Gilpin observer., 1913-02-13


March 3-s-Twelfth Annual Automobile
Show at Denver.
June-German funniest at Denver,
The total value of the estate left by
Mrs. Sarah Platt Decker was $37,605,
from which the state will get an in
heritance tax of $116.
Marketing farm products to more
economical advantage was the great
subject at the state meeting of the
Farmers Union in Denver.
Over two hundred former residents
of Missouri gathered in Denver to at
tend the annual meeting of the Mis-
souri, Society of Colorado.
Nearly dozen Denver people were
caught in raid on Petersburg road
houses and taken to the Jail at Little
ton, where they later were released.
Announcement has been made that
the lower rates of fire insurance,
which will save the people of Greeley
between $4,000 and $4,000, are in ef
feet.
DR.. ]. M. Perkins, city health COM
missioner. in his annual report, states
that there were 232 less births in Den
yer during 1912 than in the year pre-
vious.
Mathew Mast rescued his wife and
six children from their burning home
on a ranch west OF Grand Junction,
after they had been almost overcome
by smoke.
Willard w. Spencer, a clerk in the
state land board and for several years
dropped dead at the entrance to his
home in Denver.
A warrant is out for the arrest of
w. Stringham mining man of Fort
Collins, and Mrs. Marie Cambridge
wife of Fort Collins rooming house
proprietor, who eloped.
Mrs. Oscar Battling" Nelson, form
erly Miss Fay King, returned to Den
yer from visit to her parents in Port
land. She will resume her work as a
cartoonist for Denver paper.
After suffering untold agony for
three weeks from burns received when
her clothing caught fire, Mrs. C. H.
Il /,
died at the Fort Collins hospital.
The Sam Farmer Escalante Irriga-
ton Company announced that it will
issue 100000 in bonds, the proceeds
to be used for the completion Of its
project in Montrose and Delta coun-
ties.
Resulting from charges of bribery
brought against him by Excise Com
missioner A. A. Blakley before the
Board of Aldermen, Alderman James
O'Driscoll was arrested by Deputy
Sheriff Rinker
Announcement has been made that
work on the United States theater
building. a 100000 moving picture
house for Denver, will begin about
May /, when the lease on restaurant
near Sixteenth and Curtis streets, ex-
pires.
At conference with City Commits
sioner T. d. Donnelly. C. H. Bristol
of this division of the Santa Fe rail
road announced that his company will
nails and that the work is soon to be
commenced
]. w. Mccormack, publicity man
for the National Western Stock Show
for the last three years. has been ap-
pointed by Governor Ammons to fill
the post of advertising clerk of the
State Land Board. made vacant by the
recent death of Willard Spencer.
In two decisions handed down in
which 1t is held that there must be no
no saloons in Colorado City and Pago-
sa Springs the Court of Appeals de-
clares that the District Courts have
the right to review local option cleo
tions and order the throwing out of
fraudulent votes.
Investigation of the state peniten-
tiary and Warden Thomas ]. lyman s
conduct of the affairs of that institu-
tion will be made by Governor Elias
M. Ammons and the State Prison
Board as the result of formal com
plant against lyman having been filed
vict.
The Denver depot commission.
which n year ago opposed the grant
ing of revocable permit to the Bur
lington railroad for the use of Market
street and Walnut streets. at meet
ing with Mayor Arnolds outlined the
conditions upon which 1t will with
draw all further objection to the ap-
plication of the railroad company.
Representatives of the Colorado
tSate Federation of Women's Clubs
have started a campaign at the state
house to arouse interest in number
of bills endorsed by the federation.
Among them are: Bills to abolish cap
ital punishment; for minimum wage
scale for women and children; for
social centers, and providing changes
in Juvenile Court laws.