Gilpin observer., 1913-03-06

Ihe new federal eight-hour law
caused but little change in the estab-
lished schedule at the postoffice in
Denver, but was strictly followed.
Ernest Sutton, forty, and Edward
Gardner, forty-five, both of Denver,
lost their lives when they attempted
to walk from Ray, Ariz., to Mismi,
through DEVILS canon.
Leslie e. Hubbard, an attorney, of
Pagosa Springs, and formerly of Den
yer, has been appointed an assistant
attorney general by Attorney General
Frederick Farrar.
Mrs. Helen Lamb of Brighton has
mons to the board of examiners of the
State Teachers College at Greeley, to
take effect Immediately.
Uri Hotchkiss, well-known hunter
Ind trapper of the Hotchkiss section.
assoed mountain lion In a tree on
his ranch near Colona. The animal
was freed by pack Of dogs.
The aggregate value of the Myron
Stratton Home corporation and the
subsidiary corporations controlled by
it is $6,957.279.92. according to the
annual report of the Stratton trustees.
C. N. Yoker, assistant superintend
mt in the Vindicator mine, twenty
i've years of age. and single, was
killed at Cripple Creek, and his body
horribly mangled, in an unknown man
ner.
District Attorney Rush has estab-
lished an employment agency to give
work to women of the restricted dis
trict who were arrested during the re-
cent reformation" of Market street in
Denver.
The slayer of Signe Carlzen, the
music teacher, who was beaten to
death August 9. last year, in an unfre-
quented road in Montclair. is said to
be known and may be taken by the
police.
Miss Mary /. Hice, supervisor OF
music in the public schools of Colo
RADIO City, was found dead in the bath
tub at the residence of l. A. Foote,
where she lived. Death was due to
apoplexy.
In a unanimous opinion, the state
Supreme Court decides that both initi-
ated and referred measures which
have been passed upon and approved
by the people can be repealed by the
General Assembly.
Just a plain Thanks" was the re-
ward received by Linder Larson. news
boy at the Union depot, when he
found pocketbook on the floor of the
waiting room, containing $3.50 in cash,
and returned 1t to its owner.
The Very Rev. Dean H. Martyr
Hart, rector Of st. Johns cathedral,
Denver, celebrated his seventy-fifth
birthday and also celebrated the fif-
tieth anniversary of his ordination in
the Episcopalian ministry.
A new canning factory, backed by
Denver and Eastern capital, and
which will be the largest concern OF
its kind in the West when in full op-
Grafton, is the latest acquisition to the
manufacturing industry of Denver.
After three hours of hard struggle
through the deep snow, William Coch-
ran, Custer county miner. transport
ed an injured burrow on a wheelbar-
row over a mile and half of steep
grade to his cabin where he took the
animal in and cared for 1t until it was
strong enough to be turned out.
Although E. G. Templeman. coal
miner who arrived In Denver from Da-
coma, knocked down two highwaymen
who held him up at the point of a gun,
he lost his gold watch. He, however,
has the satisfaction OF knowing that
he prevented the crooks from securing
$27 In money, and that he gave them
q good beating.
Although snow fell in Denver on fif-
teen Of the twenty-eight days Of Feb
ruary, and the month was the coldest,
with one exception, in forty-one years,
the sun was visible for seventy-seven
hours in every 10 0of daylight during
the month. according to a summary
made public by Frederick II. Branden-
oAoIIhSb lOiCShoICi Oh thC Wcdth-
er bureau.
When the inaugural parade passed
the streets of the national
capital, Denver boy, George Ezra
son of Whitney Newton, 1165
Grant street, took a place In the van.
A member of the Black Horse troop
of the Culver Military Academy at
Culver, Ind. Newton marched with
other members of the troop after Vice
President Marshall on his ride down
avenue, after he took
the oath of office In the Senate cham.
ber of the capitol.
The 1914 convention Of the Ameri.
can Livestock Association, which will
be held In January, has been definitely
secured for Denver, according to an
n nolincement made by Secretary Harry