Gilpin observer., 1913-01-30
COLORADO NEWS
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All Parts of the State
Newspaper Union news Service.

While trying to climb aboard NOV
ing wagon at Lamar the small son of
Tony Cox was Instantly killed.
Denver's twelfth annual automobile
show will be held in the Auditorium
during the week of March to s.
The cost to the city and county of
Denver for the first days registration
was $40 vote.
Four convicted highwaymen were
given the maximum sentences for
their offenses by Judge c. C. Butler
in the West Side Court at Denver
The constitutionality of the flat tax
on insurance companies by which the
state gets two per cent. of the prem
iums collected was upheld by the SUI
preme Court.
Charges and counter-charges of cor
poration influence and politics are be-
ing banded about as a result of the
election held by the Denver Trades
and Labor Assembly.
A coroner's jury returned verdict
at Cripple Creek, finding that Charles
Morgan came to his death through
opium poisoning, taken by himself
with suicidal intent.
From commanding position in the
railroad world to abject poverty in
six years is the record of Frank A.
Dunlap, 3S, who died in the county
hospital at Walsenburg.
What promised to be a wholesale
Jail delivery was frustrated at Pueblo
when two prisoners in the city prison,
|. equipped with saws and pipe, were
found forcing their way to freedom.
The number of candidates to sue
ceed Edward Keating, congressman
elect, as president of the State Land
Board March 1, when he will depart
for Washington, has reached Isl.
Fort Logan is to become regimen
tai post again after having been a re.
cruit receiving station for three years,
according to reports circulated in
army circles in Denver during horse
show week.
Fellows who make their signs talk
and let their lights shine, met in Den
yer 200 strong. They are delegates
to the fourth annual convention of the
National Association OF Outdoor Ad-
vertisers.
Andrew Cushner of Fort Collins and
Thomas Dunn of Denver were un-
doubtedly killed when a snowslide
wrecked their cabin at point twenty
miles north of Grand lake, where they
ware nrOsnectinp
Edward Powell, young society and
club man, maintains profound ST.
lence as to why he obtained license
at Littleton June 29, 1912, to wed Mrs.
Gilbert McElveen, fas :inating widow
and social favorite of Denver and
never used it.
The first man to be sentenced to
penal servitude in Colorado through
the use of the dictagraph in securing
evidence is Jacob Grinspan, a jeweler
and diamond broker of Denver. who
was sentenced by Judge r. E. Lewis
in the Federal Court. Grinspan was
convicted of fraud in connection with
bankruptcy proceedings.
The contest of Mrs. Zoe Wheeler
against the probating of the last will
and testament of Candace Wheeler. in
which the latter gave her estate, con-
sisting Of life insurance in the sum OF
$12.5OO, to her fiance, Otto Meyer, has
been dismissed in rhe District Court
at Denver. Mrs. Wheeler also lost
her contest in the County Court.
Trainmen in the employ OF the Den
yer City Tramway Company. at three
meetings. decided to protest to the
Legislature against the passage of a
bill introduced by Representative Kav-
anaugh of Colorado Springs, providing
that no person in the employ of a
municipal tramway company shall
work more than ten out OF every
twenty-four hours.
A suit to secure a reduction in pas
senger transportation fares in Colo
rado has been filed by Omar Garwood
with the State Railroad Commission.
Garwood seeks to have a rate of 2
cents a mile on prairie lands of the
state and cents mile in mountain
Gus territory established by the com.
mission in lieu Of present rates of
to cents mile, charged by railroad
and transportation companies.
The Supreme Court handed down 4
decision refusing to answer the ques-
tion propounded by the Senate as to
who Is entitled to hold the office of
lieutenant governor. Justices Hill and
Scott dissented from the majority
opinion. The court. while refusing
to consider the question and give 4
final decision on the case at this time,
declares that Stephen r. Fitzgerald 10
the de facto lieutenant governor and
that as such his acts must certainly
be legal and binding.
The annual ball of the Denver
Typographical Union takes place at
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