Gilpin observer., 1915-03-25
COL ORADO NEWS
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All Parts of the State
Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Sept. 27-Oct. s.-MeetinR International
Dry Farming Congress at Denver.
A special federal grand jury has
been called by Judge R. E. Lewis to
meet March 20 in Denver.
About 500 teachers attended the
melting of the Northern Colorado
Teachers Association at Boulder.
When the construction work on the
new addition to the Denver union sta
tion is completed the building will be
a lasting monument to Colorado in
dustry.
Mrs. Mary Alice McMann, 65, widow
of Robert H. McMann, former Denver
banker, died at the home of her
daughter. Mrs. John H. Thatcher in
Pueblo.
Robert A. Long was named justice
OF the peace by the City Commission
ers OF Denver to succeed Benjamin F.
Stapleton, who will become postmaster
April l.
Mrs. Gilbert McClurg, regent gen.
eral of the Colorado Cliff Dwellings
Association, entertained the members
OF the Interior Department from Wash
ington in Denver.
sunday another church was dedicat-
ed in Fort Collins, the German Evan
gel1cal Lutherans opening their new
edffice. The new church cost more than
$4,000 and is built of native stone.
S. N. Nye, 10, pioneer theatrical
man and manager of the opera house
at Colorado Springs from the time it
was built in the early sos until a year
ago, died in his home in that city re-
Gently.
John Knox, arrested five weeks ago
for shooting Harry Millington, a
neighbor at Stove Prairie, was found
guilty of assault to murder at Fort
Collins after one of the speediest
trials on record.
With his wife i'll and unable to care
for her 2-weeks-old baby boy, H. M.
Allerback, father of the child, took the
child in answer to an advertisement
to the home of George Carol, and
gave it to Carol.
Too Hon, a Chinaman, who pleaded
guilty in the United States District
Court in Denver, to charge of manu-
featuring and smoking opium, was
fined $4,000, the minimum penalty
under the federal statute.
Wells McClelland, dean of the legal
profession in northwest Colorado, died
In Denver. He established a practice
in Steamboat Springs twenty two
years ago, and was a prominent mem
ber of the Elks and knights of
Pythias
On plea that ut was all a mis-
take" white slave charge against
Clement T. A. Martin, author and trav-
eler, following his sensational elope-
ment with Miss Bertha McAndries of
Denver, in January, was dismissed in
Kansas City.
Twins. brother and sister, were
two Of the principals in double we'd
ding which took place at Goodview,
when Miss Daisy Dunning of Boulder
became the wife of George De Backer
Of Goodview. while her twin brother,
Homer Dunning. became the husband
Of Miss Nina Omer of Ward.
Plans to revive the Colorado Indian
Pageant Association were discussed at
a meeting of new officers elected to
conduct pageant near City park in
Denver, betweent June 1 and Oct l..
The officers elected are w. H. Crane,
president; ]. F. Turner, secretary; G.
w. Gaines, director general.
Louis Zancanelli, on trial at Trini-
dad, charged with the murder of
George w. Belcher the night of Nov.
20, 1913, was seen second after the
shooting standing within a few feet
of the slain man, revolver in his
hand, according to the testimony of
two women on the witness stand.
Charles r. McLain of Canon City
and Charles E. Herr of Durango. mem
bers Of the state highway commission,
may be removed from the board be-
cause of alleged activity against the
governors measures to abolish the
board of capitol managers and the
half-mill levy for the support of the
board.
Prof. E. S. Davis of Shaffers Cross
ing in the southern end of jefferson
county, was the victim of peculiar
accident growing out of an argument
with A. u. Fairchild as to which could
throw a rock the most accurately. A
stray missile from the hand of Fair
child inflicted a scalp wound upon
Davis head which necessitated thir-
teen stitches.
The creation of two more national
parks for Colorado, one comprising
12S,000 acres and having Mount Evans
as its characteristic scenic feature,
and the other comprising 100000 acres
and including Pixies Peak, Colorado's
fa tot 10 ha -.