Gilpin observer., 1914-03-12
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L O r A DO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

Z. .. Elks at Denver.
April 9.-General Irrigation Conference
at Denver.
Sept. colorado State Fair at Pu-
1sl5.-Iast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The Pennsylvania Society of Denver
will hold it's annual dinner March 10.
George Rupert, twenty years old,
was accidentally shot and killed at
Monument.
Mrs. Eliza A. Kirkendale died at the
age of eighty-one years at her home
in Plateau valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel E. Harris of
Denver celebrated the fifty-fourth ami
versary of their wedding.
The work on the new concrete
bridge across the Arkansas river at
La Junta is about completed and it is
now in use.
The southern end of the San Luis
valley will have larger acreage this
year, with every prospect of an ex-
cellent crop.
Judge N E. Graham has issued an
order calling for the selection of
twelve men as special grand jury
for Weld county.
David Epstein, a Denver jewelry
salesman charged with embezzlement,
committed suicide in Pueblo by TAX
ing carbolic acid.
Four-year-old Harold Anderson of
Denver died after eating wild parsnips
found growing near a spring in the
rear of his home.
George McLagan of Pueblo has
been elected treasurer of the Colorado
State Fair Association for the ensuing
year by the board of directors.
Irving Aker, ten-year-old son of l..
G. Aker. Weldona farmer, was acciden-
tally shot and died almost instantly
from bullet wound in the breast.
David w. Meyer, 81 Denver pioneer
and clerk in the office OF the auditor
of the Denver & Rio Grande since
| 1899, is dead from heart failure.
Two pioneers, residents of Fort Col
Inns, died; John McMullin, eighty-five,
succumbing to pneumonia, and Harry
]. Widdows dying of heart trouble.
The new quarters of the Denver
Press club, consisting of a suite of ten
rooms in the Denham Theater build,
ing, Formally were opened with a
house warming.
The oldest man in the West and one
of the oldest men in the world is dead
in Denver. William Taylor, 10S years
| nj nf hn
Civil wars, died at his home, 116o
Downing street. a.
State Treasurer Michael A. Leddy
returned to Denver after six weeks
rest. He is much improved in health.
The treasurer spent his time in the
southern Gulf states and was in New
Orleans during Mardi Gras week.
Mrs. Mary Ann Bryley, one of the
| first four white women to settle in
Grand Junction, died She was sew
enty-six years old. She and her bus.
band were among the first people in
Leadville when the boom started.
Two more detachments of the Ma
tional Guard, Company A of the First
infantry and Company c OF the Sec
ond infantry, were discharged from
| duty in the strike zone and will return
to their homes, according to General
Chase.
Roy Conrey, seven years old, son OF
Charles NJ. Conrey, of Denver, pois-
oned by eating wild parsnip roots with
Harold Anderson, four years old, who
died at the county hospital, is out of
danger according to physicians attend
ing him.
Sixteen strikers are under military
arrest in connection with the alleged
murder of Neil Smith, a Forbes miner
whose mutilated body was found on
the Colorado & Southern tracks at
Suffield Siding, eight miles north of
Trinidad.
After undergoing the radium treat
ment for cancer at DR.. Kelly's private
sanatorium in Baltimore for a week.
Mrs. Katherine Rofinot, teacher in
the public schools of Colorado Springs,
has returned and believes that COM
plete cure will be effected in six
weeks.
Revenue and postage stamps for use
by civil government to be estab-
lished in northern Mexico are being
manufactured In Denver. General Vic
toriano Carranza, leader of the consti-
tutionalists, is now proceeding from
Nogales, Ariz., to Juarez, Mexico, for
the purpose Of organizing the civil gov
ernment.
Unwilling to swear to lie in his own
defense, Antoine Ginter. aged seventy
eight, withdrew plea of not guilty in
the bootlegging case against him at
Grand Junction and admitted his guilt
A fine of 500 and costs were assessed
against him by Judge Black, which he
promptly paid. The other Indictment