Gilpin observer., 1913-03-13


Felix and Dominick Arena were
placed on trial for the killing Of Peter
Ringo at Trinidad
A home for the blind in Denver is
the purpose of the Adult Blind Asso-
citation now being organized.
Governor Ammons signed the bill
creating Alamosa county out of parts
of Conejos and Costilla counties.
Peter Forte, convicted wife slayer,
was sentenced at Pueblo to life i'm
prisonment in the state penitentiary.
Mason B. Carpenter, soldier, attor-
ney and authority on mining law, died
at the home of his daughter in Chi
oago.
The body of George Pastor, German.
forty-three years old, with the head
almost shot away, was found in his
room at the Great Northern hotel in
Denver.
Almost side by side with a man
whom he is charged with shooting.
Marshal Walker of Rye, lies in crit
ical condition at Minnequa hospital at
Pueblo.
Mario Fortune, the Italian who was
thought to have been fatally shot in
shooting affray at the home of Peter
Pauline, 1884 Jason street in Denver,
will recover.
A. P. Davis, wealthy farmer, living
four miles from La Junta, was instant
ly killed in a runaway accident. He
was forty years old and is survived by
a wife and one child.
All the equal suffrage associations
and votes for women organizations
owe Captain Roald Amundsen, South
Pole discoverer, who lectured at the
Auditorium, life membership cards.
Carl A. Blanchard filed suit in the
Charles E. Stubbs, asking $23,800 dam
ages on allegations of false arrest.
Blanchard was acquitted Of a perjury
charge in the West Side Court.
"Stoiberhof," the home Of Mrs. Lena
Stoiber Rood, at Humboldt and East
Tenth avenue, one of the sightseeing
points in Denver, was sold to Werner
u.
consideration said to be $150,000.
Jennie Shelley Boyd, wife of DR..
A. G. Boyd, has taken out petition
for her candadicy for city commission
er at the election April LIST. This is
the first time in the history of Colo
RADIO Springs that woman has run
| for a municipal office.
A suit to set aside the will of Fred
erick L. Sigel, late millionaire mining
man of Denver, has been filed In the
| County Court by his widow, Mrs An
ma Kaub Sigel, who declares that she
is his sole heir at law, and that she Is
entitled to the entire estate left by her
husband, which is valued at $1,500,000
, Manager Zurick of the Northern
Colorado Power Company Of Loveland
signed contract with the town of
Berthoud for installing an ornamental
street lighting system. Tungsten lights
| in clusters of five on the corners and
three between blocks will be used,
placed on ornamental steel poles at
the curb.
| In brief but impassioned address
before the General Assembly, in which
he expressed a strong faith in the
women members, John Mitchell. vice
president of the American Federation
of Labor, urged the passage of legis-
lation designed to combat the social
evil and improve conditions among the
laboring classes.
Allen l.. Burris of Denver, will ne
cted president OF the Colorado
/ Mines, Railway and Utilities Com
pany. the new s25,OOO.OOO holding con-
cern formed recently under the laws
of Delaware to effect the merger OF
the Ell Paso Consolidated and the
Golden Cycle mining properties Of
Cripple Creek, according to official an
nouncement in Denver.
Two tunnels, side by side, one the
Moffat railroad tunnel the other a
tunnel six by six feet, bringing water
| for irrigation from the Western Slope
and serving as drainage way for the
railroad tunnel, will doubtless result
from the fact that the Denver Reser-
voir Irrigation Company has filings on
all the water available at the western
end of the proposed Moffat tunnel.
The thirteenth child Of John Lutten-
berger. Tramway employe living at
1884 East Thirty-sixth avenue. Denver.
twelve-year-old Frank Luttenberger,
fell victim to the hoodoo which his
playmates insisted attached to the
number. While he was In the vicinity
of Clavton college, Thirty-fourth ave-
nue. and Garfield street, on his way
to Sand Creek. he was shot through
the left hand with a 30 rifle bullet.
In an opinion overruling the Den
yer District Court the State Court OF
Appeals holds that Nathan @. Tan