Gilpin observer., 1915-03-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


ticket for the coming city election at
Rocky Ford
Warwick NJ. Downing is now presi
dent of the Ell Paso Consolidated Gold
Mining Company.
Ten thousand dollars will be spent
by the Denver park department during
1915 for improvement work.
OF total of 314 deaths in Denver
during February, there were7 suicides,
caused by acci6 |nts and 1 homicide.
Mrs. Sarah NJ Sherick, S5, pioneer
settler of Colorado, died in Golden.
She ard her husband came to this
state in 1862.
Colorado men gained full control of the
Gold Sovereign Gold Mining and Tun
mel Company at the annual meeting in
Cripple Creek
DR.. G. c. Lamb, who bought ranch
at Ordway last spring and farmed it
last season, has sold the place to ]. w,
Ray of Canon City
The Ohio Society of Colorado elect
ed A. c. Carson its president. The oc
casion was the seventh annual re-
union dinner in Denver.
A bond of 100000 has just been fur.
nished Uncle Sam by b. F. Stapleton
whose appointment as postmaster OF
Denver was confirmed by the Senate.
The Golden band has been invited
by Adjutant General John Chase to be-
come the official band for the second
division of the Colorado National
guard
The following Colorado postmasters
have been appointed: Bristol, Prov
.ers county, Belle C. Haven; Carr
Crossing, Lincoln county, Eli Carr,
new office
Miss Aurelia Blair, AZ years old
died in the home of her brother, John
A. Blair, in Pueblo, after a long period
of Illness. She came to Pueblo eigh
teen months ago from her home in
Denmark
Olney springs water, which was
piped into Ordway about two years
ago, is to be piped over the city, as
many property owners are desrous OF
putting it into their residences for
domestic use.
John w. Wingate, grand commander
of the Knights Templar of Colorado,
arrived in Denver Monday from Duran
go to inspect local chapters of tha
lodge The 470th state conclave opened
Tuesday evening.
J. 2. Miller, chairman of the board
of directors of the federal reserve
bank for the Tenth district, told the
bankers of Denver that it is practi-
cally certain the first branch reserve
will be located at Denver.
The entire debt of the new Presby
cleared up at the dedicatory services
when total of $26,50O was sub
scribed by the congregation. DR.. Ed
gar p Hill of the Mccormick Theologi-
cal seminary, Chicago, preached at
both services.
AT the End of the Rainbow"
three-act drama with cast of twenty
characters, will be the annual play to
be presented by the members of the
Junior class of the Central High school
at Pueblo under the direction of E. r.
Birk, teacher of expression, in the
Auditorium the latter part of March.
Senator Hasty, chairman of the fl
nance committee of the Senate, went
over to the House Monday and asked
Chairman Puffer of the House appro-
priations committee to make the
rounds jointly of the various state de-
partments and state institutions, with
a view of making a further cut where
the situation may justify
Vigorous protests against the pro
posed omission of Denver on the trans
continental auto route of the Lincoln
National Highway association are be-
ing framed by scores OF autoists of the
state. following the receipt of official
maps of the association in which
Cheyenne is placed at the northern
extremity Of the big highway
More than six hundred Irish resi-
dents of Denver who attended the
rSaeting of the Irish-American Pro
gressive society in the Knights OF
Columbus hall in Denver to celebrate
the one hundred and thirty-seventh
birthday anniversary of Robert EN-.
met declared for a free Ireland and
advocated seeking "the armed assist
ance of England's enemies to gain
Erin's political independence.
More than 100 members of the Ma.
tional Order of Cowboy Rangers, their
wives and sweethearts, celebrated the
first anniversary of the birth of the
order at a banquet given in Denver.
Col. Leo w. Kennedy, worthy boss OF
the local ranch, LIB. No /. presided
Supreme Boss A. u. Mayfield, one of
the founders of the new fraternal or
der, outlined the objects of the organ
ization. DR.. George Stemen was tho
orator Of the evening.
| Through the death of his uncle, Sir