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# COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. DATES FOR COMING EVENTS. January 20-25-Eighth Annual Western Stock Show-Denver. Alex Spill, a ranch laborer, was accidentally shot by his employer, A. Peterson, and died in the Parker hospital at Kiowa. William Barth withdrew his name as plaintiff in the suits brought by James A. Hill in behalf of the Denver Savings bank. The widow of Walter C. Martin, who was killed in the Longmont sugar factory November 18, was awarded $2,000 damages in the District Court. The funeral of the late Mrs. Alice Wachter Hayes, wife of Elbert L. Hayes, tok place from her home in Montrose. She was forty-five years old. Cupid again took a girl student from the Sate Teachers' college at Greeley, giving Miss Marian Easton, a junior, as the bride of Dr. O. S. Adam of Segundo. James Judkins, a barber, died from tuberculosis in a hospital at Trinidad, and his wife lies on a bed in the same institution near death from the same disease. Thomas E. Williams was elected president of the Colorado Manufacturers' Association, succeeding Burt Coldren. E. H. Braukman was elected vice president. The leap-year appeal of a yonug Virginia woman for a Western husband, which was made to Mayor Arnold of Denver, has been accepted by two Colorado men. A new $50,000 factory for Denver for the manufacture of breakfast foods may be commenced within the next six months by the Wyoming Plant and Seed Breeding Company. Beet growers of the Greeley district got checks for about $910,000. The money was distributed among the three factories of the county as follows: Eaton, $380,000; Greeley, $210,000 and Windsor, $320,000. The Denver jury in the case of Charles W. Frickey, charged with the murder of W. E. Swan, a bartender, returned a verdict of first degree murder. The verdict carries a penalty of life imprisonment. To wed his sweetheart, whom he had not seen for five year, Y. Takaki, a wealthy Japanese of Fort Lupton, left for his old home. He had $10,000 with him, the profits of one year of farming near Fort Lupton. On account of default of payment of $300,000 in demand notes July 1, the Colorado Midland railroad was placed in the hands of a receiver. George W. Vallery, president of the road, was named receiver. George Edward Esterling, organizer of the Ex-Husbands' Anti-Alimony Protective Union, estimates that there are nearly 800 men in Denver eligible to membership in the union. The records show that 250 men are paying alimony into the County Court and 500 into the District Court. M. R. Bliss, who was shot at Socorro, N. M., by his wife, Marie R. Bliss, formerly lived at Pueblo with his mother, Mrs. Martha Bliss. Bliss left Pueblo over a year ago. Mrs. Martha Bliss, who still owns considerable property at Pueblo, removed to California five months ago. Awakening to find the clothing of her bed on fire and the room filled with smoke, Miss Lida Plaga, night operator at the telephone exchange at Platteville, with difficulty aroused herself sufficiently to extinguish the flames. A spark from a stovepipe in the room started the fire. John J. Cohan, who has been in the county jail at Colorado Springs for several weeks accused of threatening the lives of President-elect Woodrow Wilson, Judge Julian A. Mack of Chicago, and a number of Colorado Springs officials, will be liberated if the recommendations of County Physician E. L. McKinnie are carried out. Voluntary settlement of the claims of depositors against the Denver Savings bank by Leonard Imboden and James A. Hill will not depend upon the suits which they have filed for damages against Guy Le Roy Stevick, receiver for the institution, and others for damages of $953,000 on the allegation of conspiracy to defraud the bank, according to Lyndon E. Smith, attorney for the two men. Increased purchasing power of the funds available, increased efficiency of the teaching staff, increased enrollment, a widening of the scope of the work of the institution and some advance steps in experimental and extension work through co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture were shown in the annual report of President Charles A. Lory, of the State Agricultural College, made to the State Board of Agriculture in session at the college at Fort Collins. Colorado has been formally invited to participate in the Panama-California exposition at San Diego which will be held concurrently with the great Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco in 1915. James A. Staton, who sawed his way out of the Adams county jail November 27 with Frank L. Smith, murderer of Jesse E. Stingley, and gave himself up to the sheriff in Clayton, N. M., is in the clutch of remorse. He largely blames his wife for his present predicament and paces his cell.
