The Dolores star., 1916-04-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Western Newspaper uni.n News ssrv,ee
DATES ron COMING EVENTS.
April is1Democratic stsse couvsntion
Springs
April ss-Annuai Convention western
colorado i. o. o. +. At Grand juno
April ss-May s+Food show at Colo
=. RADIO Springs
and Fourth Conversational District
Convention at Pueblo.
May Is-Democrat;c State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May z0-Progressive State Convention
In Denver.
Aug. S-Democratic state Assembly .,
Denver.
Divorced persons must wait one
year before remarryins in Colorado.
Ben B. Lindsey Of the Juvenile
Court was threatened with death In a
letter he received In his courtroom in
Denver.
Harry G. Lowe, 90, formerly Q Den
yer barber. was probably fatally hurt
near Kansas City when he fell from
. moving train.
Two prisoners attempted to saw
their way out Of the Denver jail in
order to take part In an elopement
previously planned.
In memory of z. H. Snyder, former
president OF the State Teachers Col.
lese. who died last fall. an auditorium
costing $4,000 will be built at the
college in Greeley.
Commercial and civic bodies
throughout the country are uniting
with the new centralized Denver or.
ganization in urging the passage OF
the national park service bill.
Harry McAndrews, charged with
stealing a $3.50 diamond stickpin from
Bradford Dubois. was acquitted in
the West Side Court In Denver after
the jury had been out only five min
utes.
One OF the largest land transac.
lions Of the year was closed at Wal
kins. when Ernest A. Reeves sold
1890 acres of improved, non-irri-
gated land and 1870 head Of, cattle to
George Adee OF Iowa. for 375,100.
Cyril Tuckfield of Denver was
named as principal for the naval
academy at Annapolis BY Senator
Charles s. Thomas. under . recent
act authorizing an increase in the
number Of cadets at the academy.
J. Lotion Davidson. Denver under
taker. who was found guilty at Colo
RADIO Springs Of conspiracy to de-
fraud an insurance company by
means of a fake death, was sentenced
to term Of from two to three years
In the penitentiary.
R. W. Clark. who left Denver fifty
two years ago, arrived in the city
again on q Pullman and could not be-
lieve it was the same place He
could not find q single spot that was
familiar. He came to Denver in 1862
and left in 1864.
The aggregate number of building
permits issued by the city of Denver
during the first three months of 1916
exceeded the figures for the same Pc
Rod during 1915 by 100000, accord
ing to the report of the city building
inspector for March.
E. e. Drach, state bank commission
or, has started suit in the District
Court against holders of 27sls shares
OF the capital stock Of the defunct
Lafayette Bank & Trust Company,
suing each stakeholder for 800 on
each share Of stock held.
Activities of the Rockefeller found
alton in aiding the poor and unem-
ployed during 1915, as we'll as its sup
port of non-affiliated organizations.
are set forth in report made public
in New York. The relief funds pro-
vided included $99,9s4 given to the
Colorado state committee on unem-
ployment and relief.
Leonard w. Merchant of Colorado
Springs accuses his brother, Earl A.
Merchant, Of stealing his wife Mrs.
Merchant was arrested with her
brother-in-law at a Denver hotel on a
warrant sworn to by her husband. She
is in the county jail and refuses to
accept bond offered by her husband
unless he also will procure the release
of the younger man.
Receipts accruing to the national
forests In Colorado for the last ten
years. aggregating $2,O27,9s797. have
not only stimulated livestock and lum-
Der activities, but have brought a re-
version to various counties of the
state of more than 100000 for road
and school purposes. according to sta
tistics received from Washington by
Smith Riley Niatrict fOreater