Gilpin observer., 1914-02-05

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President Wilson nominated o. w.
Ward to be postmaster at Colorado
Springs.
DR.. Livingston Farrand, new presi-
dent of the University of Colorado, ar
rived at Boulder and took up active
work as head of the university.
Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa will
be the principal speaker at the Lin
coin day banquet which will be held
at Ell Jebel temple in Denver, Feb. 12.
Grand Junction is the center OF re-
newed activity in the rush to the ra-
dunn fields. Several claims were
filed. one man, Roy Loverige, filing
for ten persons.
A detail of militia left Florence for
Pueblo to escort the thirty-five strike
breakers of the Radiant mine, whose
train was fired upon and driven back
from Williamsburg.
Through the activity of the Pueblo
Commerce Club a number of Pueblo
shippers will receive refunds from diff
ferent railroad companies with which
the members do business.
The eleventh annual conference of
the Colorado chapters, Daughters of
the American Revolution. will be
held at Colorado Springs Tuesday and
Wednesday, March 10 and II.
The Rev. George Gallup, curate of
st. Johns Episcopal cathedral, and
personal assistant to Dean H. Martyr
Hart, who left Denver under myster-
ious circumstances, has disappeared
Mabro Gallegos, aged thirty-nine
years, reputed bad man and boot
logger, was shot and instantly killed
at his home near Del Norte by Luis
Madril, his son-in-law of less than
month.
The sheriff and police at Pueblo Are
now working on the theory that
Floyd Reed, Vineland ranchman
killed from ambush on his way to Pu-
eblo, was shot by mistake for Joseph
F. Reilly, agent for Denver brewery.
Sustaining the findings of the state
Railway Commission, from which the
case was appealed by the railroads,
District Judge Perry of Denver or
dered reduction in rates on coal
from the northern Colorado fields to
Denver
1.-The appeal of humanity was ir-
resistible,'' said Senator Thomas in
discussing the enormous plessure
brought to bear on Secretary Lane
and Congress for the withdrawal of
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the United States. Senator Thomas
arrived at Grand Junction from Salt
Lake City.
The testimony of Esther Osborne of
La Junta, arrested at Pueblo with v.
F. Incl on q charge of disposing of
fake jewelry, will cost Incl thirteen
years of liberty, as he was arrested
Kansas penitentiary expired. Incl
hanged himself in his cell, but jailer
cut him down.
At good fellowship banquet under
the auspices of the Canon City Cham
ber of Commerce and the Canon Auto
Club and attended by 200 business and
professional men of Canon City and
indorse Denver as the logical location
for one OF the proposed regional
banks.
In important decisions announced
by the Colorado Supreme Court the
tribunal denied rehearing on its
judgment upholding the state author
tiles in the tax assessment controver-
sy, granted Oscar Cook, who has been
under sentence Of death, new trial
and established rule of evidence for
state courts regarding railroad cases
which is of high importance to ship
per.
Alonzo Thompson, Jr, Denver so
ciety man and son of the late Alopzo
Thompson, wealthy spiritualist, has
received the first instalment of his
share of his fathers 100000 estate.
The instalment amounted to $4,000
and was paid Thompson on the order
of the Probate Court at Fullerton,
Neb., where the spiritualist's affairs
are being adjusted. Mrs. Thomson.