The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-09-18

Oct. 1S.-Odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Trinidad Elks have purchased site
IN which to erect a home
The Craig City Council has awarded
contracts for municipal water works.
Colorado Springs expects the Santa
Fe to erect a $4,000 station in that
city.
An elevator with 2O,O0O-bushel ca
paeity, to cost $4,000, is being built
at Craig.
Lack of sufficient classrooms ham
pers the Boulder university as enroll
ing begins.
Canon City will celebrate the com
pletion of the state road between that
point and Salida, Sept. 81.
Frank Taylor and Oscar Schwartz
were arrested near Alamosa on
charge of rustling cattle.
John White, 81, was shot by William
Boston, an old-time resident and for.
mer cowboy, living near Elizabeth.
Fifteen thousand children thronged
the state fair grounds at Pueblo
when the fair was formally opened.
Eastern Colorado is prosperous.
Never before in it's history has the
vast section had such bountiful crops
At Colorado Springs William C. Bos
ton was held on a charge of murder
for shooting John c. White at Eliza
beth.
Patriotism is to be the keynote OF
the Investment Bankers convention
which will be held Sept. 20 to 23 in
Denver.
DIR. Newton A. Bolles of Denver was
fined 5000 in Police Court for prescrib,
ing drugs to habitual users of cocaine
and morphine.
Charles S. Gilman, oU years old and
mining man of Denver, died at his
home of paralysis, from which he had
suffered for ten years.
Fort Collins men have bought a
large number of lambs in wyoming to
iced this winter. Prices range $1GD
l.25 higher than year ago.
The State Bureau of Child and Ami.
NAL Protection has started a campaign
to raise $4,000 with which to main
tain the bureau for the next two years
Miner, the newest of Routt countys
towns, is lively place, and promises
to become an important center in the
coal fields of the northwestern part OF
the state
Mrs Hattie Wigton of Pueblo has
filed suit for divorce against w. L.
Wigton. She names Mrs Bessie Car
rigan as correspondent, ana asks $780,.
600 alimony. WIS
The first decorations of Denver's
streets in preparation for the Inter
national Farm Congress and Soil
Products Exposition, which will be
held from Sept. &c to Oct. ~, have
| appeared
A big navy and standing army of
100000 men-"a decimal of reserve
army subject to call''-is the program
advocated by Henry d. Estabrook of
New York, lawyer, wit and statesman,
in his address at the city auditorium
in Denver on The Preparedness of
the Nation"
Andrew p. Smithers and Dewitt C.
Weber were both seriously injured
when big touring car driven by Mr.
Weber skidded turned turtle and
dropped over ten-foot embankment
short distance the other side of
Midway, eight miles from Denver. on
the Morrison road
Governor Carlson testifying before
the State Civil Service Commission in
connection with his charges against
Harry w. Risley, state printing com.
missioner, submitted evidence intend,
ed to prove that Mr.. Risley had per.
mitted trick bidding" for state print
ing contracts and had awarded such
contracts in the interests of the bid.
| ders.
Tony Archulita, well known Next
can resident of the Jungles, often
prosecuted for bootlegging and re-
Gently given six months sentence to
the county Jail following his convic-
ton on charge of keeping a disor-
derby house, made a successful break
for liberty from the gang of prisoners
working on the court house lawn at
Fort Collins.
James C. Bulger, soldier of fortune,
under sentence of death for the slay.
ing of L. f. Nicodemus of Denver,
armed with razor, made an attempt
to take the life of another prisoner at
the Denver county jail. He succeeded |
in slashing the prisoners arm and |
was in turn beaten by twelve other
inmates of the federal ward until a |
guard interfered
A reduction of twenty per cent has !
been made by Assessor Fellows in |
the valuation of bearing orchards in |
Mesa county, and large part of this |
will affect Palisade lands.
The thirty Denver financlers and |
business men who left Denver for an |
automobile tour through eastern Colo |