The Colorado statesman., 1915-01-23
COLORADO NEWS
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s9,346 in 1914 for city licenses for their
pets.
A "Jayhawker dance" will feature
the annual Kansas Club dinner which
will be held in Denver, Jan. 80.
Thomas Chamberlain, seventy-three
years old, a pioneer of Denver, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself.
A fund for the relief of the sufferers
n the earthquake zone of Italy has
been started by the Italian residents
Of Denver.
Colorado must live within its in
come during the next two years, ac-
cording to the announcement made
by Governor Carlson.
The proposed workmen's compensa-
lion act, advocated by Governor Carl
son, was indorsed by the Denver Manu-
lecturers Association.
The birthday of Scotland's beloved
bard, Bobbie Burns, will be commem-
orated at banquet given in Denver
by Caledonian Society No. l of Colo
RADIO.
James Tanner, prominent farmer,
died at his home several miles east of
Model, from pneumonia, Tanner was
So years old and is survived by
widow.
Hearing of the various proceedings
involving control of the Barth millions
will be resumed in Denver before
Judge Butler of the District Court ON
Jan. 2S.
DIR. F. w. Noble, who is accused
with DR.. ]. r. Mason of causing the
| death of Miss Ruth Merriweather. was
released from Jail in Denver under
$4,000 bond.
State Auditor Mulnix continued his
work of housecleaning in his depart,
ment by announcing the appointment
| of j. A Nelson as state examiner, to
succeed r. e. Durrett.
State highways and the insane OF
Colorado were the chief topics dis.
cussed during the opening session OF
the seventh annual convention of the
County Commissioners Association
held in Denver.
State Treasurer Stocker is now at
work both upon the distribution OF
upon amendments to the farmers
loan law which may remove objec.
tions that have been made to it.
With ten-pound hammers, seven
drug users and four vagrants spending
the winter in the county Jail, began
the task of making little stones out
of big ones on the rock pile" of the
county Jail in Denver.
The Denver police have been asked
to make a search of all Denver pawn
shops and other places where jewelry
might be disposed of for $4,000 worth
of diamonds and pearls stolen from
the home of Adolphus Busch III. of St
Louis, Mo-, on Jan. g.
Mrs. Blanche Taylor, formerly Mrs
George M Trimble of Colorado
Springs and LeadvilIe, sixty-one, died
of paralysis in Los Angeles, accord
ing to word received at Colorado
Springs by her mother, Mrs. Emily Nc
Farren, and her sister, Mrs William
Wells Price
With her clothes a flaming torch
about her, seventeen-year-old Mabel
Potter ran shrieking down the stairs
of the House of the Good Shepherd
in Denver evading a sister who hur
ried after her endeavoring to put out
the flames, and sustained burns which
caused her death in the county hos
pital
Mrs. Anna w. Jacobson, founder oi
ST. Vincent's orphanage and the House
| of the Good Shepherd, and owner oil
the Jacobson building and other prop
erty in Denver, died at her home, 175t
Grant street, after an illness of seven
years. Mrs. jacobson was seventy
eight years old and was born in Balti
more, Md.
Matthias Roberts, a locomotive en-
sineer of Tabernash, was crushed tc
death when rotary snowplow broke
within three miles of Corona Pass, the
highest railroad point in the world
and tore down the eastern slope OF
James peak at terrible speed. The
plow left the rails on a curve and
dashed down a thirty-foot hill.
Plans for perfecting a permanent
state organization to deal with prob
lens of the unemployed, 1000 OF
whom it was estimated are objects OF
charity in Denver at present, were
launched at a Club building meeting OF
400 delegates of organized and unor.
ganized labor, members of churches
and representatives of civic bodies, in
Denver.
Mrs. Pearl Hargus, thirty, will go
through life disfigured as the result OF
several deep knife wounds inflicted on
her face and arms in a Denver cafe
at Ills Eighteenth street by Mrs
Helen Thayer of 1909 Eighteenth ave.
nue., according to her charges to the
police. Physicians at the county hos.
pital took eighteen stitches in Mrs.
Hargus' face.