Gilpin observer., 1913-06-19
LOBBY GOSSIP
(By e. Zimmerman.l

torney, was in the city on some le-
gal business for a couple OF days dur
ing the past week.
The bank directors of the Rocky
Mountain National bank had a spec
fal luncheon at the Teller House on
Wednesday.
DR.. Howard A. Kelly, the most dis
tingutshed surgeon in the United
States, and the most prominent mem
Der of the John Hopkins University
Faculty was the guest of Hugh c.
Browne, of the German and Belcher
mines, last week.
Dr. Kelly has been in the west
for the purpose of investigating the
possibilities of the Radium porduc-
ing mines, he especially being inter
ested in radium and its uses in
therapeutics. DR.. Kelly made an ex-
haustive inspection of the conditions
here and was evidently both astonish-
ed and pleased at the remarkable
showing made. He was eloquent in
his expressions of pleasure on his
trip here and stated that it was pos
sfble he would return for a vacation
this coming summer. His multitudin-
GUS duties consume practically all
OF his time, however, and he had not
reached his home after leaving this
section before he was scheduled for
a speech in Minneapolis. before the
American Medical Association. His
address was confined to the subject
of cancers and their cure by radium.
He entered exhaustively into the
subject and gave it as his opinion
that cancer was durable by this mar
yelous ore. He asserted that radium
would cure cancers and would es-
pecially eliminate the many cases of
local recurrence, which are difficult
to treat by many of the customary
methods. He also stated that its
Importance in the treatment of fl
broid tumors is just beginning to
be recognized and that it checks
hemorrhages and In some cases. ma
terially- decreases@ the size Of the
growths. In pelvic inflammatory dis
eases, its uses, he concluded, were
very hopeful.
DR.. Kelly was accompanied here
on his trip by Forbes Rickard, of
Denver. advisory engineer of the Ger
man and Belcher mines and Hugh
Browne, whose guest he was during
his trip.
Mr.. Robert Sayre returned from
trip to Denver, where he has been
for week or more. Robert is now
the proud father of an infant son,
and his face is wreathed in smiles.
He is receiving congratulations on
the advent of an heir to the fam
velops and blossoms into the image
of his father, he will be distinguish
ed for his personal pulchritude.
Mr.. Frank A. Fleer, the head of
the Chiclet Gum company, accompani-
ed by Foster Moore, of Dumont, were
guests of the Teller House Sunday.
MIR. Fleer is interested in mining OPP
erattons in Clear Creek and Gilpin
counties. He drove through to Dem
yer by auto.
The distinguished countenance of
J. Med. Livesay has shown a baby
pink from frequent applications of
the scrurbbing brush. which has excit-
ed the curiosity and admiration Of
his hundreds of admiring friends. w.
G. HILLS also wears the same angelic
shell pink. with flushes of bright
scarlet about the gills, and the story
rnnneth thusly: With the heavy out
put Of attorneys and judges from
Denver, the famous old Teller House
took new lease on Mfe and fixed
np the parlors and banquet halls and
bed rooms for their use. The corner
parlor was requisitioned, and beds
placed at various angles to accommo-
date the weary ones when they re-
tired from an extra heavy session at
the court house. Now. the warm
weather has made 1t necessary to
dispense with old fashioned stoves
and stove pipes. During the might.
a heavy windstorm came up and the
SCOT of ages drifted down over the
peaceful countenances of the sleep
ing engineer and attorney. In the
morning, there was roar OF laugh
ter from various other distinguished
gentlemen who formed the party and
all hands set to work to clean the