Gilpin observer., 1915-03-18

Dry Farming Congress at Denver.
District Attorney ]. c. Gentry died
very suddenly at his home in Glen
wood Springs.
Ihe citizens of Denver during 1914
paid $7,1S2,6O6.2O, or 5000 per capita
Tor tramway, gas, electric and tele-
phone service.
The persons named by Judge Lind
sey of Denver in his charges that
conspiracy to defame his character
exists made denial of his accusations.
Claudine Stokes was arrested at
Colorado Springs by the police on the
charge of forging a postoffice money
order, and held for the federal author
| tiles.
Joseph l.. Gray. deputy fish and
game commissioner has been advised
OF a large mountain lion having been
trapped and killed in the Laramie
| river.
parade and patriotic exercises
We're held in Denver on ST. Patrick's
day, the days events closing with the
thirty-ninth annual dance given by
Hattie Miller, Al, an ex-convict, at
tempted suicide in the matron's quar-.
ters in the city Jail in Denver by cut.
ting the artery in her left wrist She
used blade of safety razor
By unanimous vote of the House OF
Representatives, sixty members voting
and five absent, Representative WV
Rowland was expelled from the House
March Is, and his seat declared
vacant
That the case of Robert ]. Mason,
charged with conspiracy in the mur-
der of Ruth Merriweather, be set for
March 20, was the request made by
Mason's counsel, in the West Side
Court in Denver.
Grace Wells Rose, 6, died of scarlet
| fever at the University hospital in
Boulder while her mother, Mrs. Lillian
Rose, and her aunt, Mrs. Eunice Ba
ker, were lying dangerously ill with
the same disease at their home in
Saiina
One year and one day in the fed
eral prison in Leavenworth, Kan, was
the sentence pronounced in Denver on
r. f. Lounsberry by Federal Judge
Robert e. Lewis. Lounsberry pleaded
guilty to charge of using the United
States mails to defraud.
Stephen Mather, assistant to Secre-
tary Lane of the interior department,
and Mark Daniels, superintendent of
national parks, will be the guests of
the Chamber of Commerce and the
principal speakers at special lunch
con in Denver, March 90
Idaho Springs will get all the gov
ernment land lying west of the noun
tain parks and covering the water
sheds of Soda creek, Chicago creek
and Devils canon if President Wilson
signs the bill now in his hands Great
ing the Idaho Springs reserve.
Benjamin Woods, Andrew Zurick
and Peter Banner, all of Louisville,
arrested on the charge of shooting
pheasants pleaded guilty on five in
formations and each was fined s25
and costs on one information and SEN
fenced to ten days in jail on the re-
maiing four.
The Order of the Rising Sun, which
ranks next to the mikado's own deco
ration, the Chrysanthemum, has been
conferred upon DR.. A. L. Bennett, who
for five years has been the Japanese
consul in Denver. The honor was con-
ferred for meritorious service rem
dered the empire
One day after her release from the
Denver county jail, where she was
sentenced by Federal Judge Robert E.
Lewis for raising United States postal
money orders, Claudine Stokes, 20.
alias Dora Carney, was arrested for
the same offense, according to Post
office Inspector F. T. Frawley.
After search covering almost sew
en- years, George w. Sheppard, 49,
laborer, was arrested in Denver on
the charge of numbering his cousin,
John Sheppard. in Seminole county,
he admitted to the police that he
killed his cousin and was willing to
go back and stand trial.
Railroads serving Colorado have
announced tourist rates for the COM
ing season, effective June /. and good
until Oct. ]. The same favorable rates
as have been in effect during the tour
list season for many years will be in
effect this year. despite the general
tendency to raise passenger rates
throughout the country.
John II. Ballenger, the man who
| originated the city directory business
In Colorado and who published the
first directory of Denver more than
forty years ago, when only 5000 per-
sons could be found along the Platte
river to fill the pares of the book, died
at his residence In Denver after pro
longed illness. Ballenger was II
years old and came to Denver in 1872.