indians, to kill
| Capt. Stephen Olop, superintendent of
| construction of the new school on the
Southern Ute reservation at Navajo
Springs, has reached Cortez.
The Denver municipal excise depart
ment will issue saloon licenses until
Dece. 81, 1915, according to a decision
by Commissioner of Finance Clair J.
Pitcher. based upon an opinion rem
dered by City Attorney |. N Stevens
A reward of $500 has been offered
for information leading to the arrest
and conviction of Frank Pollock, who
deserted from the United States army
at Fort Logan ten days after the MUIR
der of Frederick c. Matson, the young
lumberman who was shot to death
April 6 in his little shack near the
| fort.
/ In a hand-to-hand battle with a
burglar whom she discovered in the
bedroom of her home, 3040 West For
ty-fourth avenue, Denver, Mrs. Joseph
| c. Wagner fought with her assailant
until the arrival of her husband from
an adjoining room, and prevented the
theft of $4,000 worth of jewels which
were within the robbers grasp.
Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Seeds and
Mrs. Cora Bethel were arrested in
Denver. The police say Seeds is one
of the men who obtained $4,000 from
j. w. klinkerman, a rancher of Las
Animas, several days ago in Excelsior
Springs, Mo The method used to ex-
tract the $4,000 from Mr.. Klinkerman's
pocketbook was bet on horse race
that never was run. Klinkerman has
Identified the trio.