Gilpin observer., 1912-12-12
COLORADO NEWS
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
January 2O-25-Eighth Annual West
ern Stock Show-Denver.


January 2o-25-Eighth Annual West.
ern Stock Show-Denver.
j. NJ. Johnson will become director
of traffic on all the Gould lines west
of the Mississippi river January J..
Horance N. Hawkins, Denver, for
warded to the governor his resigna'
ton as a member of the state Civil
Service Commission.
Olaf E. Edlund, formerly postmas
ter at Wildhorse. who disappeared
June 1. 1911, has been arrested by fed
eral officers in Centuria, Wis.
Edward Vaughn, charged with hav
ing Illicit relations with ten-year-old
Felicitas Lamport, was convicted on
trial in the District Court at Greeley.
Emil Bochmann, 60, a stonecutter.
was shot and killed by Frank Bed
ford, 80, in front of boarding house
at $40 Grant avenue, Colorado City.
The thirteenth annual championship
show of the Colorado Poultry Fanci-
ers' Association will be held the week
of January 13 at the Denver Audito-
rum.
All business houses, offices and pub.
lie buildings were closed at Fort Nor.
gan as tribute to NJ. l. Moore, the
banker, who was buried in Riverside
cemetery
Surrounded by many weeping
friends the body of Mrs. Jesse F.
Stingley of Denver was lowered into a
grave besides that of her husband, the
murdered detective.
Julia Won der Lieth Welles, wife OF
A. NJ. Welles and president of the
state travelling library commission,
died sudsenly at her home in Denver
from an apoplectic stroke.
Matthew Houston, a farmer near
Meeker, carried his invalid mother
from their burning home just before
the roof of the house collapsed. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
The Rev. DR.. Frederick E. Palmer.
pastor of the First Baptist church of
Boulder, has been unanimously cho-
sen by the Colorado State Baptist
convention to be its secretary.
Cantaloupe growers of the Arkan-
sas valley, at a meeting at Rocky
Ford, laid plans to organize the small
er growers to effect Independent ship
ping and disposal of their product.
In addition to demanding their own
water and light plants, the people of
Glenwood Springs have decided that
a municipal coal yard. public scales
and municipal cemetery are to be de-
sired.
Miss Ethel Scribner of Cherokee,
Iowa, has been elected general secre
tary of the Y. w. c. a. of the Univer
sity of Colorado at Boulder to fill the
vacancy caused by tho resignation OF
Miss Bertha Chenault.
Married in 1870. divorced in 1884.
both taking other mates, losing them,
and marrying again in Denver, is a
short biography of the matrimonial
life of James Franklin Alice. aged b7,
and Mrs. Jennie Hampton, so. who
were remarked after a separation OF
twenty-eight years.
To the honor of Mrs. Julia Won der
Listh Welles in death, the state has
come forward with the offer to allow
the hundreds who loved her to pay
tribute within the state capitol build
ing. For the first time in the history
OF the capitol the body of a woman
will lie in state within its walls.
The $4,000 public defense bill Gre
ated by the last Legislature is uncon
stitutional, according to an opinion
handed down by the Supreme Court,
and seven lawyers who were destined
to share this amount "to protect Colo
RADIOS water resources" are left out
SO far as the $4,000 is concerned.
Wilson Arnold, father of Mayor Hen
ry j. Arnold of Denver, died of heart
disease ten minutes after he had been
out for walk. Although over seventy
six years old. he was SO robust that
his death after few days of suffer
ing from a bad cold, from which he
was apparently recovering, was COM
pletely unexpected.
Mrs. Henry d. Patrick, the agel
mother of Albert T. Patrick, who Is
making his temporary abode at the
country home of his millionaire broth
er-in-law, John T. Milliken, near st.
Louis, will leave Denver to spend
Christmas with her son there. 1t will
be the first time she has seen him
since his incarceration In Sing Sing
prison ten years ago.
That the completion Of plans to re.
store to creditors of the Western and
Denver Savings banks the 100000
that was due them when these institu-
tions failed in 1905 will be a matter
only of days is the assertion Of Leon
ard Imboden and j. A. Hill, who each
served over four years OF ten-year sem
tences after conviction on charges of
conspiracy to defraud the depositors