Gilpin observer., 1915-10-14
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Oct. 1S.-Odd Fellows Annual State
Convention at Colorado Springs


Colorado Springs bank clearings
continue to increase.
A 4-year-old girl baby was deserted
at the Shirley hotel in Denver.
The trade excursion party to tour
eastern Colorado left Denver Tuesday.
A. l.. Anderson of Denver was acci-
dentally shot through the foot while
out hunting.
Governor Carlson was the principal
speaker at meeting held by Y. M. C.
A. workers at Greeley.
Mrs. Mary B. Kerstein, 81 years old,
died at the home Of her daughter,
Mrs. Frank H. Schultz, in Denver.
Denver Odd Fellows will celebrate
the election of Frank C. Goudy to the
office of deputy grand sire of the or
ganization for the United States.
Sara Bard Field of Portland, and
Frances Joliffe of San Francisco. two
suffragists, were welcomed by Cover
nor Carlson on their arrival in Den
yer.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., concluded
his strenuous stay in Colorado Satur
day night when he departed for New
York, accompanied by his secretary,
Charles o. Heydt.
John R. Lawson, international
board member of the United Mine
Workers, arrived in Denver from Trim
idad, following his release from Jail
on a $4,000 bond.
The closing feature of the celebra-
of Denver of the landing of the first
Germans in the United States in 1888,
was held at East Turner hall.
Insuring the spending of half mil
lion dollars in Denver is task under
taken by 400 earnest Denver workers
in the campaign to raise the final
100000 for Denver University.
Mrs. Frank Sherwin, the one woman
to whose efforts more than any other
is probably due the selection of the
columbine as the state flower for
Colorado, died ut her home in Palmer
Lake.
Postmaster B. F. Stapleton OF Den.
yer has received unofficial advices
that Denver is to be made a distribut.
ing point for postal supplies after the
removal of the office to the new
building.
Paul O'Brien of Denver was de-
clared the champion baby boy at the
Soil Products exposition, and Mary
Jane Thatcher and Bonita Elizabeth
Bloom carried off the honors for girl
babies.
The International Soil Products ex-
position closed in Denver Sunday,
ending the finest and most extensive
allied industries ever held in the
United States.
Mrs. Charles Krebs, widow of Den
YER & Rio Grande fireman, who was
killed Feb % last when his engine
jumped the track near Fountain, was
given judgment in the Federal Court
at Denver for $4,000.
Joseph Parks, Denver hotel proprie-
tor, has been held responsible by a
coroner's jury for the death of Roy
Bacon, whom he shot during an argu-
ment between the crippled cabaret en-
tertainer and Parks wife.
Golden wedding anniversaries were
celebrated by two Denver couples
who were married in the days OF the
Civil War and who have spent the
greater part Of welded life in Colo
rado. They are Mr.. and Mrs. Theo.
dore Mott and Mr.. and Mrs. Henry G.
Korfhage.
With the $4,000 reward offered by
the heirs OF the dead man as an in.
centive for their work, private detec.
tive agencies and individuals in prac.
tically every portion of the United
States have taken up the hunt for the
slayers of Isaac Solomon, who was
beaten to death in his pawnshop in
Denver on the afternoon of July 81.
Miss Mildred Downing, sister Of Roy
Bacon. the cabaret entertainer, who
died at the Denver county hospital
from a bullet wound inflicted by Jo-
seph Parks, raced to the county hos.
pital in an automobile to be at her
brothers side before he died. She
reached the hospital three minutes
after physicians pronounced her broth.
or dead.
Close relationship between employ.
er and employe, as outlined in the
welfare plan to the miners by John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., upon his recent visit
to Colorado, furnishes striking par.
allel to the wealthy man who, in Bi
BILE times, Is described as working and
eating with his laborers, the Rev, A
A. Tanner pointed out Sunday in his
sermon at the First Congregational
church in Denver on "The Course OF
Mr.. Rockefeller"
Representatives of twelve counties
appeared before the State Board OF
Equalization at the annual meeting OF
that body to protest against increases