The Colorado statesman., 1916-10-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR coMING EVENTS.

Oct. 27-Farm Exhibit at Grand Valley.
Jan: 20-27-Annual w stern STOCK
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. C. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Sugar advanced Is cents per hun
dred in Denver.
James H. Campion was killed by
tramway car in Denver.
Englewood has filed a petition ask
ing to become a part of Denver
The Colorado National Guard is now
stationed at Camp Deming, N M.
Over 10000 sheep were received at
day.
Over $50 delegates attended the
annual convention of the w. C. T. U.
in Pueblo.
The s1,OOO,OOO estate of Adolph ].
Zang will go to the widow and five
children.
A community farm exhibit is planned
by the people of Grand Valley and
vicinity for Friday. October 81.
Autoists have been given the right
to enter the spacious parks and play
grounds at Colorado Springs.
Thomas F. Mcclure, slayer of Har-
ry r. Montgomery, July 5, 1915, is
dying in the Denver county jail.
The Progressive mining property ad-
joining the Harvard, on North Fryer
Hill at Leadville, has been reopened.
A simple faith in sudden friendship
cost F. M. Grider of jefferson Sc, ac-
cording to a report made to Denver
police.
Fire destroyed the home of Bert
Marsh near Fort Lupton. Mrs. Marsh
was severely burned, but his five chill
dren escaped.
1t is rumored that the Bear Gulch
property of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company in Fremont county will re-
sumo operations.
Mundell Brothers on Bear Creek,
southeast Of Artesia, have secured
four cuttings of alfalfa this summer
from sixty acres.
]. Bernard, candidate for county
commissioner, and one of the wealth
lest citizens of Boulder, died suddenly
of apoplexy at Niwot.
A federal investigation into the in.
crease in the cost of all foodstuffs
was demanded by the Denver House.
wives league yesterday.
The cost of the proposed paving
and lighting improvements in the
South Side district of Pueblo is esti-
mated that $500 for each pair of lots.
E. L. Kolb, of Grand Canon, Ariz.,
and Bert Loper, of Torrey, Utah, sue
cessfully navigated the Westwater
canon rapids of the Grand river, 80
miles west of Grand junction in
canon.
According to the most reliable re-
ports which come from the federal
farm loan board, Fort Morgan boasts
the first completed organization OF
farmers into loan association in the
United States
Hurled from the platform of Colo
rado & Southern train while it was
travelling at the rate of forty miles
an hour. Thelma Osborn, a 17.year-
old high school girl of Denver, was
dangerously injured.
Judge Thomas Henry Anderson. se-
nior justice of the Supreme, Court of
the District of Columbia, author, lee
turer and former minister to Bolivia,
died in st. Joseph's hospital at Dem
yer. He was So years old.
]. A. Frame of Mitchell, Neb., has
written letter in defense of the late
John Wesley Arasmith, Golden editor
and high school principal, whose
$4,000 estate has been claimed by
Mrs. Samuel King of Chicago on the
ground that she is his only daughter
by his first marriage.
According to abstract of assess
ment Weld county property values are
three million dollars higher than
those of last year. There are 2,O91
automobiles as against 1,216 for 1915.
1t is estimated that the population
of the county is about $4,000.
Forty-four students of. the Univer-
sity of Colorado were received into
membership by the First Presbyterian
church at Boulder as a result of the
campaign for Sunday school and
church attendance waged in connec.
ton with the nationwide "go-to-Sun-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES" day.
Charles Stevens, alias Savage, a
Denver negro. convicted in 1908 of a
sensational $4,000 mail robbery in
Kansas City and characterized by fed
eral authorities as one of the most
notorious postal robbers in the coun-
try, was arrested in the home of his
grandfather, Isaac Brown. at Denver.
Rex Yeager has been appointed
member Of the state embalming board
and ]. c. Bloom was reappointed a
memher of the state hoard of Qntaua.