The Colorado statesman., 1915-02-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Denver.
The annual banquet and dinner
dance of the Kansas Club of Colorado
was held in Denver.
Farmers week in Lamar, opening
Feb. 16, promises to be attended by
many agriculturists.
Beet growers in the Fort Collins
on last years crop.
A general merchandise store in
Niwot was destroyed by fire, causing
loss of about $4,000.
The high state officials of Colorado
are to pay their compliments to the
officials of Wyoming Saturday, the
9th.
The hearing of evidence upon the
admission to probate of the will of
William Barth was continued until
Feb. % in Denver.
The Colorado branch of the Commit
tee of Mercy, a new organization
formed to do work among the needy,
was organized in Denver.
August Benot, fifty years old, a
rancher from Watkins, was found un-
conscious from gas in bathroom in a
rooming house in Denver.
Clarence NJ Hawkins of Colorado
Springs has been appointed an assist
ant by Attorney General Farrar and
he has entered upon his duties.
Indicating the expected business re-
vival due this year in Denver, permits
for erection of store buildings for
January totaled $4,000 in value.
A reduction in the price of coal
went into effect among the coal
dealers at Denver, notwithstanding
the fact that the ground hog saw his
shadow.
More than so per cent of the posi-
bic hours of sunshine were realized
in Denver last month, according to
the official report from the Denver
weather bureau.
Arguments in behalf of w. l.. Ryan
of Fort Collins, who is under sentence
of death for killing Attorney Newton
Crosse last Aug. IA, We're filed with the
State Supreme Court.
Much interest was taken at Colo
rado Springs by patrons of the school
in the dedication of the new addition
to the Helen Hunt building, which
provides one of the best equipped
small auditoriums of the city.
Eli NJ. Gross, superintendent of the
free employment bureaus of the state,
icc H,r fnt f,f
State Ramer, who has appointed Will
liam Scott Lee, formerly mayor of
Denver, to the position ef34
The death of Mrs. Frank LaLone.
sixth member to perish of family
of seven found dying at their home
near Hugo, adds the final tragic touch
to one of the darkest mysteries which
has baffled Colorado officials
Robert Jolly, husband of Pearl
Jolly, woman leader at Ludlow, was
arrested on an old indictment charg-
ing murder in strike disorders and is
sued by the grand jury held in Las
Animas county some months ago.
Colorado potatoes have been given
the post of honor in the governments
exhibit at the Panama Pacific exposi-
ton, in recognition of the fact that
Colorado holds the record for the larg-
est yield of potatoes of the finest
qualify.
1t is stated that 485 miners, who
have been out of work for five years,
were found by the House committee
appointed by Speaker Stewart to in
vestigate the condition of the former
strikers in the northern coal district.
OF these 229 are in Lafayette, 1856 in
Louisville, 20 in Superior and 40 in
Marshall.
Until the hearing of her divorce suit
in March, Mrs. Alta M. McCausland
was granted s25 a month alimony in
Judge Class court in Littleton Mrs.
McCausland is seeking a divorce from
Jacob w. McCausland and asks s4O,-
600 alimony in addition to $4,000 dam
ages against her husbands mother.
Mrs. Elizabeth McCausland
The President nominated the follow.
ing postmasters for Colorado: Sarah
]. O'Counell, Georgetown; Robert E..
NorVell, Hayden, and Muriel l.. Hunt,
Maybell, Moffat county. Other Colo
rado postoffice appointments: Lewis
w. Carle, Ford; viii II. Thomas,
Manassa; Joseph C. Zimmerman, Pey-
ton; George a. Grisso, Ramah.
Lucille Lewis, nineteen years old,
daughter of Mrs. y. S. Lewis, is lost.
She disappeared from the Oakes home
in Denver, on New Year night between
darkness and daylight, and since that
time no word or trace of her has been
found by parents, friends, hospital of
ficials or police. In some mysterious
manner she has been spirited away
and her name joins those of Dorothy
Arnold and the Nelm sisters on the
ever-growing list of the missing.
Guarded by his dog which rafusad