Gilpin observer., 1913-12-11
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALI.
c O. L o r A DO
PEOPLE
Newspaper Union News Service.
Date. for Coming Events.


Jan. 12-15-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Association Show at Denver.
Jan. 19-24-National Western Stock
. Show at Denver.
Jan. 15-16-Meeting Colorado Good
Roads Assn at Colorado Springs.
Sept. 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pueblo.
July 1314.-Grand Lodge Session. B. p.
Q. E., at Denver.
Farmers Congress at Agricultural Col
lege. Fort. Collins;
1915.-Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver
The Ruxton hotel at Manitou was
sold to w. K Greene, Pueblo banker.
The consideration is said to have been
$4,000.
Two hours after shoveling snow in
the front of his. home in Pueblo,
De Long Williams sixty-eight, died Of
heart disease.
James H. Kelley has been elected
principal of the State Normal school
at Gunnison to succeed C. A. Hollings-
head, resigned.
Harry Thcrnburg, who was stabbed
in row in rooming house at Colo
RADIO Springs, by Dan Sullivan, died.
Sullivan is under arrest.
George Yerkes, rs, ,one of the first
to enter the fruit-raising industry at
Grand Junction, died suddenly of
heart disease on his ranch.
A suicide in lonely cabin on Bull
Hill during the blizzard became known
when ten miners entered Victor with
the body of Mrs. Yes Porter.
Little hope is held at Golden that
John Classen, dairyman, has sur
vived the storm in which he was lost
when within half mile of home.
A carload of Greeley potatoes were
leader in the Mexican revolution, the
shipment having been ordered through
one of his agents at Vera Cruz.
The chatham greenhouse at West
Sixth avenue and Inca street in Den
YER, collapsed for block Of its length
through weight of snow. The con-
tents of the building are an entire loss.
The fish and game department hGs
just finished its work of seining
seven of the larger lakes of the state.
collecting 100000 spawn of noun
tain trout for distribution among the
hatcheries.
After working twenty days as sta
ton agent for the Florence & Cripple
Creek railroad at Independence. L. S.
Little was arrested on an embezzle-
ment charge. He is alleged to be $144
short in his accounts for the twenty
days.
Mrs Genevieve v. Whitfield, wife of
e. E. Whitted, general counsel for the
the Colorado & Southern railroad. and
only daughter and heir of the late AL.
len NJ. Ghost, pioneer Denver real es-
tate owners, will receive her fathers
entire 100000 estate.
The Federal grand jury at Pueblo
returned several indictments in addi-
ton to those in the coal strike cases
Four men were indicted on charges OF
white slavery" eight for selling liq-
uor to Indians, and several others for
violating the postal laws.
Opposite the record that has gone
down in history of Denver's maximum
storm has been written a record OF
minimum suffering during the five
days of snowfall that tied business in
a double bowknot and isolated the var
rious sections of the city. r
The question of murder or suicide
is battling the authorities in the case
of John Hayes, Hannah creek ranch-
man, in whose heart tiny bullet hole
was discovered after he had been
found dead, presumably OF heart dis
ease, lying face down on the floor OF
his cabin on Hannah creek, near
Grand Junction.
DR.. James II. Baker, president of the
University of Colorado for the last
twenty-five years, has rendered his
resignation to the board of regents OF
that institution. President Baker will
retire Jan. /, 1914, under provisions .
the Carnegie pension fund for educa
tors. He will be succeeded by Living
ston Farrand, noted professor of an
thropology at Columbia university.
Frank ]. Hayes and John r. Law.
son Sunday became objects of search
by military authorities at Trinidad
who wish to detain the two union lead
ers for examination as to the conduct
of the strike of miners in the south
ern Colorado coal fields. That their
whereabouts might become known,
military authorities communicated
with the Denver civil authorities in an
effort to locate the two men.
With the fire department stuck In
an impossible snowbank half block
away, men and women in their night
clothes fled into the street from the
burning LaVerne apartment house.
in Denver Shivering and in their
bare feet they struggled through the
deep snow and were promptly given
shelter at the homes of neighbors and
in the wings of the apartment house
which were not In danger from the
flames.