Gilpin observer., 1916-01-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Feb. 11-12-Annual convention Colo
rado Metal Mining Association. at
Feb 1x-Meeting Republican state
Central Committee in Denver.
Feb lss1s.sports Carnival at Steam
March .26-Aprii 2.-Coforado Retail
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver
Clarence Darrow delivered lecture
Citizens Of Durango voted $175,000
bonds to build new high school
building.
Much interest is being manifested
in the good roads meeting at Denver,
Jan. 1920.
Russell o. Boles. who was par
doned, has been released from the
Canon City penitentiary.
Congressman Hilliard explained his
tunnel bill at Chamber of Com
merce luncheon in Denver.
Delegates from all parts OF the
state attended the Good Roads Asso-
citation meeting in Denver.
The Colorado State Editorial Asso-
citation held its winter meeting in
Denver on Monday and Tuesday.
The Colorado Osteopathic Assccia-
ton will hold its nineteenth annual
meeting in Denver, Jan. % and 20.
David Stewart, 67, at one time one
Of the best known mining men in the
state, died at his home near Empire.
Robt G. Cousins, former congress-
man from Iowa, will be the speaker
at the Lincoln birthday banquet in
Denver, Feb. 12.
The Stock Show at the Denver
Union Stock Yards is attracting large
crowds. and the entries are among
the hest ever made.
Surrounded by the members Of his
immediate family and close personal
friends. DR.. p. v. Carlin, pioneer Dem
yer physician and member Of the
school board, died at his home.
Morris Grebb. 10 years old, who es-
capped from the Industrial school at
Golden. was captured near Littleton.
after being accused of attempting to
rob farmhouse.
Frederick Huet, 80, friend Of Gus
tave Dore, as we'll as classmate of
that famed artist in the Government
School of Arts at Paris, France, and
noted artist himself previous to
1865, died at the county poor house ct
Empire.
Mrs. P. R. Gallagher, wife of Reddy
Gallagher, well known Denver sports
man. has returned from Hastings,
Neb.. where she won the first clash
in legal battle to establish her title
to an estate of $15O.000.
Denver is destined to become the
center Of metal mining research work
for the United States and the chief
headquarters of the United States
Bureau of Mines, in the opinion Of
members of the office in Denver
A honeymoon trip, on foot to New
York city, with pedometers to record
the number of miles covered. is the
novel scheme planned by Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick ]. Anderson, who we're
married in Golden Christmas day
The plant of the Western Sugar &
Land Company at Grand Junction will
be purchased and operated by new
concern, headed by A. e. Carlton,
Cripple Creek banker and mining
man. which intends to build a factory
at Delta.
Plans are being completed for the
,n1 x~I>y -
of Kansas to the union by former
residents of the state living in Den
yer and vicinity on the anniversary
date. Jan. 30. An attendance of 300
is expected.
The Senate has confirmed these
Colorado postmasters: Agnes II. AL
ford. Castle Rock; Thomas ]. Cancel.
lor. Brighton; Duncan Lamont. Colo
RADIO City; Walter L. Rogers, Ber.
thoud, and Rhoda ]. Yersin, Burling-
ton.
The Denver police have been asked
to aid in countrywide searcn re-
Gently started by Miss Myrtle Fair
child, 17-year-old San Diego girl,
for her father, A. Murton Fairchild, a
railroad man, whom she has not seen
since she was baby.
Without the slightest intimation of
her purpose and leaving no word of
explanation to tell what motives had
impelled her. Hazel Bear. 17-year-old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Bear of Round Butte, shot herself
through the left breast, dying IN.
stantly.
According to the annual report of
the Denver Union Stockyards Com
pany, there has been handled since
the yards opened thirty years ago an
aggregate Of 11,S2s,7S6 sheep. $685.
913 cattle, 247,790 calves and 1884
SG4 hogs. There were 407,13S horses
and rnnloc raraivod