The Colorado statesman., 1923-01-13
LATE NEWS
From All OUer
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CONVENTIONS IN DENVER DURING
JANUARY.

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| ers Association.
Jan. I3-AiI- Colorado Ski Confer
| ence.
Jan. 13-Jewel Tea Company Confer
| ence. Intermountain branch COLORADO.
wyoming, New Mexieo);,
| Jan. 13-20-National Western Stock
Show and Horse Show.
| Jan. 13-20--Boys' and Girls Club
Section of the Agricultural Extension
| Service of Colorado. Wyoming and New
| Mexico.
Jan. 14-Rocky Mountain Ski Club.
Amateur Tournament on Genesee Noun
Jan. l5-16-Mountain States Ice
Manufacturers Association.
Jan. 15-20-National Rhode Island
| Red Club of America.
Jan. l5-2O-Colorado National Guard
| Conference.
| Jan. 15-22-Intermountain Amateur
Boxing and Wrestling Tournament.
Jan. 16-Western Hereford breeders
| Association.
Jan. 16-17-Colorado Metal Mining
| Association.
Jan. l6-i7-Amerlcan Mining Con-
| gress Colorado Chapter.
Jan. 16-1S-Colorado State Grange.
Jan. 16-1S-Farmers' Educational and
Cooperative Union Of Colorado;
Jan. 17-Colorado Sunday School As
sociation.
Jan. I7-western shorthorn Breed
Jan. i7-i8-Colorado Holstein Breed
ers' Association.
Jan. IS-Colorado Confectioners' AS
| sociation.
Women's Clubs.
| Jan. 1S-19-Colorado Stock Growers
| Association.
Jan. 19-Colorado League of Building
and Loan Associations.
Jan. 19-Ford Motor Company Assoc
Jan. 19-20WCoiorado Editorial Asso-
Jan. 19-2O-National Farm Loan As
| In, N Federal
Jan. 2O-Colorado Society of En-
Jan. 22-Colorado tuberculosis Asso-
Jan. 28-25-Mountain States Hard
| ware Implement Association.
Delta.-Charles Hauser, an employe
of the Delta flour mills, was instantly
killed when his clothing became en-
tangled in the machinery and his body
was pulled into the wheels.
Grand Junction.-The new Avalon
theater, erected at cost of approx
mately S13O,00O, and which ranks
among the finest and largest play
houses in any of the smaller cities oil
the west, was recently opened here.
Walsenburg.-Fran Bustos
1O5 years old, died at Walsenburg re-
Gently. Records of the old mission ut
Santa Fe, N. NJ, show that she was
born Feb. Z, 1918, and she was thought
to have been the oldest woman in Colo
RADIO.
Denver.-For greater facility in the
distribution of mail throughout north
western Colorado, mail henceforth
will be transported in refrigerator
cars, according to James l.. Davis, as
sistant Superintendent of the railway
mail service.
Fort Collins.-Attorney General
elect Russell w. Fleming has an
nounced the appointment of Winton NJ
Ault as assistant attorney general, the
office carrying with 1t that of inheri-
lance tax appraiser. Thomas Roach
was named by Fleming as deputy at
torney general.
Denver-William A. Dollison, re-
Gently clerk of the District Court in
Denver, was sworn in as United States
marshal for Colorado, to succeed Sam
uel J. Burris, .eslgned, following con-
firmation of his appointment by the
Senate His resignation as clerk of
the District Court became effective
Dec. 81.
Durango.-The first serious accident
to occur in the celebrated May Day
mine in the La Plata district since the
S2OOOO,OOO ore discovery, was when
Joe Clark, well known miner, suf-
fered fatal injuries when he was
caught under fall of rock weighing
a ton or moe. Both of Clark's legs
were broken and he suffered internal
Injuries.
Denver.-Denver was the first city
in the United tates to light the
streets with electricity. 1t was the
second city in he United States to OPP
crate street cars by electricity.
Brighton-John Jones, negro, was
found guilty of murder in the first de-
gree and sentenced to hang by jury
in the District 'ourt here after a re-
markable one-tly murder trial. Fred
Murchison, Jones companion in muir
dering George Il. Miller, Denver sales
man, Nov. 27, testified against him.
Murchison received life sentence the
previous day.
Brighton.-Army officers, enlisted
men, nurses and inmates of Fitz-
simons general hospital are not legal
| voters, according to the decision of
Judge George A. Garard in the Coun-
ty Court The controversy arose over
nm election contest brought by Ben
Shearston against Walter p. Merrill
pver the office of county treasurer If
Adams county. Merrill was elected on
tie face of the returns by majority
of forty, but after Il recount and eliml-
mating what the court found to be IL
legal votes, SheIrston is elected by
| thirty seven votes.