The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-30
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HdS DteIl IeOI SdulAGu.
William Gentry was declared the
chapmion baby at the Denver show.
The postoffice at Stone City, Pu-
sblo county, will be discontinued Feb
ruary Is.
The industrial commission bill was
introduced by Senator William r.
Eaton Of Denver.
Civil service and cigarettes will be
abolished in Colorado if two bill in
troduced in the House Of Represents
tives are passed.
Elias Kessler, sixty-four, a farmer
of Morrison, died of ptomaine
poisoning after he had eaten cove
oysters in Denver.
The Senate confirmed these Colo
RADIO postmasters: Grand Valley,
James Brennan; Aspen, Mary Farrell;
Carbondale, d. w. Shores.
Frank LaLone and wife and four of
their children are dead as the result
of mysterious tragedy at the family
ranch near Karvel, thirty miles from
Hugo.
Aaron B. Page, 81 years old, died
at the county hospital in Denver, the
result of being struck by an automo-
bile driven by Mrs. E. A. Harding. He
was a former mining man.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Stone City, in the northwestern cor
ner of Pueblo county, was held for the
purpose of protesting against the clos
ing of the postoffice there.
The ti' st sign of insurgency in the
General Assembly was evidenced when
Il bill was introduced practically re-
pealiug civil service as affecting the
employees of the Legislature.
Frank l.. Bellan, 7G, pioneer Leadville
mining man and Denver bond dealer,
who had been a resident of Colorado
since 1880, died at the Mayo brothers
hospital at Rochester, MINI.
A deal completed by George w.
Skinner, Jr, president of the Skinner
and Tabor ranch in Pueblo county,
will add 800 to that property, which
already contains 10000 acres.
Mrs. Grace Schmidtler, 3S, wife of
August Schmidtler, a foreman of
saddle company, living at Pueblo,
committed suicide by taking chloro-
form. She leaves two daughters, aged
two and twelve.
The shaft house and all the surface
buildings belonging to the Big -Four
Mining Company on Breeze hill, at
Leadville, were destroyed by fire.
The damage is estimated at $4,000,
partially covered by insurance.
In the division of the 1915 state
school fund of $167,736, Denver re-
ceived $39,151 as her pro rata of the
full amount; Pueblo received S12,792;
Ell Paso $9,157; Las Animas $S,OG1;
Weld $9,334, and Boulder $6,3S5.
The first legal ENHANCEMENT OF
Governor Carlson's administration is
promised in an injunction suit to be
instituted by holdover employees under
the previous Democratic administra,
tion who claim civil service rights.
AS the result of an injunction is.
sued by District Judge Harry C. Class
of Brighton, work is suspended on a
sleeping porch in process of construc,
Gated in Englewood. The Sands House
Association is also restrained from
moving patients into the building.
Through several members of the
Colorado Retail Merchants Associa.
tion now in the State Legislature the
association expressed its intention OF
the opening session of the fifteenth
annual convention in Denver of intro,
ducing bills in the Legislature for the
protection and benefit of the grocers
of the state.
Denver's city government is one OF
the largest, if not the largest, employ.
ers of labor within the corporate
limits OF the city, according to the
completed reports of the civil service
commission. On Jan. /, 1,51l men
and women We're on the city's pay.
rolls, the report states. This number
does not include employees of the
Juvenile, County and District Courts.
On Feb. 10 the Monte Vista HOG
Growers Association is going to hold
its second annual pig roast and ban.
quet. Pig roast day at Monte Vista
thus creeps into the calendar with
melon day at Rocky Ford, potato day
at Greeley, strawberry day at Glen.
wood Springs and half score of 9th.
er days each telling of some speciality
in agriculture or stock raising which
has made some sections of Colorado
C. d. Jones, postmaster at Rodley,
Baca county, has resigned and the an.
pointment of George N Ballou is an.
nounced. The following Colorado post.
office appointments also were made:
Carr, Weld county, Ernest e. Martin;
Cherrelyn, Arapahoe county, Ann
Dunn; Loretto, Arapahoe county,
Catherine Nooning; Mum, Weld coun.
ty, Sylvester u. Hobart; Pikeview, Ell
Paso county, Andrew ]. Kelly.