The state herald., 1915-07-09
COLORADO
STATE NEW S
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EvENTs,

aug. Sept. 2.-Grand Lodge. X. of p,
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 26-2S-Fall Festival at Flagle-.
sept. 27.Oct S.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Judge Burke, of Trinidad, is threat.
ened with a recall.
Ernest H, Osgood, 81, for fifteen
years assistant postmaster at Pueblo
died OF pneumonia.
Carl Downing, 90. and Virgin Kirby.
20, were drowned in the Animas river
eight miles north Of Durango.
A total of $1G,5s4.51 in inheritance
taxes was collected last month by Les
lie Z. Hubbard. state inheritance tax
appraiser
G. w. Gardner, who killed himself
In Denver, shot at his wife at their
home In Cascade May 4, according to
Cascade people.
Frank NJ. Butcher, formerly national
bank examiner of Oklahoma City, has
been appointed cashier of the Denver
Stockyards bank.
In Morgan county there are 3,S2s
persons between the ages OF six and
twenty-one years. OF this number
1856 are males and 1892 females.
At special meeting of the Colorado
Springs Mining and Stock exchange,
w. P. Kinney was reelected president.
All other officers were reelected.
The Denver committee in charge OF
arrangements for the reception of the
Liberty Bell July 10 asks that merch-
ants decorate their stores on that day.
Elizabeth Johnson. s, daughter OF II.
E. johnson, mining man at st. Elmo,
blew off her left hand when she held
a percussion cap in 1t and touched 1t
off with a match.
The hearing on the motion for
new trial in the case of John Lawson.
convicted executive board member of
the United Mine Workers, will be held
Saturday, July s.
Caude X. Boettcher was reelected
chairman Of the executive committee
OF the Denver Tramway Company at
the annual adjourned meeting OF the
stockholders in Denver.
A special meeting OF the State
Board OF Health has been called for
July to formulate plans for the en-
forcement of the new anti-drug law
law which becomes effective July ..
June 30, with 5i-degree minimum
and 6G-degree maximum, was the cold.
est June day on record since 1906,
when the thermometer dropped to So
on June 23 and registered G3 the next
day.
All registration records for the Uni.
versity OF Colorado summer session
were shattered at Greeley when al.
most coo students enrolled Last
year the total attendance was only
56G.
Greeley school children. patriotic so.
cieties and citizens viii welcome the
arrival OF the Liberty Bell. July 10th,
by u public program. to be held on
the steps OF the Union Pacific freight
depot.
The right OF Judge CRANKY ilillyer
to preside In further trials OF former
coal mine strikers In southern Colo
rado will be determined by the State
Supreme Court ut hearing TO be
held July ~.
The judges OF the Denver District
Court are becoming strict In the en-.
forcement of their orders concerning
the payment of alimony. Two men
were arrested and placed In Jail for
their failure to comply with such
orders.
Following the decision of Denver
merchants. Colorado Springs retail
stores enforced n rule that no moro
womcn's clothes would be sent from
their stores on approval and that such
goods purchased would not be ex
changed.
Proceedings against the six soldiers
held In the guard house In connection
with the case OF Margaret Much. the
l5.year-old hish school girl svm
North Denver. are held In allegiance
until the girl In sufficiently recovered
to point out the exact place where the
offonsc was committed.
Prospects for the greatest crop IL
the history OF eastern Colorado. with
consequent prosperity for the resi-
dents OF that section and for Denver
was the message brought to Dosyei
by more than 900 farmers. banker,
merchants and business men from tn,
great new agricultural empire In IN,
eastern part OF the state.
Evidence indicating that gang OF
wire tappers" or professional race
horse gamblers were working In Den
yer for several months prior TO June
o last. and that the gang had agents
In many OF the large cities OF the
country. was unearthed In n suite OF
offices on the second floor OF the