Gilpin observer., 1915-09-16
COLORADO
STATE NEW S
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS

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COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 27-Oct. g. International Dry
Farming Congress, Denver.
Oct. 2-s.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct. 1s.-odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Over 800 infants have been entered
in the Denver baby show.
The exhibits at the State Fair at
Pueblo overflow its buildings.
Colorado Springs expects the Santa
Fe to erect a $115,000 station in that
city
pacity, to cost $4,000, is being built
at Craig.
Lack of sufficient classrooms ham
pers the Boulder university as enroll
ing begins.
Frank Taylor and Oscar Schwartz
were arrested near Alamosa ON q
charge of rustling cattle.
The Colorado Agricultural College
opened the new year at Fort Collins
with 457 students registered.
John White, 81, was shot by William
Boston, an old-time resident and for.
mer cowboy, living near Elizabeth.
Eastern Colorado is prosperous
Never before in it's history. has the
Patriotism is to be the keynote OF
the Investment Bankers convention,
which will be held Sept. 20 to % in
Denver.
DR.. Newton A. Bolles of Denver was
fined 5000 in Police Court for prescrib
ing drugs to habitual users of cocaine
and morphine.
The State Bureau of Child and Ami
NAL Protection has started campaign
to raise $4,000 with which to main.
tain the bureau for the next two years.
President Wilson and Postmaster
General Burleson have been invited to
attend the official dedication of Den.
ver's new postoffice building Nov. 10.
Riley Gilbert, aged 40 years, de.
spondent over business reverses, com.
mitted suicide at Salida by blowing
off the top of his head with a shoe
gun.
Miner. the newest of Routt county's
towns, is lively place, and promises
to become an important center in the
coal fields of the northwestern part Of
the state.
Mrs. Hattie Wigton of Pueblo has
filed suit for divorce against w. L.
Wigton. She names Mrs. Bessie Car.
rigan as correspondent, and asks $780,.
900 alimony.
Mrs. J. Fitz Brind No. 2, who with
drew her separate maintenance suit
against her husband, ]. Fitz Brind of
Denver, is said to have dismissed the
case practically for a cash considera-
tion.
Logan B. Crawford, superintendent
Of the Routt county fish hatchery, has
been selected by the government as
supervisor Of predatory animal control
for the district composed of Colorado
and Wyoming.
The first decorations of Denver's
streets in preparation for the Inter
national Farm Congress and Soil
Products Exposition, which will be
held from Sept. 26 to Oct 10, have
appeared.
Oscar Englander, son of Mrs. Nellie
Englander, proprietor of a dairy in
Denver, fired two shots at William La
Sale when the latter went to take
possession of cows which he had pur.
chased from the boys mother.
Missing for thirteen months Harry
Dewhurst, As years old, mining pro-
moter of Central City and Denver, is
believed by his wife, Mrs. Nora Dew
hurst of Denver, to be in prison in
Mexico City or victim of bandits.
William Prewitt and John Schlagel,
two alleged bootleggers. arrested in
Longmont, made their escape from the
city jail after robbing another prisoner
who had been arrested for drunken
ness. of his gold watch and money.
Judge Perry in Denver Criminal
Court sustained the motion Of Stephen
w. Ryan, special counsel in the con-
tempt proceedings against Juvenile
Judge Ben B. Lindsey, asking that the
umouucu answer Vi Inc IdtJer De made
specific
Judge CRANKY Hillyer called the
criminal docket for the September
term of District Court at Trinidad.
but as the appropriation of Las AMI
mas county for prosecuting criminal
cases has been nearly exhausted it
is expected that several of the strike
cases will be continued until the De-
cember term.
Somewhere in Colorado, most prob
ably in Denver. three-months.o
baby boy is kicking his little hels.
safe in the arms of an adopted moth
er, while the child's father, John Ian
non, nephew of Frank Lannon, men,
ber of the State Industrial Commits.
sion, seeks for the infant and is mysti-
fled as to the reason which prompted
his wife to report their baby had died