Gilpin observer., 1914-10-29

Colorado will vote on prohibition
Tuesday, November 8.
Odds of 800 to 100 that the state will
go wet prevail in Denver poolrooms.
The Denver mint is coming $3.50, IS,
$40 and $50 gold pieces for the Christ
mas trade.
c. G. Northrup Of Denver succeeds
Claude w. Fairchild as secretary to
Governor Ammons.
w. j. Bryan addressed large crowds
1t Denver, Greeley, Longmont and
other Colorado points.
Five deaths and probably fatal ac-
cident within three hours was a rec
ord established at Boulder.
The British government has decided
20 prevent the importation of sugar
from Germany into ports of the king
dom.
Mrs. Bryan and William Jennings
Bryan, Jr., accompanied Secretary
,f State Bryan on his trip through
Colorado.
new geographic society was
formed in Denver to act with state
and national government in remaining
rivers and peaks.
Mrs. Thomas II. Marshall, wife OF
.he vice president, was the guest Of
honor at a reception rendered by the
women OF Denver.
The Book Cliff Petroleum Company,
composed of Denver and Oklahoma
men; was organized to bore for oil in
the DeBeque field.
Additional territory is to be added
20 the Trinidad city mail service, ac-
cording to an announcement by Post
master j. U. Vigil.
The engagement of Miss Katherine
Symes to Joshua Crane, Boston mil
licnaire, was announced by Mrs. G. G..
Symes to few of her circle of friends.
Henry w. Grass. rs, of Denver, died
from complication of diseases. He
was Grand Army veteran and had
been resident of Denver for thirty
five years.
A movement has been started by
the society women of Boulder to pre-
part Christmas box to be sent to
Europe for the children left destitute
by the war.
George w. Giles, G7, superintendent
of the Gorham mine at Marshall and
resident of the Boulder district for
forty years, died suddenly at his home,
Baseline road.
Wallace E. Rittenhouse, a mechanic
has sued the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company for $4,000 for the loss of his
left arm while he was employed In the
Tabasco mine.
A prediction forecast on the initi-
ated law providing a half-mill levy
throughout the state to carry on road
improvement indicates that it will
| carry by large majority.
Governor Ammons appointed Otis A.
Rooney of Morrison a member OF the
board Of control of the State Industrial
School for Boys at Golden, to fill the
vacancy made by the death of Samuel
A. Cunningham.
Northern Colorado gave William
Jennings Bryan welcome no less en-.
thusiastic than that he received In the
southern part of the state. He spoke
at Boulder, Longmont. Loveland, Fort
Collins and Greeley.
Colorado, with percentage of 112,
Is one OF the five states whose crops
are above the average for ten years,
according to a bulletin issued by the
agricultural committee of the Colorado
State Bankers Association.
William Hines, 7S years old. janitor
Of the Yale apartments in Denver. was
found dead shortly after predicting
that he wo;:ld live forever. Death
was caused by heart disease, accord
ing to Deputy Coroner Bostwick.
With the filing of his estate in the
County Court it became known in Den
yer for the first time that Philip A.
Potter, 90, pioneer real estate man,
former owner of the site OF the Daniels
e. Fisher tower. is dead The aged
man was killed by an auto in Provi-
dence on october G.
Exhibits which show the productive
ness OF the non-irrigated lands about
Limon In eastern Colorado are soon to
be installed In the ground floor store
room Of the Denver Chamber OF Com
merce. c. NJ. Immel, who twelve years
ago first purchased semi-arid farm
in Colorado, will be In charge OF the
exhibits
Orlando Edgar Miller. whose record
Is prominent in the police annals OF
Denver. Chicago, Paris and London,
was convicted in the Old Bailey, Police
Court In London, England, of the
ieath Of Miss Kate Addison Scott.
who died at his sanatorium at Isle
worth. London. last June according to
telegraph dispatches received in Den.
| yer.
Twenty-Five students of California
aigh schools who are making an 5000
nile tour of the country to study agri-