The Colorado statesman., 1915-10-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.


Oct. 1S.-Odd Fellows Annual State
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Mrs. Mary HASTE, aged rs, died at
Morley.
Sixty-five cars of cattle went out
from De Beque in one day.
Farmers have organized at Keota to
build a cooperative elevator
The new $4,000 school house at
Penrose has been opened for use.
Denver's night school for advanced
pupils has an enrolment of $50.
The Rocky Ford Tribune began the
publication of daily october 4th.
Monte Vista Baptists have sub
scribed funds TO finish their building.
Mrs. j. d. Hallett was shot at Man
cos while starting 10 attend we'd
ding.
The Soldiers Home at Monte Vista
has been provided with a picture ma
chine.
Harry Colebourn of Wiley will or
ganize band of eight pieces in his
own family.
Mrs. Nancy Bell Klgore Burdick,
aged n, pioneer of Colorado, died
at Hotchkiss.
Reservations have been made for
250 cars for cattle 10 go to market
through Durango
1t is reported from the state peni-
tentiary at Canon City that Harold
Frank Henwood is insane.
Fred Deker attained an elevation OF
1000 feet in an aeroplane at the Prov
ers County Fair at Lamar
The Baptists have organized con
gregation at Keota and hope to raise
funds for church building before
long.
The Durango fish hatchery has
shipped 10000 trout fry for distribu-
tion in the Pine, Piedra and San Juan
rivers.
Charles Sawyer, a resident OF Colo
rado since 1879 and pioneer of Jeffer-
son county, died in Denver at the age
Of 50.
A solid train of eighty-two cars of
North Fork fruit recently passed
through Grand Junction on its way to
market.
approximately 1000 cars of canta-
loupes have been shipped from the
Rocky Ford and Crowley county dis
tricts this season.
Hog shipments from the northern
end of the San Luis valley this sea
lion dollars in value.
The Las Animas County Court at
Trinidad anticipates busy session
with As civil, 2S criminal and SO ju-
venile cases docketed.
Shipments of cattle from the west
ern slope to eastern markets num-
bered 5000 head, the heaviest in ten
years for September
Fire losses in Colorado Springs for
the first nine months of 1915 were but
s6,736, the lowest in the history of the
city for the same length of time.
The Rev. Francis s. Beggs, pastor
of st. James NJ. F. church, Denver, is
dead. He was 76 years old and had
been a minister for fifty-fiye years
District Attorney Whatley of Lead
vile has given notice to the denizens
of the State street redlight colony
that they must close up and move out
An examination of mine foremen,
fire bosses and other mine officials
will be held by State Coal Mine In.
spector Dalrymple at Gunnison Nov
ember 18th.
On October 25th taxpayers of the
Loveland school district will vote On
a proposition to issue $4,000 bonds
for the purpose of erecting new high
school building.
Seventeen carloads of mail order
catalogues arriving in Colorado recent
turers' Association to look around for
means to combat the attack.
l.. E. Preston, riding bicycle on
the streets of Fort Morgan, was killed
by being hit by an automobile. The
dazzling headlights of the machine
are said to have been the prime cause
of the accident
The Colorado Equal Suffrage Asso-
Iiation, opposed to capital punishment.
has asked Governor Carlson to com
mute the sentences of James C. Bull
ger and George Quinn from hanging
to life Imprisonment.
motion to quash indictments
against seventy-five defendants in
criminal cases growing out of the re-
cent coal strike, were denied without
argument, by Judge j. II. Denison IN
District Court at Walsenburg.
Thirty-one indictments were re-
turned by the county grand jury at
Grand Junction against E. f. Udlock.
president of the Udlock Investment
Company. In default of bond in the
sum of $4,000 he was sent to Jail.
Walter S. Jones of Denver, who was