Gilpin observer., 1913-11-06
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Co,niu~ nvaut.

Jan.-Meeting Colorado Good Roads
Association at Colorado Springs.
1S1b.-Last Grand Council of North
american Indians at Denver.
w. L. Hainley. laborer, attempted
to kill himself in a saloon in Denver
by drinking carbolic acid.
Colorado day" at the Anglo-Amer-
lean exposition in London from May
to October, 1914, will be September II.
The income tax, the first provision
of which became operative Nov. l, had
an effect upon the visible money sup
ply among thousands of Denverites.
The ninth annual dog show of the
Colorado Kennel club closed in Den
yer with the presentation of cups and
medals and the parade of the winners
around the arena.
Should military activity in the
southern coal camps be long drawn
out it will mean the loss of a years
study to group of State university
students at Boulder
Ralph Arnold. a seventeen-year-old
Denver boy, twice arrested in that
city for burglary, was arrested in Kan.
sas City for stealing a diamond ring
from Mrs. S. A. McCool
Harry E. Hillen pleaded not guilty
to nine charges, including four of
robbery, three of assault to rob. one
of assault to kill and one of murder,
in the West Side Court in Denver.
Because she used a forged check as
means of collecting money. which
she says was due her. Mrs. Minnie
Walker, twenty-seven years old, dress
maker. was arrested in Denver.
The Denver school board has decid-
ed to grant an increase of $40 month
in the salaries of first and second
grade teachers in the public schools,
to become effective January 1, 1914.
While engaged in an animated argu-
ment over the wet and dry question in
Grand Junction, the Rev. H. II.
Beach. seventy-three. an ardent dry
worker, was stricken with paralysis.
The Supreme Court ruled, in the
appeal of the county commissioners of
Adams county from the contempt de-
cision by Judges Charles Mccall, that
the trial court was without any au.
thority in the premises and exceeded
his jurisdiction.
A report that Miss Louise Hale, the
trained nurse arrested in connection
with the death of Harry Bradley and
Mrs. Mamie Ellen Smith. had been
placed in irons, following her removal
to the county hospital for treatment
for the drug habit, was made to Chief
OF Police O'Neill.
Commission form OF government
and the preferential system of voting
we're upheld by the Supreme Court of
colorado. Five justices signed the ma
jority opinion of the court, written by
Justice w. A. Hill. Justice S. H. White
wrote dissenting opinion. in which
Justice Garrigues concurred.
Safecrackers gained entrance to the
Farmers bank at Timnath, ten miles
from Fort Collins, made an unsuccess-
full but desperate attempt to dyna-
mite and break open the safe. ham
mered their way through a steel graf
ing. tore open a number of safe de-
posit boxes and escaped with only
$3.50 in money, SO far as known.
Henry Rockwell Baker, favorite
nephew OF the late John w Gates.
who becomes the prospective heir to
the Gates millions through the sud
den death of his cousin, Charles G.
Gates, at Cody, Wyo., is i'll with tuber
culosis, and left Colorado Springs
few days ago for Arizona where it is
feared he will not survive the winter.
John E. Godding. Rocky Ford bank.
er charged with permitting his insti.
tuition to receive deposits after he
knew 1t was insolvent, will have to
stand trial on n felony charge The
Supreme Court reversed the decision
of the District Court and remanded
the case with instructions that 1t be
reinstated and overruled the motion
to quosh the information.
The broad -gauging of the Denver G.
Rio Grande tracks between Salida and
Montrose, a distance OF 1876 miles, in.
volving an expenditure of nearly 49,.
100000, soon will be undertaken as
one of the first OF the extensive i'm.
provements planned for the Denver G.
Rio Grande and the Western Pacific
railroads. according to announcement
by President Benjamin f. Bush, while
in Denver.
A reign of violence that began at
Walsenburg shortly after midnight
Saturday eliminated Sunday morning,
within two blocks OF Camp Wasen.
burg, when Harry Johnson. ae negro
striker, was shot in a battle between
strikers and Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company employees, who, according to
the operators, were being transferred
from the company's steel plant at Pu.
eblo to the Walsen and Robinson
mines.
The Progressive party closed its
two days state conference with ban.
quet In Denver, after going on record