The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1915-05-15

| RACING ASSOCIATION at Denver,
! Sept. 27Oct. S-MeetinE International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Colorado Fair Dates for 1918.
Aug. 1S-2O.-Island Grove Driving Club,
Aug, 24-27-Bent County Fair Associ-
alton Las Animas.
| Aug. 2527.-Fort Collins Racing Assoc
clation. Fort Collins.
Aug. 31,Sept S-Arkansas Valley Fair
Aug. 31-Sept. 3.-Larimer County Fair
| Association. Loveland.
se saca IiG snSST gt County Fair AS
Sept. .7eIo.-st.S Vrain Valley Fair As
sociation. Longmont; so
| sept. 13-1S.-Colorado State Fair Assoc
Sept 21-24-Trinidad-L Animas Co.
| Oct. 2-9.-Colorado Agricultural ran
and Racing Association. Denver
The jitney buses gave up the ship
at Pueblo.
Mrs. Anna Mellicker, IA, was burned
to death at her home in Pueblo.
George w. Alexander, fifty-eight, a
former lumberman of Denver, died in
the county hospital from paralysis.
State Auditor MuInix has appointed
j. w. d. Stovall of Colorado Springs
a building and loan inspector in his
office.
When the Liberty bell is received
in Denver early in July, an effort
will be made to make it possible for
every school child in the city to view
| it.
The threatened strike of plasterers
in Denver has been postponed for nine
ty days, during which time the con-
tractors will consider the demands of
the union.
Lindon w. Bates, Jr., son of Lindon
| w. Bates of New York and nephew
of DR.. Mary Bates of Denver, is re-
ported among the missing passengers
of the Lusitania.
A search is being made for the rela-
tives of Mrs. Della Farrell, who is in
st. Joseph's hospital in Denver at the
point Of death. She is suffering from
cerebral meningitis
The Denver Trades and Labor AS
sembly wired to President Wilson a
copy of resolutions adopted which say
that labor does not want war with
Germany or any other country.
THAT nation is in bad way whose
homes prefer poodles to babies" said
the Rev. Ernest Neal Orr in his Moth
er's day sermon in the First United
Presbyterian church in Denver.
Congressman Charles B. Timberlake
of Sterling, representing the Second
congressional district of Colorado, is
recovering from an operation of
serious nature at Beatrice, Neb.
Approximately 80 per cent of the
freight rates on coal in Colorado are
reduced in decision in the coal rates
case, affecting all railroads in the
state, handed down by the State Pub
lie Utilities Commission.
Charles Irving, twenty-eight, Gold
en- Cycle employee, died in the Red
Cross hospital at Victor of burns re-
ceived when he accidentally stepped
on a wire charged with $4,000 volts
of electricity.
Edward L. Seiwald, confessed part
ner of Oscar Cook in the shooting of
Patrolman Mcpherson and Andrew J.
Lloyd in March, 1912, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment in the West Side
Court in Denver.
Edward B. Morgan, whose appoint
ment to the Colorado tax commission
was announced by Governor Carlson
took the oath of office and assumed
his duties. He succeeds ]. Frank
Adams.
The sum of $350,000 to be spent by
the United States reclamation service
will go directly into the pockets of
| Grand valley farmers who are to be
employed in constructing laterals on
the High Line canal project
Motherhood the greatest of all
gifts to womankind, was honored in
all the churches in Denver, regardless
of creed. Music, sermons and let
tiers were sung, preached and dedi-
Gated to the mothers of the world.
An estate estimated to be worth be-
tween 100000 and $65O,OOO was left
by the late Rodney Curtis, pioneer
Denver real estate man and one of
the founders of the Denver Tramway
Company, who died in San Diego, Cal,
April &c.
Mys. Harry Bellamy, formerly Miss
Frederick LeFevre, daughter of
Judge and Mrs. owen LeFevre and a
member of Denver's smart set, is
mother of nine-pound baby daugh-
ter brought into the world under the
Twilight Sleep method.
The report from England that $780,
900 in gold collected in the United
States for the Belgian Red Cross fund
by Nine. Marie De Page went down
with her in the destruction of the
Lusitiania is not believed by Jean
Magnolet, Belgian consul in Denver,
who helped collect the amount raised
in Denver for the fund.
Receiver F. A. Chapman of the
in involuntary bankruptcy against
| in involuntary bankruptcy against