The Colorado statesman., 1916-01-01
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa-
tion at Denver.
Jan. 17-19.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers' and Butchers Association
Jan. 19.-sixth Annual Convention Of
Colo Good Roads Assn at Denver.
Jan. 22.-Western Live Stock Snow
Feb. 12--Meeting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
| Feb. 16-1S-Sports Carnival at Steam
March ,26-Aprn Go otorado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Delta is to have 6OO-ton sugar fac
tory.
Grand Junction is to have another
big elevator early the coming sea-
son.
Boulder is planning the erection of
new building as an assembly hall
on the Chautauqua grounds.
A number of young men of Boulder,
who are interested in aeronautics,
met at the Y. NJ. c. A. and organized
an aero club
Temporary insanity, induced by a
protracted attack of grip, is believed
TO have led Alfred l. Yarrow of Den
yer to end his life
San Juan county bids fair to soon
become one of the largest producers
of tungsten ores in Colorado, and
probably in the United States.
Mrs. Louise P. Amber, a pioneer
resident of Colorado Springs, died at
her home, 221 East Uintah street
She was in her ninety-first year and
was the widow of the late Judge Amb-
Ter.
Between $5,OOO,OO0 and $6,OOO,OOO
will be paid in dividends by Denver
corporations at the close of the years
business. This estimate was made
Tuesday by men high in the financial
world.
After a two-day search for 15-year
old Dorothy Merrill of Sterling, who
left her home to go to Sunday school
it developed that she had eloped tc
| Denver and was married to Albert l.
McCulloh of Fort Collins.
The body of an unidentified man
of about 20 years old was found in a
haystack on the Copeland ranch, o
few miles north of Globeville. He
apparently had frozen to death seek
ing shelter from the cold.
William Connolly, for many years
resident of Grand Junction and a re
spected youth, was arrested on q
charge of bootlegging, TakeIS Bsfore
Justice N. N. Smith, he admitted he
had sold some sherry wine.
Cutting off his relatives with 81
each, among them two Denver heirs
George A. Grund, wealthy broker OF
Kansas City, Kan, left the bulk OF
his $150,000 estate to his lifelong
friend, Henry McGrew, of that city.
All sections of Colorado and most
parts Of Wyoming are at the thresh-
old of almost unprecedented prosper
ity, according to the reports contained
in the December bulletin on general
/ conditions just issued by a Denver
bank.
In the hope of proving that the bull
let which killed w. II. Dickens al
Longmont on the night of Nov. 80 was
not fired from the gun which was
found at the home of Rienzi Dickens.
members of the Dickens family EN-
ployed an expert crime investigator
from Auburn, N. Y.
Thomas F. Mcclure, slayer of Harry
r. Montgomery, whom he shot and
killed July 5, and who was sent to
the Denver County Hospital Nov 16,
to die, as it was then supposed, has
been removed to the county Jail where
he is now, locked up in bankers
row." in the west wing of the jail,
just across the corridor from Col
James C. Bulger, also charged with
| murder.
More than score of Denver neil
and women, among them laborers,
dressmalSers and rooming-house keep
ers, gave accommodates" notes to
John s Cusack, former cashier of the
First National Bank at Wellington,
which later involved Cusack in trans
actions for which he is on trial in the
United States Court at Denver on a
charge of embezzling $4,000 of the
institutions funds.
The suit of the State Board OF
Equalization, which seeks to compel
Clair J Pitcher, Denver county as
SCISSOR, to raise Denver's valuation
s55,000,000, will be fought in the Dis
trict Court on the ground that "the
raises made by the Colorado Tax
Commission on the property involved
were made arbitrarily, capriciously
and unlawfully and as matter of
guess and chance" according to the
answer filed in the case by the city
attorneys office.
Two hundred and fifty employees OF
the Pullman Company working out OF
Denver will be benefited by the raise
in salary which the company an.
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