The Colorado statesman., 1916-12-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


Jan. 2O-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. C. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Briggsdale is having a building
boom.
Frederick's new $4,000 school house
is about completed.
Negotiations are pending by which
the Colorado-Yule Marble Company
may be reorganized.
During the past month the indus
trial commission has been successful
as mediator in six disputes in the coal
fields.
High praise for the naval hospital at
Las Animas is contained in the annual
report of w. C. Braisted, surgeon gen
eral of the navy.
Legislative changes in the state
homestead and marriage record laws
were recommended at a meeting of the
Colorado Equal Suffrage Association In
Denver.
Superior, Boulder county, dedicated
as Catholic church which had once
been saloon, and so great was the
interest in the ceremonies that 800
Catholics and non-Catholics attended.
Six men are in jail at Pueblo
charged with forgery as a result OF
their operations in the past few days,
when several bad checks were passed
on Pueblo merchants.
From all indications the business OF
the Denver postoffice will show an in
crease for 1916 of more than 81, 900 900
as compared with 1915. This is the
largest gain in the history of the of.
flee.
Max and Sam Levy, brokers with
offices in Denver, were arrested by
United States authorities on indict-
ments from Phoenix, Ariz, charging
them with using the mails to de-
fraud.
George Mitchell, five-time ex-con-
charged with misrepresenting himself
TO the landlady of an apartment house
at 1456 Washington street and obtain
ing SIS.
Cheyenne police are looking for Mrs.
Stanley Yoakum, wife of the Denver
lightweight pugilist, who disappeared
from her home near Denver some time
ago while her husband was filling fight
engagements in the East.
William A. Grierson lost only 81
worth of his wife's affections through
her alleged association with A. d. At.
wood alth0uob ha cuad tho Iottar for
the loss of $4,000 worth. A jury in
Judge Buffers division of the District
Court so held in a verdict which it re.
turned in Denver.
The decision of the United States
Supreme Court in upholding the right
OF the Minerals Separation Company,
a British corporation, to the use of the
flotation process, will not have an in.
furious effect on mining in Colorado.
according to Fred Carroll, state min
ing commissioner.
Coincident with the slump in the
cost of foodstuffs in Washington and
other eastern points, and the smash
ing of the Chicago egg corner" with
its resultant collapse of prices, the
quotations of several food commod-
tiles dropped in Denver and a further
decrease is expected
The sound of an auger boring
through the head of his bed aroused
Roy Staley, assistant cashier OF the
First National bank of Arvada. and
prevented bank robbery This was
the second attempt to rob this bank
within two weeks. Two weeks ago
robbers were frightened away.
the fact that silver is so per cent
higher in 1916 than it was in 1915, to-
gether with the added facts that a 46
per cent gain has been realized in lead,
a 5S to GO per cent gain in copper and
u gain of 6 per cent in spelter, ex-
plains the unusual prosperity which
prevails in Gunmson Chaffee, Lake,
Eagle, Summit and Park counties.
Plans for presenting the case of
manufacturers, jobbers, merchants
and the ultimate consumer for a COM
plete readjustment of the fre;gh.
rates to and from Colorado before the
Interstate Commerce Commission in
the Federal Court in Denver On Ian
Is. were discussed at a meeting OF
the Colorado FAY Rates Association
at Denver.
Denver's taxes in 1917 will be S6O2,-
%92.60 less than they were this year
The big reduction, which amounts to
a 10 per cent decrease, is provided
for in the annual levy ordinance in
troduced in the city council and ap-
proved and ordered published on the
recommendation of Mayor Speer. The
total amount to be raised will be ST.
2OS,133,59, as compared 10 $685.
525.99 this year.
Denver felt the effect of Germany's
peace proposal by an immediate drop
in the cost of living AS result of