Gilpin observer., 1914-01-08
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS,

Jan. 15.-Annual Meeting Colo. Farm
ers' Congress at Agricultural Col
lege, Fort Collins.
Jan. 15-16.-Meeting Mountain Division
Colorado to- the Gulf Highway Asso-
citation at Colorado Springs
jan EmMeetinS 2entosA ESiorad0 Ass9ciafon 9o,o
Jan. 2o---Annual banquet Colorado
Jan. ' -24.mNasional Western Stock
Show at Denver.
July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session. B.
Sept; 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
1s15-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Colorado Springs on Jan. Is and 16
will be the mecca for good road en-
thusiasts from all over the state.
Denver is to be the headquarters for
a new Rocky Mountain branch of the
Playground Association, if the plans
of the national organization material
ize.
M H. Miller, for several years prin-
cipal of the Fort Collins High school,
has been named to succeed John L.
Cochran as principal of the Steamboat
Springs High school,
Employees in the offices of the re-
corder, treasurer and special tax as
sessment department of Denver will
be the first of the 1900 city employees
to be examined for civil service, Jan.
~.
A grand jury was called at Central
City at the request of District Attor-
G NJ Unhncnn inVnStipatp
the finding of three dead infants in a
house near Blackhawk several months
ago.
A committee for the national con-
ference of single takers, to be held in
Washington, Jan. Is, 16 and II, was
Colorado Single Tax Association, in
Denver.
AS new year gift to the people of
Denver the Denver Gas and Electric
Light Company has made a reduction
Of five cents per thousand on gas.
This makes the price eighty cents per
thousand.
After Imprisonment in the county
Jail since Sept. 20, Frank Goodwin and
John West. charged with attempting
to bunko U. G. Davis out of 10000
were brought to trial in the West Side
Court in Denver.
Negligence was assigned as the
cause of the Vulcan mine disaster at
New Castle in which thirty-seven men
met instant death Dec. 16 by the yer.
dict of the coroner's jury, returned at
Glenwood Springs.
Fort Logan broke all enlistment rec
ords in December, since it become a
recruit depot in 1909. From the terri
tory under Fort Logan 306 men were
enlisted for. United States army serv-
ice during the month
Mexican citizens of Alamosa have
complained to the state superintendent
of public instruction that the school
board of Alamosa has shown class dis
tinction in building a separate school
house for the Mexican children.
At Victor, bucket loaded with rock
crashed down sixty-five feet upon the
head of Benjamin R. Crump, twenty
four, killing him. Emmett Stuart.
Crump's companion. escaped with
with bruises by lodging under the
hanging wall and lying flat.
Mrs. Dora Fitch Travis, who OBJ
tanned divorce from Albert B. Travis
at Colorado Springs on the ground of
mental cruelty on Dec. 20, is to marry
Walter Scott Andrews, Jr., nephew OF
Mrs. Chester Alan Arthur and a leader
in Colorado Springs and formerly in
Denver society.
Lamar was gorgeously dressed in
red white and blue and jeweled with
brilliant festoons of electric street
lights in honor of the coming-out
party of the city's youngest and larg-
est manufacturing industry-the ninth
factory of the Helvetia Milk Con-
densing Company.
Approximately $4,000 over and
above all salaries earned by the dis
trict attorney and his corps of assist
ants will revert to the county teas
urer. according to the showing made
by the Denver district attorneys re.
port of business transacted during the
year just ended.
A silent campaign to put a woman
In the secretary of states office! That
Is the movement being considered by
the woman politicians Of Denver. The
plan is that the women OF the various
parties shall unite on one candidate
for that office and they hope by that
means her election may be effected.
AS the result of conference be.
tween State Highway Commissioner
Ehrhart, President e. e. Sommers OF
the Denver Motor Club, Calvin Morse
and John Gaffy, held in the statehouse
1t was decided to hold meeting OF
the advisory board OF the highway
commissioners of the state the state
highway commission and the board OF
governors of the Denver Motor Club
in Denver