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COLORADO STATE NEWS U’mtra Nawrpapar rntan Nan Iwtlm. UATBI BOM COMING BVMNTI. April IS —Democratic state Convention At Pueblo. May I.—First Congressional District Republican Convention at Colorado Springs. April St— Annual Convention Western Colorado 1. O. O. F. at Grand Junc tion. May s.—Republican State and Third and Fourth Congressional District Convention at Pueblo. May IS—Democratic State Convention at Colorado Springs. May 20—Progressive State Convention In Denver. Aug. S— Democratic State Assembly at Denver. The Grand Junction Women's Clul will offer prises for beautifying the city. For the first three months of 1916 more than 91,000,000 was invested in Denver': building activity. The annual meeting for the election of officers of the Denver Dumb Friend's League will be held April 28. The fourth annual dance of the Denver Policemen's Protective Asso ciation will be held in the auditorium April 26. Mrs. Margaret Rees, who was 96 years old, died of pneumonia at the home of her son-in-law, William Schmidt in Denver. Because of the Sigh price of lead, the American Smelting and Refin ing Company has increased the pay of all Its employes. A campaign to raise $60,000 with which an addition to the Beth-El hos pital will be built this summer was started at Colorado Springs. Donald McGregor, shot to death by Villa in Minaca, Mex., is believed to be Don P. McGregor, formerly em ployed on a Denver newspaper. The Rev. John 5». Blake, for ten years chaplain of the Colorado Peni tentiary at Canon City, died of heart disease, following an attack of lndl gestiop. With 22,064 names on the petitions the campaign to get signatures for the recall of Ben B. Jones and Dr. Clarkson N. Guyer from the school board closed In Denver. Dr. George H. Vosburgh of Den ver University delivered the com mencement address to the graduating class of the school of agriculture at the Fort Collins College. Receipts from the sale of stamps and money orders at the Denver postoffice for March were $128,497.17, an Increase of $6,264.08 over those for the corresponding month of 1915. More than 8,000,000 acres of gov ernment land in Colorado was taken up by settlers during last year, ac cording to figures compiled In the general land office at .Washington. The new state civil service com mission unanimously indorsed the proposed constitutional amendment, which would take the state civil serv ice out of the power of the general assembly. Distribution of wage earners through the free employment office of the United States Immigration Bu reau in Denver Is meeting with unpre cedented success this spring. Farm positions tilled In March of this year total 125, which monthly record was first set In February. Prof. Cecil F. Lavell, found In Colo rado Springs after being lost to him self and the world for three years started back to meet, in Toronto, Canada, the wife he cannot remem ber. His cousin, Prof. Roy McFay den of the University of Colorado, Identified him as the man tor whom wife, relatives and friends have been searching the world over since Nov. 24, 191$. MONTAGUE SENTENCED MUST SERVE FIFTEEN YEARS FOR ATTACK ON GIRL. Nsw Trial Plea, Based on Presence of Women in Court, Denied— Appeal to Bo Tried. IVpatNewspaper Union Nawa Bsrvlcs. Denver —Arthur Montague, con victed after a sensational trial, of an attack on a 17-year-old girl, was sen tenced in the West Side Court to serve from fifteen to twenty years in the penitentiary. Judge Sheafor pronounced .the sen tence after denying the prisoner a new trial. Morning session of court was consumed by arguments from Mon tague's attorney, asking that the first trial be set aside. The attorney claimed that a group of Denver club women who inter ested themselves In the prosecution of his client bad prejudiced the Jury by their constant presence in the court and their solicitude for the young girl complainant. After the noon recess Jude Shea for announced that the new trial would be denied. He asked Mon tague if he had anything to say be fore sentence was pronounced. The prisoner shook his head and the court then condemned him to prison, giv ing him a half-way term between the five-year minimum and the life maxi mum. Notice of appeal to the Supreme Court was given, and Montague re ceived a sixty-day stay of execution. In the courtroom at the time were Mrs. Montague, who still maintains her husband's Innocence and who was the chief witness for the defense, and Montague’s mother, who collapsed when she heard the prisoner's fate. Montague refused to make any statement when court adjourned. Widow Will Bury Exiled Banker. Boulder—James McCune, the self exiled banker, who dropped dead at Cardinal after sixteen years of labor In the Boulder county mining camps, under the name of James Hazen, Is to be buried at the scene of his former prosperity, sterling. 111. McCune's wife, who became estranged after his financial reverses, and who, accord ing to friends of the family, never communicated with him during his Colorado exile, wired Coroner Howe, instructing him to prepare the body for burial and to send it to Sterling at once. During his years of compara tive poverty, McCune kept up the payments on a $4,000 life Insurance policy. The telegram from his widow cautioned the coroner that the death certificate should be made out for James McCune and not for James Hazen. Cripple Creek Mine Output in March. Cripple Creek—Mines In the Cripple Creek district produced for the month of March 86,672 tons of ore of the average value of $14.17 per ton, and of the gross value of $1,227,810. . The tons reported treated at the various mills and values were as follows: Plant. Tonnage A v e alSr PortfancL Colo-’ »«30,0(To Po r ru£„d SP vfc’: 11 ' 60 ° ” 00 268 .*00 Portland's in-* 17,6 °° *' l7 »M 76 I.a d b e e P i e .a denC . a . 'Wo US ’gill Caly-Jcrry Johnson . 1.31* 4.60 B « 04 Smelters, Den ver & P'blo ■ 4,300 60.00 266,600 Totals , . 86,672 114.17 11,227,810 Bwltchman Dies From Injuries. Pueblo.—W. 8. Flynn, 26, a switch man at the steel works, fell from the running board of a switch engine as he was returning to work. Both legs were crushed and he died as he was being taken into the Minnequa hos pital. THX KEOTA NEWS. Potato Doughnuts (Write hr Kssipal retain the moisture several days. An excellent wholesome food when made with the pure KC Baking Powder Always sure to please. Try a can today—at our risk. KA Handy Book containing 10 Cook ing Lessons and 94 Tested Recipes win be mailed you FRBB If you will send your name and address to JAQUE3 MFC. CO, CHICAGO I Sold by aii #Vnr... uTOCSrI Some men will do almost anything ( In order to get their names In the pa pers. STOP EATING MEAT IF KIDNEYS OR BACK HURT Taka a Glass of Salts to Cloan Kid neys If Bladder Bothers You— Meat Forms Urlo Acid. Eating meat regularly eventually produces kidney trouble In some form or other, says a well-known authority, because the uric acid In meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked; get sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of distress, particularly backache and misery In the kidney region; rheu matic twinges, severe headaches, add stomach, constipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness, bladder and uninary ir ritation. The moment your back hurts or kid neys aren't acting right, or If bladder bothers you, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good pharmacy; take a tablespoonful In a glass of water before breakfast for s few days and your kidneys will then act fins. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com bined with llthia, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kid neys and stimulate them to normal activity; also to neutralize the acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts cannot injure anyone; makes a delightful effervescent llthia water drink which millions of men and women take now and then to keep the kidneys and urinary organa clean, thus avoiding serious kidney disease.—Adv. Some people act as though they were afraid they might forget their troubles if they didn't talk about them all the tim". Sudden Death Caused by Duetts of tbs Kidneys The close connection between the heart and the kidneys is well known nowadays. When kidneys are diseased, arterial tension Is increased and the heart functions are attacked. When the kidneys no longer pour forth waste, uremic poisoning occurs and the per son dies, and the cause is often given as heart disease, or disease of brain or lungs. It Is a good Insurance against such a risk to send 10 cents for a large trial package of “Anuric” —the latest discovery of Dr. Pierce. 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