Gilpin observer., 1913-10-16
STATE NEWS
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates of Coming Events.

OCT. 2l-Colorado state baptist Asso-
Oct. 27.-i: %. OF. Annual Encampment
at Grand Junction.
Oct. so-Nov. 1.-Colorado Kennel Club
~ show at Denver.
tion of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Association at Denver,
jan sosGol1rado sba fGS1ry Faneiers
Jan 1s-2i.@Nationai western Stock
Show at Denver;
191b.-Last Grand Council OF North
American Indians at Denver.
The Junction City mine at Oak
Creek has signed up with the United
Mine Workers.
William Schafer, forty, was acct
dentally killed while duck shooting,
six miles south of Como
A $4,000 theological seminary will
be built in Fort Collins by the Ger
man Evangelical Church OF North
America.
Eight thousand watermelons from
a ten-acre tract was the record made
by ]. NJ. Holmes, who has farm
southeast of Greeley.
Joseph Brentlinger, forty. public
trustee Of Teller county, died at his
home in Cripple Creek following an
illness Of one week.
B. A. Smith. veteran Clifton fruit
grower, packed two cars Of fancy ap-
pies to be shipped to Europe. The ap-
pies are of the Newton Pippin variety.
w. T. Payne, fifty-two years old,
day laborer, was probably fatally in
jured when brick wall collapsed and
buried. him at Fifteenth street and
| Cleveland place in Denver.
| c. A. Policy, bookkeeper for the
Poudre Valley National bank at Fort
Collins, suffered a broken ankle and
Mrs. Polley's shoulder was dislocated
in an automobile accident near Ault
Fearing Jail delivery as the result
of the arrival in Cripple Creek OF
three exconvicts, all friends of Ma
rion McAdam, Sheriff Won Phul took
extra precautions to guard the pris
oners.
Six indictments against former
Sheriff George Kinkel and twenty-one
indictments against former Coroner
w. j. Broad were sustained by Judge
Henry Glass in the District Court al
Littleton.
The federal grand jury at Pueblo
announced that it had acted upon the
railroad pass indictments returned 4
year ago and assessed fine of $1,000
against two railroads and five other
corporations.
Because of the shortage caused by
the strike. the price of coal took an
other jump in Denver. Bituminous
lump advanced from Sc to $3.50 ton.
Nut coal is still selling at Sc and
coke at $3.50.
Frank Hurst, lineman for the Wray
Telephone Company, was seriously
burned about the face and shoulders
when can of kerosene which he was
holding above a fire exploded and en-
veloped him in flames.
A mass meeting to protest against
the proposed increase in the assessed
valuation of Weld county from $54,-
100000 to s77,00O,000 by the tax COM
mission or State Board of Equiliza-
tion was held at Greeley.
Wood is taking the place of coal in
the Cripple Creek district as far as
the small consumers are concerned,
and dozens of men and boys, with
burros and horses hitched to wagons
and carts are making a good living
picking up wood on the surrounding
hills and hauling it to town.
What you need is to be taken out
into the alley, laid over a barrel and
horsewhipped by some strong man
until you scream for mercy" said
Magistrate Stapleton in Denver Po-
lice Court to Charles Durant, Har-
ward graduate found guilty of failing
to support his wife and six children.
The formal complaint upon which
the federal grand jury investigation
of the Colorado coal strike is based
is made against the United Mine
Workers of America. 1t charges that
the mine workers organization is VIC
lating the Sherman antitrust act by
means Of a conspiracy to restrain in
terstate commerce.
With the signing of the Moffat tun-
Hei Coh'lact Wy the ohoStorS Vi tuc
Denver & Salt Lake Railroad Compa-,
ny, the question of issuing bonds to
build the tunnel Is now up to the tax
paying voters of Denver, who will
probably be given an opportunity to
vote on the question at special cleo
tion which will be held in January.
Two informations are to be filed In
the West Side Court against w. H.
Rewick, who was returned to Denver
from, Portland. Oregon, charged with
swindling Coloradoans out of thou
sands of dollars worth of valuable
property by means of fake deeds He
will be charged in the informations
with operating a confidence game and
with obtaining money under false pre-