Gilpin observer., 1915-04-29
STATE NEWS
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PEOPLE
Western Newspaper Union new. service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
June s-11-G. A. r. encampment at La
Sept. 27-oct s.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
A new depot is to be built at Hay.
den.
There is a new baby buffalo at the
Denver city zoo.
The Denver Y. M. G. A. has
started a campaign to get 1000 new
| members.
Colorado Midland train No. was
wrecked near Granite, and Engineer
]. NJ. Smith slightly injured.
Rudy Meyer, who killed Walter Nc
Dowell at Frederick and escaped from
Greeley hospital, was captured near
Boulder.
Thomas NJ. Skerritt, the first white
boy born in what is now Denver, died
| of kidney trouble at his home in
| Englewood
DR.. A. S. Beers, convicted of kill
ing Will Hopkins at Hygiene, has
filed motion in the District Court at
Boulder for new trial.
Three new baseball leagues, COM
prising eighteen teams in towns along
the Moffat railroad, are being organ
lied for the season Of 1915.
Mrs. Berta Wright, who shot her
husband when he returned to their
home in Denver, intoxicated, pleaded
not guilty and bail was fixed at $751;
900.
Denver will have it's annual Nation
| al Western Stock show during the
week of Jan. 1922 next That was de-
cided at a meeting of the board of
| directors.
w. l.. Ryan, under death sentence
for killing Attorney Newton Crosse at
Fort Collins last August, was inter-
rupted in an attempt to escape from
the county jail.
Jacob Schiff. New York banker,
brings cheering message to the west
in declaration that the crest of a
great wave of prosperity is in sight for
the American people.
Two Denver nurses have been called
to Serbia to help fight the typhus
plague now prevalent in the Balkan
country. They are Miss Sophia
Weber and Mrs. Hattie Biddle.
Fred Tannebaker, two and q half
years old, fell from second-story
window of his parents home at Pu-
eblo and escaped without a scratch
25, 1918. The charge against Lawson
At Boulder, Zell Wheeler, an Erie
teamster, pleaded not guilty to a
charge of perjury in connection with
testimony in the Hecla mine case, and
was given until May to file motions.
Greed H. Brawner, a veteran of the
Civil war and personal friend of
Abraham Lincoln, died at his home in
Denver of old age. Brawner was
eighty-three years old and was born
in Kentucky.
Carl Welsh, seven years old, shot
his brother, Fred, a year younger, at
their home in Denver while he was
trying to frighten him into giving
back one of his pennies that the lit
tie fellow had taken moment before.
The $4,000 breach of promise suit
Vi.
yer, against Thomas A. Brown,
wealthy Breckenridge mining man.
was thrown out of court by district
Judge Denison for lack of evidence.
A lengthy legal battle extending to
the highest Appellate Court of New
York has rewarded Mrs. Katherine
Wheeler, Denver widow. and her
four children with the establishment
Of their right to share in the s1,500,-
900 estate left by the late Mrs. Julia
Butterfield, widow of the late Gen.
Daniel Butterfield.
Through the efforts of the State
Department, Leonard Worcester.
Colorado mining man and 'brother-in-
law of Francis e. Bouck, deputy ct
torney general, has been released
from jail at Chihuahua, Mexico, where
he had been confined since early last
February on a charge of dealing in
confiscated ores. He was given his
freedom upon bond of $4,000 gold.
Thad Sowder, former champion
broncho buster of the world and one
time idol of the West, was witness
for the state at Trinidad in the trial
of John Il. Lawson, international
board member for District Is OF the
United Mine Workers of America,
charged with murder. AS deputy
sheriff he fought near John Nimmo in
the early strike clash at Ludlow Oct.
rs, 1918. The charge against Lawson
is based on Nimmos death.
Colorado will have record crop
this year. although it will be some.
what late on account of the recent
heavy rains, according to Prof. L. A.
Moorehouse of the department OF farm
management of the United States
Agriculture Department at Washing.
ton. This rainfall, he says. is worth
any amount Of money to the dry farm.
ers. The professor passed through
Denver on his way to the Colorado