The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-15

April 29-May 6-Food show at Colo
May ,2=.Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
convention at Pueblo.
May JS-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
in Denver
Aug. S-Democratic state Assembly at
Greeley will spend s5O,0OO for new
garages.
A milk condensary may be estab-
iished at Fort Morgan.
The last week in June has been Sc
lected for Loveland's Chautauqua.
A shipment of beet seed will pro-
vide Fort Morgan growers with a
supply
The contract for Loveland's new
high school building has been let for
$76,396.
Nicholas Hazard of Saguache was
killed by the accidental discharge of
gun while out hunting.
Governor Carlson has appointed j.
a. Miller of Gunnison water commits
sioner for District No. SO.
The petition for the recall of Judge
Burke of the Thirteenth district will
be passed upon by the Supreme
Court.
George Seegar, 40 years old, a
farmer near Brighton, has been ar
rested on charges preferred by his
l4-year-old stepdaughter.
The body of Charles Peterson, an
aged rancher living alone, was found
at Red Dirt, near Gypsum. He had
been shot, and apparently dead for
several days.
More than 100 members of the Den
yer Civic and Commercial Associa-
tion listened to a brief informal talk
by Jacob M. Dickinson, former sec
retary of war.
Miss Lucille Martensen, Denver
housemaid, who saved from probable
death her mistress and was herself
severely burned, died at the Denver
county hospital.
Bulkeley Wells, president of the
Colorado Metal Mining Association,
has appointed a committee to inyesti-
gate changes in the mining laws pro
posed by the Foster bill now in Con
gress.
John Bartleson of Denver, whose
separation and divorce from his
former wife, now Mrs. Claude Griffey,
a year ago, caused a sensation, mar
ried Mrs. Charline Tenant, daugh-
ter of Dr. and Mrs. C. B. James.
The funeral services for Joel v.
Vaile, who died in California, were
held at the family residence in Den
yer. Prominent jurists and attorneys,
railroad employees, workmen and peo-
pie in all stations of life attended.
The highest price ever paid on the
Denver market for fat steers weigh
ing around 1925 pounds, was paid fol-
twenty-five head, average 1921
pounds, marketed by j. r. Rigden of
Fort Collins, when they sold at $3.50.
Little hope is entertained for the
recovery of Miss Lucille Martensen,
81 years old, of Denver, who was
burned in saving her employers
property by seizing blazing can OF
varnish and hurting it through win
dow.
More than 200 grizzled veterans of
the Grand Army of the Republic in
Denver helped turn the half century
mark of the organizations existence
with patriotic exercises in Trinity
Methodist church. Five hundred peo-
pie were in the audience
According to the officials of Adams
county, drunken revelry, extending
into the small hours at the Sand
Creek roadhouse, participated in by
dozen Denver people, ended disas-
trously when knives and broken bot
ties were welded in a free-for-all
fight, probably fatally injuring one of
the women, who is now in a hospital
in Denver.
Denver and Colorado Springs peo-
pie, who are large holders of stocks
in the various copper companies or
ganized by Spencer Penrose, Charles
NJ. MacNeill and associates, are eX-
pected to profit heavily by a deal an
nounced in New York whereby the
allies have contracted for 400,000,000
pounds of copper to be delivered this
year.
II. U. Nudge, president of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad, upon his
return from a meeting OF the direc.
tors in New York, said in Denver
that the company has authorized an
os1er for 10000 tons of steel rails to
replace present main line track at
various points and ten of the largest
types of locomotives now made to
handle freight trains between Den
yer and Pueblo.
Strut, known in Denver for many
years as Sidney William Clayton,
we're cremated at Riverside cemetery |