The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-24

Nay l1-2O-COnVention Colorado sun
day School Association at Colorado
Springs.
Plans for cleanup and paintup week
In Denver are on foot.
Silver Plume now has an active
chamber of mines and trade.
A public library will be opened in
Evergreen, in the Bear Creek canon,
the latter part of May.
Sacred Heart Orphanage profited
to the extent of $1,30.50 from the
sale of green bows on st. Patricks
day in Pueblo.
The body of Mrs. Allie Whitson,
who was murdered at Logantown,
was taken to Edinburg, ILL.,, her form
er home, for burial.
More than a thousand dollars has
been raised in subscriptions from stu
dents of the Denver University to aid
student prisoners in Europe.
All railroads operating through
Denver which had placed embargoes
on perishable goods and live stock
when the rail strike threatened, lifted
them Monday.
Senator B. T. Napier himself has
killed the bill he introduced in the
State Senate to muzzle the press and
prevent publication of details OF
criminal trials.
The police have been asked to
make a search in Denver for Frank
Nichols, IA years old and student
in the Longmont schools, who disap
peared from there.
Pueblo is going to send a record
breaking number of delegates to the
state Christian Endeavor convention
at Salida, June 21-22, according to
present indications.
Approximately 5000 residents of
Colorado, veterans of the Indian wars,
are entitled to pensions of So
month, under the recent pension act
approved by President Wilson.
Charles Plank, with a score of 95
per cent, was high gun at the weekly
shoot of the Denver Trap Club. B. e.
Moritz pushing him close for the hon
or with 80 per cent average.
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Treseder Of
Denver, celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary. Eight children and
eighteen grandchildren were with the
couple on the occasion.
Col. Howard Church Chaplin, Civil
war veteran, member of the Loyal
Legion and widely known Colorado
mining man and hotel keeper, died in
Denver after an illness of many
years.
Mrs. Susan Lord Mussey, widow of
the Rev. Charles F. Mussey. and one
of the Oldest residents of Colorado,
died at the home of her son, William
o. Mussey, in Denver. She was "a
years old.
r. l.. Craft. lawyer and Pueblo rep
resentative of the Department of Jus.
tice. and George Y. Price of the Pu-
eblo police department, were each
fined 500 and costs on conviction for
a disturbance in Prices office in Pu-
eblo.
Mrs. o. C. Davis of Boone and Mrs.
Jack Tood of Avondale, were injured
when an automobile in which they
were riding, plunged over the side of
a small bridge over an arroyo near
the Belle Plains school, twenty miles
east of Pueblo.
The Indians of Colorado, remark
ably abstemious, have a clean record
for the past year as law-abiding resi-
dents, according to the annual report
ho cgIn Of Of fol q
a copy of which has been received by
Henry Larson. special inspector in
charge of the Denver Indian Bureau.
The mill record of the United States
Gold Corporation, Boulder county,
shows that in 1916. l6,459 tons of ore
were treated. The average recovery
of values was S5 per cent, with the
product in the form of bullion, on
which there were no further deduc-
tions, as it was turned directly into
the mint
The first squadron of Colorado cav.
airy, Troops A. B and c, arrived in
Denver from the border Monday. and
were feted and banqueted as planned
during their stopover in Denver, de.
spite the orders issued by the War de.
partment suspending the mastering
out of national guardsmen and holding
them at their demobilization posts un.
III futrehr notice.
Mrs. Stella Moore-Smith took the
witness stand in her own behalf in
the West Side Court in Denver.
Throughout the session, after the
state had closed it's case, she sat,
facing the jury, relating the story
that encompasses all her claims OF
justification for Staying her husband,
John Lawrence Smith. in her Park
Hill home early Saturday morning,
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