Gilpin observer., 1915-12-02

Jan. S-Annuai convention Colorado
Farmers Congress at Fort Collins.
Jan. S-10-SiNteenth annual show OF
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa
tion at Denver.
Jan. 17-19.-Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers' and Butchers Association
Jan, 16-22.-western Live Stock Show
at Denver.
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
There are six applicants at Littleton
for postmaster
Hery Smith, a farm hand at Ault,
was found dead in bed.
The price of explosives used in min
ing in Colorado has increased.
st. Paul's German Congregational
church at Greeley is nearly compplet-
ed.
Billy" Beardsley, an Ault hoy, had
his finger crushed in tumble from
a chair.
The rise in silver has resulted in
the reopening of the Yellow Pine sill
yer mine at Boulder.
Tag day in Denver for the Satur-
day and Sunday Association brought
over Pf,UUU LOT lIe HOSplldl.
Thomas Price, 75, for forty years
resident of Fremont county, dropped
dead at his home in Canon City.
Fred j. Betz of Denver has asked
the courts to allow him $1,302.10 for
the loss of a toe and the consequent
injuries to his foot
A memorial service in honor of the
late Bishop David Hastings Moore
will be held in the gymnasium of the
University of Denver.
Thomas Mullican, shot in the stola.
ach by Henry M. Rocket at Lake
George. Park county, died at the Sis.
ters' hospital in Victor.
Henry Leffler, aged 100 years and
10 days, Civil war veteran, died at
the home of his son at Hereford, after
only few days illness.
State Treasurer Stocker distributed
$59,21S to counties in which there are
| federal forest reserves, as the states
share of the years earnings.
| E. Maicouronne dropped dead from
heart disease on the links Of the Fort
Collins Country Club just as COM
panion had found lost ball.
Mrs. Josephine Greening of Trinidad
was found guilty of white slavery and
sentenced by Judge Lewis of the Fed
eral Court to sixty days in Jail.
There will be no special coinage of
S. and $40 gold pieces for the Christ
mas season, in the opinion of Super
intendent Annear of the Denver
mint.
The Denver city missions have is
ssued statement thanking all of the
citizens whose contributions enabled
them to feed 600 of the city's poor on
Thanksgiving day.
George Bess, charged with disosr-
derly conduct. was arrested by Mar
shal Virgel Stevens at Littleton. Bess
twice bolted, but each time was re-
captured after vigorous fight
Grand functions chapter OF the
Sons CT American Revolution was pre-
sented with a charter by C. P. Top
ping, state president of the order. A
banquet followed the presentation.
Mrs. Nellie Herbertson Quinn Of
Denver, wife Of George Quinn, SEN
fenced to be hanged in January, is
circulating petitions asking that her
husbands sentence be commuted to
life imprisonment.
| When Clarence L. Ayres, young
Colorado miner, discovered his 1S.year-
old bride. Edna, had been arrested try
ing to give away her baby on the
streets OF Denver, he returned quietly
and took back the girl and the child.
Without sufficient means to provide
for room or food, John Bickelow, once
a prosperous rancher, is in Denver
after an absence of two years, search.
ing for his wife who, after nursing him
to health, marrying him and obtaining
his money, he alleged, deserted him in
| his old age.
| Dividend No. 22 of the Gold King
Mining Company at the rate of / cent
a share, amounting to $4,000. was
paid at Cripple Creek. The company
was Incorporated in 1892, and the El
Paso lode originally located by Bob
| Womack the father of Cripple
Creek" and sold by him in 1881 for
$1,000, is still the principal producing
claim OF the company
President H. U. Nudge of the Den.
YER G. Rio Grande railroad issued or.
ders to hurry up the completion of sur
veys on $50 miles of the lines In Colo.
RADIO and New Mexico to be broad
gagged and announced the proposed
construction Of new seventy-two-mile
line connecting South Fork. In Rio
Grande county, with Jaunita, a station
on the branch road to Durango. Esti.
mates were ordered made on both the
proposed extension and the trackage
to be broad gauged.
Mrs. Olive Butler, one of the most
active workers for suffrage In Colo
rndo and one of the first woman D., t,o