The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES rOR COMING EVENTS

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 3--Annual convention Colorado
Farmers Congress at Fort Collins
Jan. S-S.-Farmers' Annual Congress
JAM 4-S.-Colorado Kennel Club Show
at Denver
Jan. 3-10-Sixteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Assocla-
tion at Denver.
Jan. 17-19.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers and Butchers Association
Jan. 19.-sixth Annual Convention of
Colo. Good Roads Assn at Denver.
Jan, I6-22.-Western Live Stock Show
Feb. 12-AIeeting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
March 20-ApriI &c o o a d o Retail
Merchants Association's Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver
Colorado Springs Elks will enter
tain 1000 poor children on Christmas
Day.
Nearly 100000 Christmas packages
left Denver through the postoffice
Saturday.
Only four cases of diphtheria. ex-
cept those in the Steele hospital, have
been reported to the Denver Health
Department.
Miss Helen Pratt, 40 years old, and
for 20 years a teacher in the Denver
public schools, died suddenly at Park
Avenue hospital
Englewood now has Great White
Way" 16O tungstens now lighting her
streets, replacing the fifty-four arc
lights heretofore used.
Two armed bandits beat John j.
| Fitzgerald a Denver saloonkeeper,
but were frightened away before they
had obtained anything.
A coroner's jury at Cripple Creek
places the blame for the death of
Lawrence Secrecy, Dec. 16, on the
Cresson Gold Mining Company.
On the charge of passing two
worthless checks, C. H. Linn, mine
operator, was arrested by Under
Sheriff Euler of Boulder in Denver.
Charles Adam Murray, musician and
composer, who came to Colorado %
years ago, died at his home, 334 Lin
coin street Death was due to pneu-
monia.
Ten thousand persons will gather
before the Pueblo court house Christ
mas night and take part in the first
municipal Christmas celebration ever
held in Pueblo.
The tody of Claude L. Poston, who
disappeared from his home in Edge
water Dec. 8, was found frozen in a
ravine a mile west of Louisville by
a rabbit hunter.
Erastus d. Webster, second base
man on the Denver baseball team fol
a number of years and professional
baseball player and manager fol
eighteen years, died in Denver.
Grape juice will be the main item
ON the refreshment menu at the an
nual New Year reception of the Den
yer Chamber of Commerce, according
to announcement by President
Stearns.
Tony lombard, l7-year-old North
Denver boy charged with causing the
death of Sandy Antonio, IS, in fist
fight over girl, was acquitted by a
jury of involuntary manslaughter in
the West Side Court in Denver.
Definite information was received
in Denver of an investigation being
made by War Department officials at
Washington to determine the feast
bility of enlarging Fort Logan, the
government army post near Denver.
An organized effort on the part of
| Colorado insurance men to discour.
age the state from entering the insur,
ance business was urged in Denver by
Mark T. Mckee, secretary of the Ma
tional Council of Insurance federation
executives, when he spoke to 400 in.
surance men at a luncheon.
The final settlement of the litiga
tion between James H. Brown and
his divorced wife, Mrs. Mary A.
Brown, was reached in Denver when
Mr.. Brown decided to his former wife
property aggregating 100000 in val
lie, and all cases pending between
them in the courts were dismissed.
The Supreme Court of the United
States decided that the Colorado Tax
Commission and the State Board OF
Equalization had the power to de
rnand 40 per cent increase in the
assessed valuation of Denver in the
case brought against the commission
by the Bi-Metallic Investment Com
pany. This case was appealed from a
decision of the State Supreme Court
Harry Sterling, alias Harry Walters
%, holder of two worlds champion.
ships as broncho buster and fancy
trick rider, was arrested in Denver
at the request of police authorities Of
Waco, Tex, where he is wanted on a
charge of murder committed nine
years ago. Sterling, who captured
his world titles under the alias OF
Walters, went to Denver and estab
lished horse market, in which he
had begun to do a thriving business
with foreign countries, when he was
| arrested.