The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-09

rdiT at Denver.
1t is stated that John F. Vivian is
slated for secretary to Governor Carl
son.
After four years of continual work,
Greeley is to have Y. NJ. c. A. organ
ization.
Governor Carlsons inaugural ball at
the Denver Auditorium, Jan. II, will
be attended by the Denver city COM
missioners in body
An advance in the price of wheat,
which reached high mark of $1.36A
in Chicago, caused am increase in the
cost of flour in Denver.
The third annual banquet of the
pioneer printers will be held in Den
yer Jan. IL in commemoration of the
birthday of Benjamin Franklin.
THE Road to Peace in Europe" was
the title of an address delivered at
the University of Denver by Werner u.
Reed, noted Denver author and finan-
cier.
The city of Denver will be repre-
sented at Governor Carlson's inaugural
ball, to be held in the Auditorium Jan
-, by the city commissioners in
body.
The completion of the second unit
of the Myron Stratton home for the
poor will admit sixty more adults
about Feb. 1, it was announced at
Colorado Springs.
The judges of the District and Coun-
nd nf m a
bers of the Denver bar rendered w.
D. Wright, newly appointed District
Judge, a reception.
Mayor Perkins of Denver was noti-
fled by the officers of the Panama
California exposition at San Diego
that March 13 had been set aside as
Denver day.
The Supreme Court of the state re-
versed itself and decided that liens
could not be filed upon property rented
| for ninety-nine-year terms for the con
struction of business blocks.
Mrs. ]. B. Greenslate, Wife of a
farmer near Boulder, sustained
broken collarbone and possibly inter
nal injuries when she was thrown
from buggy in a runaway accident.
Alarmed over the disappearance of
John Fine, sixty-five, an employe on
his ranch near Littleton, F. e. Sheldon
has notified the Denver police to look
for him, fearing he may have met with
an accident.
Colorado is about to enter upon an
era of development and wealth un
! equaled in the states history, in the
opinion of E. E. Drach, state banking
commissioner, who submitted his an
nual report to Governor Ammons.
Manager Wright of the Johnstown
department. of the Fort Luptcn Power
Company sustained serious burns
ebout the hands when he became en-
tangled in wires and grasped one that
was carrying $500 volts OF, electricity
One hundred and seven Mesa coun,
ty ranchers and citizens of the west
end of the valley, enjoyed the annual
New Year rabbit hunt from Fruita tc
the Utah state line, returning tc
Fruita with 576 bunnies.
When Herbert Smith of Denver re
turned from work he found a note
written by his wife, Mrs. Viola Smith
and a lock of her hair. She had taken
her young daughter and disappeared
Hugh Walker, the husband of Smiths
niece, has also disappeared and Smith
told the police that the couple had
eloped.
The resignation of L. M. Bowers as
chairman OF the board of directors and
treasurer of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Co., was received by President Jesse
F. Welborn in Denver. Bowers, it was
announced, will be associated with
John d. Rockefeller in an advisory
capacity, retaining place on the di
rectorate of the company.
The Denver Tramway Company and
the Denver Gas and Electric Light
Company must pay their 1913 taxes
on the basis of valuation fixed by AS
SCISSOR Pitcher and the State Tax Com.
mission. Judge Denison of the Dis,
trict Court sustained the city's demur
rers to suits instituted by the two
corporations, in which material reduc.
tions in their taxes were demanded,
| and virtually threw both cases out OF
For the first time in its history Col
orado has given promise that it may
some day be ranked as an important
corn-producing state. The production
of corn for 1914 was almost double
the production for 1913. Last year
10,600,000 bushels of corn were har-
vested, according to government fig
ures, while in 1913 the crop was only
100000. The value of the corn pro-
duced in Colorado last year was ST.
$4,000.
Uncle Sam will be represented at
the annual convention of the Good
Roads Association, which opens in
Denver Jan. 20, by C. H. Kendall,
| seninr oineer of tho fndornl rrond