The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1917-02-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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DATES rOa cOAIH0 svHHFa.
Feb 1e-Aarch l-Carnival Of Nid-Wtn-
Ter Sports At Steamboat springs-
Over s1sl. 900 tax vas paid in Jan
uaEy On estates worth s5.4s4.477.sO.
Final examination for West Point
will be Given At Fort Logan ON Tues
day. March 20.
Aiss Grace Garrett. . well known
Colorado educator, died at Milliken
after an illness Of several weeks.
The Red Cross membership contest
closed in Denver with 6,654 members
enroLed-making 3.s72 new members.
The postoffice at Bennett, about forty
miles east Of Denver. was destroyed
oy fire. The damage Is estimated at
| $4,000.
A joint celebration of the birthdays
OF Washington and lincoln will be
held In Denver on Feb. % by the Re-
publicans Of Colorado.
A ban has been placed on potatoes
and cabbage by the Housewives
League In Denver. Is = means of re-
ducing the sky prices.
Auto thieves kept the Denver police
department busy last month, stealing
an average of about two cars a day
Tor the entire thirty days.
Mary E. Lathrop has been admitted
to practice in the United States Su-
preme Court. the first woman attorney
IN Colorado to receive that privilege.
Nearly 200 naval reserves in Colo
rado are awaiting . call to service in
the event Of a declaration of war by
the United States against Germany.
Moses Stone, sc. the first alderman
to be elected to the City Council Of
Denver. died at the home Of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. w. P. Quarterman, in Den
yer.
A test case to determine the consti-
tutionality of the farm loan act
adopted by the voters at the election
last November will be filed in Den.
YER.
The United States civil service com.
mission announces an examination for
the position of general mechanic" in
the custodian service, to be held in
Denver. Feb. 20.
Fear that attempts might be made
to destroy the Du Pont de Nemours
Powder plant at Louviers, Colo, has
led officials Of the company to place
extra guards at the works.
Alfred Andersoa, q visitor in Den
yer. was slugged at the end of the
Larimer street carline and robbed Of
$157 BY two men with whom he had
picked up an acquaintance.
Depressing effect ON the Boulder
and San Juan tungsten fields is pre-
dicted at Boulder rs a result of news
received that Portugal has raised her
embargo on the black metal
In the presence of highest digni-
taries Of the Episcopal church, the
Rev. Frank Hale Touret. rector of
Grace church of Colorado Springs,
was consecrated bishop of the West
ern Colorado diocese.
DR.. Paul Ritter, Swiss minister to
the United States. who took charge of
Germany's interests in the United
States as soon as Count Won Bern
storff received his passports, is we'll
known to many persons In Denver.
About fifty members of the Vet
Grams s'of Foreign Wars held a smoker
In Denver commemorating the eight
eenth anniversary of the outbreak of |
the Philippine insurrection in 1899. A
program Of music and boxing was ar
ranged.
Suits aggregating $4,000 have been
filed in the District Court at Golden
on a change of venue from Summit
county against the Colorado & South
ern Railway Company for damages al
legged to have been caused four pas
sengers as result of the big snow of
Dec. 4, 1913.
The entangled affairs of Alfred Mul.
Ter. formerly secretary Of the Nation
al Jewish Hospital for Consumptives,
whose death in August, 1911, revealed
that for period of almost ten years
he had converted to his own use nu.
merous funds which had been entrust-
ed to him. will again be probed into
bye the Denver courts.
Contracts were signed for the deliv.
cry Of 5000 head of fall lambs at $40
per hundred the highest price ever
paid for lambs in the history of sheep
feeding In the Arkansas valley. The
order was placed with a Las Animas
sheep grower and as far as known ex.
ceeds any previous contract price for
enborn lambs.
Eli Mace, one Of the two bank rob
bers who held up and robbed the
Btockmen's National Bank at Brush,
IN Dec. is, and obtained $4,000, at
tempted to commit suicide in the Nor
gan county Jail at Fort Morgan on the
ave of his departure for Canon Cjtv tn