Gilpin observer., 1913-02-27

The mercury dropped to Delow
zero at Pueblo Sunday.
Fire at Segil Brothers dry goods
store in Cripple Creek caused loss
Of $4,000, fully covered by insurance.
Mayor Arnold has named Arnold
Bloedt as successor to former Alder
man O'Driscoll of the Sixth ward in
Denver.
The residence of Dan Coughlin, q
mining lessee at Victor, was damaged
by fire. Loss, $1,000, partly covered
by insurance.
The "Gideons," a travelling sales.
mans Christian association, is max.
ing vigorous effort to bring the 1914
convention of this organization to
Denver.
George M. Piper, known to Denver
hardware dealers, is seeking parole
from the Indiana state penitentiary,
according to information received by
District Attorney John Rush.
Harold F. Henwood was set at lib
erty on the charge of killing Sylvester
Won Phul May "a, 1911, in an opinion
handed down by Judge Charles C.
Butler in the West Side Court Of Den
yer.
The Fort Lupton Condensed Milk
Company resumed business after
fire which caused a loss of $4,000.
The fire stsrtcd in the boiler room and
the factory proper is still doing busi-
ness.
District Attorney ]. NJ. Davidson, OF
Pueblo, has decided to file direct
information against Frank Caldwell
and Mrs. Eva Blanchard charging
them with the murder of the woman's
husband.
The Denver Trades and Labor AS
sembly went on record as opposed to
war and militarism in every form, and
specifically against armed interven-
ton by the United States in the af-
fairs of Mexico.
Twenty head of cattle were crushed
to death and Alfred Pipes, owner, mar
rowly escaped death in a snowslide.
Three buildings, including the home.
were destroyed. The loss is estimat-
ed at about $4,000.
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Market street, as tentatively agreed
upon by Denver city officials and E.
A. Howard, Industrial commissioner
of the Burlington road, is acceptable
to the Union Pacific.
The Greater Colorado bureau OF the
Denver Chamber of Commerce cele-
brated Washington's Birthday by rails
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Build Colorado First" on the top q
the Chamber of Commerce.
The Denver mint has started work
on the new 1918 nickels and is turning
out an average Of $4,000 day. The
new coin far surpasses the old one in
beauty, having on one side an Indian
head and the figure of buffalo on
the opposite.
The Irish American Progressive So
ciety's fortieth celebration of the one
hundred and thirty-fifth anniversary
of the birth of Robert Emmett will be
held in the auditorium Of the Woman's
Club Building in Denver. Sunday even
ing, March End.
]. B. Lamson. agriculturist for the
Burlington railroad. and H. w. Camp
bell, dry farming expert, are visiting
all points on the Burlington in eastern
Colorado with a view to instructing
the farmers there in the best methods
of tilling the soil.
Officers and privates Of the Colora-
do National guard are confident that
in the event of Intervention in Mexico
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militia men to be ordered to the Dor
der. There are now 1,500 of the Colo
RADIO guard ready to go.
Two Denver women-Mrs. Gertrude
Thompson and Mrs. Norman e. Fergu
son-went through thrilling expert
ences in Chihuahua, Mexico. when Wis
iting there with their husbands, both
in the employ of the American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company.
Denver would be established as a
central military reserve station and
hundreds of thousands of dollars
would be spent through Denver merch'
ants and commission men In event OF
the United States intervening in the
present Mexican troubles, according
to men who have made study Of mill
tary conditions.
Martha Elizabeth Pugh, seventeen,
Christmas bride of Harvey M. Pugh,
has instituted suit In the Denver Dis
trict Court against her husbands pa
rents, Charles and Addie Pugh, for
$4,000 damages for the alleged alien.
atiop of her husbands affections. The
action is brought through the girls
mother, Mrs. Sarah M. Wilkinson.
Great excitement prevails in the
district about Eagle and Basalt, where
great silver strike recently was
made" said Representative e. e. Ken.
nody Of Eagle. He had just returned
to Qenyer from Eagle. having been