The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-06-26

Aug. 31Sept. Grand Lodge. X. of p.
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 26-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagle-.
Sept 27-Oct S-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Grief over the loss of his wife
caused the death of Braman W. Mat.
tison, SO, of Denver.
Gasoline was reduced l cent a gal
lon in Denver by the Continental, and
all other companies met it.
The third annual state convention
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men and Engineers was held at
Pueblo.
Governor Carlson has become a
member of the Woodmen of the World,
the first fraternal organization he has
Joined.
Eight hundred autos carried 500 peo-
pie through the scenic parks in So,
mile circle parade out of Denver last
Sunday.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
Funeral Directors and Embalmers'
Association was held at Colorado
Springs.
Russell L. Chase, "a, son of Adju
tant General and Mrs. John Chase,
died in Denver. Death was due to
heart trouble.
One is feared to be dying and three
others were badly hurt after series
of Sunday automobile and motor cycle
accidents at Pueblo.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the Platte river beneath the
Twentieth street viaduct in Denver by
William d. O'Leary.
Mrs. William Johnson formerly
Miss Marion Yerkes of Denver, died
at her home in Alamosa three ho.rs
after the death of her baby daughter.
The case against Rev Father P.
Usase, who was charged with perform.
ing an Illegal operation was dismissed
on petition of the district attorney at
Sterling.
Petitions for referendum on Senate
bill No. S0-the law passed by the last
Legislature to make the prohibition
amendment to the constitution opera
tive-are being circulated in Denver.
IF / died tomorrow, | would not
tell the name of the man who stabbed
me-" said John A. Mize, 20, a paper
hanger and painter, at a Leadville hos
pital. A few minutes later Mize passed
away.
Less than two years of smiling life
and Baby Nadine Mann is dead
crushed out of existence by the big
automobile that drove heedlessly over
her little go-cart Saturday night in
Denver. ,1 M4.4
The first notification of special
car for the International Farm Con-
gress and International Soils-Products
exposition came to the offices of the
congress in Denver from Bozeman,
Mont, where is located the State Agri-
cultural College.
A shot fired at random, evidently
from a 44-caliber gun, struck Mrs
Charles Record of Denver, piercing
one of her legs, as she stepped from
an automobile to enter a store two
miles this side of Morrison on the
Fort Logan road.
In less than forty-eight hours three
persons were run down on Denver
streets by speeding automobiles and
in each instance the driver made no
effort to stop his machine or to dis
cover the nature of the injury suf-
fered by his victim.
Among the appointments made by
Governor Carlson was that of Robert
w. Curtis of Cedaredge, who will take
the vacancy made by resignation of
John e. Shelledy, county commissions
water commissioner of district No. 40.
John C. Monfort, ex-convict, ar
rested several times as forger, horse
thief and vagrant, filed suit for dam
ages of $4,000 in the District Court
at Denver against District Attorney
Rush and r. E. Young, special Of
ficer In the district attorneys office.
S. V. Barnes, civil war veteran, for
mer police judge and well-known Den
yer pioneer and lawyer, dropped dead
as he left his home at 1919 Pearl
street to take a walk down town. Mr..
Barnes was seventy-five years old He
was brother-in-law of Ex-Governor
J. A. Cooper, now deceased.
The governor practically abolished
the boiler inspectors department by
notifying Boiler Inspector George V.
Cosseboom and all his deputies that.
owing to a lack of available funds to
carry on the business of the depart
ment, the department would be sus-
pended from July to Oct. 1.
While seeking a place to battle. R.
M. House of Denver, stumbled upon
the corpse OF William H. Daniels, so,
in a clurhp of weeds on the north
bank of the Platte river near the
Thirty-first street bridge. Daniels had
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head. The revolver he used
still was clutched in his right hand