The Raymer enterprise., 1916-04-13

at Pueblo.
May First Congressional District
| Republican Convention at Colorado
! Springs.
April 2s-Annual Convention Western
Colorado |. o. o. +, at Grand June
April 2s-May s-Food show at Colo
rado Springs
May 2.-Republicau State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
| convention at Pueblo.
May lS-Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 20-Progressiye State Convention
In Denver.
Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
/ Denver.
Divorced persons must wait one
year before remarrying 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, %, formerly Den
yer barber. was probably fatally hurt
near Kansas City when he fell from
a moving train.
Two prisoners attempted to saw
their way out Of the Denver jail In
order to take part ip an elopement
previously planned.
In memory OF z. II. Snyder. former
presluent Of the State Teachers Col
lege, wLo died last fall, an auditorium
costing 100000 will be built at the
college in Greeley.
Commercial and civic bodies
throughout the country are unitins
with the new centralized Denver or
gahization in urging the passage Of
the national park service bill.
Harry McAndrews, charged with
stealing $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-
tions Of the year was closed at Wat
kins. when Ernest A. Reeves sold
1880 acres Of improved. non-irri-
gated land and 130 head oil cattle to
George Adee Of Iowa. for si5.1U0.
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 ar the academy
J. Lotion Davidson, Denver under.
taker, who was found guilty at Colo
rado Springs of conspiracy to de.
fraud an insurance company by
means of 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 Pullman and could not be-
lieye 1t was the same place lie
could not find single spot that was
familiar. He came to Denver in 1852
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
riod during 1915 by 100000. accord.
ing to the report of the city building
inspector for March.
L. Il. Drach, state bank commission
er, has started suit In the District
Court against holders of 27S4 shares
of the capital stock of the detunct
Lafayette Bank & Trust Company.
suing each stockholder for 500 on
each share of stock held.
Activities Of the Rockefeller found
alton in aiding the poor and unem-
| ployed during 1915, as well as its sup
4 port of non.affiliated organizations.
are set forth in a report made public
in New York. The relief funds pro-
yided included s99,9Si given to the
Colorado state committee on unem-
playment 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.ir.law at 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 aecruing to the national
forests in Colorado for the last ten
years, aggregating s2.G27, 7,9S797, have
not only stimulated livestock and lum-
ber 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, district forester.
A flying squadron of the Congress
sional Union for Woman Suffrage left
Washington Sunday to organize, In
little more than a month, the s,000.-
900 women voters of the West in prep
aration for the presidential compaign
this fall. The thirty-seven suffrage
eaders, composing the mobilization
corps" will arrive In Denver Saturday
to confer with the Colorado heads.