Gilpin observer., 1913-11-13
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Jan-Meeting Colorado, GOOD Roads
Association at Colorado Springs
1sl5.-tast Grand Council of North
american Indians at Denver
1t is reported that rich strike OF
gold has been made near Collbran.
The cornerstone of the new Elks'
home at Focky Ford has been set in
place.
Mrs. David Evans and daughter
were injured in an automobile acci-
dent at Pueblo.
The absence of street number and
room number in office buildings is
given as the cause of the delay of
mail in Denver
Worlds Temperance Sunday was
observed in Longmont, when big un-
ion service was held at the Congrega-
tional church.
Quick work on the part of the mill
tia dispatched to the La sXeta district
after the killing, rounded up eight sus-
pected of taking part in the ambus-
cade.
I Potatoes averaging more than two
pounds each have been dug from the
farm of Mrs. A. d. Doughty near Ault.
The field is running 125 sacks to the
acre.
Bishop Matz of Denver confirmed
class of thirty-two at the Sacred
Heart church in Boulder. The confir-
nation was followed by an eloquent
sermon.
Adams county is going to turn over
new leaf on New Years day and put
quietus to the roadhouses which
line the road between Denver and
Brighton.
The Perry mine of the Moffat Coal
Company at Oak Hills, four miles east
of Oak Creek, resumed operations
with it's full force of men, numbering
eighty-five.
Buy Red Cross Christmas stamps.
They are of a new and more attrac-
tive design and the money obtained is
used for worthy Cause.-The fight
against tuberculosis
Another dynamiting outrage the
blowing up of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company's water pipe line be-
tween Segundo and Primero, was re-
ported at Trinidad.
]. l.. Stubbs, sixty-two, general
agent for the Wells-Fargo Express
Company and prominent in Masonic
circles, died suddenly Of pneumonia at
his residence in Denver
Delegates from many towns along
the proposed North and South high
way from Galveston to Billings, Mont,
assembled in Denver for two import
ant good roads meetings.
The one-day-in-seven rest ordinance,
adopted by popular vote last April.
was declared unconstitutional by
Judge w. P. Kinney of the County
Court at Colorado Springs.
Leases and sales of state lands will
be made only to bona fide settlers
hereafter, and spectators will not be
allowed to obtain control of any of the
tracts by the State Land Board
Major William T. Snow, assistant to
the chief of militia affairs of the War
Department at Washington, declared
while on a visit to Denver that the
United States is not prepared for war
with Mexico. .
The killings and beatings which
have occurred in Las Animas county
during the strike will be investigated
by county grand jury called by Dis
trict Judge A. w. McHendrie to meet
in Trinidad Dec. /.
An overheated stove set fire to the
warehouse of the Nave-McCord COM
pany. in Denver. and before the fire
men extinglished the blaze the build
ing and its contents had been dam
aged to the extent of $4,000.
Through the activity of the free la
Dor bureau of the Weld County Com
mercial Club, under the direction OF
Secretary ]. F. McCrery, 352 men and
women have obtained places on farms
in that section In the past three
months.
Tests of the new variety of sweet
pea evolved by Luther Burbank, the
California botanical wizard, at an ex-
penditure Of s25.O00. for the Empson
Canning Company of Longmont. have
prove entirely satisfactory to the
company, its officials say.
The Rev. J. B. Johnson, pastor of
the Peoples Tabernacle. has been ap-
pointed city chaplain new post
created by the ministerial alliance
and will hereafter devote his time ex-
clusively to the visitation of the sick
in the city hospitals and prisons In
On information that two men had at.
tempted to pawn one of the watches
secured by the bandits who help up
the Burlington train near Omaha, In
a northern Colorado town, Denver pc.
licemen stopped and boarded Bur
lington train at Sand creek and
searched the train without results.
A verdict OF s1,166 in favor of Mrs.
Mary u. Harrington, who sued William
II. Leonard for $4,000 damages for