Gilpin observer., 1914-01-01
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c O L O r A o
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union Nows Service.
DATES For COMING EVENTS.

Jan. lo-16-Meetlng COLO. GOOD ROaub
Assn at Colorado Springs.
Jan. 15.-Annual Meeting Colo. Farm
ers' Congress at Agricultural Col
Jan. 16.-Meeting Mountain Division
Colorado to- -the-Gulf Highway Asso-
at GHleraaG o1oEasd spT5nss ssssociation
of Commercial Executives at Colo
rado Springs. -
Pioneer Printers. Society at Denver.
Jan; -24.-National Western Stock
July is-14..Grand Lodge Session, B.
=. o. Elks at Denver.
Sept. 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
1s15.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
Santa Claus did not fail to visit the
children in any part of Colorado on
Christmas.
The house of Tom Schooler, a dairy
man living a few miles north Of Colo
rado Springs, was destroyed by fire.
Net earnings of the Denver Gas and
Electric Company for the year ending
Oct. 81, 1913, were $1,377,280, and
gross earnings $3,15S,s73.
The Grand Junction Ministerial Alli-
ance inaugurated campaign to in
duce every resident of Grand juno
tion to attend church on Sunday, Jan.
4.
James w. Murphy, sixty-two years
old, son of the second white man to
settle on the present site of Milwau-
kee, died at the home Of his eldest son,
w. A. Murphy, in Denver.
Mrs. c. l.. Castleton, Jr.. aged thir-
ty-one, wife of the cashier of the Love
land sugar factory and a social leader
In that city, died following the birth
of chilo The infant also died.
Exertion in walking home from a
Christmas call caused the death of
Mrs. Jennie Ball, aged sixty, house
keeper for President c. G. Bucking-
ham of the State National bank at
Boulder.
Almost frozen to death, H. L. Kline
ranch near Franklin, where he had
nearly succumbed to the cold. The
man was walking from Colorado
Springs to Pueblo.
That Fort Lupton is one of the most
prosperous towns in Weld county is in
dicated by the fact that not one piece
of property within the corporate
limits of the town was listed for sale
for delinquent taxes.
]. M. Banbridge has been elected
president of the La Sale farmers
union, John Craven vice president. R.
M. Moore secretary-treasurer. Mrs. D.
8. Johnson conductor and Mrs. ]. M.
cambridge chaplain,
Residents of Fort Lupton have been
puzzled over mysterious disease pre-
valent among bull dogs of that city.
Fearing the animals might bite chill
dren, citizens killed eight. A peculiar
feature is that the disease affects
only bull dogs.
Action upon the resolution intro
duced in the national House of Repre-
sentatives by Representative Heating
for a congressional investigation of
the Colorado coal strike is expected to
be taken after Congress reconvenes
from its holiday recess.
Three negro women and a Mexican
woman who were arrested in Denver
for picking up coal in the Union Pa
cific yards for the purpose Of re-
lieving their destitute families were
released on their personal recogniz-
ance by Chief O'Neill at the request of
Humane Officer Elliot Ransom.
A Mexican giving the name of Por-
| firio Diaz, claiming to be the son OF
the Mexican ex-president, was arrested
in Denver by the police as a suspicious
ch ho or wi NJ
Blair, living at the Roxbury hotel,
told the police that she is his tenth
living wife and that her husband is a
desperate character.
The children of the striking miners
in the southern and northern Colorado
coal fields were we'll taken care of on
Christmas day by the United Mine
Workers of America. The organiza-
ton spent $1,2s5 for shoes for the
children. Friends and members OF
the union in all parts OF the country
contributed nearly $4,000.
The committee OF the Colorado Fed
Grafton of Labor, named to investi-
gate outrages alleged to have been
committed by tho militia In the strike
zone. questioned Robert Uhlich, the
union organizer and strike leader now
being held in the county jail at Trini-
dad on a murder charge growing out
Of the recent battles between strikers
and armed guards in the Ludlow dis
trict.
Officials of the United Mine Work.
ers OF America, the Western Fedora
ton OF Miners and the Colorado State
Federation Of Labor met in Denver
Monday to decide what steps should
be taken to force Congress to investi-
gate the attack upon Charles II.
Meyer, president of the Western Fed.
| Grafton. and Charles H Tanner. his