Gilpin observer., 1913-10-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dntes for Coming Events.

Oct. 27.-IO.O.F. Annual Encampment
at Grand Junction.
Oct; 27-2S.-Good Roads Meeting at Pu-.
Oct 3o-Nov. 1.-Colorado Kennel Club
Noy. 6s:--Thirteenth Annual Conven-
tion of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Nov. 24-26-State Teachers Association
Jan. 10 -15.-colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Association Show at Denver.
Jan 24-aNational Western Stock
Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
Association at Colorado Springs.
1sl5.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Cleanup day was a, great success in
Grand Junction.
Henry Decker, a convict. escaped
from the penitentiary at Canon City.
A taxpayers league was organized at
a we'll attended meeting at, Grand
Junction.
Mrs. Annie Hamilton Pitzer, sister
in-law of Speaker Champ Clark, is a
candidate for postmistress of Colorado
Springs.
Identified as one of the men who
held up w. ]. Fitzpatrick, butcher in
Pueblo, Donald Mcdonald has been
arrested.
Colorado Springs new $75, 1000 home
for the Young Womens Christian AS
sociation was formally opened with a
public reception.
A bond issue of $4,000 is the pro-
posal which has been submitted to the
city commissioners to improve the
streets of Grand Junction.
While hunting, ]. M. Jacobson of Pu
eblo accidentally discharged his shot
gun and was badly injured, his left
hand being almost shot away.
Arrangements have been completed
for the annual convention of the
Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems Associa-
ton at Denver, Oct. 2S. 29 and 80.
At special meeting the Pueblo
Trades Assembly voted in favor of "a
federal investigation of the present
coal strike in the southern fields.
William Maughan, fifty-nine, fore
man Of the Chamberlain sampling
works Of Black Hawk for the past
nineteen years, died of tuberculosis.
Mandamus proceedings to compel
the city of Victor to pay outstanding
warrants to the sum of 100000, were
begun in the District Court at Cripple
Creek.
Thomas J. Thompson, sheriff OF
Boulder county in 1898 and for many
years one of the leading citizens of the
community, died suddenly near Gold
field, New.
The coming or the State Teachers
Association in Pueblo on November
24-26, is to have the best meeting ac-
commodations of any session in re-
cent years. n
George Hargh, said to be a French.
man, escaped from the prison grounds
at Canon City and was apprehended
at Portland, following an exciting tus-
sle with six guards. T..
Members of the canine aristocracy
from every state in the Union are ar
riving in Denver for the annual show
Of the Colorado Kennel Club to be held
in the Colburn building.
OhC uCdu anu liItt Woullutu, lWO
perhaps fatally, is the toll of a battle
between strikers and deputy sheriffs
at Forbes, camp of the Rocky Noun
tain Fuel Company, ten miles north of
Trinidad.
Colorados property valuation was
raised s1s6,551 .65s by the State Board
of Equalization. The value of state
property was declared to be S1,3O6,-
49S,162, and the state levy was fixed
at 1.3O mills.
DR.. A. G. Kriger, formerly a promi
nent physician of Monroe, Mich, was
arrested at Greeley. charged with de-
serting wife and seven children, and
Miss Winitred Strauss. blonde, Is
detained as the woman in tn case.
John w. Finch, Denver mining en-
gineer, is one of ten metaliurgists who
have been honored by President vii.
son by appointment to represent the
federal government at the meeting of
the American Mining Congress in Phil
adelphia.
William G. Redfield. secretary of the
Department of Commerce, first incum-
bent Of the office since its creation
last March, will arrive in Denver Oc-
tober 30, and will pass several days as
the guest OF the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce.
Convinced that he was in no way
responsible for the death Of Mrs. May
Hollander, the waitress whose body
was found floating on the surface Of
the City park lake in Denver, the po-
lice officials ordered the release of
George w. Weaver. t
Every improvement necessary to
maintain the factories Of the Great
Western Sugar Company in the state
in first-class condition will be made,
regardless Of the bearing of free sugar
upon the industry. was the promise
given by Horace Havemeyer, son of
the late sugar magnate a director of