Gilpin observer., 1912-11-07
LITTLE COLORADO ITEMS.
Small Happenings Occurring Over the
State Worth While,

AAoioCe w. CldHh, lOTluer VICE pTobl'
dent and general manager of the Den
yer & Rio Grande railroad, died at
Frederick, Maryland.
Contracts for 1000 acres of beets
for the proposed independent sugar
factory at Greeley are being asked of
farmers in the Ault district.
E. P. Shove, banker and mining
man of Colorado Springs. was elected
president of the Associated Charities
to succeed Irving w. Bonbright.
Mrs. Rebecca Smith, widow of Jo-
seph H. Smith, county clerk and re-
corder of Denver for twelve years. died
at the family residence in Denver.
Jack Davis Of Num-, went through
bridge with traction engine, fall
ing fourteen feet. The machine top
pied over, but he escaped without
scratch.
Two convicted murderers were TAX
en- from the Denver county Jail to the
state psnitentiary at Ca1on City by
Deputy Sheriffs David O'Neill and Ed
ward Johnson.
Bishop Matz of Denver successfully
underwent an operation, resetting the
tendon in his right leg. injured last
July, when he fell on board ship
bound for Rome.
Greed for beer caused the murder
of G. Regordes at Pueblo. according
to confession made by Dolores Vera.
The case mystified. the police for sew
eral days.
The Rev. George E. Farnam, for
number Of years Western agent for the
American Bible Society, died in Den
yer. Death was due to nervous
breakdown.
Mayor Arnold of Denver, was str. ok
en- by ptomaine poison while at work
in his office at the city hall. He was
taken to his home Immediately and
given medical assistance.
Approximately $500 was raised for
the Jewish Consumptives' Relief Soci-
| ETY. through the efforts of score OF
Jewish women, who completed can
vass Of Denver.
The last stone on the outside walls
of the new postoffice building at Den
yer was put into place before small
crowd of construction superintendents,
| workmen and passersby.
While the Varsity was tying a few
knots in the Tigers tail the State
| Preparatory boys lost hard battle
| with the Eaton High school boys on
Gamble field at Boulder by to 0.
Just one week to the hour and al
most the minute after her husbands
death, Mrs. Sarah NJ. Kurtz, aged thir-
ty-five. suffering from broken heart,
died at her home in Colorado Springs
The $325.00O app op-.ated by Con-
gress for the improvements of post
roads in this state will be concen-
trated on 1000 miles of road, as the
result of the decision of the state
highway commission
| Pursuant to resolutions adopted at
the silver jubilee banquet rendered
Bishop MatZ in Denver, the Rev.
| Father McMenamin, rector of the I'm
maculate Conception cathedral, cabled
greetings to Pope Plus X
A marriage license was issued at
Fort Collins to +. A. Somers and Mrs.
Henrietta Somers, both of Loveland
Mrs. Somers is the widow of brother
of the bridegroom. This is the first
| time license has been issued in Lar
inner county to man to marry his
| sister-in-law.
Harry Kelly, a widely known horse
man, who because of his political as
sociation with Esconda Lenda,
nephew of Porfirio Diaz, was forced
to flee for his life from Mexico City
at the outbreak of the Madero ,-insur-
| rection, died suddenly at the office
of a physician in Denver, where he
had gone to undergo slight opera
| ticn.
| "Wealth and luxury are nothing
compared with Colorado's beautiful
sunshine" declared Mrs. Edith Willis,
who was granted divorce in Denver
| by Judge Riddle of the District Court,
| from Cleveland Willis, wealthy
| merchant of Kokono, Ind. Mrs. Willis
declared she would not give up living
| in Colorado to Join her rich husband,
even though she had to work for her
| living.
Benjamin Griffith, attorney general.
has filed bill of particulars in the
Fremont County District Court in the
penitentiary graft cases, In which the
attorney general charges John Cleg
horn, former warden; A. r. Frisbic
Herman Loehr. ID. e. Gibson and W.
w. Gibson with misapproprlating $685.
900 Of the state funds in the construc-
tion of penitentiary buildings. The
case will go to trial November 1S.
"The livest crowd yet" is the way
the good roads promoters of Price,
Utah. are spoken of in telegram from
c. NJ. Kittredge. Jr.. assistant secre-
tary Of the Denver Chamber OF Com.
merce, who is accompanying A. L.