The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1916-01-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Western NsvspsDsr Usies nsus sssvasa
BATES ron COMING EVENTS.
Jan. l7-ls.-Nsseing Colorado Retaii
Groesrs ana Butchers Associat'oA
Jan. IS-Sixth Annual convention Of
Colo: Coed Roads Assn at Denver:
Jan lS-3A-wsstsrn Live stock SNOW
Feb. is-MeetInE Republican state
Central Committss In Denver.
FSo. is.ltESports Carnival NJ s'e>
March sS.AstH -ce1eraas Rs..l,
iSSS Saans n AssoSa:s,o =, pssssr.
The new Beaver postoffice bsilSing
ID now being occupied.
The Prohibition penalty law b.
came effective Jan. l.
The railroads have made hAlf-fars
rate for the Western Stock Show at
Deavsr. -a'-
The Denver Tourist Bureau has
opened its campaign to raise $4,000
for advertising Colorado.
The Woman's Club Of Denver held
special services New Years TO eels-
brate Colorado's first DRY" day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John q. Naylor. pio-
neer residents of Denver, celebrates
their golden wedding anniversary.
The State College at Fort Collins
will invest $2s,so0 Of its e1SS.000 A.
gle endowment fund in state securi-
ties.
The members of the President's
Colorado coal commission began
studying the present conditions in the
coal mines Of the state.
J. Will johnson of Pueblo was
seriously injured when his auto and
an Irving place car coll;dsd head on
At Tenth and Greenwood streets In
Pueblo.
Banks, corporations and various
other Incorporated interests in Denver
paid out thousands in dividends TO
persons having accounts or holdins
interest coupons.
William A. Jameson, we'll known
pioneer Denver man. has received the
appointment of announcer and mes
senger for Judge Robert e. Lewis Of
the United States District Court.
Mrs. Ella Monk Mayo, wife OF Dud-
ley Mayo and an sarly-day society
belle Of Denver, died at her residence
after an illness Of ten months, which
resulted from 4 fall ON the icy pave
mont.
Pueblo. Colorado Springs, Boulder,
Cripple Creek and all the mountain
and other Colorado towns went dry
at midnight Dec. 81 without csre.
mony. Most saloons closed doors BE-
fore the final hour.
Joseph Kuykendall, 80. first mayor
Of Leadyille, died at his home there.
Grippe, resulting from cold he CON
tracted several days ago. was pro-
nounced by the attending physicians
as the cause OF the death. -
The Public Utilities Commission
will issue orders compelling all pri-
vate and public owned corporations
to install the same system of book
keeping in order that the business OF
the companies may be gone over
quickly and without so much red
tape.
Miss Myrtle Comstock, who went
abroad several years ago to continue
her musical studies, died Sept. "a
near Paris. The news was received by
friends at Colorado Springs. Pneu-
monia, contracted when working in
the Rec Cross service, caused her
death.
Though under the laws Of Colorado
the maximum amount of damages that
may be allowed for the death of q
person is $4,000, the Denver District
Court is asked by Henry ]. Koch, q
North Denver man, to give him judg
ment for $4,000 for the death of his
wife, Elizabeth Koch.
Liquor shall be considered any
liquid which person can drink and
retain long enough and in sufficient
quantities to become intoxicated"
This is the general construction OF
the prohibition law given by District
Attorney John A. Rush Of Denver,
after prolonged study of legal de.
cisiops on the subject.
A verdict Of not guilty was returned
In Denver by the jury which sat in
the United States District Court and
listened to the evidence in the trial
of John S. Cusack of Fort Collins,
former cashier of the First National
bank of Wellington, charged in thirty
separate counts with embezzlement,
false entries and misapplication OF
funds
A unique way Of bringing an az.
hibit to the National Western Stock
show, which will be held In Denver
the week beginning Jan. II, will be
the transferring by aeroplane Of the
smallest calf to be exhibited from its
home in the Arkansas valley to the
Denver Union stockyards. A box lie