Gilpin observer., 1915-01-14


ISOLATION Meeting. in Denver
Jan. 1S-23.---Horse Show and Midwinter
Fair at Denver.
Frank Ratchford, a Pueblo hotel
clerk, will receive $4,000 in cash as
the inheritance from an estate Of =
relative.
Wesley ID. Robinson. ninety-one
years old, died at the home OF his son.
]. f. Robinson. He had been resi-
dent of Denver for twenty-five years.
A surprise party was held in the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Aldred
at Pueblo. The sixty-fifth birthday
anniversary of Aldred was the incen-
tive.
A meeting of the Kansas Society Of
Colorado was held in Denver to make
arrangements for the annual dinner
dance to be given in Denver January
90.
G. G. Northup, secretary to Cover
nor Ammons, has been appointed to
the office of division clerk by District
Judge Wright. Northup succeeds
Philips Buell.
Five or six shots were fired and sew
eral explosions of dynamite took
place at Lafayette. Deputy Sheriff
Frank Burch reported to Sheriff BUS
ter at Boulder.
Petitions to be sent to Congress in
behalf of Harry X. Thaw and seeking
change In the habeas corpus act
have been received in Denver and are
being circulated.
+. NJ. Harsin of Rocky Ford a mem
ber of the board of county commits
sioners states that the board paid the
last of the bonded Indebtedness and
that now Otero county is free from
debt.
The usual business meeting of the
Denver district of the Mothers con-
gress was displaced by tea" with
ernor-elect, and "the first mother" Of
the state, as guest OF honor.
Spotted fever, the second case on
record in Denver in twenty-five years.
is the malady from which d. ]. w.
Purcell, former Denver coroner, is
odAASAA mo, aSNOiuih6 " NAo5hpoiS
made by DIR. j. B. Murphy.
Governor Ammons received a tele
gram from Senators Thomas and Shat
roth urging that Colorado persons who
desire to protest against the admins
tration measures regarding coal oil
and gas lands notify them.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
is defendant in 100000 damage suit
filed in the United States court at
Jasper, Mo-, by Joseph Cole, 16, who
lost both legs above the knees when
he was run over in Pueblo, July IS.
Two trials for homicide are to be
heard in the District Court at Pueblo
during the January term. Mike Sajno
vich will be tried for shooting HE
nephew, Peter Lalich. Albert Goetz is
awaiting trial for the death of his wife
who was shot.
Mrs. Gilbert McDonough, formerly
Miss Marion Brunton, who figured in
the double elopement and wedding in
Golden was quietly taken out of Den,
yer by her mother, Mrs. d. w. Brun.
ton, according to announcement from
the Brunton residence.
George Hughes. Dale Mitchell, T. D.
Bowman and Claude Timbrel, cattle.
men, indicted by the grand jury in
1918 and charged with the murder oi
Peter Swanson, sheepman, in 1907,
were released from custody on order
OF Judge Thomas J. Black In the Dis
trict Court at Grand Junction.
Checks for the quarterly dividend
OF l per cent on the $6,000,000 capital
stock of the Denver & Northwestern
Railroad Company were put in the
mails in Denver addressed to stock
holders. The payment is at the rate
of per cent per year. The total dis
bursement amounted to 100000.
At Boulder. subpoenas were ordered
served on more than 100 persons BY
District Attorney Hendricks of Trint
dad, who is In charge of the prosecu
ton of the eight miners charged with
taking the lives OF four mine guards
near La Veta, Nov. s, 1918. All the
100 will be used as witnesses for the
prosecution.
Harry Wagner. night engineer OF the
South Side water works, a short dis
lance west Of Pueblo, narrowly es
capped death at the hands of man he
found looting one Of the rooms In the
plant at 2 O'Clock In the morning. He
was slashed several times with
knife and later beaten insensible by
the intruder.
Hunting licenses are more popular
at the county clerk 8 office in Sterling
than marriage licenses. Since the
first of the year Cupid has not put In
appearance. but Nimrods have been
numerous, which has led County Clerk
Una b. Wesner to conclude that the
nimble and frolicsome jackrabbits are
more popular than blushing brides.
Seventy-four murder cases growing
ant NJ thA cnaI ~ rtLs. In tha rr,.sctJal