Cheyenne record., 1916-01-27

rado Metal Mining Association. at
Feb. 12-Meeting Republican State
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. 16a1S-,Sports Carnival at Steam
March ,26-Aprii COLORADO Retail
Merchants Associations Food ana
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
April 13-Democratic State Convention
at Pueblo.
President Wilson is expected to
speak in Denver, Feb. Is.
Two persons were swept to death
In a snowslide at Leadville.
George Menzimer, forty, of Idaho
Springs, died at Georgetown.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Colorado Osteopathic Assocla.
tion will be held in Denver Jan. 2s
and 30.
The first case to be prosecuted in
Denver under the new prohibition law
resulted in a plea of guilty and fine
of $100 and costs.
John l.. Stewart, county commits.
sioner, died at his home in George
town of pneumonia. Mr.. Stewart was
sixty-forr years old.
Gamely fighting to the last, Joel. w.
Shackelford, pioneer, real estate man
end city builder, died at the family
residence in Denver.
Mrs. Elizabeth McGerr, seventy, a
resident of Georgetown since 1879, is
dead at the family home. following an
illness of two weeks.
Governor Carlson appointed M. H.
Aylesworth. member of and attorney
for the State Public Utilities Commls.
sicn, to be it's chairman.
Investigations of the intricacies OF
a loaded toy cannon may cost George
Thompson, six years old, Of Denver
the sight of his right eye.
A. Solomon, eighty-six. pioneer res.
er-in-law Of Sheriff A. E. Straub. is
dead at the latter's home in George
town.
The annual meeting of the Rocky
Mountain Association of Municipal
Electricians, including Wyoming, New
Mexico. Utah and Colorado was held
IN Denver
Mrs. Hank Mauer Of Gunnison was
in Denver resting up from the exer.
tion she says she underwent when
she horsewhipped her former brother
in-law, Herman Mauer.
Raymond McMillin. a high school
senior at Lamar. was in Denver as
the official delegate of the Good
Roads Organization of the school to
the Colorado Good Roads Associa-
ton.
The Mountain States Lumber Deal
ers' Association delegates we're
guests at banquet at which the
Denver Knoll Hole Club acted as
host during their annual meeting in
Denver.
Stock Show judges and exhibitors
and party of young women guests
Joined in big hunt for Colorado coy
otes Monday. The horses ridden back
of the hounds were estimated to be
worth more than $150,000.
The net public debt Of Denver is
S709,254.2S and the per capita debt OF
penver on the basis of the last Unit
ed States census estimate of $4,000
population is $3.50, according to a
statement issued by City Auditor
James F. Markey.
A sworn petition calling attention
to the fact that, although Judge Lind
sey has been in Europe for some time
his salary has continued and ask
ing the commissioners to see that it
is stopped in the future was filed
with the city clerk of Denver by
William P. Daniels, who signs him.
self "a citizen aud taxpayer"
Reports Indicating substantial prog.
ress in the establishment of elevators,
warehouses, factories and creameries
and the saving of large sums on the
purchase of coal, fruit, vegetables,
bags, binder twine, grain, flour and
seed were made at the Farmers Edu-
cational and Cooperative Union OF
Colorado, which met in Denver.
Reports of a huge war order, Oh
tanned by Denver horse dealers. were
prevalent among the buyers at the
stockyards. 1t is understood that a
contract for $4,000 animals has been
closed by the Denver firm with the
commission now in Denver represent
ing England and France, and that
the total amount involved in the deal
is $2,700,00O.
Three persons. who fifty years ago
were principala IN a weddinp cera-