The Colorado statesman., 1921-11-19
CENTENNIAL STATE ITEMS.

previous year, according to monthly
report made by Miss Florence Leltch,
registrar Thirty of the mortall-
ties were children under 1 year old.
The record for the same month In 1920
wns twenty-eight. Other deaths rec
or,led included two from poison, taken
with suicidal intent, one by hanging
three by firearms. one by asphyXiation
five by accidental falls, three by rail
road, street car and automobile accl-
dents, three by crushing and four by
murder
Conrad Greenamelr, 81 years old,
rancher, shot his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth
Greenamelr 50 years old, and then
killed himself, ON their farm twelve
miles east Of Brighton. Undersheriff
Virgil G. Clemmons and Deputy Sher-
| Iff Harry L. Mckinney of Adams coun-
ty, who Investigated the tragedy ana
brought Greenameir's body TO the
Brighton morgue, attributed the shoot
ing to an incessant querrel which Is
said TO have ragged between the couple
for several months. They have four
grown children.
A platinum and gold medal set with
a ruby measuring half an inch in dia-
meter and carrying an insurance value
of $4,000, has just been sent by the
japanese emperor to Capt. Jacob Der
ry, resident of Denver, for meritor-
ious service with the Twenty-seventh
infantry in Siberia This honor, which
signifies the Order of the Rising Sun,
| is believed to be held by only three
other Americans, General Wood, who
received his emblem last week. Gen
eral Morrow, and Major Miller.
Thirty days each was the sentence
passed at Pueblo by Federal Judge
Robert f. Lewis upon James A. Nc
Donald and Alexis Byrne, who plead
ed guilty to transporting stolen au-
| tomobile from st. Cloud, Mimi, To
| Colorado. The men have been con-
fined in Jail since their arrest. Santos
Juarez, 1T-year-old Mexican youth
pleaded guilty to robbery of the post
office at Crook, Colo, and was sent
enced to two years in the reformatory
ut Boone, Mo.
John Slipley saved half of $1,000
collections for local concern at Lead
| vile by quick wittedness, but he lost
his watch and $500 when two armed
bandits stopped the team which he
was driving at Arbenz, settlement
| lust outside of Leadville. He had been
making collections for the Frank
Zaitz Mercantile Company and when
the robbers emerged from clump of
bushes and confronted him he manag-
ed to slip $500 to his wife who ac-
companied him.
Walter Osterick, Jr., the 2-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Osterick,
living twenty y-eight miles north of Keo-
ia, while playing with his 6-year-old
| sister, found loaded shotgun in
closet. The lad held the muzZle of the
weapon with both hands and pressed
the trigger with his foot. His head
was nearly blown off and he died in
stantIy. Mrs. Osterick was seriously
| ill in bed at the time and it is feared
the shock of her sons death might
prove fatal
Denver must raise $113,996 during
the canvass to be made Nov. 2S to Dec.
3, if it contributes its share of the
| 100000 now being asked of the peo-
pie of Colorado by the university for
| the establishment of the new state
general hospital. This quota has been
assigned to Denver by the university
as its fair apportionment to be raised
| in contributions of 81 or more. 1t is
hased upon the population figures as
shown in the 1927 Colorado year book.
Alpha Blk, 30 years old, a student at
/ ca. of Graalau
was held up on the campus by a man
of apparently % years. The young
man, who is from Seibert, handed over
80 cents, all he had. "Aw, you're only
n kid" said the holdup, disgustedly,
and he handed back the half dollar
Mrs. Jane Baker. aged 81 years, who
| twice crossed the western plains in an
OK cart and who is reputed to have
been the first white woman to live in
Denver, died at the home of her adopt
ed daughter, in Murtaugh, Ida. On her
second trip across the plains in 1857,
from Tennessee, she stopped at the
present site of Denver, where she saw
the first house erected and bought the
first yard of calico offered for sale
there, paying S1.50 n yard for it,
There will be no permits issued for
the manufacture or sale of beer in
Colorado, according to n message re-
ceived by L. II. McClenahan, director
of prohibition enforcement In Colo
RADIO, from Roy A. Haynes, federal
commissioner. The reason is given
that no such permits will be issued
for any state where there is "bone-
dry" state prohibition, and it will be
recalled that Colorado was dry before
the nation.
The Loveland Real Estate Exchange
has voted unanimously to join both the