Gilpin observer., 1914-02-12
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
western Newspaper Union News servIce.

Denver
Feb. 22-washington Day banquet at
| March io-1IMEleventh annual con-
iferense, ieae CCiorado Daughters sa.An. Of Amer
July 13-14.-Grand Lodge Session. b..
T; Q; Elks at Denver
sept; colorado State Fair at Pu-
4 1s15-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
A cutting affray west of La Junta
took place at Mexican camp and re-
suited in the death Of Gabino Ribera.
! Mrs. Ruby L. McQuate received the
appointment as postmistress of the
Aurora postoffice. She succeeds George
Means.
l.. E. Atchison. one of the oldest pio-
neers of Colorado, died at Steamboat
Springs. He had suffered for years
from locomotor ataxia.
A convict-built highway from Colo
RADIO to the Gulf of Mexico Is advocat-
ed by Warden Thomas lyman Of the
Colorado state penitentiary.
Charles Rhodes, fifty years old, was
ground to bits in Denver in the sight
of fellow workmen at the plant Of the
Western Chemical Company, where he
was foreman.
Mrs. B. Amdurky. former owner Of
a millinery store at Trinidad was
seriously burned while using gasoline
in cleaning furs. Little hope is held
out for her recovery.
Jeremiah Baer, sixty-six. we'll known
among Denver's pioneers, was dan
gerously injured when he fell thirty
feet through an open elevator shaft
in the German-American Trust build
ing.
Charles Render. alias Charles Hen
derscn, alias BLACK Tony" arrested
at Pueblo on a charge of theft, has
been identified as the slayer of Henry
Nickel in Omaha, bank teller, ac
cording to the police.
Tho Rev. Mrs Hattie Handiside, pas
tor of the Free Methodist Episcopal
church and well known in Denver was
seriously injured at Loveland when
she slipped on an icy sidewalk. Her
arm was fractured in three places and
she suffered dislocated wrist.
Two hundred non-union coal miners
from Sopris and Starkville made up
procession that accompanied to a
grave in the Catholic cemetery the
body of John Sebbin, a coal miner
who was killed by being run over by
a motor car in the Sopris mine.
A triangle of forces. representing
many human and Industrial interests,
each pressing in an opposite direction
and out of the flinty contact of these
determinations the truth as to the
coal strike expected to come-met in
the Senate chamber of the state capi-
tol.
Prominent farmers in the Vine
land district, east OF Pueblo, declar-
ing that they were in fear of being
assassinate0. appealed to the county
commissioners to increase the reward
offered for the murderers OF Floyd
Reed, one of their neighbors, who was
killed over a week ago.
conference of Western governors
to devise new financial plans for stim-
ulating the growth of new irrigation
projects and effecting solidity of ex-
isting irrigation securities in the West
is proposed by Secretary of the In
terror Franklin K. Lane in letter re-
ceived by Governor Ammons
John Roy Dew. the ladies' man.
heart breaker and impersonator of
Adolphus Busch III. of st. Louis, is a
married man and has been for two
years. This came out in the West
Side Criminal Court in Denver. where
he was sentenced by Judge Charles C.
Butler to serve one to two years in the
penitent'ary.
Marrying her stepson within a few
days after divorcing his father, Mrs,
Lenora Otto now lives in Denver as
the wife of John S. Otto. whom she,
eight years ago. established mothers
protection over by marrying Christian
Otto. wealthy sheepman of New Mexi-
CO and widower of a cousin of the sec
ond wife.
The Longmont Farmers Protective
Association has adopted a resolution
rejecting the offer OF the Great West
ern Sugar Company of $4.75 ton for
beets for the coming year. The mem
bers of the association are willing to
accept $4.75 a ton for beets containing
twelve per cent sugar content as a
basis. but demand sliding scale In
crease for all beets containing more
than twelve per cent sugar content.
Delightful hosts have provided us
with a delightful time in a delightful
city. We are delighted" In these two
sentences. Lord and Lady Decies. rep
resentatives of British nobility and
the Gould millions, expressed their
appreciation OF their entertainment by
Mr.. and Mrs. Crawford Hill and with
Denver and Denver people in general
before leaving the union depot in their
private car Omaha" bound for the
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