Gilpin observer., 1914-09-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coming Events.
Sep, Sept sSss-24.-Apple Pie Day at Rifle;
Sept. 2s-as.-Mon,s.uma Co. Fair at
Sept. 29-Oct. 3-CentraI Colorado Fair
Oct: l-s.I,7Grand County Fair at
Oct. s-s.-Coio. New Mex. Fair at Du-
lsi5.@Iast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The funeral of William T. Cantril OF
Franktown, who died at the Park Hill
hospital In Denver, was held at Castle
Rock.
The Colorado Federation of Won.
ems Clubs will hold its twentieth an
nual convention In Greeley on Oct. 6.
z, 8 and 9.
Mrs. Anna Kaub Sigel, one Of the
wealthiest women of Denver. was mar.
ried to Col. T. B. Burbridge, proni-
nent mining man Of Cripple Creek.
At Denver, John Frazier was found
guilty Of murder in the first degree,
with the penalty fixed at life impris-
onment for the killing of C. C. Page.
Rev. John P. Campbell, for the last
three years pastor of the Trinidad Con-
gregational church, died at his home
after a long illness from tuberculosis.
Through the State Department at
Washington word has been received
that Miss Frances Moore and Mrs. Per
imam, both Of Denver, are safe in Eu-
rope.
After victimizing banks from the At
lantic to the Pacific, including three
Denver houses, Grant A. Perry, alias
Albert Newsalt, was arrested in
Seattle
In complaint signed by thirty one
residents Of Sumner. protest is made
against the manner in which the state
highway funds have been expended
on the Spanish Trail route.
Frank G. Potter, sales manager Of
the Merchants Biscuit Company, died
at st. Josephs hospital in Denver from
the injuries he sustained in an auto
mobile accident near Morrison.
Virtually every property owner in
Evans has signed petition to the city
council asking that body to call spe-
cial election to vote upon the question
of issuing $4,000 in bonds for sewer
system.
Capt. John d. Rowland, scout, In
dian fighter, soldier and artist, died at
his home in Denver from a hemor-
rhage induced ten days ago by lace
ration Of the throat when a bone
lodged in it.
An appeal has been sent out to aid
in the building up of a relief fund for
stricken Belgium by natives of that
country living in Denver. Several sub
stantial contributions already have
been received.
The new county grand jury was
charged to make an investigation of
the police and sheriff departments un-
der Commissioner of Safety Nisbet by
Judge John A. Perry in the West Side
Court of Denver.
Making two complete somersaults in
the air in a thirty-foot fall from a
scaffold at Capital hill garage in
Denver. l.. L. Graham, 1852 Stout
street, escaped serious injury. He suf
fered sprained ankle.
Word was received at the office oil
the postoffice inspector at Denver that
the postoffice at Thatcher, in Las An
;mas county. had been broken into and
robbed of $174.20 In cash. No clew has
| been found to the robbers
In effort to save the life of Frank
Dehrerra, a ranch foreman employed
by Henry Readings of Broomfield, who
was bitten by a rattlesnake, the foot
into which the reptile drove it's fangs
was amputated at the county hospital
in Denver.
| Albert T. Patrick, who was saved
by a governors pardon from the elec
trio chair in Sing Sing prison two
years ago. after being convicted OF the
murder of the aged millionaire, Will
lam NJ. Rice, twelve years previous
was in Denver visiting his mother
Mrs. Edward T. Patrick, at the home
OF her daughter, Mrs. w. B. Milliken
The Denver Press Club and the Den
yer Motor Club will see to it that Den
verites have little excitement this
fall in the way of motor races, both
in the air and on land. Oct. I. the
Press Club announces, will see Barney
Oldfield and Lincoln Beachey in com
petition at Overland park. Sept. 2;
and 26 will witness the automobile
show and races held under the aus
pices of the Denver Motor Club.
Miss Alta O'Donald Of Dawson. N
NJ, probably saved her own life by
grasping the front axle OF an auto
mobile that crashed into her anC
knocked her to the street at Sixteenth
and Curtis streets in Denver. Her es
cort, Harry Taylor OF New York, alsC