Gilpin observer., 1915-04-22
COLORADO
STATE NEW S
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EyENrS


June s-11-G. A. r. encampment at La
Junta.
Sept. 27-oct. s.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Ten "yes or no" propositions will
be on the ballot at the coming city
election in Denver.
Governor Carlson vetoed the pub
lie utilities bill and number of So
called relief measures.
Little Davy Frost saved five-year-old
Katherine Guheen from drowning in
the old mill ditch in Denver.
The annual state convention Of the
Ladies of the Macabees will be held
in Denver. April 90 and %.
The output of gold in Colorado this
year is expected to total $4,000 900,
compared with $19,OOO,0O0 in 1914.
Fifty smiling tourists from Cleve-
land spent day in Denver on their
way to the Panama-Pacific exposition.
Colorado Springs business men have
been warned to look out for forger
who has been putting out fraudulent
checks in Denver.
Mrs. Bertha Wright, 80 years old,
shot and probably fatally wounded her
husband, John A. Wright, 40, city
employe of Denver
John l.. Brock, an Alabama capital
list, has purchased 1884 acres of irri-
gated land from Prendergast brothers
of Broomfield, for $3S,00O.
DR.. R. o. Butterfield, charged with
prescribing opium to habitual users,
was assessed the minimum fine of $40
and costs in Denver Police Court
er will be possible after the Robinson
divorce law passed by the recent Leg
islature becomes effective on July IL.
Judge julius c. Gunter was re-
elected president of the Alumni asso-
citation of the University of Virginia
at the banquet of the society in Den
YER.
One Syrian is dead and two are bad
ly wounded as the result of a Sunday
battle of about forty Syrians and
Arabians in their colony at Walsen-
burg.
Traces Of oil have been found at a
depth Of 1.400 feet at. Sable, station
on the Union Pacific railroad, a few
miles east of Denver, by the Mid-C Colo
RADIO Oil Company.
Mrs. Margaret H. Hutchison dropped
dead Of heart disease at her home in
Denver. Her husband, William c..
Hutchison, died suddenly in similar
manner Dec. %. 1910.
The Charles Meyers raach near Ell
bert, considered one Of the best farm
properties in the state, was sold to
Rufus Gordon Barr and N. L. Vermil-
va Of New York for $4,000.
One of the oldest Odd Fellows in
Colorado, William Bennallack, pioneer
mining man, died at the age Of 73.
from cancer, at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles Truscott. in Denver.
Among the fifteen bills approved by
Governor Carlson Monday was one ap-
propriating $4,000 for the drainage of
the land at the Teller Indian institute
near Grand Junction.
Denver people are planning to make
formal request that Liberty Bell be
permitted to stop in Denver on its
way to the Pacific coast this summer,
that Denver and Colorado people may
have opportunity to see and inspect
it.
TSene-Gat, Piute Indian prisoner in
the Denver county Jail was removed
| to Mercy hospital in accordance with
an order received from the depart
ment of justice by United States Mar
shal Burris. Tse-Ne-Gat will be kept
at the hospital until his trial and will
receive treatment for tuberculosis.
Rudy E. Meyer, charged with the
murder of Walter Mcdowell of Fred
| erick, escaped from the county hospi-
tai at Greeley, where he was held un-
der guard for treatment for heart dis
ease. Meyer walked out of the back
door while a guard was reading a
| newspaper. Meyer shot Mcdowell,
whom he accused of attacking his
wife and causing her death.
The National Order of Cowboy
Rangers will have a mountain ranch
home at Plainview, where they have
bought over 1000 acres of land. and
will soon begin the erection of a
home, club house and cottages. The
ranch will be stocked with cattle,
horses and sheep, in order to make 1t
self sustaining. A chuck-wagon
roundup is to be held on the ranch
on Decoration day.
Following the exhuming of the body
| of Frederick c. Matson, the young
lumberman who was murdered in the
little yard office where he kept bache-
lor quarters near Fort Logan and af-
ter postmortem examination held in
| Fairmount cemetery. Sheriff Nc
Broom of Arapahoe county announced
that he intended to make an arrest
soon of two men he has had under
surveillance since the day Matson's s