The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-03-04


April lS-Democratic State Convention
May First Congressional District
republican Convention at Colorado
May ,2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
A rotary club has been formed at
Colorado Springs.
The Maccabees are reviving their
lodge at Frederick
A five-day Chautauqua meeting will
be held at Ouray early in July.
On the years extra day, seven d.
vorces were granted in Denver
Five leap year marriage licenses
were issued in Denver on Feb. 20.
Denver Charter petitions have over
5000 names, enough to call an cleo
ton.
The funeral of NJ. d. Thatcher, Col
orado's richest citizen, was the larg-
est ever held in Pueblo
Since the middle of February the
price of spelter in the Colorado camps
has advanced s32 per ton.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Lawrence Phipps, Jr., of Denver.
This is the second girl for the fam
lily.
An election will be held at Fred
erick March o. to determine whether
the several schools of District rs shall
be merged.
Grand Junction is preparing for the
meeting of the Western Colorado
Teachers Association in that city,
March 1912.
Charles Hazen was made defendant
in an information charging white
slavery preferred by Miss Ora De Lee
of Denver.
Mrs. Mariel Simonson, wife of
widely known cattleman of Hugo,
died in Denver in St Anthony's hos
pital from the effects of an operation
two weeks ago.
The dropping of a spoon in the
home of A. M. Johnson, in Denver,
caused their daughter, Miss Gertrude,
to make an investigation that resulted
in the rout of burglar.
of assault to kill his wife, Stella
Peterson, was sentenced by Judge
Wright in Denver to serve one year
in the county jail, the limit of the
law.
John P. Broderick, for more than a
quarter of a century an employee of
the Denver postoffice, and for many
years Superintendent of Finance,
died at the family home, at the age
of GO.
Denver went on record Feb 20 with
a crop of leap year babies that total
an even dozen. These babies will
give their mothers the joy of provid.
ing birthday parties only once in
every four years.
Reinzi Dickens probably will stand
trial in the District Court in Boulder
county for the alleged murder of his
aged father, w. H. Dickens, who was
shot at his home in Longmont on the
night of Nov. 80.
The work of restocking Colorado
with elk, which was begun in 1913, by
shipment of seventy-five to the Du-
range, Sopris and Colorado National
forests, is being carried forward on
larger scale than ever before.
Bond was fixed at $4,000 for DR..
Noble o. Hamilton, charged with the
murder of Mrs. Ada Williams, who
died as the result of an alleged IL
legal operation, by Judge Wright in
the West Side Court in Denver.
Denver building operations doomed
in February and the total permits for
structures issued at the city hall ex
ceeded in total figures any month
in 1915. In all building permits for
business houses and homes totaled
$472,3S0.
A posthumous child, who will be
one of the heirs to an estate that is
valued at between 100000 and
$10,000,000, was born in Denver to
Mrs. Rose Martin Cosgriff, widow of
the late Thomas A. Cosgriff, Colorado
and Wyoming capitalist. Mr.. Cos
griff died Oct. Ia last, after a brief
illness of typhoid fever The baby
which is boy, has been named
Thomas A., Jr.
The following dividends of record
were paid by Cripple Greek mining
companies in February Portland
Gold Mining Company. $4,000, a
quarterly dividend of cents a share;
Vindicator Consolidated G. NJ Com.
pany, $4,000, Quarterly dividend of
cents; Golden Cycle Mining and Re.
duction Company, $4,000, monthly
dividend of cents share. The divi.
bends of the close corporations are
not made public.
According to word received by
friends in Colorado Springs, Eleanor
Painter of that city, who has been
starring in Princess Pat in New