The Colorado statesman., 1915-10-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

| DATES FoR COMING EVENTS.
NOV. 29-Dec. 4-Electrical Prosperity
| week at Denver.
| Dec. 6-11-Annual Exhibition Pixies
| Peak Rabbit and Pet Stock AssUcia-
| tlon at Colorado Springs.
The state tax levy has been placed
at 21O mills.
A receiver has been asked for the
town of Oak Creek.
1t is stated that an oil strike has
been made near Alamosa.
A veteran Odd Fellows Association
Wos organized at Colorado Springs.
Over 200 odd Fellows and Re-
bekahs held their annual state con-
vention at Colorado Springs
William Harold Hurdle, 11-year-old
son of w. E. Hurdle of Fort Collins,
was drowned in the Eaton ditch.
Thirty-one students of the Cali
fornia Agricultural College were the
guests of the Denver Boy Scouts
Tony Perry, who murdered Steve
Kojuharoff at the Hecla mine, was
taken from Boulder to the Canon City
prison.
|
ing grounds for a party from the East,
roped a bear near Hot Sulphur
Springs.
Cripple Creek is now eighty miles
by automobile from Denver since the
completion of the new highway over
Nighthawk hill
The eighth regular meeting and
banquet of the Agora, or Southern
Colorado Schoolmasters' club, was
held at Canon City.
Mark Murphy, for thirty years an
employe of the Union Pacific railroad
was run over by coal car in front
of the depot at Sterling
John h. Lawson was one of the
speakers at the fiftieth anniversary
celebration of the Masons and Marble
| Settlers Union in Denver.
Adam Shellabarger, pioneer Colo
'adoan and retired rancher, died in
| Denver as the result of an operation
following an illness of two months.
The next national convention of the
American Road Builders Association
may be held in Colorado, according
to letter received by Robert E. Hig-
gins at Pueblo.
Jesse F. Welborn was reelected
president of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company and its eleven subsidiaries
at the annual meetings held in Den
YER
Mary F. Kiker the 19-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. B. f. KikeI
Of Boulder, died of pulmonary tuber.
culosis. She had been an invalid al
most since childhood
George Quinn, sentenced in Denver
to die on the gallows Jan 30 for the
murder of VIM. Herbertson, was TAX
en- to Canon City, where he will be
placed in the death cell.
When Congress reconvenes, Senator
John F. Shafroth said he would take
up the rehabilitation of Fort Logan
and attempt to have it restored to its
| former Importance as an army post
Charles Boettcher, millionaire sugar
and Portland cement man of Denver,
will be elected president of the Mof-
fat road in the near future, according
to rumor in Denver financial circles.
]. B. Cosgriff, vice president of the
Hamilton National bank, and brother
of T. A. Cosgriff, who died recently,
was elected president of the bank at
a meeting of the board of directors in
Denver.
Men distinguished in the railroad
and financial world including the son
of George j. Gould, were in Denver
to attend the annual meeting of the
stockholders and directors of the Den
YER & Rio Grande railroad.
Pouncing down upon pheasant
and starting to carry it away in his
talons, the largest golden eagle ever
seen at Fort Lupton was killed by T.
l.. Munson on his farm near town,
just as it raised from the ground.
Norman Veeder of Denver was the
first candidate to receive his scholar
ship in the 100000 ten-day campaign
conducted by Denver University in
order to obtain the 100000 endow-
ment fund offered to the university by
the general board of education
The will of the late Dennis Sullivan
which was filed for probate in the
County Court in Denver. made John
Clark Mitchell, president of the Den
yer National Bank, the principal bene
ficiary, and named Mr.. Mitchell and
the Denver National Bank as the first
executors of the will
Mrs. Lucy NJ. Poe. an aged Denver
woman, whose will was lodged with
the Probate Court, bequeathed to her
first husband, James S. Bitzer. the
wedding ring he gave her upon the
occasion of their wedding thirty years
ago, at the same time wishing him
lifelong happiness and health" To
her second husband Mrs. Poe left So
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