Gilpin observer., 1915-04-01
COLORADO
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
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SOMiNG ENENES.
June s,11-G. A. r. encampment at La
Sept. 27-Oct. S.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver.
The second Zancanelli trial at Trini-
dad started Wednesday.
A large class is being graduated at
the Fort Collins Agricultural College.
A contract to build the new Weld
county court house has been let for
$137.355.
Up to Saturday night eleven Jurors
mad been agreed upon in the Hecla
mine cases.
Grand Junction farmers are cooper
ating with the weather bureau to
warn against frost.
Beginning April 12, the night train
service out of Colorado Springs to
Cripple Creek will be resumed.
On the eighty-first anniversary of
her birth Mrs. Angeline Mullen died
at her residence in Denver, of old age
Since Monday the House is holding
three sessions daily in order to finish
business b. April 10.
More than 3S4 acres of choice irri-
gated land near Denver were sold to
John l.. Brock, Decatur, Ala, capital
ist, for $3S,OOO.
John j. McGinnity, for years one of
the most prominent lumbermen of the
state, died at his home in Denver from
valvular heart disease.
Despondent because the state went
dry" at the last fall election; Joseph
Meyer, 43, brewery worker, shot him.
self to death in rooming house in
Denver.
Glen Call was injured at the head
gate of the Rocky Ford ditch by rea-
son of fall from the pile driver. He
sustained broken arm and was badly
bruised up.
The Denver police are searching for
fashionably dressed young woman
who dropped the body of a day-old
baby girl into Cherry creek from the
Bannock street bridge.
Tableaux, dances, drills and song
formed the program Of the grand his
torical pageant given in the Denver
Auditorium by 1900 school children of
the Denver public schools.
Mark Raftry, prominent Elk and
one Of the most popular men in Colo.
rado Springs, had a narrow escape
from death when a meat hook fell on
him, striking his head above the ear
DR.. Harry Packard and his wife, who
are in Urumiah, Persia, where an up
rising has endangered American mis-
sions and refugees, are we'll known in
Pueblo, where they formerly resided.
The Colorado & Southern railroad
has placed with the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Company an order for five new
dacapad locomotives, the first of that
type ever purchased for a railroad op-
Grating in this territory.
Considerable interest is being mani
tested by the coal men of the state in
the announcement that the Colorado
School of Mines, following the prece-
dent established last year, will again
on April 5 open its doors to working
coal miners.
After deliberating for forty-two
hours, jury in the Federal Court re-
turned verdict of guilty in the case
of r. F. Lufbery, member of the Dem
yer Athletic Club, and George w. Du
Bofs, charged with conspiracy to make
counterfeit coins.
With farewell letter to his wife
pinned over his heart. Edward Lapine,
twenty-eight, of Carter, Mont, stood
before mirror in a rooming house in
Denver and fired bullet into his
brain. He was dead when the police
reached the room.
Harvey M. Pugh, student at Colo
RADIO University, whose marital trou-
bles have kept him in hot water since
Christmas, 1912, on which day he
eloped to Golden with Martha Eliza
beth Wilkinson, seventeen, must quit
school and go to work or go to jail.
Governor Carlson pardoned the five
men convicted of padding payrolls of
the Pueblo offices of the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company, who were
sentenced last fall to six months in
the county Jail. The men released are
J. A. Frazier, w. ]. Valley, C. r.
Galpin, G. c. Morgan and Charles
Garrett.
Dewey C. Bailey, United States mar.
shal of Colorado, will not give up his
office April /, as originally intended.
He received telegram from United
States Attorney General Gregory, stat
ing that Samuel J. Burris, state SEN
ator, who is to succeed Bailey, will not
be ready to take office until the Leg.
islature adjourns.
Matrimony, in the rank and file of
women school teachers In general, and
particularly among the women school
teachers Of Denver, scored a point
when the members of the Denver
school board removed the embargo
from the rule adopted by the board
last year against permitting married
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