The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-02-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

March 9-11.-Meeting Western Colo
Tado Teachers Association at Grand
Junction.
March 20-April 2.-Coio rado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
industrial Exposition at Denver.
April 13-Democratic State Convention
at Pueblo.
May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
The Y w. c. A. is celebrating its
fiftieth anniversary.
The Pueblo Salvation Army will
have tag day on the 18th.
Joseph Lindsay, Leadville pioneer,
died suddenly at Phoenix, Ariz.
Springfield citizens expect the
Santa Fe will build a line to that
City.
Allison Stocker, state treasurer,
formally announced his candidacy for
governor.
Charles d. McPhee, a resident of
Colorado since 1869, died at his home
in Denver.
The Postal Savings Department of
the Fort Lupton postoffice has been
discontinued.
Samuel K Young, 61, pioneer bust
died in Denver.
Many Denverites would change
from the commission to the mayor
form of government.
Trinity Episcopal church in Gree
ley was damaged by fire to the ex-
tent of about $500.
The noon banquet on Friday of the
Lamar Farmers Week, Feb, 81 to 26,
will be complimentary to Governor
Carlson.
The taxpayers of Firestone voted
bonds in the sum of $4,000 for the
purpose of constructing a municipal
waterworks system.
A call for the Democratic state cen
trial committee to convene in Denver
Saturday, March A, was issued by
Chairman Wellington Gates
The Boy Scouts of Sopris celebrat-
ed the sixth anniversary of their or
ganization at that camp with a ban
quet at the Lincoln school house.
The 1916 beet contract stipulates
the same price as last year, but linn
it's the amount of seed to twelve
pounds per acre and none for replant-
ing.
Arthur Montague, charged with an
assault upon young orphan girl, was
denied a change of venue by Judge
Wright in the West Side Court in
Denver.
The State Dairy Commission is
making extensive preparations for
the dairy sessions each forenoon and
afternoon during the Lamar Farmers
Week, Feb. 21-26.
A rosewood table used by President
Abraham Lincoln as his office desk
in the White House now stands in
the drawing room of Mrs. Clarence A.
| Brandenburg of Denver.
| Denver and the intermountain coun-
try is a beneficiary by an action taken
/ by the railroads of the country, which
lengthens the Colorado summer tour
list season just one month.
During the month of January the
Newton mill at Idaho Springs treated
1,600 tons of crude ore, which gave a
! product of 400 tons of concentrates
with an average value of $50 per ton.
Mrs. w. A. Osborne, SO, died at her
home in Loveland of old age Mrs.
Osborne was the widow of Judge w.
A. Osborne and was the second white
woman to locate in the Big Thompson
valley.
According to the report of the di-
rectors of the Denver Young Mems
| Christian Association, 1915 was the
most successful from any angle of
any year in the history of the organ
iZation.
Dedicatory exercises for the United
States District Court in Denver will
be held in the new quarters at 2
o'clock on the afternoon of Feb. 81,
under the auspices of the Denver Bar
Association.
The funeral of Franklin e. Brooks,
former Congressman from Colorado,
and one of the most widely known
lawyers in the state was held in Colo.
RADIO Springs from the First Baptist
church, Sunday afternoon
VIM. Knaub of Windsor pleaded
guilty in Greeley to giving away
liquor at wedding celebration held
in Windsor after the prohibitional
law went into effect He was fined
500 and costs
Inquiry of officers and stockholders
of the Denver Union Water Company
developed the fact that the company
stood ready and willing to sell it's
plant to the city and county of Den-
yer for approximately $13,615,S99.
The Rev. Father Thomas H. Ma