Gilpin observer., 1915-02-18
WEEKS EVENTS
coLoRADo
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

of the heart.
Frank ]. Croke. brother of Senator
Thomas B. Croke, died at Sacramento,
CAL, of heart disease
The salaries of seven employees of
the House and eight of the Senate are
held up by the civil service commits
sion
William T. Hickey. secretary of the
State Federation of Labor, and Eli
Gross, vice president, were released
on bond at Pueblo.
More than 100000 books from the
Denver public libraries were read in
the city last year, according to the an
nual library report.
-Four separate contests all bearing on
the recent Huerfano county elections,
Will be heard in the County Court at
Walsenburg, Feb. %.
The Rev. Ira Callihan, pastor of the
Vona Baptist church. died in ST.
Luke's hospital in Denver after an i'll
ness of more than month.
1t cost Commissioner Nisbets de-
partment 71a cents apiece for each
meal furnished prisoner in the Den
yer city jail during January.
For the first time in three years
Denver public schools celebrated
Abraham Lincoln's birthday anniver-
sary by closing for the day.
Special services for men to celebrate
Washington's birthday will be held in
the Cathedral of the Immaculate Con-
ception in Denver, Monday, Feb %.
VIM. Dick. wealthy mining man,
was shot and killed on the La Veta
road, near Walsenburg, as he was TAX
ing $4,000 to the mines to pay the
men.
Lieut.. Ernest John Munby of the
Royal engineers, British army, who
the dispatches from London stated
was killed in action, was known to
many Denver people.
Every citizen of Colorado will be
asked to aid in a publicity campaign
to be carried on by letter for the pur-
pose of advertising Colorado's scenic,
climatic and business advantages.
A bill to put practically every state
ploye under civil service was intro
duced in the House of Representatives
by Republican Floor Leader Sabin.
Nathan Dodge, aged 80, died at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. r. D. Shap-
colt, in Denver. He had been con-
fined to his bed for three weeks.
Death was due to old age and paraly-
sis.
Three MeXicans, who gave their
names as Pete Lopez. %; Pedro Salto,
3S; and Isaac Ortego, 81, are being
held by the Pueblo police, charged
with the theft of a horse, saddle and
bride from Tom Flynn.
Colorado horses are finding favor in
the eyes of the experts sent by for
eign governments to purchase horses
for war purposes, according to C. NJ.
Rand, Kansas City and Garden City
hOrsemen, who was in Denver.
At the first anniversary of the Den
yer Housewives League, held at the
WOman's Club, plan was launched to
boost Colorado made products by es-
tablishing large evaporating plant
for drying native fruits and berries
A colony of exclusive summer homes
which will compare with the most
famous in the United States is planned
for Lookout mountain by company
of Denver men who have closed deal
for the purchase of the property from
Rees Wider and l.. F. Kimball of the
Lookout Mountain Park Development
Company.
With a smile on her lips because she
had been permitted to see her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Ida F. Mercer, convicted of
killing her son-in-law, Carl Gregerson,
last May, left the county jail in Dem
yer to begin serving her life SEN
tence in the peniteptiary at Canon
City. Three others prisoners were sent
from the jail to begin penitentiary sen
tences.
The death rate in Denver, computed
from the City Bureau of Vital Statis-
tics. shows a remarkable decrease dur
ing the last six years. dropping from
1911 per 1000 inhabitants in 1909 to
1926 in 1914. II the number of deaths
from tuberculosis contracted outside
the state were subtracted from the to-
tai deaths, the rate would be lowered
to 11.25.
The laying of the cornerstone for
the Lincoln memorial. which took
place in Washington. is of especial
interest to the people of Colorado, as
the marble Of which the memorial is
to be constructed is from the quarries
of this state. Already 100 cars of mar
BILE have been shipped from Colorado
for the memorial In Washington, and
about 800 more cars will be shipped
The impact of the fist of Col. j. w.
Owenby upon the jaw of ]. p. Morgan.
Jr., is said to be the real reason why