The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper Union News Service.

at Denver.
Jan. 3-1O-Sixteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Assocla-
tion at Denver.
Jan. 17-19.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers' and Butchers Association
Jan. 16-22.-western Live Stock Show
at Denver.
March 2O-ApriI &C olorado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Western Slope beet growers will
get $3.50 per ton in 1916.
Governor Carlson's economy plan
is now to be put into effect.
Harry C. Davis was elected presi-
dent of the Denver Bar Association.
The railroads have rescinded their
recent order and will make the usual
holiday rates.
The Marquis and Marchioness of
Aberdeen, lately viceroy and vicereine
of Ireland, will be in Denver Dec. II.
The Supreme Court denied a re-
hearing in the Denver Juvenile Court
Jurisdiction case, and Lindsey loses
adult trials.
Oscar Cooks appeal for a rehearing
was denied by the Supreme Court,
and he is to be executed during the
week of Feb. 2.
1t is stated that the state will re-
fund s6,SG0 upon licenses for sale of
liquor when the dry" law becomes
effective Jan. 1.
A total appropriation of S5,S40,069
for city, county, school and state pur-
poses in 1916 was formally submitted
to the Denver council.
Recall petitions against Judge
Burke and Attorney Won Brandt of
the Sterling district were quashed by
Secretary of State Ramer.
The Bear Canon highway will be
dedicated by delegations from the
Denver Motor Club, the commercial
organizations and civic societies.
The body of Charles Anderson, "a
years old, prospector of the early
days, was found at the bottom Of a
200-foot precipice three miles from
Ouray.
The death of Capt. William Hamil'
ton Green, who helped lay out Pueblo
and Canon City, makes William H..
Clark of Denver, Colorado's Oldest pio-
neer resident.
Under the auspices of the Federation
of Agricultural Clubs of Morgan coun-
ty, series of farmers institutes will
be held on the circuit plan during the
week of Jan. 1915.
According to the November report
of the department of public health,
Colorado Springs had an exceptionally
low death rate for the month The re-
port gives percentage of "a.
Herbert Allen, the 1S-year-old boy
who shot his sister, Estelle, mistaking
her for a burglar at their home in
Denver, was completely exonerated by
the girl of all blame in the matter.
A search for Charles II. Maloney, a
prospector, is being conducted
throughout the West by his Denver
brother, Tufford, 310G South Sherman
street, to inform the missing man
that he is one of the heirs to the
estate of his father, Tufford Maloney
of Sioux City.
On hearing that the Colorado Su.
preme Court had sustained the prohi
bition law, making the state dry
after Dec. 81, Governor Carlson said:
Il am highly pleased to know that the
will of the people has been sustained
by a unanimous decision of the Su
preme Court"
Pneumonia, induced probably by ex-
posure while riding to Denver in the
automobile of j. f. Bennett, under
sheriff of Arapahoe county, and not
the beating administered by George
Reichert, well-to-do Fort Collins cat
tleman, caused the death of Miss
Louise Mansfield, according to testi-
mony before a coroner's jury in Den
yer.
If Colorado's plum pudding and
mince pie for New Year dinner are to
be favored with brandy, the brandy
will have to be purchased the uay be-
fore-the close of the open season on
intoxicating liquors in this state. 1t
will do no good to plan a substitution
of branded peach juice for the ordi-
nary or garden variety of brandy, for
the distilled juice of the peach in 1916
will be considered in the eyes of the
dry" law as just plain booze.
The marital status of Mrs. Caroline
Palmer Travis Davis, who is ~ years
old, was finally fixed by Judge Perry
of the District Court in Denver by
the granting of decree annuling the
marriage of Mrs. Davis to Henry T.
Travis, which took place at Ironton
Wis, in 1909. Mrs. Davis had thought
that Travis was dead for nearly fifty
years, had remarked again, been di.
vorced, and then suddenly discovered
that Travis was still living.
1t has cost between s1.000,000 and
s1,500,000 to operate the receivershiI
of the Denver Reservoir Irrigation
| Company and it's allied concerns since