Gilpin observer., 1913-12-04
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Date. for Coming Evcnt,.

Jan. 12-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Hssoeiation Show at Denver.
Show at Denver.
Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
Sept. 7-Coiorado State AF Fair at Pueblo.
July yi3-14:-Grand Lodge Session, B. p.
Q. e.. at Denver.
Farmers Congress at Agricultural COL
lsi5.-Last Grand Council of North
american Indians at Denver
s. N. Nye retired from the manage
ment of the Colorado Springs opera
house after thirty years in the posi-
ton.
Frank L. Woodward of Denver was
elected president of the Federation Of
Denver Charities at a, meeting of the
trustees.
The Cripple Creek district produc-
tion Of gold in November totaled 49,
1872 tons, with gross bullion value of
$1,258,149.
The Mesa County National bank,
Oldest in the western part OF the state,
was closed by order of the comptroller
of currency.
Frank Hillen, self-confessed bandit,
charged with the killing of Thomas
Chase, must go to trial in the West
Side Court in Denver.
Sidney Logan, forty-eight years old,
| q sergeant on the non-commissioned
officers staff of the United States
army, died at Fort Logan.
Denver had 222 hours Of sunshine
out of possible 299 hours during No
vember. according to the monthly. re-
port of the weather bureau.
General Edward c. Campbell. aged
eighty-one. nationally prominent in G..
| A. r. affairs, was found dead on the
floor of his home at Trinidad.
The Mesa County National bank,
the oldest in that part of the state.
was forced to close its doors by order
of the controller of currency.
Secretary of Labor William B. VII
son left Denver for Washington, and
will make a report upon the southern
Colorado coal strike to President VIII
son.
Judge Sheafor. in the District Court
at Colorado Springs, has named Eric
A. Swenson as receiver for the Foun-
tain Valley Land and Irrigation Com
pany.
The big landslide on the Short Line,
nineteen miles west of Colorado
Springs. has finally been cleared away.
The slide was in cut and was 100
feet long and 100 feet high.
Harry B. Kerr, formerly active in
Denver politics, was stabbed and prob
ably fatally wounded by a negro
porter in a hotel at Dennison, Tex, &C
cording to word received in Denver.
The Rev. David Utter, speaking al
Unity church in Denver on ways OF
settling the coal strike, suggested that
either the state take up mining or
that the union incorporate.
The conference between coal mine
| operators and mine workers, arranged
with view to settling the strike in
the southern Colorado coal fields, was
ended officially without result.
Two bandits, a man and a women
held up DR.. William Haley and wife
of Rouse, Colorado, visitors in Denver
on Lafayette street. obtaining SIS. The
robE crs carried pistols but were un
masked.
Special collections in many Denver
churches swelled the fund of the Hos
pital Saturday and Sunday Association
which garnered between $1,000 and
$500 from the sale of tags on the
| streets.
record was made by the Denver
parcel post staff two day before
Thanksgiving, when 6,7O0 pieces were
handled. Two hundred and fifty tur-
keys were received and 300 were
shipped in one day.
The rebellion of the two-wife men OF
the Navajo tribe at the Shiprock, N.
NJ, agency, which began in an armed
encampment on Beautiful mountain
two weeks ago has ended, according to
to a Durango dispatch.
Charles A. Sullivan, twenty years
old, shot and killed himself in the
railway station at Crews a few miles
south of Colorado Springs on the
Santa Fe railroad in the presence OF
Miss Ruth Hollinger, who had refused
to marry him.
Ernest Strohmeyer of Peetz. seven
teen years old. is champion corn
grower of Logan county, under tho
rules of the Boys Corn club set-forth
by the department of agriculture. This
entities him to be the governments q
guest at Washington this winter. with
the champions of other states.
The Park Of the Red Rocks. located
near Morrison. eleven miles from the
Denver Union depot, will be chosen as
the site of the Pageant OF the North
American Indian in 1916, providing the
owner, ]. Brisben Walker, will make
some changes In his proffer to the d.