The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-04

dimes received at the Denver mint
Monday were taken.
Ninety-eight Denver mortorists were
charged with violating laws of traffic
and appeared in Judge Bray's court to
explain their disregard for the law.
Several hundred Japanese men,
women and children who form the
Japanese colony in Denver, celebrated
the birthday of their mikado, Yo
shihito.
Denver Lodge No. Al, knights OF
Pythias, will hoid its annual minstrel
show for the benefit of the Pythian
relief fund at the Broadway theatre
Nov. IA.
Denver's new employment bureau
for women was opened auspiciously
by receiving nine applications for
work from as many skilled and expert
enced women workers.
Six hundred teachers of the Western
slope gathered at Grand Junction for
the forty-second annual convention OF
the western division of the Colorado
State Teachers Association.
The name of Horace G. Benson will
appear on the ballots at the coming
election as Independent candidate for
district attorney, unless the Supreme
Court reverses a ruling made by Dis
trict Judge Perry.
Mrs. Hattie X. Howard, Progressive,
has withdrawn from the congressional
race in the First district, leaving the
contest to Vaile and Hilliard, Repub
Denver banks and other local finan
cial houses are understood to have
been participants to the extent OF
$S50,00O in the new British govern
ment loan now being raised in the
United States.
Maj. H. B. Nelson, U. S. A, who
has been stationed at Fort Logan fol
the past two years, has been trans
ferred by the war department to the
Third infantry and will join his regi-
ment on the border.
The cases against e. H. Pettigrove,
who was charged with the embezzle'
ment of about $4,000 worth of meats
from Swift & Co., were dismissed by
Judge William d. Wright in the West
Side court in Denver.
The minutes of the Colorado con,
ference Of the Methodist Episcopal
church, which are now in preparation,
show a net increase in membership
during the past year of 1,157, with a
total membership of 37,416.
Colorado boys in the National Guard
on border duty in Arizona are clean.
ing up everything in the athletic line
that comes their way, according to
word received in Denver from Shorty
O'Connor, amateur baseball umpire 'ot
Denvers corner lots.
Bishop F. ]. Mcconnell of Denver
received one of the most important
assignments at the disposal of the
Methodist Episcopal church, which
closed it's annual conference in Min
neapolis. Bishop Mcconnell will go to
Mexico to do mission work.
L. d. Eskridge of Hartman, pioneer
stockman and ranchman of the San
Luis valley, civil war veteran and
brother of the late DR.. ]. T. Eskridge
nerve and brain specialist of nationai
reputation, died in his apartments in
Denver. He was 70 years old.
Delegates at Denver to arrange fol-
the automobile sociability run from
the towns of Limon, Strasburg, Byers
Deer Trail and Bennett to Denver,
Nov. 18, reported a phenomenal pro
duction of pinto beans. 1t was claimed
that forty cars would be shipped from
Byers, and at least fifty cars from
Strasburg.
Construction of a circle highway in
the Rockies that will extend Denver's
foothill parks system thru the scenic
Mount Evans region is proposed by
the United States forest service in a
report submitted by service engineers
to Chief Forester Henry S. Graves, a
copy of which was given out by the
Denver office.
Fermor ]. Spencer, vice-president
and trust officer of the Continental
Trust Company, president of the Con
tinental Audit Company, and charac
terized by banking men as "one of the
most capable trust officers in the en-
tire West" died of cirrhosis of lhe
liver in his home in Denver. He was
SO years old and had been i'll only
week.
The production of coal in Colorado
during the first nine months of 1916
amounted to 7,175,925 tons, an in
crease of 1,349,S24 tons over the cor
responding period in 1915, according
to figures compiled in the office of the
state coal mine inspector. This IS an
increase of about Is per cent.
E. Newton, a fireman, suffered a
broken leg; two locomotives were bad
iy damaged and a dozen freight cars
were derailed when two Colorado &