The Colorado statesman., 1915-09-04
COLORADO
S T A T E N EW S


SePt; If-lS .-MidSummer Meeting OF
colorado State Editorial Association
at Gdenwood Springs.
sept. 27-Oct. s.-Ln International Dry
FARMING Congress, Denver.
Oct. Z-9.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct. 1S.-odd Fellows Annual state
convention at Colorado Springs.
olathe is to have a new NJ E
church.
James Jefferson Rhoades, aged 81
died at Loveland
Fort Collins has put bar on child
rem driving automobiles.
A federal grand jury has been called
for Oct. 4, to meet in Pueblo.
Governor Brumbaugh of Pennsyl
vania, while in Denver, came out
strong for woman suffrage.
Rocky Ford had 25,O0O red, plump
watermelons for Melon day on the
last day of the Arkansas Valley Fair.
The midsummer meeting of the
Colorado Editorial Association will be
held at Glenwood Springs, Sept. Ill
and IS.
William l.. Wilson, for many years
well-known mining man of Brecken
ridge, died while sitting in a chair al
Denver hotel
Recommendations will be made to
the State Board of Charities and Cor
rections that a new county jail be
built in Sterling.
John Friedman, 80 years old, lost
his right arm when his shirt caught in
cog and his arm was drawn into a
dough mixing machine in a Denver
bakery
Mrs. NJ. E. Springfield of Boulder
died after a long illness. She had
lived in Colorado for forty-five years
and leaves a husband, five daughters
and one son.
Arthur O'Connor, a switchman, was
killed in Denver when he was run
over by freight car OIL the Union
Pacific tracks under the Twentieth
street viaduct.
After an all-night search, the body
of Jay S. Myers, 2S years old, OF Den
ver who was drowned in Fairview
lake, was located by Coroner Woods
of Jefferson county
President Thomas B. Stearns of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce has
named Henry Van Kleeck, C. C. Ben
nett and j. d. Hitch as delegates to
the National Irrigation Congress to be
held in San Francisco.
An old resident of Colorado. Mrs.
Catherine Henderson Woolpert, 70
years old, died at st. Luke's hospital
in Denver after two weeks illness
Mrs Woolpert came to Colorado with
her husband in 1861.
Harry w. Risley, state printing
commissioner, filed with the State
Civil Service Commission his answer
to the amended specific charges made
by Governor Carlson as a basis for
Risley's removal from office
The output of the Cripple Creek dis
trict for August as reported by the
several treatment plants totals S4,-
500 tons, with a gross bullion value
of $1,242,264 The average value per
ton of all grades of ore treated was
SASS.
Demand for an inheritance tay
amounting to $1,2SS on the estate O
Harry l.. Hall of Colorado Springs
who died in January, 1909, has beer
made by Leslie e. Hubbard on Mrs
Minnie Barndollar, Halls stenog
rapher.
Edward F. Welles, former Denver
man, who, according to dispatches
from Vera Cruz to Washington, was
shot and killed with other passengers,
when bandits blew up train upon
which he was travelling in the interior
of Mexico, was a cousin by marriage
to President Wilson.
Following his withdrawal of a petit
tion asking for a new trial Charles
Bunnell of Wellington appeared before
Judge Slower in County Court at Love
land and was fined 500 and costs
amounting in all to 1920 for beating
his wife. He paid the fine and prom
ised to beat his wife no more.
Paul Barth of Englewood had three
brothers in the German army. He
wanted to join them, but could not
arrange his transportation back to the
fatherland. So worry led him to take
fourth brothers revolver. ride to
Paramount cemetery and fire three
shots, two of which entered his body
near the heart, death coming shortly
afterward.
Mrs. Annie Miller, a New York
woman, has sent a letter to the Den
yer police requesting information con-
corning Richard Won Weiman, alias
Miller, the bogus count, who COM
mitted suicide recently in Denver.
Mrs Miller thinks the Lotto ..ooun+"
may have been her husband. The lat
ter, she says, disappeared from New
York with $4,000 a short time ago.
The dismissal of the entire official
board of six members and orders for
the selection of a new one followed
the aItemntnd rnsinnn tinI, ..f IL. ID -.