The Dolores star., 1916-02-25

DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
March 4.-Democratic State Central
COMMITTEES Meeting in Denver.
March 9-11--Meeting Western Colo
Tado Teachers Association at Grand
March ao-Aprn s-coiorado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
April Is-Democratic state Convention
at Pueblo. IN
May First Congressional District
Republican Convention ut Colorado
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
Convention at Pueblo.
The San Juan tungsten district is
booming. ...-. ..-
Sugar advanced from $3.50 to 36s5
per cwt. in Denver. -s
r. L. Metcalfe Of Omaha. spoke in
Denver on Washington's birthday.
Over $4,000 was paid leasers on the
Ibex mine at Leadville last week.
Denver's new federal court was
dedicated in the new postoffice build
ing. -~f
President Wilson nominated Sam
uel w. Barber as postmaster at Chey
enne Wells.
M. d. Thatcher, aged Pueblo banker,
Is reported sinking. and the end ex-
pected at any time.
William Mari, 6s years old. Colo
RADIO pioneer and widely known cattle
man Of North Park, died at st. Luke's
hospital.
Mrs. Alice Wallace, so years old
dropped dead from heart disease
while being fitted for a coat In a
Denver department store.
The highest price ever recorded on
the Denver market for fat lambs,
$1,000 per cwt.. was paid for two car
loads in from Fort Collins.
A call for the Democratic state cen.
trail committee to convene in Denver
Saturday. March 4, was issued by
Chairman Wellington Gates.
The Littleton primary" to select a
for postmaster was held
and Lew F. Allen was high, with 159
votes. Eight persons were voted for
Jay Denham, IS years old, resident
of Colorado for thirty-eight years, and
a well known stockman, died at his
home near Deer Trail after a long
illness.
Mrs. Margaret Osborn. So, wife o..
Judge w. B. Osborn, died at Loveland
She was one of the first settlers al
Gold Dirt, a mining camp near Cen
trail City, in 1860.
An order for 100000 worth of tung
sIon ore for an Eastern steel concern
to be used in the manufacture of
munitions for European governments
was received in Denver.
One hundred and ten arrests in
volving alleged violations of the pro
hthition law we're made by the Den
ver police and the district attorneys
office in the first six weeks Of a
dry" Denver, according to records of
the two offices.
Risking his own life to remove u
jeopardy to probably scores of 9th.
ers, Jesse B. Ronaldson, 20, a car
penter and contractor. picked up a
live electric light wire on the Denver
& Rio Grande railroad tracks south
of Bayaud street in Denver and q
moment later fell dead under the
shock of $500 volts,
Prompted by what is believed by
friends to have been dependency
over a shattered love affair, Gustave
Liljeberg. II. living at 25O1 Harlan
street. Edgewater. ended his life by
swallowing several ounces of chloro-
form and cutting his wrists with a
razor. He died at the county hospital
in Denver.
DIR. Bennett Graft, released on ST.
500 bail several days ago on charge
OF murder. growing out of the death
OF Mrs. Ruth Kamp at Mercy hospital
was rearrested in Denver on the or.
der of Coroner Sherman Williams in
connection with the death of Mrs.
Beulah Hatch. wife of George e.
Hatch Of Longmont.
The Rev. Otis l.. Spurgeon, who was
kidnapped from his hotel in Denver
after delivering religious lectures in
1914. has filed $4,000 libel suit
against the knights of Luther and
their manager, F. NJ. Shipper, accord
ing to dispatches from Des Moines,
Iowa. He represented the organiza-
ton while in Denver on a speaking
tour.
Hurled headlong against a stone
curb in a crash Of autos at Eighteenth
avenue and Grant streets in Denver.
Mrs. Fulton Jack, 80 years old, wife
of prominent attorney of beatrice.
Neb., received injuries which it is be
lieved will be fatal. She was return.
ing from the funeral of a nephew, Mrs,
Jack came to Denver to attend the
funeral Of Robert Wood. a 7-month.
old son Of C. d. Wood, a Boulder
tungsten mill superintendent.
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