Gilpin observer., 1915-12-09
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
estern Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING; EVENTS


DATES FOR COMING EVENTS,
Jan 3-Annual convention Colorado
Farmers Congress at Fort Collins.
Jan. 4-s.-Colorado Kennel Club Show
Jan. s-1o-Sixteenth annual show Of
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Associa
tion at Denver.
Jan. 17-19.-Meeting Colorado Retail
GroGers' and Butchers Association
Jan. I6-22.-western Live Stock Show
March ,2o-April 2.-colo. Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at DenYer,
Colorado has a million population.
Breweries of Denver and Golden are
preparing to turn their plants into new
uses after Jan. l.
The Marquis and Marchioness of
Aberdeen, lately viceroy and vicereine
OF Ireland, will be in Denver Dec. II.
total appropriation of $5,S4O, ,O63
for city, county, school and state pur-
poses in 1916 was formally submitted
to the Denver council.
In the death at Fort Collins of Will
lam Mason Post, 80, Northern Colo.
rado lost one of it's Oldest residents as
well as one of it's most picturesque
characters.
The death of Capt William Hamil-
ton Green, who helped lay out Pueblo
and Canon City, makes William H.
Clark of Denver, Colorados Oldest pio-
neer resident.
Under the auspices of the Federation
of Agricultural Clubs of Morgan coun-
ty, a series of farmers institutes will
be held on the circuit plan during the
week of Jan. 1915.
According to the November report
OF the department of public health,
Colorado Springs had an exceptionally
low death rate for the month. The re-
port gives percentage of .94.
Herbert Allen, the 1S-year-old boy
who shot his sister, Estelle, mistaking
her for a burglar at their home in
Denver, was completely exonerated by
the girl of all blame in the matter.
Records for the year at the Denver
county hospital, dating from Jan. to
Dec. 1, show that 1913 births took place
there during the eleven months, and
that six deserted children have been
cared for
Electrical Prosperity Week in Den
yer came to close with grand il
Elimination at the Auditorium, when
the largest crowd that has attended
the celebration gathered to witness
the closing events.
At meeting of the board of direct
ors Of the Denver & Salt Lake rail
road in Denver, Lawrence C. Phipps
was elected chairman of the board;
Charles Boettcher, president; Gerald
Hughes, secretary; Ward z. Pearson,
treasurer, and Fred G. Moffat, assist
ant treasurer.
A search for Charles H. Maloney, a
prospeotor, is being conducted
throughout the West by his Denver
brother, Tufford, 3106 South Sherman
street, to inform the missing man
that he is one of the heirs to the
estate of his father Tnfford Maloney
of Sioux City.
On hearing that the Colorado Su-
preme Court had sustained the prohi-
bition law, making the state dry
after Dec. 81, Governor Carlson said ::
Il am highly pleased to know that the
will of the people has been sustained
by unanimous decision of the SUI
preme Court"
The city and county of Denver will
not be held responsible for the dam.
ages growing out of the flood and con.
sequent overflow of Cherry creek.
which destroyed much property on July
IA. 1914. The state Supreme Court so
held when ii reversed the District
Court, which set precedent by hold
ing the city liable.
1t has cost between 81 100000 and
81 1,500,0 900 to operate the receivership
of the Denver Reservoir Irrigation
Company and its allied concerns since
their failure on June g. 1910, accord
ing to figures in the reports of the
Chicago Title and Trust Company, the
trustee under which the receivership
is now being conducted.
Openly accused by Miss Lena
Schwartz with being chiefly responsi.
for the beating administered to Miss
Louise Mansfield, % years old, in the
Auto Inn, IA Petersburg resort, George
Reichert, one OF the three Fort Col-
Inns cattlemen arrested in connection
with the attack on the girl. dropped
his head and turned away as the Kiri
hurled the accusation ut him in Dem
yer.
If Colorado's plum pudding and
mince pie for New Year dinner are ~
be favored with brandy, the brandy
will have to be purchased the day be-
fore-the close of the open season on
Intoxicating liquors in this state. II
will do no good to plan substitution
Of branded peach juice for the ordi.
nary or garden variety of brandy, for
the distilled Juice of the peach in 1915
will be considered in the eyes Of the
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