The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-07-03
COLORADO
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS


Aug. 31Sept. 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
The state convention of the c. E.
and B. Y. P. U. was held in Pueblo.
The National Association of Station
airy Engineers held it's annual picnic
at Eldorado Springs.
Geo. w. Wigger of Colorado
Springs had his collar bone broken in
an auto accident near Manitou.
Mrs. Rosiee Cohen, mother of nine
children, who gave birth to triplets
in Denver, was reported doing well.
After June 80 the penalty runs
against those who are subject to the
federal income tax and who failed to
pay it.
AT Eaton, Irving Carr, 10 years old,
lost two fingers of his right hand in
an accident while repairing an auto
mobile.
Denver banks gained S2,000,0OO in
deposits, according to published state
ments, and July dividends amounted
to $65O,OOO.
An amendment providing for home
rule under the prohibition law was
defeated in Durango by majority OF
1921 in quiet election with an ex.
| tremely light vote.
While playing on her fathers farm
near Broomfield, 2-year-old Ethel Fern
Towner, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Il. Towner, fell into an irrigation ditch
and was drowned.
Semi-annual dividends and interest
paid out July 1, by the Denver banks
and other corporations in Denver ag.
gregated more than 81 ,000, 900, accord.
| ing to financial experts.
The railroad lines, the hotels and
various enterprises serving tourists
| were taxed to capacity to care for the
| biggest June month-end run of tour,
lists in many year in Denver.
Firemen of Gilpin and Jefferson
counties held their last annual picnic
at Lookout Mountain park. The pic.
mic took the place of a tournament
which had been held in former years.
John w. Campbell, IA, former resi-.
dent of Grand Junction, died in his
homestead, twenty-nine miles south.
west of Grand Junction, from Bright's
disease. He is survived by eight
children.
Rates for workmen's compensation
insurance in the state fund will be
announced on July 10, according to a
statement made by Chairman Nc.
Laughlin of the Colorado Industrial
Commission.
That wild animals in the foothills
and mountains to the west of Love
land are more in evidence than ever
before is the concensus of opinion
among those who spend considerable
time in the hills.
While his 5-year-old son, Myron,
stood few PAGES away and watched,
Clarence F. Bergen, 80, proof clerk
for the Woodmen of the World, shoot
and killed himself in the bedroom of
his home in Denver
Following the decision of Denver
merchants, Colorado Springs retail
stores enforced a rule that no more
women's clothes would be sent from
their stores on approval and that such
goods purchased would not be ex.
changed.
A crowd of more than 1000 persons
watched score of volunteer rescuers
save the life of Roy Kendall, an as.
phalt worker who was pinned fifteen
minutes between a street car and a
steam roller at Fifteenth and fremont
streets in Denver.
Joseph Lopez, a Mexican, lies in
the Sterling hospital with bullet
wounds through the calves of his legs
and another bullet hole through one
of his knees, the victim of would-be
murderer who shot from ambush at
Atwood, ten miles southwest OF
Sterling
Adam McGregor, the Denver youth
who went to Scotland last fall to en-.
ter the English army, and who has
been in active service in France for
the last two months, is among the
missing in the Tenth Liverpool Scot.
fish regiment, which he joined in De-
cember, according to cablegram re.
ceived in Denver.
Jesse e. Fleming, Denver banker
and contractor, resigned as member
of the State Board of Capitol Man
ayers, after District Judge Perry had
quashed informations against him and
James Williams, brother board mem
Der, charging them with using their
offices to let state contracts beneficial
to themselves.
The statement of Frank H. Wolcott,
bursar of the University of Colorado
at Boulder, that it has cost the insti-
tuition almost $4,000 to defend the
Oles suit has aroused popular indig-
nation to such a pitch tina. an inves-
LEGATION of the origin of the forged
document on which the Oles suit was
based is demanded.