Gilpin observer., 1914-07-30
STATE NEWS
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Aug. H-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug. 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler;
SEPT g, L,tTATk nsas Valley Fs'r'
Sept. 2-s-Annual Harvest Festival at
Grover,
Sept s.TTwstermeion Day, RSeky s.as or.. Tora
Fair. Burlington.
A creamery building is being erected
At Sterling.
One thousand loaves Of bread and
tive beeves were provided for the Fort
Morgan barbecue.
J. H. Wolfe of Greeley is the, first
man to adopt the new orange-tango
color for painting his residence.
Children of Denver and Colorado are
to share in the big Colorado day cele-
bration at City park in Denver. Aug. l.
Thomas Welsh, hardware man OF
Grand Junction, is reported to have
been painfully injured in the Telluride
flood.
After living for nineteen months
with broken back, Christian Frantz,
43. a carpenter, died at his home In
Denver.
Mrs. Mary Reese, aged 10 years,
died at her home in Rockvale. follow
ing a brief illness with cerebral hem
orrhage.
Mrs. Carrie Hess, aged 40, wife OF
John C. Hess of Windsor, died at Boul-
der of cancer of the stomach at the
Colorado Sanitarium.
Harry Mathers of Englewood. 21, in
Jail at Littleton under $500 bond. is
charged by Miss Pearl Cheney, 10,
with having attacked her.
Denver has an estimated popula-
tion of 245.523, according to report
dated July 1, 1914, and issued by the
census bureau at Washington.
Charles Clyde Barker. Denver attor-
ney, was elected recording secretary
of the Commercial Law League at the
convention which was held in Chicago.
The two Mexicans arrested at Fort
Morgan plead guilty to grand and Pc
tit larceny and were fined $40 and SEN
fenced to fifty days in the county jail.
Sol H. Jaffa of Trinidad pioneer
merchant and city treasurer, was by
unanimous vote reelected president of
the Retail Merchants Association of
Colorado.
Lightning which struck a chimney
of the home of Mrs. Genevieve Chand
Ter Phipps stunned the Denver society
leader as she was chatting with Mrs.
r. p. Hershey.
Mrs. Isabelle Allison, Ga. of Denver,
died at the county hospital from in
juries received when she and her sis
ter. Miss Rachael NJ. Alexander, SO.
We're struck by an automobile driven
by A. F. Haberl.
Evans baseball fans have raised
enough money to assure the playing
of good grade Of baseball there the
remainder of the season and will take
games with any amateur team in the
state.
Suicide and death claimed five res
idents of Weld county in twenty-four
hours. One died by his own hand,
two as the result of operations and
two from natural causes. Two were
pioneers.
Another boost was given mining in
Colorado when the announcement
came that the Hector Mines Develop
ment company. with all stock sold and
expert mining men employed, is ready
to begin work
The secret marriage of John Nor
gan, son of Judge Morgan of the Colo
RADIO Court Of Appeals. and Jean John
son was revealed in Denver after
young Morgans mother had left for a
trip through the East.
A sheriff's posse is searching the
country twenty-five miles north of La.
mar for Pedro Luciano, Lamar beet
contractor. who shot and probably
mortally wounded an unidentified Mex
lean at the Samuel King ranch.
mot guilty" was the answer OF
John F. Freeze to the indictment OF
murder in the first degree In the West
Side criminal court OF Denver for the
Staying of his common law wife, Mrs.
Rachel Lang Freeze, last month.
A wreck on the Moffat road, in
which seven coal cars were derailed
between Sheridan and Swadley.
stopped traffic for several hours and
blocked several picnic parties which
had started on tour over the Moffat
road.
The $2,0OO,OoO sanatorium to be
erected by the Loyal Order of Moose
will be built in Colorado. Either Den.
yer or Colorado Springs will be chosen
as the site. The committee of the
Moose order that has Travelled all over
the country to select location for
the sanatorium, meeting In Chicago.
has decided upon Colorado, and the
choice OF n site has narrowed to Den.
yer and Colorado Springs. with the
committee divided between the two.
An unavoidable accident was respon.
'sible for the death OF Mrs. Isabel ALI.
son. 90. according to the finding OF
.coroner,s Jury In Denver. which freod