Gilpin observer., 1915-05-06

Dry Farming Congress at Denver
paign started Monday.
May 9 is Mothers day and go-to-
church Sunday in Denver.
A midnight blaze at Grand Junction
destroyed three d. & R. G. cabooses.
Walter E. Lowey, Boulder cab
driver, was run over and badly in
jured.
Fire completely destroyed the home
of M. B. Thorp in Grand Junction and
all it's contents.
has resumed operations with day
and night force
Extensive improvements and re-
pairs are being made on the Sterling
sugar factory.
A contract for a twenty-four-foot
road from Manitou to the top of Pixies
Peak has been let.
A protest has been filed by the
Women's Club of Victor against the
five-cent dance halls.
The fifth annual Trinidad-Las AMI
mas county fair will be held in Trini-
dad Sept. 81, %. % and "a.
Hotchkiss capitalists have organized
a company for the purpose of Install
ing and operating creamery.
Flames inflicted loss of more than
$4,000 to the Twenty-third Avenue
Presbyterian church in Denver
The State Utilities Commission is
considering mileage book rights and
lower rates on the mountain railroads
Francis NJ. Redington, pioneer
resident of Denver for the last thirty
Placer gold, which is said to run SIS
to the yard is being washed from the
earth on the Miers Fisher ranch in
North Denver.
The Colorado Yule Marble Co. in
the north end of Gunnison county is
quarry in the world.
Clayton Pattison, recently acquitted
of the murder Of R. E. Showalter, was
arrested in Denver on complaint Of
his daughter, Mrs. Quinn, on
charge of disturbance.
Miss Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, TWEEN
ty-four, the youngest woman labor
leader in the United States, was in
Denver to deliver lecture on War
Can Labor Be Neutral?"
William Flick has put $50 teams
and $50 men at work on the construc-
ton of the Pixies peak automobile
road. 1t is believed that the work
can be completed for an opening on
July Is.
Members of Cooks drum corps
have launched a personal campaign
to raise the bulk of the $4,000 needed
to take the organization to San Fran
cisco to advertise Denver and Colo.
RADIO at the fair.
Congressman and Mrs C. B. Tim
berlake, accompanied by DR.. C. P.
Fall, brother of Mrs. Timberlake,
left Sterling for Beatrice, Neb., where
Mr.. Timberlake will undergo an oper-
alton.
A party of 140 grocers from Ohio
spent two days in Denver en- route to
the California expositions. The visi-
tors engaged automobiles and drove
to many of the scenic points in the
city and vicinity.
Mrs. Linnie Turley, wife of Vail
Turley, former dead man, was re-
leased from the county Jail in Denver
after she had entered a plea of nolO
contendere to the charges of taking
part in the conspiracy to defraud in
surance companies through the al
legged death of her husband
Disappointment in love affair
caused Charles Berry and Robert H.
Allen of Seattle, each twenty-five
years old. to steal the diamond rings
of Berry's sweetheart in Seattle sew
eral days ago. The jewels were val
ued at $1,000 The young men were
arrested in Denver as they stepped
from Union Pacific passenger train
at the union depot
Three hundred delegates from
Colorado. Kansas, Nebraska, South
Dakota. New Mexico. Utah, Texas,
| Wyoming and Oklahoma are expected
to attend the summer conference OF
the Y. NJ. C. A. at Estes Park, June
| 11-20, according to Parker Jordan,
secretary of the association at the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Albert Laufert, sixteen, who ran
away from his home in Germany to
escape service in the army, shipping
| aboard the Vaterland and landing In
New York shortly after the outbreak
of the war. accidentally shot himself
near Major lake. nineteen miles north
east of Denver. when he stumbled
over the skull OF horse. He is at
the county hospital and doctors fear
he. will die.
Deals in Gunnison ranches for last
week run around $15O,OOO. This is
quite large figure, but it does not