The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Grocers' and Butchers Association
at Pueblo
Jan. 19.Dsixth Annual Convention of
Colo. Good Roads Assn at Denver.
at Denver.
March 2O-ApriI &C colorado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
industrial Exposition at Denver.
The Y. NJ. c. A. at Grand Junction
has SAC members.
A compromise of the Kansas Colo
rado water suit is about to be COM
pleted
Peter Troscly, 33, switchman at the
Arkansas Valley smelter at Leadville,
was Killed.
Denver will make levy of 1875
mills, to raice s3,1G2, ,196, to run the
city the coming year.
The Aero Club of Colorado is the
name of new organization composed
of Denver business men.
Committees are selling tickets for
the Western Stock Show in Denver in
January in an effort to raise $4,000.
The late Edward W. Williams,
Denver mining and real estate man,
left an estate valued at approximately
100000.
Mrs. w. ]. Cunningham of Pueblo
was cornered by bobcat while alone
in her home, but secured a gun and
killed it.
George McWilliams Large, pio-
neer, was buried at Longmont. He
was 81 years old and died at his home
near Berthoud.
Stephen A. Day, one of Gen. Sher.
idan's aides during the Civil War and
enc of Horace Cceeley's Union colon
lists, who assisted in laying out the
town of Greeley. died at his home in
Denver
Denver's mountain park highway in
Bear Creek canon was formally open
ed Sunday in the course of an excur-
sion of autoists which covered the cir
Gle route between Golden and Morri-
son.
According to the federal income tax
report for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1915, Colorado's share of the cor
poration income tax was 1888, 3,683.2S
and of the individual Income tax
| $226,735.74.
Fearing she was about to go insane,
Mrs. Susan Kaiser, 81, wife of Abra.
ham Kaiser, a Denver road laborer,
shot herself through the head at her
home. She died later at the Denver
county hospital.
Two hundred thousand pennies a
day-round bright, coppergold LIN
coin pennies, stamped with tiny
I'D" under the 1915" date are pouring
out from the Denver mint to feed the
country's demand.
Although there is great decrease
in the Christmas gift shipments
through the Denver customs house
| from most of the other warning ma
tions, England is sending as many gift
boxes as in normal times.
A neatly dressed, unmasked robber
| held UP the cashier in Denver store,
while many persons were busy shop,
ping, getting away with s51, but the
bandit overlooked nearly $500 in his
haste to get away in his auto.
]. P. Casey, 80 years old, well-to.
county, is in the Denver county hos.
pital in serious condition as the re.
suit OF an assault believed to have
been committed by 5lackmailers.
President Wilson's message in Re
half of adequate national defense
should make certain the establish
ment of munitions plant in Denver
nd frat t,,ip 60 Off
Fort Logan, in the opinion of the Colo
RADIO business men who have launche /
these movements.
Official announcement was made re-
Gently at Idaho Springs that the Big
Five tunnel, one of the greatest min
ing undertakings ever attempted in
Clear Creek county, will be at once
advanced an additional 1000 feet,
which will make its total length more
than 1900 feet
DR.. w. A. Jolley of Boulder, mem
Der of the Red Cross unit which has
been working Ill Serbia, arrived in
New York on the liner Nieuw Amster-
lam. The remaining members of the
Serbian unit, including Mrs. Harriet
Biddle and Miss Sophia Weber, are on
.heir way home on other ships.
Representative of the brewery
workers unions appeared before the
State Industrial Commission to pro
test against a notice recently sent to
the commission by the zang, Capitol
and Neff Brothers Brewing Companies
that on Dec. 81 they would terminate
- a.
John l.. Roberts of Greenville, Tex.
who was wanted by the federal au
thorities to answer an indictment
charging him with the use of the
mails to defraud in connection with
the American Canadian Securities
Loan Company, was arrested in Fort
Wayne, Ind, by Roy e. Nelson. post.
office inspector. He will be returned