The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-03

Nov. 22-24-Rural School Conference in
| Denver.
The teachers convention at Pueblo
was largely attended.
Former Governor James H. Peabody
is seriously i'll in Denver.
About LOO carloads of potatoes
have been sent out from Monte Vista.
About seventy-five carloads of ap-
pies have been shipped from Canon
City.
The total output of precious metals
in Aspen since 1890 has been $780,
OO0, 900
Forty-four automobiles were burned
in blaze in Denver garage, caus-
ing 100000 loss.
Twenty-eight national army recruits.
certified from Pueblo, entrained for
Camp Funston, Kan.
Coolest October weather on the rec
ord thus far was 12 degrees below at
Leadville on the 18th.
There is not exactly a boom at
Creede, but reports from that silver
camp are satisfactory.
Vice President Marshall visited
Denver on Monday on his way to Ault,
where he delivered an address.
Denver people generally had meat
less Tuesday and wheatless We'd
nesday to aid in food conservation.
DR.. Samuel A. Orentreich, widely
known in Denver, committed suicide
in Detroit, Mich, by swallowing
poison.
There are now about hundred buff
faloes on the Trinchera estate south
west of Veta Pass, and they seem to
be doing well.
1t is estimated at Kiowa that about
40 per cent of the potato crop of FL
bert county has been lost 1t was IA
below zero Oct 20.
George Goodman of Durango has re-
ceived the contract for erecting fifty
cottages TO" the Sunnyside and Eu-
reka mines at Silverton.
Loss to potato growers of Weld
county as result of the storm Sat
urday night and Sunday, Oct 2S and
20, is known to have been consider
able.
j. e. Johnson, rancher living near
Edlow, station on the Colorado Mid
land railroad, is under arrest at Colo
RADIO Springs, charged with killing
three buck elk.
Livestock in Colorado, not including
hogs, is worth $190,161, 900, according
to a report made by the Livestock
Survey Committee of the Council for
Defense to the governor
A correspondent at Stonington, Baca
county, says l.. d. Gregory and Carl
Woke sold their broomcorn for $245
per ton. Mr. Gregory will have near
an $4,000 or $4,000 crop.
Denver bank clearings for the week
ended Oct. 25 were $24,242, 900, an in
crease of 1876 per cent over the CORE
spending week of last year, and COM
pares with $23, $4,000 for the week
ended Oct. 18.
The Rev. Frank T. Bayley, grand
old man" of the Congregational church
and active pastor of Plymouth Congre-
gational church in Denver, died at the
home of his lifelong friends, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas H. Hood.
An estate valued at S1S5,UO was
left by the late Laura r. McCaulley,
who died in Boston September 9th.
Her husband made application to
County Judge Rothgerber in Denver
for letters of administration, his wife
having died intestate.
Tons of food products valued at
hundreds of thousands of dollars were
destroyed in all sections of Colorado
by the freeze of Sunday night, Octo-
Der 2Sth, according to reports reach
ing w. H. Kerr, chief of the federal
office of markets in Denver
Daniel l.. Mccarthy, for fifteen
years superintendent of the Granite
Mining Company at Cripple Creek and
one of the oldest and best-known mine
operators of the district, died at
Colorado Springs hospital after an op-
GRAFTON for ulcer of the stomach.
A dHed to 100000 worth of Denver
property, including the Lunt block, ex-
ecuted by the late Jennie Ware and
filed for record at the court house last
December, before the body of it's max
er had grown cold IN death, was set
aside in the District Court in Denver.
Hebrew people of Trinidad are not
only prosperous, but generous, fra
ternity. check for $4,000 which they
had contributed was forwarded by
Rabbi Harry r. Richmond to exam
bassador to Turkey Hon. Henry Nor
genthau. treasurer of the Jewish war
relief fund.
Three young women of Denver, re-
spending to the needs of their coun-
try during the war, have enlisted for
service and left for Washington, D. C.
They are the Missac Irlnronno caa.4