Gilpin observer., 1914-06-25
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
estern Newspaper Union News service
Date. for Coming Even,

July 1-4.-semi- Home-Com
ing Celebration at Fort Collins.
July 9-Cherry Pie Day. Manzanola
July 13-1s.-Grand Lodge Session, B. p.
q. Elks at Denver.
July 22-23.-Cattlemen's Day. Gunni-
July so,-Democratic State Convention
Aug. ?s-S7Lk' OF p Grand m eaIr Lodee aar and
UNIFORM Rank Encampment. Pueblo.
aug 20 -2s;-Bent Co. Fair. Las Animas.
aug: zf.-Santa Fe Trail Day. Las Ami
aug 2s.-Farmers' Fair at Fowler.
seRt; ocL,. tLlEEArk a n as Valley Fair
Sept. 2-s-Annual Harvest Festival at
Sept. s--watermelon Day. Rocky Ford.
Fair, Burlington.
Sept. 1-4.-Morgan Co. Fair. Fort Nor
Sept. 1-5.-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept, s,,5.-sedswick County Fair at
Sept. 5..,Kiowa County Fair at Eads.
Sept. s-11-cheyenne County Fair at
Cheyenne Wells.
Sept. sseepptt. 1oI,Sugar Day; Sugar City;
Sept 1s-2s-Race Meet, Denver.
Sept. 2123.-Inter-Co. Fair and Race
Sept. 23-24.-Apple Pie Day at Rifle.
Sept: a2-26.-wesiern slope Fair. Mont
Sept .2225.-Montezuma Co. Fair at
Sept. 2s-2s-El Paso Co. Fair. calhan
Sept. 29-Oct. Central Colorado Fair
Oct: 1-3.-Grnnd County Fair at
Oct s-s.~Coio. New Mex. Fair at Du-
1s16.sLast Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Sept. 1924 will be Apple Pie Days
at Rifle.
Personal investigation of the tax as
sesments made in the various counties
of the state are being made by mem
bers of the Colorado tax commission.
Being called an old hen robbed Mrs.
Rebecca Towne of Denver Of her spirit
of self-sacrifice, when she was about
to surrender her husband to another
woman.
]. F. Freeze, who had been barred
from his wifes home by court order,
eluded the policeman guarding her
and shot her to death in her bedroom
at 321 st. Paul street, in Harmon.
More than $50 persons attended the
golden wedding celebration of the
Rev. and Mrs. William Hicks, which
was held. at the home of their daugh-
ter Mrs. Harry Nutting, in Littleton.
Assurance was given the Denver
city commissioners at the regular coun-
Gil meeting that work on the new ter
minal yards and the remodeling Of the
Union station would be begun by Sept
l and rushed speedily.
Business is improving in Denver
and Colorado. This fact is put in bold
relief by reports of Denver weekly
bank clearings. Bradstreet's latest
compilations credit Denver with fl
nancial turnover of s9,710,O0O. Com
pared with the corresponding record
in 1913, this amount shows a gain of
S.4 per cent.
The Fountain Valley Agricultural
Association has decided to hold month
ly meetings. in the future and the after
nocn has been designated as the more
popular time. The meetings will be in
the form of picnic and the members.
living in the vicinity of Pinion, north
of Pueblo, are looking forward to the
gatherings with considerable interest.
Boulder county's rare metal mines
are favored with the best season since
1904, when the district was credited
with S3SS,4S2 in gold, and sufficient
silver and copper to raise the years
total to $444,S15. Exclusive of the out
put of tungsten. In the latter metal
hn
steel trade is active the yearly sales
OF the district-in tungsten concen-
trate-reach $750,000.
To his second wife, Mrs. Virginia
Cooper, Francis Marion Cooper, an old
soldier of Denver, bequeathed his en-
tire property, save 81, love and affec-
tion and kindest memories. To his d.
vorced wife, Mary Belle Cooper, whom
he had not seen for twenty.eigbt
years, he willed 81 and "kindest mem
cries" His three children received his
love and affection, and his widow got
the entire estate of $1,000.
Denver police authorities reported
the finding Of the body of boy be
tween nine and eleven years old in the
Platte river about mile north of the
Denver fish hatchery. Efforts at iden.
tification were begun to determine
whether the body was that of Earl
Tillman, son OF a stock yards employe,
or Howard Young, son of Marshal
Young of Littleton. Both boys recent.
ly disappeared and 1t is believed they
were drowned.
Twice forced to face a firing squad
of Mexican federals and as many
times delivered from what seemed to
be certain death, held in a Mexican
jail for seven days without food and
on numerous occasions dragged
through the streets by soldiers to be-
come the target for the American-hat.
Ing rabble are few Of the expert.
ences recounted by James Punshon,
Denver electrical engineer, who ar.
rtvad from Varn Crtt1