Gilpin observer., 1915-07-29


West Features at Grand Junction.
Aug. 13.-Pickle Day at Platteville.
aug. 1s-20.-old Settlers meeting at
Cope
at Colorado Springs
Aug. 26-2S.-Fall Festival at Flagle-
Sept: 27.oct. s.-MeetinG international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
oct. 2-9.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Many enjoyed fine strawberries at
the Steamboat Springs festival last
week.
Zell Wheeler of Erie was convicted
of perjury in the District Court at
Boulder.
Women are barred from Denver
downtown cafes by order of Chief OF
Police Duffield.
Three house robberies and one store
robbery in Brush, were reported to the
Denver police.
Thomas Kennedy, aged 30 for sever
al months a resident of Lyons, com
mitted suicide in st. Joseph's hospital,
Denver.
Heavy damage and loss of nearly
$4,000 resulted to two local firms as
the result of raid on Sterling by
yeggmen.
The victorious Elks, Denver Lodge
No. II, returned to Denver with
prizes dangling from their belts like
band of Indian raiders.
Mrs. R. Leavy of Walsenburg was
injured when the automobile which
her husband was driving rolled into
a ditch two miles from Fountain.
Coney c. Slaughter, missing cashier
of the Mercantile National bank of
Pueblo, is believed to be in Canada,
according to agents of the Federal
Department of Justice.
Miss Lucille Woodland of Sterling
has been appointed assistant county
agriculturist for Logan county. Her
work is to organize clubs of women
to study home economics.
Robbers entered the ]. P. Redick
residence at Telluride and got away
with nearly $1,000 worth of jewelry
belonging to Mrs. Redick and her
daughter, Mrs. Frank, B. Thomas.
A fine baby boy of regulation weight
and healthiness was born to DR.. and
Mrs. w. A. E. DeBeque, at DeBeque.
DR.. DeBeque, who is "A years old, is
receiving congratulations from scores
Of friends.
Serving as electrician on the Unit
ed States submarine Alert, which is
endeavoring to raise the ill-fated F-4
is a Denver boy, Harry Corson, who
left the city year ago last April to
join the navy. ..,t.,-~ ..s
Governor Carlson went to Cheyenne
Friday to attend the Frontier Days
celebration. Governor Kendrick sent
special invitation to the Colorado ex-
ecutive to be his guest during the an
nual roundup.
Four young men, supposed to be
those who escaped from Buena Vista
reformatory robbed the ranch OF R.
E. Seckles. at Divide, and held up the
Pixies Peak road gang working on the
highway near Divide
The attempt of Mrs. Mary Green
Nordstrom, 22 years old. formerly of
Denver, to end her life in Kansas City,
after she had tried to kill her hus.
band, and two others. was learned
by telegram to her mother in Dem
yer.
Michael p. Fox. Jr., eldest son of
Mrs. Elizabeth Fox. who died in Dem
yer July s, has filed suit in the Dis.
trict Court at Boulder to obtain what
he claims is his rightful share in his
mothers $4,000 estate. The defend
ant is David Evans. Denver, whom
he charges with having induced his
mother to disinherit him.
Recommendations that leniency be
shown Jacob II. Sherley have been
made to the State Board of Pardons
by Walter NJ. Morgan, the district at
torney who prosecuted Sherley for
the murder of John Zabranski an
aged Brighton jeweler, and by Charles
Mccall, formerly district judge who
presided at the mans trial.
The attempted disposal of diamond
rings and brooches made in Boulder
Dy young man whose description tits
that of one of two men suspected by
the police of completely in the murder
of Isaac Solomon and the looting of
his pawnshop in Denver, has extended
the police search for the murderers
into northern Colorado and Wyoming.
jacques Arnold Mendoza, gifted
5paniard, said to be the son of
grandee of CASTLE, who became a IA.
vorite of many in Denver last winter.
was arrested in Chicago charged with
violation of the Mann white slave
law, and Mrs Ruth Curran. wife of DR..
Lee Curran. physician of Denver and
Colorado Springs, who was with him
at the time OF the arrest, is held in
the Chicago Refuge for Girls. accord
ing to word received in Denver.