Gilpin observer., 1913-10-09
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Oct. 21.-Colorado State Baptist Asso-
Oct, 27.-Lo.oF.. Annual Encampment
Oct s s2s.ss.@dood H@ Roads Meeting at pu-
Oct; so-Nov 1-colorado Kennel Club
Nov. 6-s.-Thirteenth Annual Conven
tion Of Rocky Mountain Hotel Mems
Jan. 12-15.-Colorado Poultry Fanciers'
Jan; is-S4.MNationai Western stock
1s15.@Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The grand jury at Littleton indicted
two former county officials.
The new $4,000 Y. W. G. A. home
at Colorado Springs has been COM
pleted.
Six petitions calling for amend
ments to the city charter have been
filed at Pueblo.
Mrs p ]. johnson, who came to
Colorado in 1869 from Sweden, died
at Boulder of old age.
Changes in the two chief positions
in the Denver postoffice are expected
within the next few days.
One hundred and fifty armed guards
|. prevented an invasion of Sopris by
striking miners Sunday.
The "wets" filed their petition to
initiate an ordinance providing for
high license saloons in Grand juno
tion.
Grand Junction may have a munich
pally owned theater. George Bullock,
a Socialist attorney, is behind the
scheme.
Under the proposed administration
of the new currency law, Denver will
get the regional bank for the entire
Rocky Mountain region.
Miss Kate Erickson of Nj Wot was
the victim of an "unloaded" gun at
Boulder and received about dozen
birdshot in her face and neck.
Robert Harris, sentenced to death
for killing Marshals j. b. Craig and
Jacob Ripper at Rocky Ford, has
been granted a new trial by the Su-
preme Court.
Elbert G. Ryan pleaded guilty be-
fore Judge Henry Glass of the Dis
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five horses from Arapahoe county
farmers last summer.
Sheriff Sanford d. Buster of Boul-
der has some sleuthine to do on his
own account, as some miscreant stole
his kit of tools and the buttons off the
| electric lights of his automobile.
After sensational fire fighting ex-
hibition by the Elbert and Limon fire
departments, the first annual inter-
county fair, given jointly by lincoln
and Elbert counties came to close.
William G.. Evans, for years presl-
dent of the Denuver City Tramway,
rendered his resignation at special
meeting of the board of directors in
the Tramway building. and his resig-
nation was accepted. rr
Peter Forte, serving life sentence
in the penitentiary for killing his
wife, has appealed to the Supreme
Court asking for reversal of the
lower courts order. Forte was ar
rested Sept 10. 1912.
Too i'll to sit up Miss Bernice
Shirley of Denver was married at
Coloado Springs to Henry James, a
New Mexico ranchman. eliminating
a romance begun on her husbands
ranch two years ago.
Chief Forester Graves practically
promised tie cooperation of the gov
ernment with Mesa county in build
ing road over the Grand Mesa to
open up inaccessible timber lands in
the Batlement forest reserve
The September report of Denver
postoffice business shows an increase
of 1873 over the receipts of year ago.
Last month the business of the post
office were $1O5,575.65. Yin Septem-
ber, 1912, the receipts were 93,5S2.04.
Grief, occasioned by the loss of his
fortune during the panic of 1898,
caused Jacob Fl. Smissaert. fifty
eight, ex.lnember of Hollands royal
family, to end his life by swallowing
morphine and inhaling chloroform
at Denver.
Sava Radakovich, said to have been
driven out of Servia for participating
in killing King Alexander and Queen
Draga. has absconded with 100000,
the life savings of hundreds of en-
ployes OF the steel mills, according to
the Pueblo police.
The Moffat tunnel contract as re-
vised and corrected by the city attor-
ney and members of the tunnel COM
mission, was signed for the city of
Denver and ten copies sent East to
the offices of the Denver 4 Salt Lake
road in New York.
In her annual address to the state
w. G. T. U. at its annual session at
Fort Collins, Mrs. Adriana Hungerford
of Denver. president, declared the
slogan Of the national association. ma
tion-wide Prohibition in 1920" bids
fair to be accomplished. She pre-