Gilpin observer., 1914-08-20
COLORADO NEWS
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All Parts of the State
EASTERN Newspaper Union News Service.
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Aus. SL-Pickle Day at Plattevilie.
| Aug. 27-2S-Fall Festival at Flagler.
Aug. 27-santa Fe Trail Day. Las AMI
Aug 2e-FarmersI Fair at Fowler
Rocky, Ford. 80,
Sep, sEwatermelon Day; Roeky ssyy Ford. Ford
Sept. I-4.-Morgan Co. Fair Fort Nor
Sept l-5'-Larimer County Fair. Love-
Sept; i1-12-sedgwick County Fair at
Sept. 7.Kiowa County Fair at Eads.
ssEf, City! 'i-or0"'ey Co Fair sDs'r
The fall term of the Denver public
school will. open Aug. 81.
The Trades and Labor Assembly of
Pueblo contemplates the erection OF a
labor temple
Denver and Colorado persons now
marooned abroad are reported for the
most part to be safe and we'll
Two boys and three men were in
]ured in accidents in Denver Sunday
and late Saturday night. One man
may die.
The annual meeting of the Colorado
Electric Light, Power and Railway AS
sociation will be held at Glenwood
Springs, Sept. 8, and 5.
J. L. Houghton, a restaurant pro-
prietor at Trinidad, was arrested by
the federal army authorities charged
with purchasing government property
from soldiers.
christopher Peck. sixty-eight years
old, veteran of the Civil war, and a
familiar character in Denver, was
found dead in a lodging house at 1542H
Market street.
The open season for doves was
heralded with enthusiasm in Pueblo
and fifty-two nimrods swarmed into
the office of the county clerk to Sc
cure hunting licenses.
The crusade against violators of the
Sunday closing law, conducted by
Chief of Police Felix O'Neill of Den
yer, resulted In the arrest of twenty
druggists, two saloon keepers and one
gambling house.
The celebration of ST. Rocco's day,
which was participated in by more
than 1000 communicates of Mount
Carmel Catholic church and residents
of the Denver Italian colony, was pre-
sided over by the Rev. Julius Piccoli,
priest of Mount Carmel parish.
Don ]. Spencer and son, Everett,
well-to-do Socialists, are suffering
self enforced incarceration in the
Steamboat Springs Jail in preference
| to accepting right to bail for alleged
theft Of wagon. Beliefs of their
party are given by Spencer and his son
as responsible for their attitude.
w. A. Nicodemus. treasurer of the
relief committee. having the work OF
raising funds for the relief of the
flood sufferers at Telluride. announced
that a trifle more than $4,000 has to
date been pledged. OF this amount,
s4.065 has been collected and the
other $685. can be had at any time.
A postoffice Is to be established at
Crowley within the next few days, ac-
fording to a message received from
! Congressman Edward Keating. The
town was Incorporated a year ago and
has had a considerable growth. 1t il
located in thickly settled district be-
tween Ciu"ds anu Oihcy opi iiHsS
Not satisfied with the explanation
of the shooting affray at 1912 Stout
street in Denver in which B. c. Nc
Ham is alleged to have shot Mrs.
Lottie Rinear and then killed himself,
Mrs. Bertha McHam. widow of the
dead man, requested the district at
torney to thoroughly investigate the
shooting.
! That Armageddon. the world battle
prophesied by the Bible as immediate
ly preceding the second coming OF
Christ. is at hand. was the statement
of Elder George B. Thompson. inter
national secretary OF the North Amer
lean Adventists. in his sermon
preached before the Colorado confer
ence at Rocky Mountain lake. near
Denver
Exoneration for any participation
they may have had in the burning OF
the Ludlow tent colony April 20. when
striking miners and National guards
men We're in conflict. awaits each one
of the twenty.three officers and en-
listed men. according to the findings
of the general court martial held to
fix responsibility for the killing OF
three miners, two women and eleven
| children.
The triennial convention of the
Women's Catholic Order of Foresters
will open in Chicago Aug. 25. Dele
gates from the seven courts of the OIL.
der in Denver will attend Mrs. ]. J
Meany, chief ranger of the Immacu
late Conception court, No. 3o1. OF the
Cathedral parish, is a delegate from
her court. the largest in the Colorado
Jurisdiction. The delegates will bear
an invitation to the convention tn
hold the next triennial convention In
Denver