Gilpin observer., 1914-02-19
STATE NEWS
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c O L O r A DO
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

ican Revolution at Colorado Springs.
July 1314.-Grand Lodge Session, b,
Sept. aEcoforado .of a' oesHss State Fair at Pu
eblo
1sl5--Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
The second annual summer session
Of the Colorado Agricultural College
will be held this year, June 18th to
July 25th.
Alexander McColl, forty-seven one
of the best known insurance men in
the state, died at Colorado Springs
from tuberculosis.
Governor Ammons was so nearly re-
covered from his recent attack of la
grippe that he returned to his office
in the capitol Monday.
Three boys, each sixteen years old,
escaped from the State Boys Indus
trial School at Golden after locking
the night captain in the dormitory.
Samuel H. Blonger, one of the best
known sporting men in the west, and
resident of Denver, for thirty-five
years, died at his home in Denver.
| Mrs. Elva M. Turner, forty-three
years old. for many years a teacher
in the Webster school in Denver, died
suddenly at the home of her father, A.
5. Hayden in Boulder, of heart trou-
| BILE.
Sheep losses may be partially solved
| in the arrest at Fort Collins of 'Ysaiks
Pacheco with the carcass of dressed
sheep. The police say he admitted
! killing it at the feeding pens near the
(! sugar factory.
Considerable merchandise, stolen
| from Missouri Pacific freight cars,
was recovered at Pueblo following
the arrest of three men who are said
to have committed numerous burg
laries recently.
A general price of 1915 ton for
the best grades of Ignite coal from
the Erie district, including the Fred
erick, Firestone and other mines, now
prevail among Denver dealers-big
and little alike.
A campaign through the city and
state to raise 100000 for a Colorado
building and exhibit at, the Panama
Pacific exposition in San Francisco
next year will be launched by the Den
yer Chamber of Commerce.
John j. Kennedy, state treasurer of
New York, who committed suicide in
Buffalo. was an uncle of Eugene Ken
nedy, clerk in the office of the COM
missioner of supplies, and he has
visited Denver frequently.
Adjutant General Chase was asked
by Governor Ammons to release on
parole Tony Lamont, striking coal
miner, in order that he might go to
the bedside of his wife, who is re-
ported as dying in Lafayette.
Continental Oil declared quarter
ly dividend of SO per share, payable
March IT. The disbursement will
amount to 100000, the capital stock
amounting to 100000. The stock is
quoted at from 1925 to $3.50 per share.
S. p. Grommon, indicted for padding
payrolls at time keeper of the high
way department under the administra-
tion of former Mayor Arnold of Den
yer. was found mot guilty" in di-
rected verdict to jury by Judge But
Ter of Denver
| Members of the House subcommit-
tee investigating the Colorado coal
miners strike. together with large
number of attorneys and witnesses.
were in Trinidad Monday ready to re-
open the hearings which adjourned in
Denver Saturday
A burglar entered the home of c. w.
| Schechter in Denver during the abb
sence of the family, and made away
with 5000 worth of jewelry, including
garnet necklace, containing forty
stones. which had been in Mrs.
Schechters family for 200 years.
The quest for Mrs. Bessie Knorr,
| who disappeared from her home in
| Denver, in company with two unidenti-
fled women. shifted to Pueblo. when
| the police learned that she and
| another woman, the latter answering
| the description of one of the pair re-
sponsible for her disappearance.
bought tickets to the Smelter City. ,
An anti-flirting crusade, personally
conducted by Commissioner of Safety
| Nisbet of Denver, was responsible for
the arrest of thirty-five giggling boys
and youths, ranging in ages from
twelve to twenty-one. who were
nabbed for making "goo-goo" eyes
and otherwise bestowing attention on
girls at the public concert in the audi
torium Sunday.
Prepared for campaign in spread
ing the movement of greater agricul.
tural production through approved
methods and diversification. the dairy,
silo and forage crop demonstration
special train, operated Jointly by the
Santa Fe railroad and the Colorado
State Agricultural College, arrived in
Denver and left Monday for special
trip over the state to show country
needs.
Since 1910 flax has been more or
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