Gilpin observer., 1915-09-23

OcI. Z-9-Falr and Race Meeting at
Oct. 1s.---odd Fellows Annual State
Convention at Colorado Springs
Denver's new postoffice will be Off
cially dedicated Nov. Is.
Trinidad Elks have purchased site
on which to erect home.
Indications of mineral have been
found near Genoa
Mrs. Agnes Roberts, widow of Pres
ton Roberts, died in Denver. aged So.
The Rocky Mountain Baptist Asso-
citation held three-day session in
Denver.
Fire destroyed the barn and gran
ary on the L. G. Newell ranch near
Paonia.
Mrs. VIM. Bevar of Fort Collins
was kicked by a wild horse and seri-
ously injured.
About 600 carloads of Elberta
peaches have been shipped from the
Palisade district.
A get-together meeting of the Off
GERS OF the P. M. C. A. in Colorado was
held at Manitou.
H. Lovsee, 70, was critically hurt at
Fort Collins on his way from Love
land for jury duty.
The oil well near Paonia is down
1850 feet, and indications are report.
ed better all the time.
The Arvada tire-making plant has
been completed and has commenced
the manufacture of tires.
Benjamin F. Stapleton, postmaster
at Denver, will be the custodian of
the city's new postoffice.
Telluride has one of the best high
school buildings in the state, when the
size of the town is considered.
The State Federation of Women's
Clubs will hold five-day meeting at
Colorado Springs opening Sept. 2S.
About 300 bankers met in Denver
for the annual convention of the
American Investment Bankers Asso-
citation.
Governor Carlson and State High
way Commissioner Ehrhart attended
the dedicatory exercises Of the Salida
cutoff at Canon City.
r. F. Blunt of Denver was found
guilty of passing forged check for
s24 and sentenced to from one to
thre years in the penitentiary.
The report of Leslie E. Hubbard, in.
heritance tax commissioner, shows
that the state collected since Sept /,
$9,1S7.03 from estates whose settle.
ment was completed.
A handsome silver cup has been Of.
fered for the best specimen of native
grasses grown in Colorado and ex
hibited at the Farming Congress and
Soil Products Exposition.
Echoes of wedding bells that rang
in Towanda, ILL.,, Sept. 10, 1865, re
sounded in Denver at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. John Beeler when the couple
celebrated their golden wedding ami
versary.
Indications that the Stock Show
next January will be the largest in
the history of the organization wer,
made known in Denver in the month
ly meeting of the directors of the Ma
tional Western Stock Show.
E. D. Clark, 63, was sent to Canon
City from Pueblo to begin serving a
sentence of one year to eighteen
months for uttering forged checks. 1t
is the first time that the old man has
ever been in trouble in all his long
life.
A coroner's jury absolved the Colo
RADIO & Southern Railway Company OF
blame for the death of Mrs. Ella A.
Porter, an aged woman who died OF
injuries suffered when she was run
down by one of the company's engines
in Denver
Horses and mules valued at more
than $7,500,000 have been sold at the
Denver Union Stockyards during the
eight months of 1915. Indications are
that the total for the year will reach
$9,5OO.000, or more than four times
the amount received for horses and
mules during 1914.
A clue which it is said may lead to
the capture of the slayer of Isaac
Solomon. Denver pawnbroker, beaten
to death in his Larimer street pawn
shop few weeks ago, was sent to
NJ. Solomon, son of the dead man, by
Gus Appelman, prisoner in the
Brighton jail. Appelman claims to
have seen a number of gypsies in the
store few days before the murder.
After twenty-three years in Denver
as the pastor of the Boulevard Con.
gregational church, the Rev. Charles
II. Pettibone has resigned and will
leave Oct. l for Florida for the sake
of his wife's health.
According to President Charles H
Roper of the Omaha-Lincon.D Denver
Good Roads Association, over l,2O0
cars loaded with tourists from other
states pass over the road every day
during the tourist season
Divorced from Fred c. Robley at
Eugene Ore. in 1913. married TO an.