The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
stern Newspaper Union News Service.

Clay Monson will tender to the
President his resignation as postmas-
ter at Steamboat Springs.
Colorado hunters are making the
most of the fifteen-day open season
on doves allowed them by law.
Pedro Perez, a Mexican bean pick
er, is at the Longmont hospital with
self-inflicted bullet wound in his left
lung.
Denver's 5000 little home gardeners,
from the forty-four school districts of
the city, celebrated their Harvest fes-
tival at City Park.
Ex-President William H. Taft spent
a short time in Denver Tuesday. He
was on his way to Salt Lake, and from
there goes to the California exposi-
lions.
Juan Romero, 20 years old, accused
of Staying his step-father, Don Jose
Romero, a beet rancher, near Long
mont, last month, was taken into Gus
tody at Boulder.
Miss Theodosia Slothower of Den
yer, student at the University of Wis
consin, was chosen as one of six
young women to typify the American
college girl at the Panama-Pacific ex-
position.
The drill team of Denver camp No.
], Woodmen of the World, won the
first prize of $1,000 in the drill con-
test held in San Francisco at the sill
yer anniversary celebration of the Pa
cific Woodmen
Alfred Douglas, Boston millionaire,
is now a Colorado property owner,
the resident of fashionable Brookline
having purchased l60 acres of i'm
proved apple and peach land In Delta
county for $4,000.
After a six months search of war
stricken Belgium for his niece, Miss
Mary Lorang, school teacher, John
Lorang of Boulder located her and
they reached New York on the way
back to Colorado.
Homer Hagan, SO, a rancher living
five miles south of Glenwood Springs,
was killed and the top of his head cut
off in an automobile accident at the
Three-Mile bridge, three miles south
of Glenwood Springs.
George Daniel, who has Just as
sumed charge of his new office as
postoffice inspector in charge of the
Denver district, is Denver man, al
though for years he has been located
In New York, st. Louis and Cheyenne.
Mrs. Mary A. j. Crees, II, who was
daughter of James Patrick Cald-
well, one of the three survivors of the
American ship Chesapeake, sunk by
the British frigate Shannon in the war
of 1912, died at her home in Boulder
She came to Colorado in 1861, living
first at Central City.
Praying for death, after once having
died" and been restored to life, Rob-
ert Burns, 80 years old, whose real
name is Robert Goodman, Jr., of Ro.
chester, N. Y, passed away in the
county hospital in Denver Death re-
suited from the effects of a double
dose of carbolic acid which he drank
during a fit of dependency.
Sweethearts in youth, friends when
each had married another after they
came of age, sweethearts again after
each had been bereft of spouses,
Ralph Eugene Wood and Mrs. Flora
f. Barnes sent John G. Wood, broth
er of the bridegroom-to-be to the
court house in Denver to secure a
marriage license in order that the
couple might marry.
Beneath lonely tree two miles
west of Manhattan beach the police of
Denver found cache of $3.50 in coin
and bills and several valuable pieces
| of jewelry. 1t was the plant of
Meriel McGrady, 10, alias Frank
Crume, confessed burglar. The youth
disclosed to the police plans for a
series of robberies of Denver homes
and confessed to breaking into two
houses. The money and jewelry dis.
covered were stolen from the home OF
Herman Rothman in Englewood.
Frederick Emerson, hermit of the
Colorado & Southern railroad yards
and man of mystery for more than
twenty years, died at St Joseph's hos.
pital in Denver with his lips sealed
as to his identity and the whereabouts
OF his relatives.
After a search lasting five months.
during which he offered a reward OF
$1,000 for any information concerning
his 4year-old daughter, Thomas McIn.
tire of Denver by accident located the
child in the Juvenile Court Just as pa,
pers for the little ones adoption we're
being prepared.