Gilpin observer., 1915-02-04
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST TO ALL
c OIL o r A . O
PEOPLE
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was held in Denver.
Farmers week in Lamar, opening
Feb. 16, promises to be attended by
many agriculturists.
An increase of $l2.224.10O in the
value of Colorado's live stock industry
in the last year is reported by the De-
partment of Agriculture.
The Colorado branch of the Commit
tee of Mercy, new organization
formed to do work among the needy,
was organized in Denver.
August Benot, fifty years old,
rancher from Watkins, was found un-
conscious from gas in a bathroom in
fooming house in Denver.
Governor Carlson, who was confined
to his bed suffering from la grippe,
which was brought on by overwork.
was reported to be much better.
Indicating the expected business re-
vival due this year in Denver, permits
for erection of store buildings for
January totaled $4,000 in value.
An examination is to be held by the
State Civil Service Commission OF
those employees of the Legislature for
whose positions the commission now
has no eligible list.
Arguments in behalf of w. L. Ryan
of Fort Collins, who is under sentence
of death for killing Attorney Newton
Crosse last Aug. IA, were filed with the
State Supreme Court.
The reelection OF Thomas B. Stearns
as president of the Denver Chamber
OF Commerce was the unanimous
choice of the organizations newly
elected directors at their first official
meeting
The educational council of the
State Teachers Association is propos-
ing a new law through which it is
hoped will be given to the children of
the rural district an efficient system
of schools.
Eli M. Gross, superintendent of the
free employment bureaus of the state,
has been dismissed by Secretary of
State Ramer, who has appointed Will
Denver, to the position.
1t is stated that 4S5 miners, who
have been out OF work for five years,
were found ,by the House committee
appointed by Speaker Stewart to in
vestigate the condition of the former
strikers in the northern coal district
OF these 229 are in Lafayette, 1876 in
Louisville, 20 in Superior and 40 in
Marshall.
! Until the hearing of her divorce suit
in March, Mrs. Alta NJ McCausland
was granted $25 month alimony in
Judge Glass court in Littleton Mrs.
| McCausland is seeking divorce from
| Jacob w. McCausland and asks $40,-
900 alimony in addition to $50, 1000 dam
ages against her husbands mother.
Mrs. Elizabeth McCausland.
Legislative committees representing
three farmers organizations, the
Farmers Grange, the Farmers Union
and the Farmers Congress, indorsed
the county unit bill providing for the
unification of all third-class school dis
| tricts. The committees held a joint
session to consider measures before
the Legislature in the interests OF
The President nominated the follow
ing postmasters for Colorado: Sarah
]. O'Connell, Georgetown; Robert E.
Norvell, Hayden, and Muriel l.. Hunt,
Maybell. Moffat county. Other Colo
rado postoffice appointments: Lewis
w. Garlic, Ford; Will II. Thomas.
Manassa; Joseph c. Zimmerman. Pey-
ton; George A. Grsso, Ramah.
The marriage of Melton c. Bowers
to Ida Horten Stine in Denver resulted
in white slavery charges being filed
against him by the district attorneys
office at the request OF Miss Beatrice
Robinson. Miss Robinson claims that
she gladly contributed SIS a week to
Bowers as long as she. had his love-
but that by his marriage he has for
feited any right to her loyalty.
Lucille Lewis, nineteen years old,
daughter of Mrs. A. S. Lewis, is lost.
She disappeared from the Oakes home
in Denver, on New Year night between
darkness and daylight, and since that
time no word or trace OF her has been
found by parents, friends, hospital of.
| ficials or police. In some mysterious
manner she has been spirited away
and her name joins those of Dorothy
| Arnold and the Nelm sisters on the
evergrowing list of the missing
With her neck broken and her body
paralyzed from her head downward,
Mrs. Rose Harvey of Abbott lived for
five weeks before her death, which oc-
Cured in Denver at st. Anthony's hos
pital. Physicians who attended her
marvelled at her vitality The acci.
dent occurred when Mrs. Harvey, in
her attempt to open large, sliding
barn door at her home, pulled 1t off
its runners. 1t fell, striking her on
the head and shattering the fifth
| vertebra.
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