Gilpin observer., 1914-08-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News service.
Dates for Coming Events.
AVE ASs SsspG S9 Gar hodEs and
Uniform Rank Encampment. Pueoio'
Aug. 20 -sS-Bent Co. Fair. Las Animas.
AUG s7asMFal Psy Peyytivai Rt at Flasier
Aug. 27.-Santa Fs Trail Day. Las AM
Aug 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler
Rocky Ford.
Sept. s--watermeion Day, Rocky rora;
sept. 2-6-Farmers an stookme"S
Sept. i-4.-Morgsn Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. l-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
The grand lodge Of Colorado
Knights of Pythias will hold its an
nual meeting at Pueblo. Aug. rs.
An advance of so cents ton on
southern and Routt county bituminous
coal was announced by coal dealers.
The permit for the Billy Sunday tab
ernacle at Tenth avenue and Lincoln
street was reinstated by the city ooun-
ell Of Denver.
Mrs. A. d. Tyron, who came to Don.
yer from her home In Phippsburg.
died in the office of physician while
being treated.
Henry Sussman, travelling sales
man who had been in Denver for three
days, was found dead from an over.
dose Of heroin.
saving Of about ten miles Is effect
ed by change in the routing over
the Pixies Peak ocean-to-ocean high.
way between Calhan and Limon.
Mrs. Jennie Vigil. twenty-three Of
Fort Collins shot herself in the temple
during fit of dependency at Raw
Inns. Wyo.. dying within half an hour.
Lucille Ravenscroft, twenty-five, Of
Denver Is believed by her father, w.
T. Ravenscroft, to be in Holland prac.
tically the only neutral state on tho
continent
Denver's new union station is as
sured through the purchase OF the 81.
100000 of bonds needed to make the
Improvement, by the Union Pacific
Railroad Company out Of its own
funds.
A general call to Australians to
rally to the support of the fatherland
In the war which now threatens all
Europe. was issued in Pueblo by a spe-
cial agent OF the Austrian consulate
in Denver.
Frank Harrington. ten. son OF Mr.
and Mrs. F. r. Harrington of Windsor.
was kicked by horse and seriously
injured while feeding the animal in Q
barn. His hip WAS fractured and the
ligaments torn loose from his leg.
Lightning that played over Denvss
Saturday and the rain storm which
followed claimed the life OF one man
and injured four others. The man,
Frank Bodamer. a laborer. lost his
life as the result Of the downpour
misstep into an old ditch running
through Barr lake. twenty miles moth
Of Denver. cost the life Of Guy J. Mo
Knaw. thirty years old. living at 1446
Lipan street. WILDER McNeal almost
lost his own life attempting to ave
McKnaw.
The Fraser river project as an avail
able source OF supply for Denver's city
owned water system was investigated
by A. Lincoln Fellows and Armour c.
Anderson of the Denver utilities com
| hAcoioh anu d. lIlppluCOll, uyQT6ullC
engineer Of Los Angeles.
Fifty thousand Dnverites knelt In
tho churches OF the city Sunday and
united In common prayer for peace.
In every church, Catholic or Protest.
ant, ministers and priests implored d..
vine aid to avert the tremendous catas-
trcphe impending in Europe.
When James c. Bulger shot and
killed Lloyd F. Nicodemus May at
the Savoy hotel in Denver, Bulger was
insane, according to examinations
made and conclusions arrived at by
DIR. Edward w. Lazell. alienist called
to testify for Bulger in his trial at the
West Side Court.
The suits brought by the Consum.
ers' league to secure equitable rates
on coal from the northern coal fields
to Denver and to restrain the hauling
lines and connecting roads from en-.
forcing exhorbitant switching charges
will come up In Denver August on n
demurrer filed by the Denver & Inter
mountain railroad.
Mystery surrounds the suicide at.
tempt OF Florence Brown, fourteen.
year-old high school girl. who took car.
bolic acid at her home in Denver. The
girl, according to her mother, was an
unruly daughter, She drank the poi.
son, which has placed her at the
threshold OF death, after she had been
reprimanded for keeping late hours.
Thomas r. Smart, charged with
Fleeing residents OF Alamosa, Colora.
do Springs, and Oklahoma cities out of
hundreds OF dollars In fake land
scheme. was arrested at Idaho Falls
Idaho, by Postoffice Inspector Roy e.
Nelson Of Denver, after a search ex.