Gilpin observer., 1915-08-12
STATE NEWS
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c O L O r A D 10
PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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Aug 81. Sept. a.-Grand Lodge. K of p.
Aug S-Sept s.-Melon Festival at
Sept. 1O-11.-Fall Festival at Flagler.
Sept. 27-Oct. s.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Oct; 2-e.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct. 1S.-odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs
Denver Labor Day exercises will be
held at Lakeside park.
A new National Guard company has
been enrolled at Rocky Ford.
Colorado will dedicate Rocky Noun
tain National park on Saturday,
Aug 2S.
Col. George S. Newman of Denver will
battle over his estate. .e
Huntley Mcdonald, 2S, nephew of
John S. Campion, may lose an eye as
the result of mine mishap at Lead
vile.
The Italian government now wishes
to become customer of Colorado to
obtain all sorts of goods for use in its
army.
The Denver Union depot handled
| fifty-four carloads Of excursionists
Sunday, in addition to the regular
trade.
Terry Owens, former fire chief of
Denver, has declined an offer to be-
come chief of the fire department of
Ell Paso Tex
The first snowfall of the season was
seen on Mount Evans Monday morn
ing and all Denver was conscious of
waning summer.
Colorado coal operators have organ.
lied mutual insurance company in
order to comply with the workmen's
compensation act.
Eighty-two rescues from drowning
in two months constitutes the record
of guards at Denver's two municipal
bathing beaches this summer.
Miss Katherine A. Gardiner, teacher
in the University Park school for the
last twenty one years, died in st.
Lukes hospital in Denver.
Mrs. Ruth McManus, sister of
Charles D. Wood of Denver. with her
four children are among the Ameri-
cans marooned in Mexico City.
Weld county's harvest of early cab
bage is now in full blast and the yield
is turing out excellent, both in amount
and quality of heads gathered.
The Denver police have been asked
to search for Hamilton Wilson, son
of ]. B. Wilson, of Lyons, who has
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Aug. l.
The Colorado State Federation of
Labor through referendum vote of the
affiliated unions, has decided to hold
the annual convention in Denver in
stead of Salida
The famous lost ore shoot Of the
Forrest mine at Wall Street has been
found again by Hayes Scruggs, ac-
cording to word which came from the
hills to Boulder.
w. c. Batten, 81 years old, a mer-
chant tailor of Sterling. received in
juries that may prove fatal when he
fell from a moving Seventeenth ave-
nue. car in Denver.
Mrs. Elsie Vandegrift Benedict.
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been selected as one of the speakers
on the official programs of the New
York suffrage campaign.
The findings of Secretary of State
Ramer, who refused to refer to the
people, for a referendum vote, what is
known as the medical bill, will be re-
newed by the District Court.
God Guide Our President is the
latest composition Of a Denver wom-
an, Mrs Jessie Mcnamara Lydon. to
be sung for the first time at the Har-
vest Day Festival, Aug. II. at City
Park.
The first three accidents reported
under the workmen's compensation
act. which went into effect Aug. |.
were injuries received by employees of
companies that elected to carry their
own insurance.
A 100000 contract has been signed
up by the Doctor Leasing Company of
Aspen for the marketing of the i'm
mense body of zinc ore that was
opened in the Doctor property at Al
mont early last spring.
A conference relative to the con-
struction of an automobile highway
between Pueblo and Westcliffe, in the
Wet Mountain valley, was held be-
tween the commissioners of Pueblo
and Custer counties at Silver Cliff
Marion F. Head. 5s years old, of
Denver. who was shot four times when
he went to the home of his former
wife, now Mrs. George w. Griffith, on
ranch near Ebert, Colo, is consid
erably improved. Physicians who at
tended him in his room, where he
went on his return to Denver, re-
moved three of the four bullets.
| One of the eight ..rescue cars" Sent