The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-02-26
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

March 4.-Democratic State Central
March 9-11.-Meeting Western Colo
Tado Teachers Association at Grand
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
april l3.Democratic State Convention
May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
Springs.
May 2.GRepublican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
The San Juan tungsten district is
booming
Sugar advanced from $3.50 to $685.
per cwt. in Denver
The Coal Creek ranch of 1000 acres
has been sold for $4,000.
Denver bricklayers get 81 advance
now 81 for eight hours
Denver's new federal court was
dedicated in the new postoffice build
ing
The Rocky Mountain Club of New
York held it's ninth annual dinner in
Denver
w. e. Steel of Denver was chosen
treasurer of the Fraternal Society
Law Association at its meeting in
| Chicago.
Senator Shafroth sent the name OF
William e. King to the postmaster
general as his choice for the postmas-
tership of Sterling.
The Littleton primary" to select
candidate for postmaster was held,
and Lew F. Allen was high, with 159
votes. Eight persons were voted for.
j. ]. Valley, the oldest undertaken
in the United States, celebrated his
ninetieth birthday anniversary, and
open house was held in his honor at
his home in Denver.
An order for 100000 worth of tung,
stem ore for an Eastern steel concern
to be used in the manufacture of
munitions for European governments
was received in Denver.
George Washington's birthday was
celebrated in Denver with the closing
of all public offices, banks and
schools and with patriotic meetings
by many lodges and fraternal organ
izations.
Petitions for a responsible and
representative mayor form of govern
ment and amending the charter of the
city and county of Denver" by abol-
are being circulated.
John T. Gaylor will be returned to
Denver from Colon, Panama, a dis
lance of $500 miles, by federal autho-
rites to answer a charge of stealing
check for $500 in 1911, while EN-
ployed as clerk at Fort Logan.
Mrs. Martha E. Smith, relative of
Justice Tully Scott of the State Su-
preme Court and widow of the late
DR.. Pierce 7. Smith, formerly one of
the most prominent dentists of Den
YER, died at her home in Denver.
One hundred and ten arrests in
volving alleged violations of the pro
hibition law were made by the Den
yer police and the district attorneys
office in the first six weeks of a
dry" Denver, according to records of
the two offices.
Reports that he would not relin-
quish the office of adjutant general
without show of resistance were de-
MED in a statement issued by Adjt
Gen. John Chase, who is to be sue
ceeded by former Judge Harry Gam
BILE of Boulder.
The coal mine production of Colo
RADIO for January was 1,0O5,074 tons,
an increase of 266,659 tons over the
production of January, 1915, according
to State Inspector James Dalrymple
During the month there were 1881
men employed in the mines, each
working an average of 1877 days.
The contract giving the city of Den
yer an option on the denver Union
Water Company plant 1T figure to
be fixed by the United States SUI
preme Court was signed by the com
pany and the Utilities Commission
and ratified by the city council with
out dissenting vote.
Prompted by what is believed by
friends to have been a dependency
over shattered love affair, Gustave
Liljeberg, II, living at 25O1 Harlan
| SNANSs' i1u5V"atOi, tuueu his lie by
swallowing several ounces of chloro-
form and cutting his wrists with
razor. He died at the county hospital
in Denver
W. T. White, assistant driver of
| Denver's biggest fire truck and one of
the firemen who rescued William A.
Tracy, crazed drug user, from a
window ledge on the seventh floor of
a Denver hotel on Feb. 2, 1915, frac.
tured both legs after jump of about
six feet from the ladder truck of En-
CINE Company No. at Thirteenth
and Larimer streets.