The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-04-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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April iaEDenocratic STATE convsatioa
Nay First Congressional Distrie,
Republican CvnvsntiOn At Colorado
Springs.
April zs--AnnuaI Convention Western
Colorado l. O. o. =. at Grand juno
April ss-May @FeoA show At Colo
RADIO Springs.
May s-kspubIicaa State and Third
and Fourth Consressionai District
. convention at Pueblo.
May 1s-Democrat,c State Convention
=. At Colorado Springs
May 5o-Progressive state Convention
Aug. s-Denoeratic state Assembly At
Dsnvsr.
Divorced persons must wait one
year before remarrying in Colorado.
Ben B. Lindsey Of the Juveniis
Court was threatened with death In .
letter he received in his courtroom In
Denver.
Harry G. Lowe. %. formerly Q Den.
yer barber. was probably fatally hurt
near Kansas City when he fell from
Two prisoners attempted to saw
their way out of the Denver Jail In
order to take part In an elopement
previously planned
In memory OF z. H. Snyder. former
presiuent Of the State Teachers Col.
lese, who died last fall. an auditorium
costing 100000 will be built at the
college in Greeley.
Commercial and civic bodies
throughout the country are uniting
with the new centralized Denver or
ganixation in urging the passage of
the national park service bill.
Harry McAndrews. charged with
stealing $3.50 diamond stickpin from
Bradford Dubois. was acquitted In
the West Side Court In Denver after
the jury had been out only five min.
utes.
One Of the largest land transac-
tions of the year was closed at Wa:-
kins. when Ernest A. Reeves sold
1860 acres OF improved, non-irri-
gated land and 100 head of cattle to
George Adee Of Iowa, for 375.1OO.
Cyril Tuckfield of Denver was
named as principal for the naval
academy at Annapolis by Senator
Charles s. Thomas. under a recent
act authorizing an increase In the
number of cadets at the academy.
J. Lotion Davidson, Denver under.
taker. who was found guilty at Colo.
RADIO Springs Of conspiracy to de.
fraud an insurance company by
means of fake death. was sentenced
to term of from two to three years
in the penitentiary.
R. w. Clark, who left Denver fifty.
two years ago, arrived in the city
again on Pullman and could not be-
lieve 1t was the same place. He
could not find single spot that was
familiar. He came to Denver in 1862
and left In 1864.
The aggregate number Of building
permits issued by the city Of Denver
during the first three months of 1916
exceeded the figures for the same Pc
riod during 1915 by 100000. accord
ing to the report of the city building
inspector for March.
E. E. Drach, state bank commission
er, has started suit in the District
Court against holders Of 27Sh shares
Of the capital stock of the defunct
Lafayette Bank & Trust Company,
suing each stakeholder for 500 on
each share of stock held.
Activities of the Rockefeller found.
alton in aiding the poor and unem-
ployed during 1915, as we'll as its sup
port of non-affiliated organizations.
are set forth in report made public
In New York. The relief funds pro
vided included $ss,ss4 given to the
Colorado state committee on unem-
ployment and relief.
Leonard w. Merchant of Colorado
Springs accuses his brother, Earl A.
Merchant, Of stealing his wife. Mrs.
Merchant was arrested with her
brother-in-law at a Denver hotel on q
warrant sworn to by her husband. She
is in the county Jail and refuses to
accept bond offered by her husband
unless he also will procure the release
Of the younger man.
Receipts accruing to the national
forests in Colorado for the last ten
years. aggregating $2.O27,9s7.97, have
not only stimulated livestock and lum-
Der activities, but have brought q re-
version to various counties Of the
state Of more than $50O,O0O for road
and school purposes. according to sta
tistics received from Washington by
Smith Riley, district forester.
A flying squadron of the Congress
sional Union for Woman Suffrage left
Washington Sunday to organize, in
little more than a month, the S.OOO,-
900 women voters of the West in prep
aration for the presidential compaign
this fall. The thirty-seven suffrage
leaders, composing the mobilization
cnrns" will arrive In Donvor Coturdoy