Cheyenne record., 1915-02-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Frank ]. Croke, brother OF Senator
Thomas B. Croke. died at Sacramento.
CAL, Of heart disease
Thirty-three indictments were re-
turned by the federal grand jury in
its report to Judge R. E. Lewis at Den
yer.
The salaries Of seven employees of
the House and eight of the Senate are
held up by the civil service commits
sion.
Joseph Allesfa, two years old, of Pu-
eblo. plunged into a bathtub full Of
boiling water and was scalded to
death.
William T.>Hickey, secretary OF the
State Federation Of Labor. and Eli
Gross, vice president, were released
on bond at Pueblo.
More than 100000 books from the
Denver public libraries were read in
the city last year, according to the an
nual library report.
Chiropractors of the state are max
ing determined effort to have enact
ed their bill regulating the practice of
chiropractics.
The Rev. Ira Callihan, pastor Of the
Vona Baptist church, died in ST.
Luke's hospital in Denver after an i'll
ness of more than a month.
1t cost Commissioner Nisbet's de-
partment 71s cents apiece for each
meal furnished prisoner in the Den
yer city Jail during January.
For the first time in three years
Denver public schools celebrated
Abraham Lincoln's birthday anniver
sary by closing for the day.
VIM. Dick, wealthy mining man,
was shot and killed on the La Veta
road, near Walsenburg, as he was tax
Ing $4,000 to the mines to pay the
men.
Lieut.. Ernest John Munby OF the
Royal engineers, British army, who
the dispatches from London stated
was killed in action, was known to
many Denver people.
Nathan Dodge, aged SO, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. r. D. Shap-
colt, in Denver. He had been con-
fined to his bed for three weeks
Death was due to old age and paraly-
sis.
The mysterious sleep of Elmer Mel
ton, government High Line employe
at Palisade, who has been unconscious
for 144 hours or six days, is puzzling
Grand junction and Palisade physi-
clans.
Frank l.. Andre eishty-one, re-
tired mining man, was instantly killed
in Denver when he was struck by an
inbound Lawrence street tramway car.
His skull was crushed and his right
foot was mangled
Mrs. Harriet J. McAdoo, eighty-three,
the oldest plaintiff in damage suit
on record in the Denver District Court,
was awarded a verdict of 81 600 by the
jury which heard her case against the
Denver City Tramway Company.
Colorado horses are finding favor in
the eyes Of the experts sent by for
eign governments to purchase horses
for war purposes, according to C. NJ
Rand, Kansas City and Garden City
horsemen, who was in Denver.
The first conviction for white slav-
cry ever returned in the city and
county Of Denver was brought in by q
jury in the West Side court against
TriXie Gaughn, accused of operating
an establishment at 1923 Market street
during 1914.
Requests for new contract with
the Great Western Sugar Company,
made by a committee from the Inter-
state Farmers Association meeting in
Denver to Chester S. Morey and other
heads of the Great Western. were re-
fused by the company officials.
Letters advertising scenic and eli
matte attractions Of Colorado which,
it is expected, will bring thousands
more Eastern tourists to Colorado dur
ing the coming summer, who would
ordinarily visit Europe, have been sent
to leading newspapers of the East by
the See America First" committee Of
the Denver Chamber of Cimmerce.
Just as everything apparently was
nicely fixed by the enactment of leg
islation eXempting legislative EN-
ployes from the classified service and
those employees whose right to posi-
tions is questioned by the civil SER
vice commission thought they would
get their pay, another obstacle has
popped up and the civil service mud
61o &C. had ovar