The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


wood Springs.
Aug. 2-National Convention of Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Den
Aug. S-Democratic state Assembly at
Denver.
Mrs. Johnson of Pyramid was
gored by Peter Haley's pet deer
The Clear Creek Metal Miners AS
sociation is adding many new men,
bers.
Wood ticks are reported thicker in
the vicinity of Marble than for many
years.
1t is reported that the tungsten
mines in the Boulder district will or
ganlze union.
NJ. C. Gle, professor of Latin and
Greek at Colorado College, died at
Colorado Springs of heart failure.
The trial of Rienzi Dickens for the
murder of his father, was halted in
Boulder by the illness of one of the
jurors.
The location of a rich iron mine
few miles north of Aguilar, by
Everett Lain and Mccoy Grimsley, is
| reported
1t is stated that ]. o. Miller, the
of Boulder, is to be the new postmas-
ter at that place.
Roscoe c. Moore, 80, was impris-
oned and killed by cavein in the
White Rock mine at Gold Hill, twelve
miles west of Boulder
Snow in Cripple Creek and Victor
was eighteen inches deep Monday
morning and two feet deep in the
hills surrounding the camps.
The contract for the laying of the
first five miles of concrete surface on
the highways between ne0ver and
Golden, known as the South Golden
road, has been awarueu.
The Denver & Rio Grande is pre-
pairing to expend 100000 in ballast
ing its Denver-Pueblo line between
Pueblo and Colorado Springs this
summer.
Ernest II. Pettigrove, invoice clerk
for Swift e Co, at Denver, was ar
rested at Hot Springs, Ark, where he
had fled after it was reported that
he was $4,000 short.
Business revival in Denver is
cleaned by Postmaster Stapleton from
receipts for April, which amount to
SIPS, 5,630.51, an increase of $11, ,5S0.SS
over those of April, 1915.
The Irish flag was floated from the
top of one of the tallest pines on the
mountain side that surround the city
of Ouray, when word reached there
of the outbreak in Dublin.
Because, it is said, his aged moth
er refused to give him money, Har-
old Sebastian, % years old, attempted
to slay her with a butcher knife in
the Sebastian home in Denver.
Another raise of 10 per cent in the
wages of all the 5000 men employed
at the Minnequa steel plant in Pu-
eblo was announced, making total
increase of 20 per cent within few
months.
Three days after the death of her
son, H. S. Shepardson, from pneu-
monia Mrs. Eta McCord died in
Denver at the same institution from
the same affliction, ignorant of the
loss OF her son.
Robbers broke into the drugstore
of Charles o. Carlson in Frederick,
and blew open two safes, one con-
tanning postal orders and stamps for
the postoffice, maintained in connec-
ton with the store.
Two brothers, Filimeno Lopez and
Andreas Lopez are in the county Jail
at Trinidad and the sheriffs officers
are looking for one other in connec-
ton with the reported larceny of 120
head of sheep from the ranch of one
Archuleta near Trinchera.
Catholics from all parts of Denver
united with Father A. p. Brucker, as
sistant pastor of the Sacred Heart
church, in celebrating his golden
jubilee, representing the fiftieth an
niversary of his priesthood with the
church.
George Bot, son OF prosperous
German farmer living southeast of
Loveland, entered a plea of mot
guilty to a statutory charge prefer
red against him by a brother-in-law
of Molly Minsch in Justice Payne's
court in Loveland, and his case was
set for hearing May 10.
Ray Shattuck, said to be the wealth
last express messenger in the United
States, was made defendant in a di-
vorce action filed in the District
Court in Denver by his wife. Mrs
Lottie Shattuck, who charges him
with having three other women
friends" whom she names. besides
Others too numerous to mention"
During the past year it is reported
that at least s650,00O has been paid
to the farmers of the San Louis Val.
ley for fat hogs. The San Louis Val
ley has demonstrated what can be ac'
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