The Holly chieftain., 1916-04-14

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Court was threatened with death in
letter he received in his courtroom in
Denver.
Harry G. Lowe, %, formerly Den
near Kansas City when he fell from
. moving train.
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 q. H. Snyder, former
president 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
ganization 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 Wat:
kins, when Ernest A. Reeves sold
1850 acres of improved, non-irri-
gated land and 130 head of cattle to
George Adee of Iowa. for $75,100.
Cyril Tuckfield Of Denver was
named as principal for the naval
academy at Annapolis by Senator
Charles s. Thomas, under 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 it was the same place. He
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.
f. E. Drach, state bank commission
er, has started suit in the District
Court against holders of 27Sls shares
of the capital stock of the defunct
Lafayette Bank & Trust Company,
suing each stockholder for 500 on
each share of stock held.
Activities of the Rockefeller found
alton in aiding the poor and unem-
ployed during 1915, as well as its sup
port of non-affiliated organizations.
are set forth in report made public
in New York. The relief funds pro-
vided included s99,9S4 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 Denver hotel on a
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 s2,027 7,9S797, have
not only stimulated livestock and lum-
Der activities, but have brought re-
version to various counties of the
state of more than 100000 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 month, the 5000.
coo women voters of the West in prep
aration for the presidential compaign
this fall. The thirty-seven suffrage
leaders, composing the mobilization
corps" will arrive in Denver Saturday
10 confer with the Colorado heads.