Gunnison news-champion., 1916-08-11

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All Operators for tho Colorado and
southern railroad lave received no
u"e OF an advance IN wages OF 5. 20
per month.
The Denver cfice o. The forest Ger
vice repo.:s That the hse situation or
tae hational forests In Colorado i
slightly improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. q. wauxh Of Cold
water. Kan. were killed when theii
automobile was struck by . Denver
and interurban car At Barzoi crossing
nile miles north OF Denver.
Edwa.l Acton. Q young Denve:
baker. VAS shot in the right leg ny
Robert PcGae night marshal Of Ar
vada- Acton. who had been pa ed
under arrest for speeding ON . motor
cycle. tr'ed to escape. the marshal
said.
While . doctor called to calm BIN
vas In the house. Samuel Bradshaw
aged forty-four. of Denver escaped tc
the bathroom. lo< ked himself in and
nearly beheaded hirise'f with q razor.
He was suffering from . nervous dis
order. Bradshaw was dead when the
door was broken in.
Complaint was made to the state
labor department that the Arkansas
Valley Smelter company. through its
oficials. had violated the state Law
which forbids the discharge Of ar
employee because Of membership in .
labor union The labor department
promised to investigate.
Mrs George Plumner, wife Of q
prominent faimer who lives near Fort
Collins. was almost instantly killed
when RI" horse which her fourteen.
year old son was driving ran away and
she was thrown from the buggy into
the road. suffering a fractured skull
Her son. Robeit, was only slightly
bruised
The end OF the Industrial trorbis IN
Colorado which arose out Of the coal
strike three years ago was forecast ~
an announcement from ATTORNEY Gca.
eral Farrer that the majority OF strike
cases now lending m the courts a
the state viii be dismissed. Only the
most fragrant Of these cases viii pe
prosecuted. he said.
Denying his guilt. but asserting that
It was useless for him to contest fur.
ther against the state. Fred Jones
whose real name II Frank Spencer
was sentenced to the penitentiary ror
life by Judge Wright at Denver
Jones was found guilty OF the murder
Of William H. Caller. . watchman u
the Denver stock yards.
Two hurored dollars has been de
posited with the Hamilton NaticnsI
bank OF Denver NJ reward for any.
one disco' erins the present where
abouts OF Charles L. Moore, yolna
government surveyor, who disap
peared near Fraser Jaly s. His fame,
and mothnr. Mr.. and Mrs C. w. Moore
Of Holbrook. Ark. have gone to Ten
yer 70 Jake up the search m person.
For the frst time in It's history the
Cresson mine ct Cripple Creek. one Of
the BONANZA properties OF that dist. let
II now owned by Colorado men. Title
to the property. which was optioned
by Its Chicago and Detroit owners 10
q syndicate headed by A. E. Carlton.
banker and miniag man Of Cripple
Creek. passed to the new owners The
price paid for the property was 81.
100000.
Womcn congressional and senator.
ial candidates will be- placed in tho
held In twelve suffrage states thi, fa.i
II President Wilson and Charles r
Hughes. Republican presidential can.
dtdate. fail 10 take definite ami sat
fsfactory stand on The Susan B. An.
thony amendment for women suffrage.
declared Miss Anne Martin. president
OF the National Woman's party. rpon
her arrival at Colorado Springs.
A radical change in the law govern,
ing the issuance Of marriage license.
which in effect will be q return to the
old custom Of publishing the bans in
the churches. will be proposed when
the Twenty-hrst general assembly
meets next January. Judge Glass and
a number Of leading Denver attorneys
are heading the movement for a
change. II the change Il made. the
day Of elopements and secret mar
rfages in Colorado will be gone for.
ever.
Roy B. Wright, sixteen years old.
an employee Of . Greeley butcher
shop. removed his own appendix as
neatly. physicians say. AZ a surgeon
might have done II. He was cutting
meat in the butcher shop when. in
stepping from one block to another.
he slipped and fell directly upon a
carving knife. Surgeons found that
the knife had been turned in the
wound and had severed the young
mans appendix without injury to the