The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1916-03-11

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The Maccabees' lodge at Frederick
is growing rapidly.
Work on Delta's sugar factory is
expected to start soon.
S. A. Matthews is to have 200
acre melon patch at Rocky Ford this
season.
Contracts have been made at Fort
Collins to raise over $4,000 acres of
sugar beets.
Sugar beet acreage in the Arkan-
sas valley is to be larger this year
than ever before.
At Trinidad the knights of Colum-
bus initiated class of forty-five at
recent meeting
About 125 business and professional
men and farmers attended a boost"
banquet at La Junta
The Garfield county coal mines at
South Canon have been closed down
for an indefinite period.
Fort Morgan chicken thieves were
traced to Greeley, where they were
arrested, and confessed
The first annual convention of the
Colorado Retail Clothers' Association
will be held March IA and Is at
Denver.
1t is stated that Mesa county cattle
men will oppose the submission of the
proposed herd law to vote in No
vember.
Discoveries of rich tungsten ore
was reported by Fred Gcble, state
highway commissioner, who returned
to Durango from the Silverton dis
trict
The state of Montana wants to
know how Denver manages to keep
the infant death rate so low and
stands so high on the list of Ameri-
can cities.
The State Supreme Court granted
a new trial to John Jones, crippled
negro sentenced to death from Routt
county for the murder of Bale Hern-
don, a sheepherder
An inheritance tax of s11,4S2 was
collected by Leslie E. Hubbard, state
inheritance tax appraiser, on the es-
tate of Col. George S. Newman, owner
of MacRose farm near Littleton.
Another movement to discourage
the holding of funerals Sunday, and
one for another general revival in
Denver, were taken up in the meeting
of the Denver Ministerial Alliance.
Senator Helen Ring Robinson, one
of Denver's representatives on the
Ford peace project, returned home
with the declaration that the famous
mission did not by any means end in
failure.
Miss Elsie Ulrich, member of the
sophomore class of the West Denver
High School, won the prize of the
twenty-sixth annual Mary Louise
White oratorical contest. held in the
auditorium of that school.
Joseph Smitham, &c years old,
resident of Denver for more than
thirty-five years, died in Santa Fe, N.
NJ, of complication of diseases fol-
lowing an attack of grip. He was
born in Cornwall, England, in 1910.
rtoh the estate OF Col. Geo. ).
Newman, owner of the famous Mac
Rose farm, the State inheritance tax
Department received tax of SILL
4S2.50. The value of the total estate
was placed at $293.S56.36 by Leslie
e. Hubbard, inheritance tax appraiser
Mrs. Lucy Wilson, co, died thirty
six hours after her son William, 35,
passed away. The mother was pre-
pairing to take her sons body from
Denver to Kirksville, Mo-. for burial,
when she was seized by an attack of
heart disease, fastened by grief, and
passed away.
Cooperation among the $50 super
visors and rangers in the thirty gov
eminent reserves in the Rocky Noun
tain region is being urged in sched-
ule of meetings conducted in the field
by Smith Riley, district forester and
his assistants, Fred Morrell, C. ].
Stahl and C. NJ Granger
Denver's rapid growth as a grain
market was shown at the annual
meeting of members of the Denver
Grain Exchange when figures were
read showing that the exchange had
handled 5,54S cars of grain, worth be-
tween $6,0O0,OO0 and $7,OOO,OOO, with.
in the last eleven months.
What Grand Junction police declare
is the most frightful vandalism ever
committed in Grand junction oc.
Cured when three small boys, all un
der 10 years of age, entered a house
at 1860 Rood avenue, which was with
out tenant, demolished the entire
furnishings, turned the water ON IL
the kitchen and flooded the premises
,hs damage totaling $500.
Mrs. Amelie Gehrung Brocker. ono
If Denvers Oldest pioneers and
saaIthiact citi,ans ,;;oa ~ -,