Gilpin observer., 1915-01-21
WEEKS EVENTS
COLORADO
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

A "Jayhawker dance" will feature
the annual Kansas Club dinner which
will be held in Denver, Jan. 20.
A movement is on foot at Monte
Vista for the formation of CONNER
cial club that will include all the
towns of the valley.
Colorado must live within it's in
come during the next two years, ac-
cording to the announcement made
by Governor Carlson.
James Tanner, prominent farmer,
died at his home several miles east of
Model. from pneumonia, Tanner was
SO years old and is survived by
widow.
DIR. f. W. Noble, who is accused
with DR.. ]. r. Mason OF causing the
death of Miss Ruth Merriweather, was
released from Jail in Denver under
$4,000 bond.
A reception, dinner dance and en-
tertainment will be given by the
members OF the Missouri Club of
| Colorado on the evening of January
80 In Denver.
State Auditor Mulnix continued his
work of housecleaning in his depart
ment by announcing the appointment
| Of ]. A. Nelson as state examiner, to
succeed r. Z. Durrett.
Judge Wright of the District Court
in Denver issued peremptory writ
| of mandamus, commanding the Den
yer city commissioners to levy 15-mill
| for mountain parks and roads.
The total uninsured loss by fires in
Denver during 1914 was only $14,500,
the insured loss s2S1,797.65, and the
grand total loss $296,097.62, according
to the annual report of the fire depart
ment.
State Treasurer Stocker is now at
work both upon the distribution of
state funds to banks of the state and
upon amendments to the farmers
loan law which may remove obiec-
tions that have been made to it.
With ten-pound hammers, seven
drug users and four vagrants spending
the winter in the county jail. began
the task of making little stones out
of big ones on the "rock pile" of the
county Jail in Denver
Oscar Cook, tried twice, convicted
and sentenced to hang for killing Po-
liceman William Mcpherson, March
| 1912, in saloon holdup in Denver.
| filed application for writ of error
in the Supreme Court for second
time.
N. s. Walpole. former postmaster of
! Pueblo, who was mentioned in list
| of candidates for warden of the state
/ penitentiary, yesterday denied that he
had been consulted with reference to
the office, or that he would be can
| didate
| That the European war will be fol
| lowed by renaissance in the United
States was the opinion expressed at
Boulder by DR.. Ernest Fox Nichols,
president of Dartmouth College. Han
over, N H., who is making tour OF
the West.
James Eads How OF St. Louis.
! known as the millionaire hobo" held
| a conference for the unemployed OF
| Denver at the Club building Talks
were made by II. Mason and Corsa d.
| Harvey on the conditions of the unsm-
ployed in Colorado.
J. w. Thorne, the Loveland degen-
crate who pleaded guilty to the crime
of incest, was taken before Judge Ora
bam and sentenced to term of not
less than seven nor more than four
teen years in the state penitentiary at
hard labor
C. w. varnum left Denver for San
Francisco to make arrangements for
the Denver delegation of several hVn-
dred Odd Fellows who will attend the
Panama exposition and the sessions
of the Sovereign Grand lodge which
meets there this year.
Mrs Della Nichols was awarded
5000 damages in her suit against the
City of Denver for injuries suffered
Dec %, 1913, from fall on the snow
covered pavement on South Broad
way between Maple and Cedar ave
nues after the big snowstorm.
Plans for perfecting a permanent
state organization to deal with prob
lens of the unemployed, 1000 OF
whom It was estimated are objects OF
charity in Denver at present, we're
launched at Club building meeting OF
400 delegates of organized and unor-
ganized labor, members of churches
and representatives Of civic bodies, in
Denver
Mrs. Pearl Hargus, thirty. will go
through life disfigured as the result OF
several deep knife wounds inflicted on
her face and arms In a Denver cafe
at 11ts Eighteenth street by Mrs
Helen Thayer OF 1909 Eighteenth ave
nue.. according to her charges to the
police. Physicians at the county hos.
pitaI took eighteen stitches in Mrs.
Hargus' face.
A marriage by proxy. performed