The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-06

Jan. lo-zi-Annuel toou Sho" at Deh-
Jan. 2O-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
Feb. 2-4--Y. M. c. A Annual Conven-
tion at Colorado Springs.
The Colorado Legislature convened
Wednesday.
Gasoline took jump in price of one
cent a gallon in Denver and retailed
at 23 cents.
Over s350,OOO was paid out Jan. 2
for interest on s17,50O,OOO in savings
to Denver people.
James ]. Chambers, SO, the Oldest
man in Denver, died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. c. H. Ustik.
Two men killed and one seriously
injured is the record for New Year
day accidents in Colorado Springs.
The Daughters OF Colorado gave a
reception at the capitol on New Years
for the outgoing and incoming COVER
nors and their wives.
Mrs. Daniel Williams of Golden,
mother of Wayne Williams, state in
dustrial commissioner. is seriously ill
WIN double pneumonia.
Sweeping changes in the game laws
of the state will be urged upon the
Legislature by the Northern Colorado
Fish and Game Association.
]. N. Pierce, prominent cattleman
and rancher of Pueblo and Denver,
died at the Mineral Springs hospital
in Pueblo from uremic poisoning.
Freight rates on coal from the Wal
senburg and Trinidad districts will be
redu ed under an order Just issued by
the State Public Utilities Commission.
The Denver City Council formally
ratified the acceptance by the munich
pality of the $4,000 branch libraries,
the gift of Andrew Carnegie to Den.
yer.
Denver high schools are to have a
corps Of cadets to be taught the rudi-
ments of military exercises until the
recently authorized Steever cadet sys-
tenn can be put into effect.
The State Supreme Court reversed
the death sentence of Nick Damas,
charged with the murder on Feb. 13,
1915, of William Dick, a wealthy mine
operator of Walsenburg.
Complete reorganization of the Col
orado State Board of Health has been
recommended by the United States
public health service, according to ad-
vices received from Washington.
The Denver Negro Woman's Club
purchased quarters for the Girls
Friendly Club and Day Nursery at
1857 Clarkson street. Dedicatory ex-
ercises were held New Years day.
Colorado women, fortified with
equal suffrage rights, are going to de-
mand change in the state constitu-
tion in order that their sex may sit as
jurors in trials where women or child
rem are involved.
Colorado flour mills produced 1,500,-
600 barrels of flour in 1916, a gain of
$4,000 barrels over 1909, the year of
the last census, according to estimates
made by the federal reserve bank for
the tenth district.
Following closely upon the deaths
of his two sons, who died within the
last nine months, Lemuel ]. Smith.
one of the most prominent of the ac-
tive politicians of the state, died at
his home in Denver.
Increased prestige and political
power would be Germany's should the
war end in a short time, according to
Prof. d. Shaw Duncan, head of the
department of political economy at the
University Of Denver
Wide interest is being attracted to
the second annual food show of the
Denver Manufacturers Association,
which will be held in the associations
headquarters in the Civic and Com
fercial building from Jan. 1S to 27.
The annual convention of the State
Federation of the Colorado German
American National Alliance will be
members which will be represented by
delegates is about $4,000.
At a meeting of the Denver County
Metal Mining Association held in Den
yer officers were elected, director
of the state association chosen and
delegates anu dlterHdteS W lHe Stdle
convention, which meets in Denver,
Jan. 8, were selected.
After a running revolver battle in
Denver with George Hilton, grocer.
whom he and a companion had held
up in his store and robbed of $40, an
unknown bandit leaped on moving
car at Seventeenth avenue and Pearl
street and, holding the passengers and
conductor at bay with his gun, rode
five blocks to Lincoln street, where
he jumped off and escaped.
Five prisoners sawed their way to
liberty in the county jail in Boulder,
while seven other prisoners, cowed in