Gilpin observer., 1915-04-08


Mrs. Richard Hill of Limon died in
Denver of pneumonia.
Ray Cowden has succeeded George
II. Saur as postmaster at Hugo.
Governor Carlson has issued proc
lamation naming April 16 as Arbor
Day.
The fourth annual state convention
OF the Knights of the Maccabees was
held in Denver.
Ihe labor bills were agreed upon by
joint committee of the Senate and
House at conference Monday night.
r. j. Barngrover, clerk of the Coun-
ty Court of Hugo, accidentally shot
l.. r. Elkins of Clifford in the leg
while out hunting.
The auditing committee of the
board of trustees of the Union Print
ers' Home at Colorado Springs held a
three-day session at the Home.
Records Of the Denver public bath
house show that in the first three
months of the year SS,645 persons
took advantage of the free bathing
facilities.
L. L. B. Ranch No. l, National Order
| OF Cowboy Rangers, made Jess Will
lard, the new champion, an honorary
life member at its meeting in Denver
Monday night.
| Mrs. Phoebe L. Lamb has filed suit
for divorce against Francis Stephen
Lamb, manager of a mine at Tolland,
Colo, after being separated from him
fourteen years.
Receiver F. A. Chapman of the Mer-
camille National Bank at Pueblo an.
nounced that certificates of deposit
would be issued about May 1 to de-
positors in lieu of bank books.
In addition to building a $4,000 re-
ceiving hospital and laundry costing
$4,000, extensive improvements in the
way OF landscape gardening will be
made at the Modern Woodmen sana
torium at Colorado Springs.
That nearly $4,000 was spent for
cut flowers and Easter plants last
week was the estimate of prominent
florists, who said that the sales this
year have far outstripped those of any
year in the history of the city.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will inaugurate its summer train
schedules on April IL and the service
will be augmented by the addition of
two new through trains to Pacific
Coast points. y,
With only relatives present State
Senator Charles B. Hamilton and Mrs.
Faye Landreth Hamilton were re-mar-
ried at the Church of the Ascension
in Denver by the pastor, the Rev.
Henry S. Foster.
Two double funerals, one of Mr.. and
Mrs. B. R. Hall, who died within
twenty-four hours Of one another, and
the other of David G. Haney and wife,
whose deaths occurred seven hours
apart, took place in Denver.
Indications during the first part Of
the last week of the regular session
of the Colorado Legislature seemed to
indicate that the important measures
would be acted upon and that an ex-
ira session would not be necessary.
Among the bills passed by the
House on third reading was one ap-
propriationg $4,000 to the state i'm
migration bureau for. a state agricul
tural display at the international
Farmers Congress in Denver, Sep.
tember, 1915.
The Supreme Court handed down a
decision granting rehearing in the
case of William OBrien against Rich
| ard Bowles of Colorado Springs for
the recovery of $15O,OOO in commits.
sions, earned under contract, in the
| sale of Florida lands.
John l.. Frazer, 81 years old, for the
last twenty years a prominent figure
in political circles in Denver and Colo.
RADIO, died in st. Anthonys Hospital
in Denver after long illness. A
general breakdown in his health took
Frazer to the hospital three months
ago.
Charging that Pueblo county Off.
cials exercised undue haste in arrest.
ing w. b. Slaughter of Dallas, Tex,
president OF the Mercantile National
Bank of Pueblo the minority stock.
holders have gone on record as ready
to stand by him. Slaughter is being
held for trial in default of 100000
bond on the charge of embezzling $780,
900 of county funds from the bank.
Methods of distributing John D.
Rockefeller, Jr.'s 100000 donation
from the Rockefeller foundation for
! alienation of unemployment condi.
tions in Colorado were outlined In
Denver at conference between a
committee appointed by Governor
Carlson and w. l.. Mckenzie King
representing the foundation. 1t was
decided best results will be obtained
from the fund If 1t is given in payment
| for actual labor and not as charity.
Mrs. Anna Engeln Hammill, d.
| vorced wife of DR.. j. p. Hammill