The Colorado statesman., 1918-12-28

Jan. BLEW estern Stock Show at
| Denver
Ian. 2l-2 -23-Meeting American National
| Live Stock Association at Denver
David Cuella, Mexican, was stabbed
during an alteration in a rooming
house in Denver
The Pueblo city commissioners oil
safety, Mike Studinski, issued an order
prohibiting card playing in cigar
stores, pool rooms and clubs.
James Smith, 49 years old, farmer
living near Brighton, was fined Sl5o
and costs by Judge Henry Bray IN
Police court in Denver on charge OF
violating the prohibition laws.
Miss Mary Sullivan, one of the old
est employees in point of service in the
recorders office of the city and county
of Denver, died at st. Joseph's hos
pital following an illness of eight
weeks.
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood, command
ing the Tenth division, recently paid
high tribute to the work of the Twen-
tieth regiment of infantry, which is
composed largely of Denver and Colo
RADIO boys.
The 7-cent car fare, with a 1-cent OK
ira charge for transfers, awarded the
Denver Tramway Company by the
Colorado State Public Utilities Cora
mission recently has been accepted IN
formally by the company.
School land belonging to the state
of Colorado brought an average OF
s14.37 an acre during the biennial pc
riod which closed Nov. so last, accord
ing to the biennial report of the State
Board of Land Commissioners.
For the calendar year 1918 no divi-
dend has been announced from the
London office of the Tomboy Gold
Mines Company. The probable figure
is 10 per cent on s1,5O0,000, or $780,
900, which is half of the pre-war fig
uie.
A new city and county building. a
new West Side court house and more
and better roads are few of the
things indorsed by the Denver County
Council of Defense, in order that the
plans of industrial activity shall meas
ure up to the supply of labor when
the soldiers come home.
Frank ]. Hayes, president of the
United Mine Workers of America,
will be succeeded by j. II. Walker, ac-
cording to word coming to mining
headquarters in Denver from Indian
apolis. Thomas Gillespie of Spring
field Ill, received a telegram while in
| this city, saying Walker had defeated
Hayes for reelection by 10000 votes.
Mrs. Fanchon Rose. who gained
statewide notoriety during the trial
of Philip Cohen at Brighton for the
robbery of Mrs. Harry Nolan and the
Rev Garrett j. Burke in the Model
! roadhouse Jan. /, 1917, will have to
worry along on her own earnings and
without any contribution either from
the government or her soldier hus-
band. Such was the gist of a decision
handed down in Washington by the
exemption board of the war risk bu-
reau
John Winder, farmer near Kuner,
was unable to go 10 Greeley TO attend
court in which he was defendant in d
| civil suit, because his entire family OF
seventeen children were ill of influen-
"a, and his wife also was threatened
with the disease. Winder, in explain
| ing the number of children in his fam
| lily says he was married to widow.
Eight of the children are mine, eight
are hers. and one is ours" he said.
This is the only family in this section
which now has influenza.
The preliminary estimate of winter
wheat acreage for Colorado is $4,000
acres as compared with the tentatively
revised estimate of 5S5, 900 acres sown
last fall, according 10 report just
issued by the Bureau of Crop Esti-
mates. This estimate of acreage is
based largely upon incomplete re-
turns of acreage by the licensed
threshermen of the state to the U. S.
Food Administration and the Bureau
| of Crop Estimates cooperating, and is
subject to modification when complete
data is available.
The Colorado Highway Commission
will have available for road improve
ments in 1919 total of S1,043. 1856. 45
against $685., 900 for 1918. Although
the budget for 1919 shows an increase
of S14S,1 1895, the various counties
will receive $S0,S76.07 less than in
1918. This is due to the increase in
the amount set aside TO meet the fed
eral aid projects of the postal depart
ment, to which the state contributes
one-half of the expense. The new
budget calls for appropriations for
county roads of $479,194 against
s560,O71 for 1918. Office expenses for
1919 are estimated at 41,72742. and
for federal aid and forestry road prof
ects $42O. .55S.33 will be expended.
City officials made application 10
the Colorado Utilities Commission ask