The Colorado statesman., 1915-09-25

Denver's new posto,fice will be Off
;ially dedicated Nov. Is.
Indications of mineral have been
found near Genoa.
Mrs. Agnes Roberts, widow OF Pres
ION Roberts, died in Denver, aged So.
The Rocky Mountain Baptist lAsso-
ciation held q three-day session in
Denver
Mrs. VIM. Bevar of Fort Collins
vas kicked by wild horse and seri-
ously injured
Thirteen Denver boys, aged II to
%, were arrested on charge of rob
bing drug stores.
A get-together meeting of the Off
GERS of the P. NJ. C. A. in Colorado was
held at Manitou
H. Lovsee, 20, was critically hurt at
Fort Collins on his way from Love-
and for jury duty.
The Arvada tire-making plant has
oeen completed and has commenced
he manufacture of tires.
District Attorney Rush of Denver
has asked the grand jury to investi.
gate the Prof. Garvin "sacking" case.
William l. Swint of Denver was held
up by three masked highwaymen with
in block of his home ard robbed of
S1S5.
The State Land Board held spe.
cial sale of public land at the State
Capitol. More than 5000 acres were
sold.
John Wolf, one of the oldest OF
Mesa county pioneers, aged SO years
and month, died at his home near
Molina.
NiWots ghost mystery has been
solved. Scientists find marsh gas is
cause of lights that have scared the
villagers.
The state of Colorado, by the end OF
this month, will have paid off all in.
debtedness on the state capitol build.
ing and the state museum.
Mrs. Isabella Wagner of Denver,
who sued Fred Schumacher, demand.
ing $4,000 for alleged slander, con,
tented herself with 81 damages
The case of 12-year-old Neil Wright,
self-confessed slayer of his father,
John A. Wright, was continued until
Oct. IA by Judge Lindsey at Denver
The assessor of Weld county de
clares he will refuse to add the $7,S04,
600 to tax valuations in that county.
ordered by the State Tax Commission
until directed by court to do So
Three directors of the Denver Union
Labor Association, charged with
keeping gambling devices, pleaded
guilty and the association was fined
$50 and costs, amounting to STATE.
Farmers of Delta and Montrose
counties who are working land under
the Uncompahgre irrigation project
will receive assistance in the future
from the federal government and the
state.
Without a dissenting vote the city
commissioners of Denver refused tc
comply with the recommendation OF
the Colorado Tax Commission and
raise the 1915 assessment of certain
classes of property in Denver by s55,
40S, $3.50.
A coroner's jury absolved the Colo
rado & Southern Railway Company of
blame for the death of Mrs. Ella A.
Porter, an aged woman who died of
injuries suffered when she was run
down by one of the company's engines
in Denver
After twenty-three years in Denver
as the pastor of the Bor ard Con-
gregational church, the ~. Charles
H. Pettibone has resi- ed and will
leave Oct for Floriu for the sake
of his wifes health.
According to President Charles II.
Roper of the Omaha-Lincoln-De
Good Roads Association, over 1000
cars loaded with tourists from other
states pass over the road every day
during the tourist season.
A clue which it is said may lead to
the capture of the slayer of Isaac
Solomon, Denver pawnbroker, beaten
to death in his Larimer street pawn
shop a few weeks ago, was sent to
M. Solomon, son of the dead man, by
Gus Appelman, a prisoner in the
Brighton jail Appelman claims to
have seen a number of gypsies in the
store a few days before the murder
The new compensation law, the ar
rest of Horace N. Hawkins of Denver
and Fred M Clark of Trinidad, or
charges of subornation of perjury, the
industrial relations committee, the
militia and state consta bulary, anG
the case of John R. Lawson, were the
principal subjects discussed in the an
nual report of John McLennan, presi
dent of the Colorado State Federation
of Labor, read before its twentieth an
nual convention in Denver.
Divorced from Fred C. Robley at
Eugene, Ore, in 1913, married to an.
other man within short time, and
then divorced from him, Mrs. Mabel
Crandall Robley, is years old. arrived