The Elk Mountain pilot., 1915-01-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Because her husband, Eugene H..
Lee, desired no children in his home,
Mrs. Elizabeth II. Lee of Denver
brought suit for divorce.
The twenty-seventh annual conven-
tion of the Colorado Young Mems
Christian Association will be held in
Boulder February 5-7.
An estate estimated at 100000 was
left by the late Robert ii. Beggs, pio-
neer business man and philanthropist
of Denver, Pueblo and Salida.
The jubilee siege of the Salvation
Army, which represents fifty years of
Salvation Army work. was observed
in Denver at the Salvation Army hall.
Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Tobias, "a.
wife of John Tobias, farmer of
Wheatridge. is dead. Mrs. Tobias had
lived in Wheatridge for thirty years.
The birthday of Scotland's beloved
bard, Bobbie Burns. will be commem-
GRATED at banquet given in Denver
by Caledonian Society No. l of Colo
RADIO.
Hearing of the various proceedings
involving control of the Barth millions
will be resumed in Denver before
Judge Butler of the District Court on
Jan. 2S.
Governor Carlson raised the embargo
in Colorado on the shipment of arms
and ammunition, since the causes
which made such restrictions neces-
sary do not further exist.
The eugenics marriage bill intro
duced in the legislature by Represen-
tative F. L. Wallace of Pueblo, will
not have the united support of the
ministers and club women.
H. j. Kruse, n years old. father of
Representative J. J. Kruse of Elbert
county, and member of the First Gen
eral Assembly of Colorado, was a visi
tor and guest of the House.
Excessive cigarette smoking is as
signed by physicians as the reason
why Peter Vrkljan, forty-two. coal
miner, dropped dead of paralysis OF
the heart in his shack at Louisville.
The Colorado law regulating the
practice of optometry was indorsed
by Governor Carlson, who sent a per
sonal message to the state convention
of Optometrists, in session in Den
yer.
The appointment of the Rev. Father
NJ. f. Callahan of Durango as rector
of the Annunciation parish to succeed
Mgr. Brady, who resigned last Christ
mas day, was made known in Den
yer.
Mrs. William Joyner of Denver viii
be n member of President Wilson's of
ficial party when the nations chic
executive goes through the Panams
canal to the San Francisco expos
ton.
Jesse Whitman of Saint 10. Tex
who followed his wife, Nellie Whit
man, to Denver after she left home
was arrested by Denver detective
and held at the city jail pending
investigation.
All physicians, druggists, dentist
and veterinarians, who are require
to use opium in any form in thei.
businesses will be compelled to con
tribute 81 annually toward the go
ernments support. according to TIL
new congressional act which become
effective March l.
Despite the desertion of his wife
Nellie Whitman, and her refusal to re
turn to him, Jesse o. Whitman
Saint 10, Tex, has bequeathed all hi
property, amounting to about 100000
to her according to a will drawn b,
him in Denver. Whitman, who fol
lowed his wife to Denver, but failed t,
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Saint 10.
County commissioners of Colorado
will ask for $2,40O annual salary in
stead of the IS a day, limited, they
now receive for their services az
watchdogs of their counties. The leg
islatiye committee of the Commission
ers' Association, which closed its an
nual meeting in Denver prepared bill
which will be introduced in the Legis
lature requesting the change
The twelve-year fight for the life
Albert Patrick, three times sentenced
to the Sing Sing death chair for the al
legged murder of William Marsh Rice
in 1900 and finally pardoned by Cover
nor Dix of New York in 1912, cost
John T. Milliken of st. Louis, Patrick's
brother-in-law, s162 ,6S716. This an6
other details of the famous legal bat
tie that followed the death of the ageo
Texas millionaire were brought out foI
the first time in the Federal Court il
Denver when the suit was settled il
which Leonidas E. Hill, also brother
| in-law of Patrick, asked Milliken to
give an accounting of 10000 shares OF
certain oil stock turned over to him
| to help finance the long struggle.
Matthias Roberts, a locomotive en-
gineer of Tabernash. was crushed to
death when rotary snowplow broke
within three miles of Corona Pass, the
highest railroad point in the world