Gilpin observer., 1915-12-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS

at Fort Collins Agricultural College.
Jan; 41s;-Colorado Kennel Club Show
Jan. s-1oSsixteenth annual show of
Colorado Poultry Fanciefs Associa-
Jan. 17-19.--Meeting Colorado Retail
Groeers' and Butchers Association
Jan. 16-22.-Western Live Stock Show
March ,2o-Aprl colorado Retail
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
The Fort Collins milk condensary
Is in operation.
Another s1,OOO,O0O has been paid to
Larimer county beet growers.
A large crowd is expected at the
Jackson day 81 dinner in Denver Jan.
l8.
Denver will make levy of 1915
mills, to raise s3,162,196, to run the
city the coming year.
The Aero Club of Colorado is the
name of new organization composed
of Denver business men.
Three persons were injured when
car driven by ]. Foster Symes of Den
yer struck the rear wheel of an cleo
trio automobile, and turned over.
Dynamite sufficient to destroy the
other portions of the steel plant at
Pueblo was found in a secluded spot
in the wire mill.
Charged with the murder of William
F. Langdon, widely known detective
for the Santa Fe railroad in Pueblo,
Charles Lewis and Frank Williams are
under arrest at Pueblo.
Edward Wynne Williams, one of
Colorado's pioneers and for many
years a banker and mining man of
Central City, died at his home in Den
yer, following general breakdown.
Denver's mountain park highway in
Bear Creek canon was formally open
ed Sunday in the course of an excur-
sion of autoists which covered the cir.
Gle route between Golden and Morri-
son.
Stephen A. Day, one of Gen. Sher.
idan's aides during the Civil War and
one of Horace Greeley's Union colon.
lists, who assisted in laying out the
town of Greeley, died at his home in
| Denver.
According to the federal income tax
report for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1915, Colorados share of the cor
poration income tax was $333,6S3.2S,
and of the Individual income tax,
s226,735.74.
Fearing she was about to go insane,
Mrs. Susan Kaiser, 81, wife of Abra-
ham Kaiser. a Denver road laborer,
shot herself through the head at her
home. She died later at the Denver
county hospital.
Submission of the prohibition ques.
ton at the election next fall has al
ready become a possibility, according
to A. j. Finch, superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon League, who says he has
information that such a step is being
contemplated.
Christmas cheer was brought to the
stockholders of the Vindicator Con-
solidated Gold Mining Company when
the board of directors declared an
extra dividend of per cent on the
$500, 900 of outstanding capital, pay.
able on Dec. rs.
In an endeavor to create what he
describes as public conscience"
that will lead to a demand on the
part of all citizens that the prohibi.
tion law be vigorously enforced, Gov
ernor Carlson will practically stump
the state before Jan. l.
President Wilson's message in be-
half of adequate national defense
should make certain the establish
ment of munitions plant in Denver
and training school for officers at
Fort Logan, in the opinion Of the Colo
RADIO business men who have launched
these movements.
DR.. w. A. Jolley Of Boulder, mem
ber of the Red Cross unit which has
been working Il, Serbia, arrived in
New York on the liner Nieuw Amster.
dam. The remaining members of the
Serbian unit, including Mrs. Harriet
Biddle and Miss Sophia Weber, are on
their way home on other ships.
Representative of the brewery
workers unions appeared before the
State Industrial Commission to pro.
test against notice recently sent to
the commission by the Zang, Capitol
and Neff Brothers Brewing Companies
that on Dec. 81 they would terminate
their contracts with the unions.
Former President William H. Taft
he's written to the Denver Chamber OF
Commerce and the Colorado Associa.
ton of Commercial Executives asking
their cooperation in an effort to mold
public sentiment among business men
in favor of rational plan for world
peace to be worked out through in
ternational agreement after peace has
ben declared in Europe.
Five persons were crushed, two
probably fatally. when an automobile
lurched off the Lookout mountain
road at point two miles west of