Gilpin observer., 1916-12-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Jan 2o-Athletic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
Jan, 2o-27-Annual western Stock
Feb. a-40y. N. G A. Annu., conv.n-
ton at Colorado springs
Denver men have purchased $780,.
600 ranch near Cheyenne, Wyo.
c. Reeder. 80 years old, OF Denver
was shot in the mouth and robbed of
$40S.5O
Twenty young women received d.
plomas as nurses at Mercy hospital in
Denver.
The annual roundup preliminary to
the Denver stock show of the CONNER
cial bodies will take place Dec. 30.
Again the cost of living drops in
Denver. with the announcement that
turkeys are to cost less on Christmas
than they did on Thanksgiving.
| James Sullivan, 40 years old, en-
ployed by the Colorado Springs health
department, was fatally hurt when
four tons of gravel crushed him.
Mrs. Cora ]. Seifried, widow of Hen
ry Seifried, owner of the Bank OF
ing man, died at her home in George
| town.
Howard De Weese, who recently
gave himself up to the Chicago police,
arrived in Denver on his way to Salt
Lake City, where he will face trial for
wife murder
The Grand Junction sugar factory
paid out 100000 in gold to the beet
raisers of the Western slope Monday,
and the impetus to Christmas shop
ping was marked.
The mayor and town marshal of
Nucla were cut and stabbed by Joseph
Carver and William Hurd, who went
on rampage and had produced a
reign of terror before they made their
escape.
AS result of alleged injuries that
made her an incurable cripple, Eliza
beth Fry of Denver filed suit in the
District Court against the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad, asking $4,000
damages.
Several hundred rabbit dinners will
be provided for the poor of Denver
through the medium of two big hunts,
which are to be held at Sterling and
Holyoke. The game will be donated to
Jim Goodheart for distribution to the
poor.
1t is stated that saving of over
$4,000 annually will be effected to
shippers of Denver under decision
hxyt ha Gt,tn DrI
ties Commission which orders reduc
tions ranging from 1875 to 25 per cent
In local switching rates on freight
traffic moving entirely within the
state of Colorado.
Crime has fallen off from 80 TO so
ton of the prohibition law, figures
just compiled in the Denver police de.
partment show. The number of ar
rests during 1916 shows decrease of
80 per cent from those of the proceed
ing year; the number OF cases OF
drunkenness has been less than half,
and a still greater drop has been re-
corded in the arrests on the charge of
vagrancy.
Six thousand employees of the Noun
tain. States Telephone and Telegraph
Company will receive $150,000 as their
share of a $36,000,000 Christmas bonus
to be distributed to the workers of all
of the companies in the associated Bell
systems, according to statement
made in Denver by +. B. Field. Jr,
vice president and treasurer OF the
company controlling the telephone sys.
TENS in the seven intermountain
states.
three days search for Thomas
Woodruff, an escaped maniac from the
Denver county hospital, was ended
when the man was captured at Fort
Morgan.
George w. Thompson, widely known
as the hunting companion of Kit Car.
son and one OF the first veterinarians
in Colorado, died at the Denver county
hospital as result OF injuries SUI.
fered several weeks ago while he was
dehorning a COW on a ranch near Den.
yer.
Due TO the fact that scores oil delin.
quent taxpayers OF 1913 and 1914 paid
their Indebtedness to the federal gov.
eminent within the last year, Denver
stands third in the United States in
the amount of internal revenue taxes
and penalties collected for the fiscal
year ended June 30. 1916
Alimony secured by Divorces, pref.
ty and otherwise. from bubbles who
have erred. is not to be spent for tax
icab Joy rides and liquors that Colo
RADIO is trying to prohibit the sale of,
according to Judge Allen of Denver,
who held that II should be strictly de.
voted to the purchase OF the necessi
ties of life.
Loveland will be the first city in
northern Colorado to answer the de.
mand for municipal camping ground