Gilpin observer., 1915-04-15
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
June 9-11-G. A. r. encampment at La
Sept. 27-oct. s.-Meeting international
Dry Farming Congress at Denver
Cleanup and paint-up" week in
Denver begins May 10.
Colorado pioneer printers had a
dinner and social in Denver.
Clean up and paint up is the or
der of the day in many cities and
towns.
The Flying Squadron of America
held a three-day prohibition meeting
in Denver.
Ida Valdez, 17-year-old girl, was
arrested at Trinidad for passing
forged checks.
Walter F. Crosby, formerly we'll
known Colorado Springs mining man,
died in New York.
About 1,40O wagon loads of trash
were hauled away in Grand juno
tion's cleanup campaign
Longmont farmers are planting
beets. About 10000 acres have been
contracted by the Longmont factory.
1t was reported in Grand Junction
that apricots were in bloom on Easter
and peach trees in full bloom the fol-
lowing week.
| Mrs. Marie Cornell Squire, seventy
eight, niece of Ezra Cornell, founder
| OF Cornell University at Ithaca, N. Y,
died at her home in Denver.
Mrs. Sarah E. Carstarphen, who
| died at her home in Denver, was a
classmate and playmate of Mark
Twain, and was herself famed for her
wit.
Colorado has the only woman in
surance commissioner in the United
| States. Mrs. D. M. Rolph was ap-
pointed to that position by Governor
| Carlson.
Steps are being taken to have Presi-
dent Wilson visit Denver this fall DUR
| ing the sessions of the International
Dry Farming Congress and to deliver
an address at the gathering.
A closed season on rabbits was the
only change made in the game laws
by the recent Legislature, according
to the fish and game warden, who has
checked the measures passed.
Edward Siewald. charged with the
Staying of Andrew ]. Lloyd, thanked
the jury in the West Side Court in
Denver when it returned verdict of
guilty of murder in the second de-
gree.
Compared with the present Eu-
ropean conflict, the Civil War was
voted "gentlemens affair" at the
semi-centennial celebration of the sur
render of Lee at Appomattox by the
Lincoln post of the Denver G. A. r.
B. r. WilEerson, travelling man, who
attacked Miss Lille Holbrook, former
Denver university student, on train
en- route from Pueblo to Denver sew
eral weeks ago, was fined 500 and
costs in Walsenburg.
Mrs. Manda Sheldon, eighty-five, a
prominent worker in the Methodist
churches of Denver and widow of one
of the first itinerant ministers of the
Methodist church in Illinois, died at
the home of her son, Watt G. Sheldon,
in Denver
Cornelia Baxter-Tevis-McKe has
acquired a new name. She is now
| Cornelia Baxter-Tevis-McKee -Tomley.
According to cable from Paris, the
former Denver beauty was married to
Evelyn Tomley. an Englishman, who
represents Lloyds in Paris.
James Station, thirty-eight, who es-
capped from the Brighton county Jail
in November. 1912, with Frank Smith.
accused of numbering Jesse Stingley,
railroad detective at Utah Junction,
was arrested in Denver, charged with
stealing horse belonging to ]. w.
Hall, rancher living near Golden.
A distinct warning was given horse
thieves to stay out of the First judi
cial district when Judge Harry S.
Glass, at Golden, gave James Station
term of nine years in the peniten-
tiary after the latter had pleaded
guilty to stealing a valuable horse be-
'onging to j. w. Hall.
p. ]. Preston, a Denver civil en-
| gineer who specializes in irrigation
matters, has been named by Secretary
of the Interior Lane as the third men,
| ber of the federal board of review
| which is to look into various items of
expenditure in connection with the
construction of the big reclamation
projects of the West.
Mrs. Mabel Bell Porter, formerly
known as the Evelyn Thaw of Dem
ver," who was the central figure in a
trial in the West Side Court in jan
uary, 1909, when her first husband.
Burdette Bell. was convicted of killing
C. C. Dury. an actor, whom he charged
with stealing his wife's love. again
is in the spotlight. A few days ago
she obtained divorce in the County
Court from Charles Porter, whom she
ma arried shortly after she obtained a