Gilpin observer., 1915-08-19
COLORADO
S TATE NEW S

Aug. 81 Sept. 2.-Grand Lodge. X. of p.
"a. C9iorado Springs
Rocky Ford.
Sept 10 11.-Fall Festival at Flagler.
Days and Harvest Festival at Fort
Sept: S7zoe.: s.-Mee.lne international
Oct. 2-9.-Fair and Race Meeting at
Oct. 1s.-odd Fellows Annual state
Convention at Colorado Springs.
Threshing has started in the Long
mont section.
About $4,000 has been pledged for
a fair at Trinidad
A cold storage house to cost $1,000
Is planned for Trinidad.
Arrangements are all complete for
the Boulder County Fair at Longmont,
Sept. 7-9.
Denver Boy Scouts will start on
their summer outing at Platte canon
on Aug. 81.
An examination to fill vacancies in
the forest service will be held in Den
yer Sept. II.
The National Retail Monument AS
sociation of America held its annual
meeting in Denver
Mrs. Mary Stewart, As, a widow,
was arrested at Colorado Springs,
charged with shoplifting
Colorado hunters are making the
most of the fifteen-day open season
on doves allowed them by law.
Mrs Sarah Pearce Fischer of Den
yer died at st. Joseph's hospital while
being operated on for appendicitis.
Conrad Frick, 79 years old, died of
heart failure at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Floyd Lilyard.
Death claimed George Newton, who
with other pioneers blazed the trail
| to Colorado in the early sos, at the
| Soldiers home in Danville, Ill.
Juan Romero, 20 years old, accused
of Staying his step-father, Don Jose
Romero, a beet rancher, near Long
| mont, last month, was taken into GUS
| tody at Boulder.
The drill team of Denver camp No.
| l, Woodmen of the World, won the
| first prize of $1,000 in the drill con.
test held in San Francisco at the sill
yer anniversary celebration of the Pa
cific Woodmen.
After a six months search of war
stricken Belgium for his niece, Miss
Mary Lorang, a school teacher, John
Lorang of Boulder located her and
they reached New York on the way
back to Colorado.
George Daniel, who has Just as
sumed charge of his new office as
postoffice inspector in charge of the
Denver district, is Denver man, al
though for years he has been located
in New York, st. Louis and Cheyenne.
The development of eastern Colo
RADIO and the promotion of closer
financial and trade relations between
yer is the purpose of an excursion
through the territory planned by the
Denver Chamber of Commerce.
After a search lasting five months,
during which he offered a reward of
$1,000 for any information concerning
his 4-year-old daughter, Thomas McIn-
tire of Denver by accident located the
child in the Juvenile Court just as pa
pers for the little ones adoption were
being perpared.
Mrs. Mary A. ]. Crees, n, who was
daughter of James Patrick Cald-
well, one of the three survivors of the
American ship Chesapeake, sunk by
the British frigate Shannon in the war
of 1912, died at her home in Boulder
She came to Colorado in 1861 living
first at Central City.
| George Lord, who with George AS
mussen, posed as one of the twin
bandits" and held up six persons on
| Capitol hill and in East Denver before
his career as an outlaw was termi
mated by Patrolman Cook, was SEN
fenced to from seven to ten years In
the state penitentiary by Judge Perry
in. the West Side Criminal Court in
Denver
| Sweethearts in youth, friends when
each had married another after they
came of age, sweethearts again after
each had been bereft of spouses,
Ralph Eugene Wood and Mrs. Flora
L. Barnes sent John G. Wood, a broth.
er of the bridegroom-to-be to the
court house In Denver to secure
marriage license in order that the
couple might marry.
An advance Of 5 per cent of wages,
which took effect the first OF the
month, applies to the 5000 men on
the payrolls of the American Smelling
e. Refining Company in Colorado.
These men are located at the Durango,
Leadville, Pueblo and Denver plants
and officers OF the company. the dis
tribution being close to 500 at Lead
Vile, 400 at Durango, 1,2o0 at Pueblo
and coo in Denver and Globeville. The
coal mines operated by the. company
are not included In the raise.