The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-02-12

| rep. lo-lS-Sports Carnival at Steam
March 9-11.-Meeting Western Colo
| rado Teachers Association at Grand
| Junction,
| March 2U-April 2-Coio RADIO Retail
| Merchants Associations Food and
| Industrial Exposition at Denver.
April 13-Democratic State Convention
| at Pueblo.
The grip epidemic has taken
heavy toll among the aged residents
of Denver.
| Many farmers about Fort Morgan
are arranging to raise large acreage
of beans the coming season.
What is expected to be the biggest
pure food show ever given in the West
will take place in the Denver Audi
torium from March 20 to April /.
Joe Cippollone, an Italian, was cleo
trocuted in the Victor American Fuei
Company's coal mine at Chandler by
accidental contact with a transmits
sion wire.
At the meeting of the Fort Morgan
City Council the $4,000 bond issue of
1903 of the original water works con-
struction fund was voted to be re-
tired. This consisted OF $4,000.
Led by DR.. Henry A. Buchtel, chan
cellor of Denver University, a Colo
RADIO branch of the League to Enforce
Peace, of which former President
Taft is the head, is being organized
In Denver
Fred L. Patrick, Denver mining
man, was acquitted of the charge OF
| in for 10 a,.ie, o,,t
of an accident last fall in which his
automobile struck and killed A. B.
Reynolds.
Tristan B. Peck, 80, veteran of the
civil war, is the Oldest person who
ever received a divorce in a Denver
court. District Judge Butler gave him
divorce from Emma l.. Peck, who de
serted him forty years ago.
The superintendent of public in
struction of the western land-holding
states will meet in Denver Feb. II and
Is to form an organization of their
own, separate from the national or
ganization of superintendent.
David B. Moore, former evangelist,
convicted of having fired shot 1T
his wife in lawyers office in Den
yer, was sentenced from the West
Side Court to term of one year
the county Jail and to pay a fine If
$500.
With net income for the twelve
months of $2,316,175, and plans under
consideration for growth and extern.
sion, the Mountain States Telephone
and Telegraph Company closed Dec
81, 1915, one of the most successful
years of it's history.
Arthur Montague, itinerant mer-
chant who jumped his bond of $500
ten days ago, while awaiting trial on
a charge of attacking a I7-year-old
orphan girl, was returned to jail in
Denver from Kansas City, where he
was caught
DR.. Bennett, Graft, held responsible
by Denver coroners jury for the
death of Mrs. Ruth Ramp, who died
at Mercy hospital, and against whom
a charge of murder has been lodged
In the Criminal Court, must furnish
$4,000 bail.
Barely forty-eight hours after his
son, Douglas A. Roller and his nurse,
Mrs. Mary e. Robinson, were shot
during struggle with a burglar in a
room next to where he lay sleeping,
William w. Roller, "a, died at the
home of his daughter Mrs. J. Meyer,
Jr., in Denver. Death was due to
uremic poisoning.
A twelve-day blockade of railroad
traffic in southwestern Colorado was
lifted Monday. Delayed and regular
traffic over the Denver & Rio Grande
moved out of Durango and Alamosa.
The line over Cumbres pass was
cleared of drifts from six to thirty
feet deep, ending the longest stop
page of traffic over this road for sew.
eral years.
Mrs. Emerson ]. Short of Denver,
former president of the South Side
Woman's Club, has been appointed
Denver chairman of the enrolment
committee of the woman's section of
the Navy League of the United States
by Elizabeth Ellicott Poe, general sec
rotary of the organization. The aim
of the organization is to enroll 900.
900 members by March L, who will
stand for national preparedness.
Reports that Lena Schwartz, chief
witness for the state in the trial of
George Reichert, Fort Collins ranch
er, and Eddie Lewis, a chauffeur,
charged with responsibility for the
death of Louise Mansfield beaten and
kicked at Petersburg road house
several weeks ago, has been offered
bride to leave Denver and fail to APP
pear at the trial, are being investi-
gated by Samuel w. johnson. district
attorney for the First Judicial dis
trict.
A Jury in Judge Burke's division of