Gilpin observer., 1914-03-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES For COMING EVENTS.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
May 12-14-State Council of Junior Or
der of American Mechanics. at Colo
RADIO Springs.
July 13-14-Grand Lodge Session. B.
p. Or Ellls at Denver
April 9.-General Irrigation Conference
Sept: 14-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
eblo
American Indians at Denver.
Seventy-five members of the Penn
sylvania Club of Colorado held their
annual banquet in Denver.
Three Mexicans fought battle be-
cause of jealousy over a woman at
Delagua and one of the men is dead
William Tehoe, prospector, sixty
six years old, was found dead in His
cabin at the head of Gold Run, near
Breckenridge by Bert Action.
The refusal of the Colorado Yule
Marble Company to meet demands OF
union labor men of Denver may cause
a strike on the marble, shaft of the
Lincoln monument at Washington.
Commissioner of Property Otto
Thum of Denver, who for two weeks
has been confined to his residence
with a severe attack of grip, suffered
a relapse, and an attack of typhoid is
feared.
Belvidere Brooks, formerly in
charge of the Denver office, is to sue
ceed Theodore H. Vail as president OF
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, according to information re
ce;ved in Denver
His hand forced by the revelations
of fellow-deputy, Ralph C. Bradfield
of Colorado Springs resigned as under
sheriff of Ell Paso county, and his
effective April 1.
The first semi-monthly payday un
der the charter amendment adopted
Feb. II, occurred in Denver Monday
Completion of the payroll by the au
ditor's office occasioned considerable
joy about City hall
George w. Vallery. receiver for the
Colorado Midland railroad, on his re-
turn to Denver from the South, de
clared that no city he had visited was
as lively or gave evidence of more
prosperity than Denver
Formal protest against the bill pend
ing in Congress providing for a
change in the form of the American
flag has been made by members of
Abraham Lincoln Post, Grand Army
Of the Republic of Denver.
Commissioner Hayes began his sum
mer swat the fly" crusade in Denver
with strict orders to enforce the law
against indiscriminate hauling of gar
bage through the strets by persons un-
authorized to dispose of it.
The rush for radium claims in Colo
rado since the bills for government
control of radium ores have been in
troduced in Congress, necessitates
prompt legislation in order to prevent
a radium monopoly, according to a re-
port of the United States Senate COM
mittee on mines.
Miss Cecil Goldsworthy, who fell
sixty feet down an elevator shaft in
the Tabor building in Denver on Jan.
%, returned to her. home from st.
Joseph's hospital, completely re-
covered. She will prosecute a suit
for $25,000, instituted recently against
the owners of the Tabor block as
result of her injuries.
BILLY" Sunday, widely known base
ball player-evangelist, who was to
have conducted revival services in
Denver~during January and February
of 1915, has changed his plans and
will take active charge of prohibit
ton campaign to be waged this fall
in connection with the election by the
evangelical churches of Denver.
Denver sons of Erin and the sons OF
other lands had the biggest St Pat
rick's celebration ever staged in Dem
yer. A monster parade under the aus
pices of the Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans. solemn high mass at the
Cathedral of the Immaculate Concep-
ton. and grand ball at the Audito-
rum were features of st. Patrick's
Day. t
William ]. Bierkamp, Jrs, troubles
began to multiply as soon as he ar
rived in Denver in custody of deputy
sheriff. He had arranged for bond to
secure his release upon his arrival,
but found that his bondsmen had
failed him. Moreover. his wife re-
newed her demands before District
Judge Perry that he be compelled to
pay $400 court costs and attorneys
fees and back alimony.
Mystery surrounds the identity of a
man, fifty years old, found dead In
bed In rooming house at 1929 Blake
street In Denver, which, II unravclled,
may reveal the death of a former
wealthy mining man. He was regis
tered at the hotel as Robert Scott,
name linked with the early develop
ment of the Cripple Creek district. On
the dead man were found letters ad-
dressed to B. G. Wardner, miner,
who made a big stake in the famous