Gilpin observer., 1914-12-03
COLORADO NEWS
HERED FROM
All Parts of the State

ne pubic DdLuHOuSe III Denver, uos
been opened to the public.
Joseph T. Hawes, rs years old, died
in Pueblo hospital after an extended
Illness.
The Otero Gas Company com
menced work on its new plant in West
La Junta.
The Denver police have been asked
to find Ethel Lightner, who left her
home Oct. Z.
The Mountain States Telephone and
Telegraph Company has applied for a
new franchise at Rocky Ford.
The Colorado district of the Swedish
Luthern church held it's annual con-
ference in Boulder and Loveland.
A crop of milo maize, averaging al
most sixty bushels to the acre. has
been harvested by w. T. Gilmore, east
of Haswell.
l. d. Couch, "a years old. is dying
at the Southern Colorado General hos
pital, after having been thrown under
load of hay that tipped over.
Louis Persinger. famous violinist
whose boyhood was spent in Colorado
Springs. was a soloist at the concert
given by the American colony in Ber-
lin for the benefit of war sufferers on
Thanksgiving day.
Efforts to locate friends or relatives
of John Gostorach, killed by falling
under northbound d. & r. G. pas
senger train at Southern Junction.
three miles south Of Pueblo, have
been unsuccessful.
w. l.. Smith, seventy-four, pioneer
of Garfield county and one Of the best
known ranchers and cattlemen of the
Western slope. died at the hospital in
Salida as the result of an operation
for kidney trouble.
The display of the work of the stu
won first prize at the Colorado State
Fair in September, probably will be
shown at the meeting of the State
Teachers Association In Denver
Pueblo was visited by more than
400 Royal Arch Masons of Colorado
on the occasion of a reception given
in honor of Andrew Reisenecker OF
priest at the recent state meeting.
Mrs. Susan Taylor Wilson, mother
of Edward T. Wilson of Denver, died
at the home of her son from pneu.
rnonia. She had been ill two weeks
Mrs. Wilson was s4 years old and
born in Saratoga county. New York.
Anna Swat, Pueblo character
who has number of times lived up
to her name by getting into fights, is
being sought again, this time on a
warrant charging her with hitting
Charles York on the head with a rock
The United States government and
foreign countries are expected tc
make displays at the international Sol
Products Exposition, which it is pro
posed to hold in Denver next fall ir
connection with the International Dry
Farming Congress.
Charles b. Hamilton. the only Demo
cratic candidate elected to the State
Senate from Denver at the recent elec
tion, and Mrs. Fay L. Hamilton, his
former wife. will be remarked early
next spring, according to statement
made by Hamilton.
Work on the Colfax-Larimer viaduct
Denver's largest municipal undertak
ing at present. is well under way with
about 200 men employed on the con
crete construction work. Founda
tions for the structure, which is more
than one and one-half miles long. are
about so per cent completed.
Everybody in Denver wore the little
yellow tag that meant a donation tc
the cause of the Saturday and Sunday
Hospital Association. and when a
reckoning was made $4,325.1S was in
the strong box of the organization
with $40 more coming from a box
stationed in the Boston building.
Three opportunities which Colorado
has sought for the last twelve months
will be realized when the international
Soil Product Exposition of the Farm
ing Congress is held in Denver from
the latter part of September to the
first part of October next year, ac
ccrding to those interested in bringing
the exposition to Denver.
A statewide movement among the
Masons Of Colorado to raise $4,000 tc
aid the war-stricken in Europe will be
launched In Denver at meeting o
representative Masons from over the
state. 1t is estimated that there are
1900 Masons in the state. According
to George w. Vallery, the money car
be raised in ten-day campaign.
Arguments for n new trial In ths
case Of Mrs. Ida F. Mercer, con.
demned to life Imprisonment for the
murder OF her son-in-law. Carl Greger
son. were presented in the West Side
Court in Denver by her counsel. The
arguments lasted five hours. Among
the causes presented to secure anoth
er trial was the alleged fact that one
of the Jurors flirted continually dur
ing the former proceedings with the
fvirlS In tho courtroom