The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-02-24

Junction.
March 20 April :-Colorado Retail
Meichants Associations Food and
ihuustrial Exposition At Denver
April ls-Democratic State Convention
~ at Pueblo.
May First Congressional District
Eepublican Convention AT Colorado
May S-Republican State and Third
ana Fourth Congressional District
convention at Pueblo.
The San Juan tungsten district is
booming.
Sugar advanced from $500 to SG.si
per cwt. in Denver.
X. l.. Metcalfe of Omaha, spoke in
Denver on Washington's birthday
Over $4,000 was paid leasers on the
lbex mine at Leadville last week.
Denver's new federal court was
dedicated in the new postoffice build
ng.
President Wilson nominated Sam
lel W. Barber as postmaster at Chey
anne Wells.
NJ. ID. Thatcher, aged Pueblo banker,
reported sinking, and the end ex-
pected at any time.
William Mari. e8 years old. Colo.
rado pioneer and widely known cattle
nan of North Park, died at St Luke's
hospital.
Mrs. Alice Wallace, so years old,
iropped dead from heart disease
while being fitted for a coat in Il
Denver department store.
The highest price ever recorded on
the Denver market for fat lambs,
$lO.5O per cwt., was paid for two car.
loads in from Fort Collins.
A call for the Democratic state cen
tral committee to convene in Denver
Saturday, March 4, was issued by
Chairman Wellington Gates.
The Littleton primary" to select a
candidate for postmaster was held
and Lew F. Allen was high. with 1853
votes. Eight persons were voted for.
Jay Denham. IS years old, resident
Of Colorado for thirty-eight years, and
a we'll known stockman. died at his
home near Deer Trail, after long
Illness
Mrs. Margaret Osborn, S., wife O.
Judge w. b. Osborn. died at Ioveland
She was one of the first settlers al
Gold Dirt, mining camp near Cen
tral City. in 1860.
An order for 100000 worth of tung.
stem ore for an Eastern steel concern
to be used In the manufacture of
munitions for European governments
was received in Denver.
One hundred and ten arrests in.
volving alleged violations of the pro
hibition law were made by the Den.
yer police and the district attorneys
office in the first six weeks of a
dry Denver, according to records OF
the two offices.
Risking his own life to remove a
jeopardy to probably scores of 9th.
ers, Jesse B. Ronaldson, 80, a car.
penter and contractor, picked up a
live electric light wire on the Denver
4 Rio Grande railroad tracks south
of Bayaud street in Denver and a
moment later fell dead under the
shock of 1900 volts.
Prompted by what is believed by
friends to have been a despondency
over shattered love affair, Gustave
Liljeberg, II. living at 25Ol Harlan
street, Edgewater, ended his life by
swallowing several ounces of chloro.
form and cutting his wrists with
razor. He died at the county hospital
in Denver.
DR.. Bennett Graft, released on ST..
500 bail several days ago on charge
of murder, growing out of the death
of Mrs. Ruth Kamp at Mercy hospital
was rearrested in Denver on the or.
der Of Coroner Sherman Williams in
connection with the death of Mrs
Beulah Hatch, wife of George E.
Hatch of Longmont.
The Rev Otis l.. Spurgeon, who was
kidnapped from his hotel in Denver
uieSi hSii'SihiS lellSlouS leCtuFeS Ill
1914, has filed $4,000 libel suit
against the Knights of Luther and
their manager, F. NJ. Shipper. accord
ing to dispatches from Des Moines,
Iowa. He represented the organiza
tion while in Denver on a speaking
tour.
Hurled headlong against stone
curb in crash Of autos at Eighteenth
avenue and Grant streets in Denver,
Mrs. Fulton Jack, So years old, wife
of prominent attorney of Beatrice,
Neb.. received injuries which it is be.
lieved will be fatal. She was return.
ing from the funera! OF a nephew. Mrs.
Jack came to Denver to attend the
funeral of Robert Wood, 7-month.
old son of c. d. Wood, Boulder
tungsten mill superintendent.
Oscar Cook, who is to be hanged at
the State Penitentiary for the killing
of Patrolman William Mcpherson and