Gilpin observer., 1915-02-25
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State


Grand Junction.
w. G. Hubbell has been appointed
postmaster at Fort Lupton.
Ruth II. Slaughter, 10, and Ralph P.
Walker, 21, eloped to Colorado Springs
from Pueblo and were married in the
Episcopal parsonage.
The officers of the Ohio Society of
Colorado are making preparations for
the annual dinner in Denver on the
evening of Thursday, March 4.
LIB Ranch No. l, National Order of
Cowboy Rangers, gave Washington
birthday patriotic entertainment at
Odd Fellows hall in Denver
Seven prisoners confined in the
Washington county Jail, three negroes
and four white men, cut through the
iron bars to freedom at Akron.
"Send a Letter Day" will be OBJ
served on March l by the citizens OF
Colorado who wish to advertise the re-
sources, climate and advantages OF
this state.
Nearly 10000 people witnessed the
patriotic celebration at the Auditori
um in Denver in commemoration of
George Washington and Abraham Lin
coin.
The twilight sleep" was used for the
first time in Denver at the county hos
pital when an eight-pound baby boy
was born to sixteen-year. Mrs. Cora
Sanchez.
Corydon G. Baynard, 70, was found
dead in bed at the residence of James
Gould, north of Boulder where he went
after the funeral of his wife, who died
Dec 30.
Eel Wheeler of Erie is suffering
from fractured rib, sprained
Shoulder and several body bruises, as
the result of a load of hay falling on
him when his wagon overturned
An open state of war is threatened
in the pepper sauce bottoms at Pueblo
over the unsuccessful attempt of a
firm of Japanese gardeners to take
possession of the land they had leased.
Rose Kemp, dressmaker, filed suit
for S10.023 damages against the Den
yer City Tramway Company for inju-
ries in an accident which she claims
resulted from negligence of one of its
employees.
Final plans for the meeting next
August in Denver of the National Re
tail Monument Dealers Association
were made at the fourth annual con
vention of the Colorado monument
men in Denver.
To find a wallet containing $500 in
currency and check for 5000, return
it to its owner and for his honesty re-
ceive a reward of fifteen cents and
cigar, has made Robert Morgan, a
guest at a Denver hotel, a member of
the never again club"
To assist the Denver, Laramie &
Northwestern Railroad Company in the
readjustment of it's affairs and termi-
nate receivership proceedings which
have been pending in the District
Court for three years, the Continental
Trust Company of Denver withdrew
as co-receiver of the company
Miss Ruth Nelson, daughter of
James Nelson, known as the Western
slope cattle king and one of the
most expert horsewomen on the West
ern slope, having ridden wild horses
since she was a child, is to be mar
ried shortly to Boyd Simmons, a
young chauffeur OF Grand Junction.
The payment of strike benefits to
union miners in Colorado has ceased,
according to the district officials of
the United Mine Workers of America.
Now the organization will supply only
the absolute necessities, said President
John McLennan. The union has paid
approximately s4,OoO,0OO in benefits
since April 1910.
August Warenbourg, a member of
the ways and means committee of the
Louisville Coal Miners Union, is at
his home at Louisville in critical con-
dition, as the result of knife wound
inflicted in row in Bodhaine's sa-
loon at Louisville, and Fills Chausart,
also of Louisville, is in the county jail,
charged with assault.
The battle between medical experts
which will do much to determine the
guilt or innocence of DR.. F. w. Noble,
on trial in the West Side Court in
Denver in connection with the death
of Miss Ruth Merriweather, got we'll
under way when DIR. Charles Jaeger,
city coroner, followed Dr. Helen Craig.
city pathologist. on the witness stand
Mining men returning from, Lead
vile insist that the progress made in
that camp in the last few months has
been almost as important, II not so
spectacular, as In the big producers OF
the Cripple Creek district and presage
a year of prosperity, especially If pres
ent prices for zinc hold up. Enorm-
Gus bodies Of ore are constantly being
discovered. and while most of It is of
low grade as regards the precious
metals, 1t is of high value considering
the price the baser metals command
and the quantities taken out