Gilpin observer., 1913-01-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Large crowds attended the Denver
Stock Show. Every part of the state
was represented.
Asa G. Sven, a pioneer of Colorado,
died at his home in Denver. Death was
due to Brights disease.
The "pay-as-you-enter" car, in a
modified form, is to be installed by the
Denver City Tramway Company.
The ranch house, barn and hay
stacks of Lloyd Clark, twelve miles
south of Holyoke, were destroyed by
fire.
Jose Garcia, the Mexican who was
shot in a revolver duel with A. Fisher
at Lafayette, died of his wounds at
Boulder
Charles H. Pelton, one of the last
of the famous band of Custer scouts
uring the Civil War, died suddenly
at Grand Junction.
The eight-hour day for women went
into effect on the goth and is being
generally observed by all the big
stores and factories.
Fifty students of Colorado Agricul.
tural college were in Denver judging
lice stock at the show, under the su.
pervision of Prof. H. E. Dvorachek
The annual report of the George w.
Clayton trust commission, filed in the
Denver County Court, shows that the
Clayton estate is worth s1.O92, 1855.
Ralph S. Lewis, pioneer resident of
Las Animas county died at his home
in Trinidad after a short illness. He
was formerly wealthy sheepman.
kilograms announce the death in
Cincinnati of Charles Beverly Hicks,
father of R. e. Hicks of Denver. Sew
eral other relatives reside in Colorado.
The funera. of Mrs. A. F. Willmartb.
who died in Fairplay, was held from
the residence of her father, George P.
Dudley, in Denver, with interment at
Fairmount.
Frank P. Metcalf, sixty-two years
old, was struck by a street car while
crossing Fifteenth street near Law
renee in Denver and had one rib
broken.
The state insane asylum at Pueblo
and the state home for mental defec-
|
| tigted by the women of various Ciric
organizations.
| After undergoing an operation that
was not considered of serious ma
| ture, Mrs. Irene Robeson, wife Of ].
H. Robson, a well-known Denver
mining man, died at st. Luke's hos
pital.
Condemnation of the Johnston Sun
day bill, now pending in the United
| States Senate, was voiced in resolu-
| tions passed by the congregation of
the Grand Junction Seventh Day Ad-
ventist church.
81 am heartily in favor of making
the kiddies big feature of the 1915
Indian pageant was the declaration
of William F. Cody, familiarly and af-
fectionately known to youthful Ameri-
ca as Buffalo Bill.
Two bills introduced into the nation
al Hous Of Representatives by Con-
gressman Frank w. Mondell of Wyo-
ming providing federal funds for the
construction of roads throughout the
West, have been indorsed by the Den
yer Chamber of Commerce.
Andrew Carnegie has made an addi-
tional gift of $4,000 to the University
of Denver to aid in providing equip
ment for the new Science hall which
was donated by him. This brings the
total amount of Mr.. Carnegies gifts
to the University of Denver up to $685..
900.
Sheriff Alexander Yant left La Junta
for Clay Center, Neb., where he will
take into custody Oron Northrup, the
widower of Mrs. Merle Northrup, who
committed suicide about ten days ago
after she had given her threeyear-old
son dose of strychnine. The boy is
alive in care Of its grandfather.
The Denver Womans Press Club
announce Bonci. the worlds famous
tenor, for a concert at the Auditorium
Thursday evening. February goth, the
proceeds to be used to establish club
rooms for this large and growing or
ganization of newspaper and maya
zine writer's and women of literary
| prominence throughout the state.
Plans are being made for huge pa.
triotic meeting to be held in the Den.
yer Auditorium Tuesday night, Febru.
ary 18, under the auspices of the
Chamber Of Commerce and the various
patriotic societies Of the city. The
date for the meeting is fixed for the
18th in order that It may celebrate
both Washington's and Lincoln's birth.
| days.
Mrs. Minnie w. Johns, the third
Denver practitioner to be indicted by
the federal grand jury for misuse OF
the mails for illegal medical purposes,
was found guilty in the Federal Dis.
trict Court DR.. ]. e. Thompson and
Mrs. Pauline Riebe were previously
convicted on the same charge. TIL.
penalty in each case may be five years