The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-21
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS,

ance COnIllSslOueTs vi lhllty-tibht
states in the closing session of the
National Association of State lnsur-
ance Commissioners convention at
Denver. This expression came after
several trips made by the visitors
through the financial and business
districts and into the hills, including
Denver's mountain parks. Claude w.
Fairchild, insurance commissioner OF
Colorado. is the new president of the
association.
AT conference with several en-
gineers Governor Gunter arranged to
send State Engineer McCune to Wash
ington to confer with Secretary Lane
and representatives of other Western
states in regard to providing land ON
reasonable terms for returning sol
diers. and also to assist In laying plans
similar to those in use III the British
and French empires and in Australia
for providing all farm equipment on
longtim loans, carrying a low inter
est rate.
Mrs. May d. McMahill of Denver,
widow of Luther McMahill, the patrol
man who was killed by bandits on
Colorado boulevard and Sixteenth ave
nue., told Captain Carter at police
headquarters that McMahill's mother
had called at the auditors office and
collected his salary, $3.50 for the first
fifteen days in September. Mrs. Nc
Mahill, the widow, says she and her s.
year-old son by former marriage are
destitute.
Reprim anded by her mother be-
cause OF quarrel with her sister ut
the supper table Alice Wright. 10,
went to her bedroom on the second
floor of the Wright home in Denver,
and swallowed quantity of poison.
Police Surgeon Campbell administered
emetics and took her to the Denver
county hospital for further treatment,
but she lapsed into Inconsistencies
and died two hours later
The attempted suicide of Moritz
Bernstein at the home of his daugh
ter, Eva, in Denver. by shooting him
self in the head, failed of its purpose
but instead. performed an operation
which physicians had advised as the
only thing possible to prolong his life.
Bernstein is recovering from self-in-
flicted wounds in his head and leg at
the county hospital
Six boys from Colorado left Denver
to join the student army training corps
at Georgetown University, Washing
ton, D. c. The boys, all of whom are
Is years old, are Leo P. Martin,
Kremmling; Charles Donald Sheedy.
Yuma; Paul V. Dunn, E. Mulroony. Ed
win A. Henifen, Jr., and Albert Cart
land Marion of Denver.
The executive staff of the Colorado
state womens Liberty loan commit
tee is being made up of experts from
different parts of the country, in
keeping with Chairman Helen Ring
Robinson's efficiency program for
every department of the organization,
both in Denver and in every county
throughout the state.
The vault of the Colorado constab-
ulary used for storing bootleg whisky
confiscated when making arrests con-
tains 800 bottles more than it did.
Four persons who were bringing the
liquor into Colorado from Wyoming
escaped, after a chase that extended
more than 100 miles and ended at the
Wyoming line.
Word has been received in Denver
that Herman A. Anderson. one of the
Denver boys who left Camp Kearny
with the 157th infantry. has arrived
safely in France. Mr.. Anderson is an
Idaho Springs boy who enlisted from
Boulder and was stationed at the rifle
range in Golden during the summer
of 1917.
Four brief months in the war, which
ended in his death from wounds re-
ceived in action somewhere in France,
was the fate of Frank NJ. Shepard,
whose mother, Mrs. Nettie NJ Shepard,
was advised of her sons death in a
telegram which she received from the
War Department.
"If l ever had the opportunity to
again meet my father l surely would
kill him This was the declaration
made by Frank Lewis, one of the al
legged automobile bandits and bank
robbers, who is held in the Pueblo
county jail following his arrest at
Palmer Lake by Colorado Springs Of
ficers, who took him to the Pueblo
county jail for safe keeping. Lewis
and other members of the gang are
charged with having murdered a po-
liceman at Colorado Springs and seri-
ously wounding another.
Soldiers and sailors can obtain a
free education at the University of
Colorado at Boulder, according to an
nouncement made by Secretary of
War Baker. The institution will admit
all who have been honorably dis
charged, and from many state, possess
ing the required educational qualified
tionS.
Miss Mildred Waco Gates of Dallas,
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