The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1916-01-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
sstern Newspaper Union Ne~s s>rsies.

at Pueblo.
Colo Good Roads Assn at Denver:
Jan. 1s-Fifth annual convention Colo
rado Division Pixies Peak-Ocean-tO-
Ocean Highway Association, at Dsn-
Jan, !se2.-western Live Stock shov
rado Metal Mining Association. ~
Feb lsIMeeting Repnbliean state
Central Committee in Denver.
FEB. le-ls-Sports Carnival at steam
boat Springs.
March .V-Aprn &C oiorado Retail!
Msershan's snh,.l, Assootati'ns Food. Food ae'
Over five hundred auto licenses for
1916 have been issued at Boulder.
Boulder was selected for the next
show Of the Northern Colorado Poul-
try Association.
Mrs. Ida Whitford. wife Of former
District Judge Greeley w. Whitford.
died at her home in Denver.
Miss Hazel Bean. employed at ho-
tel in Livermore. committed suicide
by shooting herself through the
heart
The Rev. Phillip Schmidt. pastor ut
Loveland. will be forced to defend his
citizenship in the District Court at
Fort Collins.
Effie Thomas. % years old, was the
first woman to be arrested In Denver
for intoxication since the dry" law
went into effect.
Thirty-two arrests have been made
In Las Animas county for alleged vio-
lation of the Colorado prohibition law
since the law became effective, Jan. i.
Peter Miller, 62, a mechanic and
pioneer Of Colorado Springs, was run
down by an auto and died an hour
later from his injuries at hospital.
The Senate confirmed the following
Colorado postmasters: Charles 8.
Logan, Buena Vista; William ID. New.
ton, Palisades, and Reita NJ. Vigil.
Trinidad.
The Democratic party OF Colorado
opened its 1916 campaign at the Jack.
son Day Dollar dinner in Denver.
More than six hundred men and wom-
Ell attended.
Suit for $12.s70 was filed in the
District court at Boulder by George
w. Koontz Of Iowa City, Ia, and
others, against the White Cloud Min
ing & Milling Company.
Mrs. Elva Higley and son, James.
were arrested at Grand Junction,
when the police raided roomiEg
house, on charges of selling liquor In
violation of the prohibition law.
A silent search, conducted several
months by his wife, Mrs. Anna Floyd.
owner of ranch in Arapahoe county,
resulted In the arrest of N. A. Floyd.
76 years old, on charge Of bigamy.
Reports have reached Denver that
Frank Biamonte. his wife and six
children, who left Denver q few weeks
ago. were lost aboard vessel en-
route to Italy, which was torpedoei ty
q submarine.
The annual congress of the Saliva
tion Army of the western states
opened in Denver with Commissioner
Thomas Estill, commander of the or
ganizatiol in twenty-six western
states. presiding.
Introduction in Congress Of bill
by Representative Ben C. Hilliarl %
Denver to give that city, through
federal aid. the Moffat tunnel by wav
! Of the James Peak bore, for municipal
purposes, and to complete transcon
tinental railroad system, was received
with enthusiasm by the Moffat tunnel
commission.
That the recent uprising of the Ute
Indians in Colorado and Utah was the
result of conditions of shameful neg
lect" at the Ute Mountain Indian
agency and of badly bungled" plot
to drive non-reservation Utes off the
public domain and seize their land, is
the charge made in report by NJ. X.
Sniffen, special investigator of the
| Indian Rights Association.
The Rev. Homer s. Salisbury, who
is among those missing from the pas
senger list of the Inflated liner Per
sia, which was sunk by submarine III
the Medi'erranean, was graduate OF
the Boulder Prep school with the class
of 1854. Salisbury boarded the Persia
at Marseil!es. The missing man is A
years old. He left Boulder at the
age of 1S, Immediately after gradua
ton
A peremptory writ of mandamus
ordering the town of Aurora and its
officials to pay $25,00O to Samuel G.
Hickman, resident of Pennsylvania
was issued in Denver by Federal
Judge r. E. Lewis. The writ provides
for partial satisfaction of a $225,o00
judgment obtained by Hickman in the
United States court last March in a
suit to recover on Aurora water bonds
which matured in 1906