The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-09

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AT Colorado Springs 76Osregistered.
Supreme Court ordered that Lawson
be given new trial
Pueblo chapter, American Red
Cross, reports 5,721 members.
Vineland residents protest against
bad roads and threaten recall.
Pueblo women plan service to be
rendered during present war.
You can volunteer, although regis
tered, at any time before the draft
selection.
Reports show that Colorado's crops
are in good condition except being
delayed by cool weather.
The Masons had charge of the bur
ial of Col w. F. Cody (Buffalo Bid
on Lookout Mountain on Sunday.
Two carloads of high-grade ore have
been taken out of the new strike in
the Doctor mine, Gunnisop county.
Patriotism and order marked regis
tration day in Colorado, when 100000
young men enrolled for selective serv-
ice.
A company is being organized at
Las Animas for the purpose of build
ing an alfalfa meal mill at Melina
station.
The labor shortage In Colorado is
becoming acute in all lines of indus
try and will be intensified when CON
scription goes into effect.
The Methodist Church of Barnum
makes the claim of being the first
church organization in Denver to ar
range for the purchase of a Liberty
bond.
The decision of the District Court,
convicting DR.. Noble O. Hamilton,
Denver physician, of performing
criminal operation, was affirmed by
the Supreme Court.
Colorado has raised $4,000 of the
$4,000 fixed as the quota for the state
in the Y. M. c. A. campaign to obtain
100000 to aid the civilian welfare
work to be done for soldiers.
Resolutions repudiating the action
of committee purporting to act for
them in a demand for an increase of
wages was adopted at meeting of
the Denver Tramway Brotherhood, at
tended by 450 employees of the COM
pany.
Manager r. w. Coates of the Fanny
Rawlings mine at Leadville reports
that high-grade gold ore is still being
extracted from the rich vein that was
encountered in the property two
weeks ago and that two shipments
have been made.
Enrollments in the Fifth National
Service School of the Women's Sec
tion of the Navy League at Denver,
under the direction of Mrs. Alexander
Sharpe, have been pouring in. The en-
rollment books close June 18th. Near
ly hundred have Joined.
guard will be stationed at the
grave of Buffalo Bill until the monu-
ment in his honor is raised on Look
out mountain. Night and day force
of police will be maintained to pre-
vent curio and memento seekers from
committing acts of vandalism
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced an exam
ination to be held at Pueblo on July
14th, as a result of which it is ex-
pected to make certification to fill
contemplated vacancy in the position
of fourth-class postmaster at Beulah.
That all the Masonic lodges of Den
yer, together with those of Golden, Ar
vada and Littleton, will unite on June
21st in celebrating the 200th anniver-
sary of the founding of the grand
lodge of England, was announced by
the Masonic Officers Association
which has arrangements for the cele-
bration in charge.
The Denver e Rio Grande tracks at
Seventeenth and Wynkoop streets in
Denver, used by the company for
switching purposes, must be torn up
in compliance with city ordinance No.
"a, to give way to loop to be built
by the Denver Tramway Company.
That was the decision of the Colorado
Supreme Court.
On confession of error by the attor-
ney general, two of Colorado's famous
murder cases We're reversed by Su-
preme Court decisions. The action of
the court practically releases John R.
Lawson, charged with Staying John
Nimmo in 1914. The other man who
was convicted of murder during the
trouble in the southern Colorado coal
fields was Louis Zancannelli, who was
accused of Staying a detective hired
by coal company. Zancannellis case
was reversed because the attorney
general confessed errors.
That the late Mrs Mary Luthe
signed away her $4,000 estate under
the direction of the spirits" of her
dead father and mother, and that she
made Mrs. Mary e. Holland and Eta
Dunfee, through whom she received
messages purporting to come from her
parents, the chief beneficiaries under