The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-01-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
estern NEWSPAPER linton News Service.
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.

Coio GOOD Roads Assn at Denver.
Jan. l9-Flfth annual convention Colo
rado Division Pixies Peak-Ocean-to-
Ocean Highway Association. at Dem
Jan. I6-22.-western Live Stock Show
Feb. 11-12-Annual convention Colo
Tado Metal Mining Association, at
Feb. Injecting Republican State
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb. 16-1S-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
, March 20-AprIl &C oforado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
The estate of VIM. Barth of Denver
will be administered by his daughter,
Charlotte.
The winter meeting of the Colorado
Denver, Jan. 17-1S.
Transfer companies report three
families coming into Denver to one
going out since Jan. 1.
The Colorado Stock Growers Asso-
citation will hold its annual conven-
ton in Denver, Jan. 81.
Col. D. c. Dodge was elected presi-
dent of the Colorado Fair Rates Asso-
citation at a meeting in Denver.
Fort Collins, dry for nineteen years,
and extra dry for three days, arrested
its first drunk in 1916, on the 5th.
| Denver retail coal dealers an
nounced an advance of 25 cents ton
on the price of coal to consumers.
H. w. Atkinson, government travel
ing auditor, was in Denver to audit
| NP 81 int oil
revenue.
| The Colorado Retail Hardware AMI
Implement Association will hold it's
| fourteenth annual convention in Den
yer Jan. IS, 10 and 20.
Plans for the remodeling of the old
federal building in Denver will be
| forwarded to Washington by F. l..
Lacaff, superintendent of construc-
ton.
Thomas Mathews, aged Is, son of a
prominent mining man of Central
City, died on train en- route to Den
yer, where he was to have been op-
Grated on for appendicitis.
The assembly of the largest num-
Der of high-class horses ever col
lected for Western exhibit is being
brought together at the stockyards to
be shown in the National Western
Livestock show.
Capt. Harry Holmberg was re-elect-
ed commander of No. II, uniform
rank, Knights of Pythias of Denver
Capt. l. H. Merritt was chosen as
first lieutenant, and Capt. Fred Field
second lieutenant
The Republican state central com
mittFs will meet in Denver Feb. 10
to ssieU. time and place for the
state convention to name delegates to
the Republican National convention,
in Chicago on June z.
Death may save Claude Maddox,
who the Denver police are convinced
is the youthful burglar wounded in an
exchange of shots with night watch
man in the Du Nan hotel, from ex-
planning the circumstances under
which he received a bullet wound in
the breast about the time the hotel
1uel took place.
The loss of two brothers in the
Balkan war two years ago, which, he
declared, had embittered him against
Bulgarians, constituted an excuse
which Michael Nimo, a Greek miner
from Moreland, Utah, gave the Den
yer police for shooting Peter Minoff,
Bulgarian miner of Lafayette, Colo,
on Larimer street
AS soon as the officials of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company receive
definite information from the United
States Steel Corporation and other
competitors in the East as to their
increase of pay for steel workers, the
Colorado firm will meet the advance
and put in effect another scale of
wages, according to Denver reports.
AS an aftermath of the Piute Indian
uprising in Utah last winter and the
battle that occurred in Bluff City dur
ing the attempted arrest of Tse-Ne-
Cat, recently acquitted in Denver of
the murder of Mexican sheepherder,
Senator Shafroth introduced bill for
$4,000 compensation for the widow of
Joseph C. Akin of Dolores, the deputy
marshal killed by bullet fired by a
member of Old Folks band, accord
Ing to Washington dispatches.
Members of the Brewery Workers
Union and other trades allied with the
late liquor industry marched in a body
to the state capitol to present in per-
a son resolutions passed at mass
meeting in the Denver Auditorium,
calling upon the governor to convene
special session of the Legislature
to provide employment for those
thrown out of work when the dry law
went into effect. The governor sug-
gested the opportunity for employ
lent in the beet fields.
The State Supreme Court in a de.