Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-29
COLORADO,
STATE NEWS


pets.
Thomas Chamberlain, seventy-three
years old. pioneer of Denver. com
mitted suicide by hanging himself.
Because her husband, Eugene II
Lee. desired no children in his home
Mrs. Elizabeth II. Lee of Denver
brought suit for divorce.
The. twenty-seventh annual conven,
tion of the Colorado Young Mems
Christian Association will be held in
Boulder. February 81.
An estate estimated at 100000 was
left by the late Robert II. Beggs, pio.
neer business man and philanthropist
of Denver. Pueblo and Salida.
The jubilee siege of the Salvation
Army, which represents fifty years of
Salvation Army work, was observed
in Denver at the Salvation Army hall.
Mrs. Anna Elizabeth Tobias, Ga,
Wheatridge, is. dead. Mrs. Tobias had
lived in Wheatridge for thirty years.
The birthday of Scotland's beloved
bard, Bobbie Burns. will be commem-
grated at. n banquet given in Denver
by Caledonian Society No. / OF Colo
rado.
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. rs.
Governor Carlson raised the embargo
In Colorado on the shipment of arms
and ammunition. since the causes
which made such restrictions neces-
sary do not further exist.
The eugenics marriage bill intro
duced in the legislature by Represen-
tative F. Il. Wallace of Pueblo, will
not have the united support of the
ministers and club women.
II. j. Kruse, n years old, father of
Representative J. J. Kruse of Elbert
eral Assembly of Colorado, was visi
tor and guest of the House.
Excessive cigarette smoking is as
signed by physicians as the reason
why Peter Vrkljan, forty-two, a coal
miner, dropped dead of paralysis OF
the heart in his shack at Louisville,
The Colorado law regulating D.
practice of optometry was indorlI
by Governor Carlson, who sent a IL.
sonal message to the state convention
Of Optometrists, in session in Den
yer.
The appointment OF the Rev. Father
NJ. +. Callahan of Durango as rector
of the Annunciation parish to succeed
Mgr. Brady, who resigned las, Chret,
mas day, was made known IN Den
yer.
Mrs. William Joyner of Denver will
be a member of President Wilson's of
ficial party when the nations chief
executive goes through the Panama
espal to the San Francisco exposi
tion.
Jesse Whitman of Saint 10, Tex.
who followed his wife, Nellie Whit
man, to Denver after she left home
was arrested by Denver detectives
and held at the city jail pending an
investigation.
All physicians, druggists, dentists
and veterinarians, who are required
to use opium in any form in their
businesses will be compelled to con
tribute 81 annually toward the gov.
ernmcnt's support, according TO the
new congressional act which becomes
effective March l.
Despite the desertion of his wife
Nellie Whitman, and her refusal to re
turn to him, Jesse o. Whitman oI
Sd. T..
property, amounting to about $4,000
TO her according to a will drawn by
him in Denver Whitman, who fol
lowed his wife to Denver, but failed to
effect reconciliation. will return to
Saint 10.
County commissioners of Colorado
will ask for s2,4O0 annual salary in
stead of the s5 "a day, limited. they
now receive for their services as
watchdogs of their counties. The leg
islative committee of the Commission
ers' Association, which closed its an
nual meeting in Denver prepared a bill
which will be introduced in the Legis
lature requesting the change.
The twelve-year fight for the life OF
Albert Patrick. three times sentenced
to the Sing Sing death chair for the al
legged murder of William Marsh Rice
in 1900 and finally pardoned by Cover
nor Dix OF New York in 1912, cos,
John T. Milliken of st. Louis, Patrick's
brother-inlaw, S162,6S7.16. This ano
other details of the famous legal bat
tie that followed the death of the aged
Texas millionaire were brought out fol
the first time in the Federal Court il
Denver when the suit was settled ir
" hich Leonidas e. Hill, also brother
in-law of Patrick, asked Milliken to
give an accounting of 10000 shares OF
certain oil stock turned over to him
to help finance the long strugh =.