Gilpin observer., 1913-06-19
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L O r A DO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Aug. 12-15.--S2nd Triennial Conclave of
knights Templar. Denver.
Park Superintendents at Denver.
Aug. 1S-20-Army of the Philippines
National Society at Denver:
Men at Denver.
Aug. 25.-Conference of Governors at
Colorado Springs.
Aug. 26.-Knights. of Pythias Grand
Lodge meeting at Trinidad.
Sept 15-2o.-Colorado State Fair at
sept-National Association of First
Glass Postmasters at Denver.
Oct. 1-3:-.State w. G. T. U. Convention
Oct 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
citation at Pueblo.
1915.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians, Denver.
La Junta is to have a new municipal
opera house.
The new automobile law goes into
effect July 15.
Counterfeit $40 and $40 bills are re-
ported circulating in Denver.
Platoro. the new mining town. now
has daily mail service and a news
paper.
The Colorado Editorial Association
held its annual meeting at Colorado
Springs.
The body of Chester A. Highly.
Denver man, arrived from Phoenix,
Ariz, where he died while on a visit.
A campaign to get 5000 members in
the state has been commenced by the
Colorado Good Roads Association.
The Empson canning factory in
Loveland is canning spinach for the
first time since the opening of the
factory.
Extensive improvements on the Den
yer G Salt Lake railroad. running well
above 100000 in cost, are being
pushed forward energetically.
Patriotic men, women and children
turned out to celebrate the 136th an
niversary of the American flag in
many cities throughout the state.
The body of julius Johnson. twenty
one, farm hand. was found at Long
mont dangling from the end of rope,
the young man having committed sui
eide.
Farmers in the Grover district are
planning big coyote hunt. to rid the
neighborhood of the pests, which
have been causing much damage this
spring.
The Postoffice Department has is
sued an order permanently discontin.
uing branch station No. IL of the Den.
yer postoffice, Fourteenth and Law.
renee streets. The order becomes eff.
fective June 30.
A huge illuminated cross, fifty
feet square, is being erected on Pixies
peak and will be used especially dur,
ing the visit to Colorado Springs in
August of the knights Templar, who
hold their conclave in Denver.
A penal bond In the sum of $3.50, 900
was filed by the Burlington railroad
to insure the carrying out Of its con.
tract with the city of Denver in re.
gard to the laying of tracks on Market
street and the paving of that street.
The Woodmen of the World, resid.
ing in the Pacific Jurisdiction who
will do their log rolling in Colorado
Springs in July and August, have ar
ranged to set up camp in Coughlin's
zoo. Several thousand delegates are
expected.
The merger of the five big irriga
tion projects contiguous to Denver on
the north and east, covering approx
mately $4,000 acres of rich, fertile
lands, is being contemplated by n
large Eastern corporation, according
to announcement from New York.
Edward Sauve, county clerk and re.
corder of Adams county, and Lola
Bailey, who were brought before the
public some time ago when Sauve's
wife found them in a Denver roomine
house, have been taken to Denver
again by Deputy Sheriff Charles Lewis
to answer a second charge brought
by Sauve's wife.
A jury in the District Court at
Steamboat Springs has failed to agree
and been discharged in the case OF
Robert King, an artist, who recently
attempted to elope with the seventeen
year-old daughter of F. T.. Miller, mil
lionaire lumberman and hotel proprie
tor King was charged with beatine
bill at the hotel owned by his sweet
hearts father.
The following delegates have beer
named by Governor Ammons to repre-
sent Colorado at the twelfth annua
convention of the American Associa
tion of Workers for the Blind, which
will meet in Jacksonville, Fla, from
June "a to 27: A. J. Lawton. w. X
Argo, Fl. r. Chapman and J. +
Humphrey, Colorado Springs: Mrs
Jane Pettepier, r. F. d. No. 1, Golden
Charles J. Schrader, Limon; George
J. Dunbaugh, Pueblo.
Gov. Ammons reappointed Jamei
Dalrymple as chief inspector of Goa
mines. Laura A. Beecroft of Pueblo