Gilpin observer., 1915-01-28
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State


William Gentry was declared the
chapmion baby at the Denver show.
Robert Burns birthday was appro-
priately celebrated by Denver Scots.
The postoffice at Stone City, Pu-
eblo county, will be discontinued Feb
ruary 10.
The industrial commission bill was
introduced by Senator William r.
Eaton Of Denver.
The National Beekeepers' Associa-
tion will hold it's annual convention
in Denver, Feb. 16. II and Is,
The Senate confirmed these Colo
rado postmasters: Grand Valley,
James Brennan Aspen, Mary Farrell;
Carbondale, d. W. Shores.
Aaron B. Page, S4 years old. died
result of being struck by an automo-
bile driven by Mrs. Il. A. Harding He
was former mining man.
An estate valued at approximately
100000 was left by Mrs. Anna w.
jacobson, pioneer Denver woman and
philantropist, who died Jan. Is.
Denver's twelfth annual horse
show, the greatest in the history of
the west, came to close Saturday
| night in blazing whirl of fun and
frolic.
A mass meeting of the citizens OF
Stone City, in the northwestern cor
ner of Pueblo county, was held for the
,en ,;r,c CT thn nj
ing of the postoffice there.
The fl st sign of insurgency in the
General Assembly was evidenced when
Il bill was introduced practically re-
pealiug civil service as affecting the
employees of the Legislature.
Frank l.. Bellan, rs, pioneer Leadville
mining man and Denver bond dealer,
who had been a resident of Colorado
since 1880, died at the Mayo brothers
hospital at Rochester, MINI.
Mrs. Grace Schmidtler, So, wife Of
August Schmidtler foreman of
saddle company, living at Pueblo,
committed suicide by taking chloro-
form. She leaves two daughters, aged
two and twelve.
In the division of the 1915 state
school fund of S167,736, Denver re-
ceived $39,151 as her pro rata of the
full amount; Pueblo received $12,792;
El Paso s9,157; Las Animas sS,061;
Weld S9,334, and Boulder $6,3S5.
The first legal ENHANCEMENT of
Governor Carlson's administration is
promised in an Injunction suit to be
instituted by holdover employees under
the previous Democratic administra-
tion who claim civil service rights.
Clint C. Houston, member of Typo
graphical Union No. 40 and well
known labor leader, was elected pres
ident of the Trades and Labor AS
sembly for 1915 at the organization
annual election in Denver, Sunday.
The lowest temperature recorded in
the Breckenridge section of the state
this winter occurred at O'Clock Sat
urday morning, when the Brecken-
ridge official thermometer sank to 80
degrees below zero. That is prob
ably the lowest mark for the entire
state since the first OF the year.
Colorado Retail Merchants Associa-
ton now in the State Legislature the
association expressed it's intention of
the opening session of the fifteenth
annual convention in Denver of intro
ducing bills in the Legislature for the
protection and benefit of the grocers
of the state.
G.. ID. Jones' postmaster at Rodley,
Baca county, has resigned and the ap-
pointment of George N. Ballou is an
nounced. The following Colorado post
office appointments also were made:
Carr, Weld county, Ernest e. Martin;
Cherrelyn, Arapahoe county, Ann
Dunn; Loretto, Arapahoe county,
Catherine Nooning; Num-, Weld coun-
ty. Sylvester Il. Hobart; Pikeview, Fl
Paso county. Andrew ]. Kelly.
On Feb 10 the Monte Vista Hog
Growers Association is going to hold
its second annual pig roast and ban
qUet. Pig roast day at Monte Vista
thus Creep. into the calendar with |
melon day at Rocky Ford, potato day
at Greeley. strawberry day at Glen.
wood Springs and half score of 9TH
er days each telling of some specially
In agriculture or stock raising which |
has made some sections OF Colorado
Mrs. w r. King, chaplain OF the
Colorado chapter of the ID. A. II. and
mother-in-law of Gen. Irving Hale. |
dropped dead at her home in Denver |
Mrs. King was the daughter. sister |
and wife of soldiers and her five |
daughters married army officers. |
she was the widow of the late Col |
w. n. King of the engineering corps
of the United States army and daugh. |
ter of the late Gen. Israel Carl Wood. |
ruff of the same department OF the |
army. who was distinguished vet |
eran of the Civil Wff'.
Contest for the undisputed control |