Gilpin observer., 1915-09-09
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Morgan.
Sept 15-17.-Elks' Annual Reunion at
Sept; 17:1s.-Midsummer Meeting of
colorado state Editorial Association
sept. 27-Oct. s. International Dry
Farming Congress. Denver.
ocI 2-9.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct 15.-odd Fellows Annual state
convention at Colorado Springs
About 10000 marched in Denver'a
Labor Day parade.
Ninety-seven babes were born In
Denver hospitals in August.
1t is expected that Denver's now
union depot will be completed by
Oct. /.
There are 17,236.114 acres of public
land available for settlement In Colo
RADIO.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
Woodmen of the World was cele-
brated at Lakeside park in Denver.
Seized with an attack of heart dis
sase. Mrs. L. B. We'll, GA. pioneer resi-
dent of Denver, died while at work in
her kitchen.
Travel conditions are reported as
most favorable by Denver railroads,
which are now carrying more people
east than west
H. w. Risley has filed demand
for $2Os.3S for the printing commits
sioner's salary for August. He was
suspended Aug. by the governor.
Approximately $4,000 will go to the
German and Austrian consuls for the
widows and orphans of soldiers killed
ut the front from the volksfest held
In Denver.
Denver forestry officials report an
increase of So per cent in the sale of
national forest timber in Colorado last
year over that of the preceding
twelve months
James c. Bulgar announced that he
is a candidate for president of the
Colorado State Federation of Labor.
The convention is to be held in Den
yer, Sept. IS.
William Chamberlain. mining man.
and Miss Eugenia A. Brueck, daugh-
ter of Mrs. Mary Brueck of Kansas
City. were married at the home of
John w. Springer in Denver.
The third day of the Larimer Coun-
ty fair broke all records for attend
ance when more than $4,000 persons
entered the gates. OF this number a
large percentage came in automobiles.
Plans to establish a National park
In the mountain wonderland known
as the San Juan triangle were put
under way at joint meeting at Ouray
of the commercial bodies of Colona.
Ridgway, Silverton and Ouray
Prosperity in Denver is indicated by
he postal receipts for August The
Increase over last year is shown by
the following figures given out by
Postmaster Stapleton: August. 1914,
114.90S.01; August, 1915, 1921 1.SS2.3O;
increase, s6,974.29.
The duck season opened Sept /, and
Miss Zelda Sherman, clerk of vital
statistics in the Denver bureau of
health, was the first Denverite. man
Dr. woman. to bag the elusive water
fowl. Four ducks. three teal and a
mallard, were her capture.
An unidentified Japanese man.
about 30 years old and believed to be
Moryashu Oshamo, large stockholder
in Japanese importing company of
Denver, was killed by the Union Pa
cific Colorado limited about one mile
north of Brighton.
Plans for permanent automobile
highway to link the Rocky Mountain
National park and Yellowstone Nation.
al park and so divert thru Colorado
the great volume of automobile traf-
fic between the Pacific coast and the
East are being promulgated by Assis-
tant Secretary of the Interior Stephen
r. Mather.
Radium water emanation will trans
form the therapeutics OF the healing
art. reduce surgical operations by so
per cent, produce cures now believed
impossible, and will be OF inestimable
benefit in all diathetic diseases, ac-
cording to q statement of Dr. Charles
Gilbert Davis, eminent surgeon OF Chi.
cago. while in Denver.
For Aug. 10, on a basis of 100 per
cent as normal. Colorado truck crop
growers show a season standing as
follows, according to the report OF the
bureau of crop estimates OF the United
States government: Condition OF cab
bages. 80; production, 92; condition of
cantaloupes, II; condition of onions.
80; production. SO.
The actual launching of the big In.
ternational Soil Products Exposition
and Farm Congress, which will open
its gates Sept. 20, took place when a
bottle Of Manitou champagne was bro.
ken over the foundation of the first
building aracted in the grounds in
Denver and nail made from gold
taken out OF the Gregory Boobtail
mine was pounded into the wooden
structure.
Subpoenas for witnesses not pre-