The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-20

Jan. lo-Ed-AnHual roou onoW at Deh
Jan. 2O-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ. C. A. Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
Thomas A. Vaughn, Colorado poet,
died in Denver from apoplexy, at GA
years.
Weld county's first pest inspector is
now in full charge of his office, Peter
Weber of Grover being the official.
Scores of visitors from all parts of
the state already are registering at
Denver hotels for stock show week,
Jan. 21-27.
An increase of 1873 per cent in build
ing operations was shown by Denver
during December, 1916, over the rec
ord for December, 1915.
Grover C. Bebout, 80, foreman OF
one of the departments of an iron
company, was shot from ambush at
Pueblo as he was about to enter his
home.
All three members of the Colorado
Industrial Commission-appointees of
former Governor Carlson - failed
uIedTlly Ol COullTLHdIlOH III lue oldlo
Senate.
DR.. Ward Slosson Gregory, noted
surgeon of New York City, died at
Colorado Springs and the body was
taken to Denver for cremation. DR..
Gregory was &c years old
The eighth annual session of the
Colorado Farmers Congress was
called to order at Fort Collins by o.
F. Gardner, president who opened the
session by delivering his annual ad-
dress.
A sweeping opinion, removing ap-
proximately 125 clerks and stenog-
raphers at the state house from the
protection of civil service was rem
dered by Attorney General Leslie E.
Hubbard.
Forty babies were entered at the
Woman's Club building in Denver as
possible prize winners in the annual
baby show to be held in connection
with the National Western Livestock
Show, Jan. 20-27.
In the death of Harold w. Carver
15-year-old son of former State Sena-
tor b. F. Carver of jefferson county,
another victim of the dangerous habit
of dragging a gun from wagon by
the muzzle was claimed.
In fit of dementia, Lena Lind, 81,
attacked her father, j. C. Lind with
butcher knife, in the Lind home, at
Denver, inflicting deep cash extend
ing from the cheekbone to tfse point
of the chin on the right side of his
face.
There were BATS fewer police pa
troll calls in 1916, the first year of
prohibition in Denver, than there
were in 1915, according to statistics
compiled by Acting Sergeant Frank
strong.
The wedding day of Joseph and
Helen Krasovec almost came to a
tragic end at Pueblo when the two
were almost asphyxiated in a room
they had engaged in a hotel. Kra
sovec is in local hospital in Sc
rious condition. The bride is at her
home, where it is said she will re-
cover
All danger of a strike being called
by the union at the Ell Paso mine, one
of the four affected by the recent de-
mands for an increase in wages, was
settled at Colorado Springs when the
men employed at the mine voted unan-
imously to accept a per cent in
crease in wages offered by the oper-
ators.
The divorce trial of Mrs. Hattie
Wigton against ]. Irving Wigton occu-
pied one of the divisions of the Dis
trict Court at Pueblo, the greater part
of a day being occupied in selection
of jury Mrs. Wigton names the CO.
respondent as "a young woman for
merly an employe" of her husband,
and demands S150,000 alimony.
Deepening snow drifts on the noun
tain slopes behind Aspen have driven
the elk and deer down to the outskirts
of the town, according to reports
which have been received by w. B.
Fraser, state game and fish commits
sioner. The animals, grown tame by
hunger, have become bolder and bold
er until now they go to the hay stacks
o the farms and ranches and help
themselves to food.
Unless attorneys for Mrs. Stella
Moore Smith, who shot and killed her
husband, John Lawrence Smith, at
their home in Denver, are successful
in their attempts to obtain her release
on bond, the woman, already held for
murder by coroner's jury, will face
a two months stay in the county Jail.
The crowded condition of the docket
would prevent the case being called
sooner than two months.
Stock growing received a great i'm
petus in Colorado during the year
1916. A total of $500 new brands