Gilpin observer., 1914-01-29
COLORADO.
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

rep. l6-17-First annual Municipal
Feb. 22-Washington Day banquet at
Grand Junction.
July 1s-14-Grapd III Lodge Session. B.
Sept; 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo. T
American Indians at Denver.
Karl Johansson committed suicide
at Pueblo.
Leslie Carl Werling, fourteen-year-
old boy of Meeker, was gored to death
by a big liolstein bull belonging to
the Meeker creamery.
George Mallea, fourteen years old,
was found frozen to death in snow
drift two miles north,of Leadville near
the Colorado and Southern tracks.
A post-mortem was held at Grand
Junction on the body of Lawrence L.
Taylor, who was found dead in bed
Strychnine was discovered in the
stomach
BY the accidental discharge of
rifle in the hands of boy companion,
Claud Peak, fourteen-year-ol son of
Hugh Peak of Loveland suffered in
juries which may cost his life.
The Colorado Wyoming Laundry
mems Assoc iation held it's semi-annual
convention in Denver to elect new Of
ficers and TO discuss "The Law and
Power of Cooperation" A Cheyenne
man was elected president.
Burglars at Longmont broke into
the drug store of c. E. Smith, and aft
er making an unsuccessful effort to
open the safe, departed with SO or 81
from the cash register. A few boxes
of choice cigars were also taken.
Earl Hoage, of Press Assistants I'm
ion, No. IA, was chosen president of
the Denver Trades and Labor Assem-
bly,. He defeated Fred Vessel of the
bartenders, retiring president and can
didate for reelection, by five votes.
Arrested in chihuahua City on or
ders from General Francisco Villa,
Mrs. Jennie Wenner, charged with the
murder of Philip L. Roberts, Jr., in
December was placed in jail at El
Paso, Tex.
Ruth Brison, the fifteen-year-old
high school girl who was abducted
from Denver by two men and a WON
an, and escaped from the trio at Love
land, returned to Denver with her faith
er, ]. H. Brison.
The verdict of the coroner's Inquest
into the death of Peter ]. Mcdonald,
slain in rooming house in Denver
held that Mcdonald came to his death
from stab wounds inflicted by George
w. Beetchel with felonious intent.
The conference of mayors of Colo
RADIO, arranged by Prof. Logan D. Os-
born of the university extension de-
partment, has been set for Feb. l6 and
II in Boulder. Invitations signed by
sixteen Colorado mayors have been
sent out.
w. s. Litlefield, master mechanic
at the Copeisnd sampler, was killed
instantly at Cripple Creek when he
was caught in belt, and hurled
against the beams supporting the
shafting. He leaves a widow and four
children.
Two standards OF conduct, one for
men and one for women, were advo.
Gated from the pulpit of the Cathedral
of the Immaculate Conception at SOL
emn high mass in Denver by the Rev.
Father Hugh L. McMenamin, pastor of
the parish.
Mounted militiamen, with drawn
swords repeatedly charged crowd Of
/ 500 strikers and strike sympathizers
who attempted to march through the
streets Of Trinidad to the San Rafael
hospital, where Mother Jones is held
by the military authorities.
J. A. Babarick, thirty, of Denver,
a Colorado e Southern brakeman, was
probably fatally injured at Gorham
when he was crushed in attempting to
couple an engine and freight caboose.
His left leg was broken and he suf-
fered internal injuries.
Honors at the National livestock
show at Denver were divided in the
Percheron division between ]. P.
Klung of Greeley and the A. j. Zang
stables Of Denver. Klung received
first and Zang second prizes for
Percheron stations, Zang winning
both first and second prizes for
Percheron mares.
President Wilson nominated the fol-
lowing Colorado postmasters: Charles
F. McMullen. Brush; Hiram w. Smith.
Glenwood Springs; Robert C. Walker,
Grand Junction; Marion r. McCauley,
La Junta; j. B. Traxler, Lamar;
Thomas J. Sanford, Manitou; Homer
F. Medford, Platteville; Oscar N.
Idaho Springs.
The sudden death of Curtis Olin,
two years old, called for an investiga-
tion by the coroner ut Colorado
Springs, and It developed that the
boys death. directly due to blood
clot on the brain, probably was caused
by an accident that happened several
weeks ago, when he fell into tub Of
hot water and was scalded on the hips.
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