The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Mewspaper Union News servIce.


at Fort Morgan.
Fort Morgan is to have baseball
team.
The Loveland Chautauqua date has
been changed to July 1.
President Wilson nominated ]. o.
Miller for postmaster at Boulder.
Loveland is preparing to sell $79,-
900 bonds to build a light plant.
Revival services are being held in
the Methodist church in Florence.
The Loveland Canning Company is
preparing for the 1916 campaign.
The First Presbyterian Church at
Greeley is arranging 10 build a $780,
900 church.
Fort Morgan's Frontier Days cele-
bration this year will be held Sep
tember 5-8.
Six-year-old Andy Urban fell into
the Bessemer ditch in Pueblo and
was drowned
Governor Carlson appointed Rev.
F. e. Cain, of Fruita, chaplain at the
Canon City Penitentiary.
Edward P. Pitkin, 81, Civil war vet
eran, and member of Byron L. Carr
Post, G. A. r., died in Denver.
NJ L. Mowry, of Virgins, was bad
ly crushed beneath his wagon, which
was loaded with wheat and logs.
Camp Loveland is coming into
prominence as one of the mining cen
ters in the tungsten district of Boul-
der county.
A frame house, valued at $3,500,
belonging to Mrs. e. G. Rollins, wild
owed school teacher at Victor, was
destroyed by fire.
Martin Morales pleaded guilty at
Fort Collins to bootlegging. and was
sentenced to from one year to fifteen
months in the penitentiary.
The largest melon" ever cut in the
West by a corporation will be dis
tributed in July by the Great West
ern Sugar Company, say Denver re-
ports.
The Rev. Joshua l.. Gravett, pastor
of Galilee Baptist church in Denver.
celebrated the quarter-century ami
versary of his services as pastor of
that church.
William G. M. Stone, "a years old,
well known throughout the state be.
cause of his work on behalf of Colo
rado forests, died at his home in
Longmont.
According to an inventory filed by
Mrs. Sallie M Lee, the estate of
former Mayor w. S. Lee, of Denver,
is only $3.50. with special bequests
amounting to $1,000.
The transcontinental railroads
through their vice president and traf-
fic managers, have offered to make
number of important adjustments in
Colorado freight rates.
Frank Winters, %, a machinists'
helper at Pueblo, was thrown from
plunging motorcycle with such force
that his skull was fractured and he
died at St Mary's hospital.
Driven to suicide by something in
his past life that would not let him
alone, j. II. Johnson, 52, wealthy
Swedish farmer living six miles
southeast of Longmont, shot himself.
Porter Eveland, for years chief
electrical engineer and inspector of
the Colorado Power Company and
who until a short time ago lived in
Denver and Boulder, died in Phila-
delphia.
Walter, the 9-year-old son of Henry
Mall, OF Fort Morgan, was smothered
to death when the bank of the San
on the cave in which he and his lit.
tie brother had been playing.
At a meeting of representatives
from leading Northern Colorado
towns he'd in Fort Collins, an organ.
ization was perfected and plans we're
adopted for the holding of the an
nual tennis tournament at Boulder,
July 1S and 10.
At a meeting of the State Board
of Pardons, the case of Gerrit
Van Wyk, a Hollander who was sen.
fenced to the State Penitentiary for
life on the charge of having mur-
dered his sister-in-law, Gertrude
Haast, will be heard.
Three enlisted men from the Colo
rado National Guard will be given the
opportunity of taking examinations
on June for admission to the mill
tary academy at West Point, accord
ing to the provisions of the act passed
)y Congress on May 4.
A new ore, valuable for fluxing
purposes in the manufacture OF iron
and steel products, has been discov
cred in the vicinity of Cortez, Monte
yuma county. 1t is called "hallarite"
after its discoverer, and, although It's
exact composition is held a secret, il
is said to contain 10 per cent of ar
acid com mound nnunr fnnnd Aaf.rn