The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-01-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western N.~.p.p.r Union New. Services.

Western Ns~spsper linton News Service.
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
Jan. l7ls.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Gr1Sers' and Butchers AssociAt'""
Jan. lS.-Sixth Annual Convention Of
Colo Good Roads Assn at Denver
Jan. ls-22.-Western Live Stock Show
Feb. Is-Meeting Republican state
,, Central Committee in Denver.
rep: i6.ls-Sports Carnival at steam
March 70 April ..-coiorado Retai,
Merchants Associations Food and
industrial Exposition at Denver.
The new Denver postoffice building
is now being occupied.
The Prohibition penalty law be-
came effective Jan. /.
The railroads have made a halffare
rate Tor the Western Stock Show at
Denver.
The Denver Tourist Bureau has
opened it's campaign to raise $4,000
for advertising Colorado.
The Woman's Club of Denver held
special services New Years to celc-
brate ColOrado's first Dry" day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John O. Nsylor. pio-
neer residents of Denver, celebrated
their golden. wedding anniversary.
The State College at Fort Collins
will in,es $29,5OO of its Sl8S. 900 Az
gle endowment fund in state securi-
ties.
The members of the Presidents
Colorado coal commission began
studying the present conditions In the
coal mines of the state.
J. Will johnson of Pueblo Was
seriously injured when his auto and
an Irving place car collided head on
at Tenth and Greenwood streets in
Pueblo.
Banks, corporations and various
other incorporated interests In Denver
paid out thousands in dividends tC
persons having accounts or holding
interest coupons. -'
William A. Jameson, well known
pioneer Denver man, has received The
appointment Of announcer and mes
senger for Judge Robert E. Lewis OF
the United States District Court.
Mrs. Ella Monk Mayo, wife of Dud-
! ley Mayo and an early-day society
belle OF Denver, died at her residence
| after an illness of ten months, which
| resulted from a fall on the Icy pave
ment.
Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Boulder
Cripple Creek and all the mountain
and other Colorado towns went dry
at midnight Dec. 81 without cere
mony. Most saloons closed doors be
fore the final hour S'
Joseph Kuykendall, SO, first mayor
Of Leadville, died at his home there.
Grippe, resulting from a cold he con-
tracted several days ago. was pro
bounced by the attsnLing physicians
&c the cause of the death.
The Public Utilities Commission
will issue orders compelling all pri-
vate and public owned corporations
to install the same system of book
keeping in order that the business of
tie companies may be gone over
quickly and without so much red
/ tGpe.
Miss Myrtle Comstock, who went
abroad several years ago to continue
her musical studies, died Sept. "a
near Paris. The news was received by
friends at Colorado Springs. Pneu-
monia, contracted when working in
the Red Cross service, caused her
death.
Though under the laws OF Colora DO
the maximum amount of damages that
may be allowed for the death of a
person is $4,000. the Denver District
Court is asked by Henry J. Kech. a
North Denver man, to give him udg-
ment for $4,000 for the death of his
wife, Elizabeth Kech.
Liquor shall be considered any
liquid which person can drink and
retain long enough and in sufficient
quantities to become Intoxicated"
This Is the general. construction of
the prohibition law given by District
Attorney John A. Rush of Denver,
after prolonged study of legal de,
eisions On the subject.
A verdict of not guilty was returned
IN Denver by the jury which sat in
the United States District Cou,, and
listened to the evidence in the trial
of John s. Cusack of Fort Collins,
former cashier Of the First National
bank of Wellington. charged in thirty
separate counts with embezzlement,
false entries and mieapplication of
| funds.
unique way Of bringing an ex-
hibit to the National Western Stock
show. which will be held in Denver
the week beginning Jan. II, will be
| the transferring by aeroplane of the
smallest calf to be exhibited from its
home in the Arkansas valley to the
Denver Union stockyards. A box is
| to be built back of the seat on the