The Lovington leader., 1916-04-14

Say t-hsputlican State and Third
aud Fourth Congressional District
Conssniion at Pueblo.
Nay it-Demoerst.e state Convention
at Colorado springs
In Denver
AUG. s-D,moeratic state Assembly q,
Denver.
Cecil Conner Was elected president
OF the Denver Ad Club.
The old Spauliing hotel at Colora.
do Springs has been sold for $4,000.
Fifty U. $. witnesses are reported
ready to testify In the case OF Banker
W. u. Slaughter at Pueblo
Ben II. Lindsey Of the Juvenile
Court was threatene, with death In q
letter he received In his courtroom In
Denver.
Governor Carlson has appointed r.
J. Radford of Trinidad a member OF
the advisory board OF the State High.
way Commission.
Two prisoners attempted to saw
their way out OF the Denver Jail in
order to take part In an elopement
previously planned.
The annual district convention OF
the Knights of Pythias will be held
In Montrose on Wednesday AMI
Thursday. June 7th and Sth.
Work has been started which when
completed will make the Durango
fish hatchery one OF the finest In tht
country. Many improvements are to
be- added.
General observation that March
weather In Denver was unusually dry.
windy and warm. was verified by the
monthly meteorological summary. Is.
sued by Frederick II. Brandenburg.
district forecaster OF the weather bu
reau.
Harry Kern. the second of the two
beneficiaries OF the sensational jail
delivery which took place from the
Montrose county jail last September
surrendered to the officers and was
taken from Nucla by Sheriff Gill and
placed in Jail at Montrose.
W b Slaughter, former president
Of the closed Mercantile National
Bank in Pueblo, arrived from his
home in Dallas. Texas, to face trii
in the Federal District Court on
charges growing out of the failure o.
the financial institution a year ago.
Weddings and bad checks were fea.
lures in the experience of two men
who have been landed in Jail in Gree.
ley and Idaho Springs as result of
the activities OF the Colorado Bank.
ers' Association in trying to run to
earth men who have been charged
with a series OF forgeries in various
sections OF Colorado.
With the l9-yearold girl whom he
married in Canon City a week ago
still loyal to him. and the wife he
deserted three years before bringing
divorce proceedings in Appcton City,
Mo. Fred E. Harvey. - years old, de
lcnair believer in high finance" was
arrested in Idaho Springs charged
with the forgery OF a 5000 check.
Monday. April II, will be o red let.
ter day in the annals of the members
of the Greeley lodge of Knights of
fythias. for en- that evening the
crack drill team Of Denver Lodge No
II. numbering l15 men, and accom-.
panied by fifty or more other mem.
bcrs OF the lodge, will visit the Gree.
ley lodge and give an exhibition of
the work OF the team.
Miss Dorothy Merriweather was
overcome with emotion and forced to
leave the courtroom al the West Side
Court In Denver while waiting to
testify for the state in the case OF
Dr. Robert J. Mason. charged with
conspiracy in performing the opera
lion that caused the death oi her sis
ter, Miss Ruth Mcrriwearher. in De
comber. 1914
Last year Colorado farmers har
vested 100000 tons of sugar bcc,s
at a gross selling figure of slo.it. 1000
This year, when the beet sugar indus
try in the United States is seriously
crippled by lack of German seed
these same farmers should haryes,
more than 2.5OOO0O tons of bccts. and
sell them to the sugar companies for
more than sl5.joo,o0O.
In three important decisions the
state Supreme Court declared in
substance: Col james G. Bulger
must be hanged during the week ii
May u for the killing of L.Ioyd f.
Nicod"mus, May e, 1914: the petition
for Il referendum vote on the civil
service law passed by the last zen.
eral assembly is void, and the city
and county OF Denver cannot compel
the State Insane Asylum authorities
to accept patients from Denver
county.
Denver Is to have a new pichlin,
and canning factory and Colorado IS
10 furnish thousands of acres for
growing products for the table AS
well as thousands of acres for seed
raising. according to plans outlined
before the farm bureau of the Den.
yer Civic and Commercial Associa.
tion
Samue! Frego. C5. one of the
wealthiest. and by some considered
che nf the mnyi onnnn..ia