Gilpin observer., 1913-10-30


tion of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Nov. 24-26-State Teachers Association
Jan. ~ 15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Jan; 1879 24.l.National Western Stock
Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
AS Association at Colorado Springs
American Indians at Denver.
A Santa Fe switch engine struck
and killed an unidentified man at
Pueblo.
Ward Darley has promised Weld
county another sugar factory to be
run on the cooperative plan.
Charles G. Hall, sixty, we'll known
mining man of Denver and Colorado,
died at his residence in Denver.
Mrs. Bertha Fannin, who was muir
dered by her husband in rooming
house in Denver, was buried at Grown
Hill cemetery.
A high wind and spark from an
engine which ignited tumble weed
set fire to three twenty-ton stacks of
hay on the Ralph Deeter farm near
Greeley.
Another 5000 acres of land at a
cost of 100000 is to be put under ir-
rigation in Colorado. The land is To-
Gated near Silt, in the western part
of the state.
Harry G. Mead and Fred H. Mon
fore were dangerously injured at
Grand Junction when an auto in
which they were riding plunged into
Plateau creek.
Fort Lupton is to have a pleasure
resort modelled after the White City
mile from town on the banks of Nc
Kinney's lake.
| Hardy and vigorous, in spite of his
seventy-four years, Nelson S. West of
Marsden, Neb., was welded to Mrs.
Minnie H. Donaldson of Boulder, thir-
ty-five years his junior.
Last week was the best single week
in the history of the Denver Union
Stockyards, the total receipts of cat
tie being over $4,000 head, bringing at
sale about $2,5OO,OOO.
Unitarians from all parts of Colo
RADIO attended the opening services of
the annual Rocky Mountain Confer
ence of Unitarian ministers, held at
the Unity church IN Denver.
James Nelson, alias Frank Allen
was arrested in Denver Sunday morn
ing, and is reported to have confessed
to the police to nine of the twenty-five
holdups during the previous week.
William Cox Redfield, secretary OF
the department of commerce and Ia
Dor. the fourth member of President
Wilson's cabinet to visit Denver since
the Inauguration, will arrive Thurs
day.
Nine men, and not one, were killed
in the engagement between guards
and strikers at the Berwind camp
Sunday, according to reports made
by agents of the companies to the
coal operators.
Modern evils to which child delin-
quency and adult immortality are at
tributed formed subjects for discus
sions among delegates to the state
convention of the Colorado Mothers
congress- in Pueblo.
heroes of the Dawson coal mine dis
aster is James Laird of Starkville, a
member of helmet rescue crew, who
lost his life in the work of recovering
the bodies of entombed men.
AS the strike situation becomes
more involved the price of coal con-
tinues to soar. Bituminous lump
mn, 1ae, oh n
to 81 ton. 1t is generally believed
that further increases may be ex-
pected.
Eastern bond companies will be
forced to make good an $1,000 loss
sustained by r. A. Mathews, Grand
Junction contractor, who built the
Elks temple at Grand Junction and
the Citizens National bank in Glen
wood.
Benjamin Preston, sixty-five, a pio-
neer of Larimer county and a memr
ber of the Board OF County Commits
sioners, died at his home In the Har
mony district, seven miles southeast
of Fort Collins, OF .cirrhosis of the
liver
WIN report cnaracterlZlng the
conduct Of Mesa county afafirs as lit
tie short of criminal, the grand jury.
which has been investigating charges
made by State Auditor Kenehan and
the public examiners, at Grand juno
tion, returned five indictments against
former county officers. Fifty indict-
ments were returned in all, mainly
against bootleggers.
To form colony Of the Holiness"
religious sect, four Colorado Springs
persons have sold their property and
gone to africa, Chile. Leading the
nucleus for the colony In Mrs.
Katherine Cragin. who organized the
party during the summer. Included
In the party are Mrs. Cragin's fifteen
year-old son Paul, Mr.. and Mrs. C. 8.
Nanderman and Charles Mnnnipo