Gilpin observer., 1913-04-24

Frank Honacker fifty-eight, resi-
dent of Grand Junction for twenty
five years, is dead of pneumonia.
City Auditor Markeys report for
1872, made public shows Denver's mu-
nicipal property is worth s29.O00,0O0.
Two celebrations were held in Den
yer in honor of the one hundred and
thirty-eighth anniversary of the Bat
ties of Concord and Lexington.
Governor Ammons has honored
requisition for Leroy Williams, who is
wanted in Shelby county, Mo-, on the
charge of embezzlement.
A municipal home for consumptives
will be built north of Valverde by the
city of Denver, according to the an
nouncement of Alderman Ford.
The Chamberlain-Dilling sam.
pier at Boulder is handling such an in
creased output of smelling ore that an
extra shift will be added May 1.
Secretary Frederick E. Hagen of
the University of Colorado at Boulder
has verified the announcement of his
marriage to Miss Adele j. Niederer Of
Los Angeles.
Recently, Carl Goad. also known as
W. A. Haas, was brought to Denver
from Washington to answer to the
charge of embezzling $4,000 from Mrs.
Jane Tombaugh.
No action will be taken by the Den
yer city election commission in regard
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for city commissioners who are not
taxpayers, as required by law.
A. B. Britton. postoffice inspector,
connected with the Denver office
since 1911, but for the last year sta
toned art Provo, Utah, died at the lat
ter city following an operation.
A campaign to induce the business
men of Denver to patronize the home
printing industry and have all their
printing done in Denver is being start
ed by the printers of that city.
Besides selecting five commission
ers to put commission government in
to effect, the voters of Denver will
have at least six and possibly eight
municipal questions to decide on May
20.
Martin w. Trester was put on trial
in the West Side Court in Denver for
the alleged murder of Miss Maude
White, his housekeeper, who died last
November as the result of an opera
ton.
e. II. Geffs, formerly in the employ
of the Mining Science Publishing Com.
pany, was arrested by Postoffice In.
spector r. E. Nelson in Denver on a
charge of embezzlement and forging
money orders.
Mrs. Thomas NJ. Howell, wife of
former State Senator Howell of Colo
rado. died of nervous prostration at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. II. G.
Purcell of Salt Lake City. Mrs. How
ell was well known in Denver.
Assurances that all arrangements
for financing the Plateau Valley rail
road are practically completed have
been received in Denver from Chica-
go, where Jacob Yeckel and A. j.
Halter have been for some days con
ducting negotiations.
lhc ihNdoioH VI DeuNcT ny tHe III
dustrial Workers of the World ended
with the pardon and release of all the
eighty members of the order who
have been held in the city jail The
only condition under which they were
turned free was that they leave town
Immediately.
With an ovation such as had never
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years of service, Rabbi William S.
Friedman of the Temple Emanuel in
Denver was assured of the love and
confidence of his congregation when
he appeared to give his address at the
twenty-fourth. annual meeting he has
attended.
Gordon Jones, president of the Unit.
ed States National bank, has been ap.
pointed by Governor Ammons and the |
Chamber of Commerce to officially
represent Colorado in the tour of Eu-
rope which will be made this spring
by the Southern Commercial Con-
gress.
Miss Henrietta G. Brown, daughter I
Of David R. G. Brown, millionaire min.
ing man Of Aspen, was married in |
New York to George Loomis Taylor,
assistant stage manager OF the Metro.
politan Opera house in that city.