Gilpin observer., 1913-04-17
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.

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June l7-19.-National Press Association
Meeting at Colorado Springs.
June 2229.-German funniest at Dem
June.-Northern Colo. Sunday School
Convention at Greeley.
July.-state Postmasters' Association
July 2s.wPacfic Jurisdiction. w. O.
W.. at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 12-l6.-Thirty second Triennial
Conclave of Knights Templar, Dem
Aug. 1S-2O.-American Association of
Park SSperintende9ts ~, at PSi1,nnine. PenXsri
National Society. at Denver.
Aug.-Grand Council of Order of Red
Aug. 25-Conference of Governors at
Colorado Springs.
Aug, 26~Knights Of ,Pythias Grand
Lodge Meeting at Trinidad.
Sept.-National Association of First
Class Postmasters, at Denver.
Oct 21.-Coiorado State Baptist Asso-
citation at Pueblo.
Eleven persons were injured in auto
mobile accidents in Colorado in less
than two days during the past week.
The potato leaf roll has been iden-
titled as the cause of the blight which
has practically obliterated potato
growing in Weld county.
Denver, Englewood, Colorado Springs
and Pueblo police are having trouble
in ridding the towns OF Industrial
Workers of the World.
The body or Ward Moomaw, the
twelve-year-old boy who disappeared
from Lyons, was found in No. res
ervoir of the Highland Reservoir and
Ditch Company.
Denver said regretful farewell TO
the grand opera troupe after four
delightful performances and one
magnificent free concert given by
them.
Nellie Williams, cashier. was held
up at the point of revolver by Z
masked bandit who robbed the cash
drawer of the Bob White restaurant.
of Denver of $50.
In his speech before the Woman's
club, in Denver, DR.. S. b. Senor, the
Missouri theosophist, maintained, that
death is merely sleep and that the
Bible hell is merely a place Of rest
and not of eternal torture.
Dependency, caused by her belief
that she was a burden on her son,
prompted Mrs. Anna Mitchell. aged
SO. to attempt suicied by swallowing.
and inhaling chloroform in her room
at 1926 Williams street. in Denver.
Both sides are found to have been
in part in the wrong In the report
made to the Legislature by the COM
mittee appointed to investigate the
strike which has been on in the north
ern coal fields since April 4. 1910.
Former Mayor Henry V. Johnson.
candidate for commissioner of prop
critics, in Denver, threatened to man.
damus Assessor Clair ]. Pitcher be-
cause the latter refused to put him
upon the assessment rolls as . tax
payer.
Preliminary work has already been
commenced by the Jefferson county
commissioners on the automobile
road up the canon of the Platte riv-
er. This road will open to the public
some of the grandest scenery in
Colorado.
A leap from the highest point Of the
Sixteenth street viaduct In Denver to
the paved roadway below will prob
ably result fatally for Mrs. Clara tn
ner of Central City. She jumped
from the viaduct few minutes after
she had kissed her husband goodby.
Beginning April "a the state tax
commission will hear the representa-
tives Of corporations which by law are
placed under the jurisdiction OF the
commission upon the subject of over
valuations. The assessment of the
corporations must be made before
June Is.
Beatrice Fenningsdorf, 90 years old
and pretty, has been sentenced to
serve one year in the state peniten-
tiary by Judge c. c. Butler, OF the
Denver Criminal Court. Two months
ago she was convicted of entering
downtown rooming houses and steal
ing jewelry from the rooms.
The refusal OF fraternal insurance
companies to pay claims to persons
directly responsible for the death of
deceased insurers was upheld by tho
Court OF Appeals in Denver in an opln-
ION TeNeTbiHB the Juubmehl a"aIueu
Mary Rausch by the Ell Paso county
district Court against the Women OF
Woodcraft order.
State Treasurer Leddy notified At
torney General Farrar that the $50, 900
appropriation made by the Legislature
for a water defense fund has been APP
proved and that vouchers upon the
fund will be honored. This means
that Colorado's battle for its own wa
ters against the states of Kansas, Ne
braska and Wyoming. and the Federal
Government will be undertaken in
earnest.
Society men and women of London
have become ardent followers of DIR.
Julia Seton Sears. formerly OF Denver