Gilpin observer., 1912-12-26
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
January 20-25-Eighth Annual West.
ern Stock Show-Denvar.

January 20-25-Eighth Annual West
ern Stock Show-Denver.
The Boulder. Colorado, Sanitartum
Training School for Nurses, graduated
sixteen nurses.
Already sixteen national conventions
OF importance have been secured for
Denver for 1913, and the list is grow.
ing.
Simon Appel. s3. and pioneer OF
Denver, died at Mercy hospital. Death
came after an illness of two weeks and
was due to old age.
Arrangements are practically com,
pleted for the National Western Poul,
try show at the Denver Union Stock
Yards, January 20 to 16.
Oliver Neely, aged ~, q student OF
chemistry at Colorado college. commit.
tod suicide at his home in Montrose by
taking mercury bichloride.
Orders have been placed by the Chi.
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad for
1900 new freight cars, to be used prin.
cipally in Colorado and other Western
territory.
Mrs. Sophronia Smith, 90, Garfield
county's oldest citizen, died at her
home in Newcastle, following slight
illness caused by infirmities attendant
on old age.
In the last two and half years the
public utilities commission Of Denver
has cost the city $63,596.40 since its
creation, according to a compilation
made by City Auditor Markey.
Representative Edward T. Taylor
and Mrs. Taylor, his wife, returned to
their home at the Shirley hotel in Den.
yer from St. Luke's hospital, where
both had been, recovering from the ef.
fects Of operations.
A special election win be held in
Denver February IA. at which the tele-
phone ordinance, killed by the alder.
mon, and the question Of adoption of
commission form of government will
be submitted to the people.
The alumni and faculty of the West
Denver High School presented Miss
Bertha Schmitz, a teacher Of Latin
and German, with 800 in gold as a
recognition Of her twenty-five years
in the school.
The grade teachers Of Denver
schools, 1t has been announced, will
demand that the school board increase
their maximum salary from $3.50 a
year to $1,000, and their minimum
from $500 to 500.
C.P. Allen, chairman; Thomas Tully
and ]. e. Ma.oney of the State High
way Commission. completed plans for
the improvement of 4,519 miles, tho
entire system of state primary roads,
at total cost Of $1.s32.50o.
F. ]. McClain, brakeman on the
Cripple Creek Short Line, is in hos
pital suffering severe injuries sus-
tanned while trying to stop runaway
passenger coach at tunnel No. 8, near
Cheyenne cafion, at Colorado Springs.
While trying to sell three valuable
diamonds taken from an Elk charm,
which he said he found in q Victor
saloon, Clinton Thompson of Victor
was arrested at Colorado Springs.
The stones were owned by H. A. Wal.
lington Of Victor.
Denver railroad officials see in the
decision of the Supreme Court order
ing dissolution of the Hartman sys-
tenn the removal of one of the greatest
barriers which has confronted the
builders of the Denver, Northwestern
& Pacific railroad.
A bill Is being drawn UP by the mem.
bers Of the various poultry associa-
tions in Denver, which will be pre-
scented to the next Legislature, asking
for an appropriation Of $4,000 to es.
tablish an experimental poultry farm
in connection with the State Agricul.
tural college.
The "ashpit baby" which was found
in an ashpit last May and which was
later restored to its mother, Miss Ag.
mes Anderson, of Edgewater, is dead.
The baby died August %, but because
Of the circumstances surrounding its
advent into the world news Of the
death was kept secret.
The brief honeymoon Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Kidd. very young
couple who eloped and were married
in Lttleton ON November IA. has
already ended unhappily. She has
filed suit for divorce in the County
Court through her mother as next OF
kin. charging that she finds life un.
bearable because Of cruel treatment.
"There will be no 'ragging' ON the
floor of the new chapel theater. when
DANCES are given." says Father Nc.
Menamin, rector of the immaculate
Conception cathedral. Of Denver. I'VE
are united in our stand to stamp out
this vulgar type of dancing md peo-
pie who dance on the theater floor
will nave to be satisfied with the
more conventional form Of the old
waltz and two-step."