Gilpin observer., 1913-01-16
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L O r A DO
PEOPLE
Newspaper Union news Service.

Five Western states, besides Colora-
do, have sent entries to the baby show
in Denver.
This is expected to be record week
for changes in the state government
in Colorado.
The House of Representatives has
passed the short appropriation bill of
$46s,799.57.
Geo. Creel of Denver addressed the
Y. M. c. A. at Boulder on "a Fight
for Clean City"
A.. H. Bales, former resident of
Loveland. was killed by an auto at
his home in Maxwell, N. M.
A $4,000 mangle ironing machine
was completely wrecked in steam ex-
plosion occurring in the Bouldry laun-
dry plant.
The annual budget of the Mountain
States Telephone & Telegraph Compa-
ny provides for the expenditure of $S,
100000 in 1913.
In an attempt to end his life, Harry
Nash, a bartender swallowed solution
, of half dozen bichloride of mercury
| tablets in his room in Denver
The frozen body of William Conhlirh
magistrate of Lakeside, and champion
skater at the White City, was found
| in his cottage, just outside the gates of
| the park.
Peter Wilson, an old Civil War vet
eran and pioneer contractor of Colo
RADIO, died while working on mining
property near Globe, Ariz. He was
seventy years old.
Governor John F. Shafroth delivered
his farewell message to the Nineteenth
General Assembly ON Monday and Gov
ernor E. NJ. Ammons delivered his
inaugural address on Tuesday.
Governor Ammons was the guest at
a banquet in his honor at the Albany
hotel in Denver, given by the Demo-
cratic Club and by the members of the
Democratic state and county central
committees.
Brooding over domestic troubles DR..
John v. Downs. physician and sur
geon of Greenville, N. M, 100 miles
south of Trinidad, committed suicide
by drinking the contents of small
DOttle OF lauQdnum.
Meeker's elder "children"-the mar
ried ones, who have grown up and
are now rearing children themselves
are in the throes of a whooping cough
epidemic, while the small boys and
girls seem to be escaping.
The Mountain States Telephone
Company has acquired the Mutual
telephone lines operating out Of Steam
boat Springs, comprising over 300
phones in Routt and Moffat counties.
thus eliminating the Mutual competi-
ton.
A lunacy charge has been filed in the
County Court at Colorado Springs
against John ]. Cohan, who has been
in the county jail since November 81,
charged with having threatened the
life of President-elect Woodrow Wilson
and other notables.
Announcement was made at Boulder
by District Manager w. E. Ketterman
of the Mountain States Telephone &
Telegraph Company that an appropri-
alton Of $4,000 had been made for i'm
provements in the telephone system in
Boulder during the year 1918.
The Colorado and the Denver Bar
Associations presented joint memo
Iial in the State Court of Appeals
eulogistic of the life and character of
the late Judge Stuart d. Walling, for
mer member of the Court of Appeals,
who died in Denver last August.
Owing to the efficiency and long
~ Go
tective, pioneer, Civil War veteran and
Indian fighter. who closed a period of
forty years service with the Denver
police department, the fire and police
board made special grant in his be-
half and gave him the privilege of
working another year instead OF TAX
ing compulsory retirement.
Paul H. Jones, Joseph Cobb and Ed.
Brown, thought to be New York gun
men who attempted to escape from
the reformatory on Christmas and who
have been in solitary confinement
since, confessed to Warden A. T. Stew
art that they were wanted at Fort d.
A. Russell, Wyo., where they had en-
listed under the names OF Searfess,
alias Paul J. Jones: Miller alias 10.
teph Cobb, and Salyer, alias Ed.
Brown.
The issuance of $550.000 Of receiv-
er's certificates to pay off the indebt-
edness of the Denver, Laramie &
Northwestern railroad and extend II
from Greeley to Severance was ap-
proved by Judge Riddle in the Distric.
Court. Judge Riddle also approved the
report of the Continental Trust Com.
pany and Marshall B. Smith, receiv-
ers. accepted the resignation Of Re-
ceiver Smith and appointed H. U. Wal.
lace. vice president Of the Northern
Colorado Power Company. in his place.
II a six-year-old girl OF Pueblo is