The Colorado statesman., 1915-04-24


Oak Creeks new theatre has been
formally opened.
Fort Collins voted bonds to enlarge
the high school building.
High prices are being received by
feeders for sheep and lambs.
John Cross has entered upon his
duties as postmaster at Loveland.
About $4,000 will be available for
new road work in Larimer county this
year.
The fourteenth annual meeting of
the Colorado w. c. T. u, was held at
Salida.
Thirty-two cars of cattle were
shipped from Fort Collins in one day
recently.
A Sunday school parade was a fea-
ture of the Bulgin revival meetings at
Fort Collins.
Ten yes or no" propositions will
be on the ballot at the coming city
election in Denver.
Governor Carlson vetoed the pub
lie utilities bill and a number OF So
called relief measures.
Little Davy Frost saved five-year-old
Katherine Guheen from drowning in
the old mill ditch in Denver.
Louisville has granted a ten.year
franchise to the Mountain States Tel
ephone and Telegraph Company.
James Scott, justice of the peace at
Tollerburg, was shot and received in
juries from which he later died.
The output of gold in Colorado this
year is expected to total s25,OOO,OOO,
compared with $4,000, 900 in 1914.
Fifty smiling tourists from Cleve
land spent a day in Denver on their
way to the Panama-Pacific exposition.
Mrs. Bertha Wright. 80 years old,
shot and probably fatally wounded her
husband, John A. Wright, AZ, city
employe of Denver.
John l.. Brock, an Alabama capital
list, has purchased 1884 acres of irri-
gated land from Prendergast brothers
of Broomfield, for $4,000.
DR.. r. o. Butterfield, charged with
prescribing opium to habitual users,
was assessed the minimum fine of $40
Quick divorces in Colorado no long
er will be possible after the Robinson
divorce law passed by the recent Leg
islature becomes effective on July IL.
Judge julius C. Gunter was re-
elected president of the Alumni asso-
citation of the University of Virginia
at the banquet of the society in Den
yer.
One Syrian is dead and two are bad
ly wounded as the result of Sunday
battle of about forty Syrians and
Arabians in their colony at Walsen-
burg.
Among the fifteen bills approved by
Governor Carlson Monday was one ap-
propriating $4,000 for the drainage of
the land at the Teller Indian institute
near Grand Junction.
G. A. Nieman of Silverton brought
the property formerly owned by the
San Antonio Mining Company The
property is located in the Red Noun
tain mining section, the mine build
ing being at Sheridan Junction.
A. A Edwards of the Poudre Val
ley Ditch Company, who is connected
through that company with the Gree
ley-Poudre district, is authority for
the statement that within the next
| few days water will be turned into the
Laramie-Poudre tunnel
Fifty thousand dollars is the value
placed on the estate left by Theodore
l.. Marshall, retired business man, in
| "a will in hn
Court by his widow, Mrs. Margaret
Marshall. The bulk of the estate con-
sists OF valuable farm lands in Weld
| county.
Tse-ne-Gat, Piute Indian prisoner in
the Denver county Jail was removed
to Mercy hospital in accordance with
an order received from the depart
ment of justice by United States Mar
shall Burris. Tse-Ne-Gat will be kept
at the hospital until his trial and will
receive treatment for tuberculosis.
Philip Kaiser, the German who was
convicted in the District Court at
Fort Collins on a charge of perjury in
connection with his statements made
under oath in the application for a
marriage license, was sentenced by
| Judge Graham to serve from one to
two years at hard labor in the state
| penitentiary.
Several interesting meetings were
held at Cedaredge on Farmers Day.
Supervisor A. L. Swetzer of Monte
Vista has received notice that all
sheep owners will be required to
procure an inspection certificate for
their flocks before they will be al.
lowed to enter the Rio Grande Ma.
tional forest.
The annual Normal Teachers Dis.
trict Institute will be held in Fowler
from May 81 to June 10. 1t is esti-
mated that 200 teachers will he there