Gilpin observer., 1914-07-09
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Sept. 2324.-Apple Pie Day at Rifle.
sept 22-26.-Western Slope Fair. Mont
Sept 22-25.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
Sept 2s-2s-El Paso Co. Fair. Calhan.
Sept. 29-Oct. 3-Central Colorado Fair
at Colorado Springs.
Oct l-3"Grand County Fair al
Oct. 6-9.-Coio. New Mex Fair at Du-
lsl6.sLast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Fourth of July accidents in Colora-
do for two years: 1913, nine injured;
1914, eighteen injured.
Omaha and Kansas City ticket ag-
ents with their families were guests
of the Union Pacific in Denver.
A recall petition bearing 1876
names was filed against Alexander
Nisbet, commissioner of safety, of
Denver.
The Denver police have been asked
to join a statewide search for Roy
Roberts, thirty years old, farmer OF
Montrose.
A ninety-day sentence on the rock
pile at the county Jail is facing every
crook and undesirable citizen who fails
to leave Denver.
With 10000 people in town for the
big Fourth of July celebration. the
largest crowd ever in Greeley, only
three accidents reported.
Cash prizes amounting to $4,000
will be offered at the Western Live
stock Show next January, If the plans
of the committee are realized
Four automobiles, one motorcycle
and two runaway accidents have been
| reported at Fort Collins resulting
from holiday trips in Larimer county.
Roy F.. Barber, 80, Mancos. who
few days ago began work as houseman
in the Albany hotel, in Denver, fell
forty feet to his death in an elevator
shaft.
John A. Martin of Pueblo, former
congressman, has announced his candi-
dacy for the United States senatorial
nomination at the pleasure of the DEM
ocratic assembly.
Denver postoffice receipts for the
year ending June 80 were s2l,472.21
greater than for the previous year, ac-
increase is II per cent.
Robert F. Silver Of Denver was
elected departmental commander of
the Spanish War Veterans. and Tillie
E. Danks, president of the Ladies'
Auxiliary at the Denver meeting
Powell Benson, 10. son of George
Benson. wealthy business man of New
Orleans, was instantly killed at Idaho
Springs when his head caught between
a timber and raising bucket in the
Two Brothers mine.
Denver has been selected IS head
quarters for the first big rural credit
organization, according to H. Tyree of
New York city, chairman of the organ
izing committee of the American Ru-
raj Credit Association.
After several months of failing
health. e. A. Herrick, 62 years of age,
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Arthur Wilson, in Denver. Herrick
was one of the early business men of
Colorado. For ten years he was a res
ident of Aspen and later removed to
Cripple Creek. where he lived until
two years ago. He engaged in the
cattle business extensively.
At a meeting of the board of d.
rectors of the Tonopah Mining Com
pany of Nevada, in Philadelphia, June
25. regular quarterly dividend of 25
per cent was declared. payable July
81, to stockholders of record June 80,
when the books were closed for trans
fer This is the thirty-sixth dividend
paid by the COMPANY, which operates
in the Breckenridge district, and is the
third dividend of 20 cents declared this
year The total dividends paid and
declared by the company now amount
to $11 $50. 900, on s1,50o,OOO in capital
shares.
The nineteenth annual convention
of the Colorado State Federation of
Labor will be held in Pueblo, at the
Congress hotel, beginning on Aug. II,
according to announcements sent out
by w. T. Hickey, secretary of the fed
Grafton.
That Benjamin Vance, the prospec-
tor, whose body was found in gully
at the base of u 500-foot cliff near
Palo Rito pass on the Sangre de Cristo
range, was killed after locating
promising mineral vein, Is the theory
advanced by S. J. Vance of Tekemah,
Neb., brother.