The state herald., 1915-05-21
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c o L O r A DO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union rev. service.

Aug. 81 Sept 2.-Grand Lodge, X. of r.,
| at Colorado Springs
| Aug. 26-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagler.
| sept 27-Oct. S.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
The thermometer registered 90 In
Denver on the 18th.
Two fires at Telluride caused loss
Of more than $4,000.
Claims have been filed against the
Barth estate for nearly $4,000 law.
yers fees.
X. S. Rhea of Golden has been ap.
pointed water commissioner for dis.
trict No. Z.
Mrs Charles Foljambe, for thirty
years a resident of Denver, died In
Philadelphia.
Work on the Grand River Oil and
Gas Company's well at DeBeque is
progressing favorably.
The MidColorado Oil Company at
Aurora reports traces of oil and gas
at depth Of 1.60O feet.
The Denver Norwegian Association
gave a reception and banquet in com.
memoration of the Norwegian national
holiday.
One man was killed and two serious.
ly injured by falling rock at the road
camp at Echo, twenty miles west of
Canon City.
Mrs. John L. 'Ramer, wife Of Sec.
retary of State Ramer, underwent an
operation for tumor in st. Joseph's
hospital in Denver
Convalescing from recent serious
illness, Mrs. Jane M. Ligget of Den.
yer celebrated her ninty-ninth birth.
day at her home.
A verdict for $1,000 was awarded to
Mrs. Phoebe A. Cunningham, in a $lO,.
500 personal injury damage suit
against the city of Denver.
Blossom Day" at Canon City called
out 5000 persons. The apple, peach.
pear. plum and cherry trees were
radiant with the highly scented
flowers.
s20.000,000 consolidation OF the
biggest producers In the Cripple Creek
district is in the air, according to re-
ports in Colorado Springs mining
circles.
Charles w. Scott, tried for the sec.
ond time on white slavery charges,
was found guilty in the West Side
Court in Denver after the Jury had
deliberated for a half hour.
After wrestling with the PROPOSE.
ton for day and most of a night the
city council let contracts to the ex-
tent OF sG6.O67.73 for the rebuilding
OF the Montrose city water system.
Rodney Curtis. Denver capitalist
and pioneer who died April 20 In San
Diego. Cal. left a fortune OF between
sl,O0O.000 and 1885, 900. according to
estimates by Denver persons who are
closely In touch with his affairs.
Letters and remembrances from
her children and friends Will be the
only form OF celebration OF her hun.
dredth birthday that Mrs. Alice Harri.
son OF Denver will allow. She will
attain the century mark OF life.
May 2S.
A stranger compelled the cashier OF
the First National bank OF Granada
to hand over s515, the cash I'm sight.
then forced the bank force into the
vault and departed. Later the bandit.
Roy Cotter, was captured and the
money recovered.
The badly decomposed body OF John
McCann. n plumber. who disappeared
from Sterling several weeks ngo, was
found in the Fat Top district. twenty
miles north OF Sterling. There was a
bullet hole through the body and the
supposition Mt this time is that Me.
Cam was murdered.
William S. La Fair, one OF the most
prominent catlemen on the Western
slope, died at his Whitewater home
near Grand Junction. Heart disease
was the cause. He was 81 years old.
and for the last two years had op.
Grated the only hotel exclusively for
cowboys In the state. II was known
MS the Cowboys home"
At Pueblo. while his wife lay In bed
with their eight.year-old daughter. c.
J. Preston fired two shots at her from
rifle. the first missing and the sec.
ond hitting her In the left arm. Ilo
then went into tlo kitchen and shot
himself, and viii probably die Mrs,
Preston Ia not believed to be serious.
ly injured.
Nine carloads OF cattle belonging to
Ioran u. and John Sylvester. south
onr Colorado stock growers. whose
financial entanglemontB caused their
arrest several days ago. were seized
In the Denver a Rio Grandc railroad
yards In Denver by representatives OF
the Denver Cattle Loan Company,
subsidiary OF the Denver Stockyuds
bank. The stock was taken 10 satisfy
partly n 100000 claim.
Mrs Maria stannard. nineteen.
principal witness for tho state In tho
second prosecution OF c. W. Scott for