Gilpin observer., 1915-05-20
COLORADO
STAT NEW S
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

June 9-11-G. A. X. encampment at La
June 1s-19,-Strawberry Days. Glen
wood Springs.
June eo,d Is-JHiy yo.;: 2MColorado Fair and
al Colorado Springs.
Sept. 27-Oct. S.-Meeting International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
X. S. Rhea of Golden has been ap-
pointed water commissioner for dis
trict No. Z.
The Mid Colorado Oil Company at
Aurora reports traces Of oil and gas
at depth of 1,600 feet.
The Denver Norwegian Association
gave reception and banquet in COM
memoration of the Norwegian national
holiday.
Mrs. John e. Ramer, wife of Sec
retary of State Ramer, underwent an
operation for tumor in st. Joseph's
hospital in Denver.
Convalescing from recent serious
illness, Mrs. Jane M. Ligget of Den
yer celebrated her ninty ninth birth
day at her home.
verdict for $1,000 was aw -ded to
Mrs. Phoebe A. Cunningham, il &c.,
500 personal injury damage suit
against the city of Denver
A $2O.0O0,O0O consolidation of the
biggest producers in the Cripple Creek
district is in the air, according to re-
ports in Colorado Springs mining
circles
Charles w. Scott, tried for the sec
ond time on white slavery charges,
was found guilty in the West Side
Court in Denver after the jury had
deliberated> for a half hour.
After wrestling with the PROPOSE
ton for day and most of night the
city council let contracts to the ex-
tent of S66,067.73 for the rebuilding
of the Montrose city water system.
Rodney Curtis, Denver capitalist
and pioneer who died April 26 in San
Diego, Cal, left fortune of between
$1.000,000 and $1,25O.O00. according to
estimates by Denver persons who are
closely in touch with his affairs.
Three men were injured two miles
south of Littleton when an automobile
carrying four men skidded on a sandy
road and turned turtle w. Il. Everett,
foreman of the New Wrinkle trunk
factory of Colorado City. was mortal
ly injured His spine is injured and
his skull fractured.
The badly decomposed body of John
McCann, a plumber, who disappeared
from Sterling several weeks ago, was
found in the Fat Top district, twenty
miles north of Sterling. There was a
bullet hole through the body and the
supposition at this time is that Nc
Cam was murdered.
Five auto loads of Loveland people
left for Highland Lake to join in the
search for nty-one-months-old
Newell Faulkner, son of Harry F.
Faulkner of Highland Lake The child
disappeared five minutes after COM
ing in from play to ask his mother
for a cookie. and is believed to have
been kidnapped.
William s. La Fair, one OF the most
prominent catlemen on the Western
slope, died at his Whitewater home,
near Grand Junction. Heart disease
was the cause. He was 81 years old
and for the last two years had op-
Grated the only hotel exclusively for
cowboys in the state. 1t was known
as the Cowboys home"
Rev. Father Hugh l.. McMenamin.
pastor of the Immaculate Conception
cathedral of Denver. is one OF six
priests in the United States whose
names will be rendered to Pope Bene-
diet for the appointment of bishop of
Salt Lake City to succeed the Right
Rev. Lawrence Scanlon, who died a
week ago, according to word which
reached Denver.
A stroke of apoplexy caused the
death OF tho Rev. NJ. B. Lowrie, former
head OF the theological faculty of the
University of Omaha, at his home,
1000 Downing street, Denver. Six
weeks ago Mrs. Lowrie died from
stroke of apoplexy DIR. Lowrie went
to Denver after his retirement from
the Omaha University. He was seven.
ty-two years OF age
Tuesday evening at sunset Jews the
world over celebrated the anniver-
sary of the handing down of the ten
commandments of Mount Sinai, this
evening being the beginning of the
Feast of Weeks, or Feast of the Pente-
cost, known in the Hebrew as "Sha-
buoth This holiday is observed by
the reformed Jews for one day and by
the orthodox for two days.
Nine carloads Of cattle belonging to
Loran B. and John Sylvester, south
enr Colorado stock growers, whose
financial entanglements caused their
arrest several days ago, were seized
in the Denver & Rio Grande railroad
yards in Denver by representatives of
the Denver Cattle Loan Company, a
subsidiary of the Denver Stockyards
bank The stock was taken to satisfy
partly a 100000 claim.