Gilpin observer., 1915-07-08

Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Denver.
Golden was fifty-six years old ON
June 16, but the fact was not OBJ.
served.
William Murfin, rs years old, Civil
War veteran, died at his home in Den
yer of apoplexy.
Nebraskans arriving to attend the
Chautauqua at Boulder have already
formed colony.
Ernest H. Osgood, 81, for fifteen
years assistant postmaster at Pueblo
died of pneumonia.
Carl Downing, 23, and Virgin Kirby,
20, were drowned in the Animas river
eight miles north of Durango.
Miss Jessie Bronx, SO, artist and
former vaudeville performer, was
found dead in her room in Denver
G. w. Gardner, who killed himself
in Denver, shot at his wife at their
home in Cascade May 4, according to
Cascade people.
Frank M. Butcher, formerly national
bank examiner of Oklahoma City, has
been appointed cashier OF the Denver
Stockyards bank.
Thirty-three persons, six of them
women, were arrested in Sunday
morning raids on three clubs and two
saloons in Denver.
e. j. Trotter, 81, of Denver, suf-
fered a broken ankle when he was
struck by an unknown motorcyclist at
Colfax avenue and Broadway.
Mrs. Ella ]. Newman, the widow of
the late Col. George Newman, is will
ing to compromise with her husbands
relatives in settling his estate.
In Morgan county there are 3,S2S
persons between the ages of six and
twenty-one years. OF this number
1856 are males and 1,S92 females.
At special meeting of the Colorado
Springs Mining and Stock exchange,
w. P. Kinney was reelected president
All other officers were reelected
Any man or woman who institutes
divorce suit after July 12 will have
to wait six months from the date of
the trial before he or she may re-
marry.
Indications are that number of
candidates for the presidency at the
pending election will make initial an
nouncement of intention to enter the
race in Denver.
Elizabeth Johnson, 5, daughter of H.
E. Johnson, mining man at ST. Elmo,
blew off her left hand when she held
a percussion cap in it and touched it
off with a match.
The hearing on the motion for
new trial in the case of John Lawson,
convicted executive board member of
the United Mine Workers, will be held
Saturday, July s.
With only one accident from ex.
plosives reported to the police, Denver
established a record for the safest
and sanest Fourth of July of any city
of its size in the country.
Denver Shriners, 200 strong, from
FL Jebel Temple, will leave for Sc
attic, Friday, July 9, to attend the i'm
perial council of that body. which be-
gins its session Monday, July 12.
Mrs. Lawrence Brown of Golden
was granted a divorce in the District
Court from her husband, Lawrence
Brown, who is son of Mrs. j. J.
Brown, heroine of the Titanic disas-
ter.
All registration records for the Uni
versity of Colorado summer session
were shattered at Greeley when al
most 600 students enrolled. Last
year the total attendance was only
sec.
A fall racing meet, embracing har-
ness and running events, it was Off
cally announced in Denver, will be
given at Overland in October by the
Colorado Fair and Racing Associa-
ton.
Courted and married within week
after she met Walter l.. Dye of Long
mont, the honeymoon which began for
Jean Albright, %, of Denver, June Z,
ended abruptly when she learned that
young Dye. 27,> has a wife and four
children living in Longmont
The judges Of the Denver District
Court are becoming strict in the en-
forcement of their orders concerning
the payment of alimony. Two men
were arrested and placed In Jail for
their failure to comply with such
orders.
Government employees have been in
Denver for some weeks taking cen
sus of the manufacturing industries.
1t is the first census of its kind in the
Denver district since 1909. when the
total number of industries was 1922,
with weekly payroll of $l,0O0,0OO.
Evidence indicating that gang of
wire tappers" or professional race
horse gamblers were working In Den
yer for several months prior to June