Gilpin observer., 1916-02-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
March 4.-Democratic State Central
committee Meeting in Denver.
March g-11.-Meeting Western Colo,
rauo Teachers Association at Grand
March April s.-coiorado Retail
Merchants' Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
april lSIDemocratic State Convention
May First Congressional District
Republican Convention at Colorado
Springs.
May 2.-Republican State and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
convention at Pueblo.
The San Juan tungsten district is
booming.
Sugar advanced from $500 to $685.
per cwt. in Denver.
The Coal Creek ranch of 1000 acres
has been sold for $4,000.
Denver bricklayers get 81 advance
now 81 for eight hours
Over $4,000 was paid leasers on the
| lbex mine at Leadville last week.
Denver's new federal court was
dedicated in the new postoffice build
ing.
| NAO AsOShy 41ouhtdih SluU VI 4NCW
York held its ninth annual dinner in
| Denver.
M. d. Thatcher, aged Pueblo banker,
is reported sinking, and the end ex-
pected at any time.
Mrs. Max Eckstein. As, of Denver,
attempted suicide for the second
time within six months.
| William Mari, 68 years old, Colo
rado pioneer and widely known cattle
man Of North Park. died at St Luke's
hospital.
The Littleton primary" to select
candidate for postmaster was held,
and Lew F. Allen was high, with 159
votes. Eight persons were voted for.
Jay Denham, 5S years old, resident
of Colorado for thirty-eight years, and
we'll known stockman, died at his
home near Deer Trail, after a long
illness.
To promote beauty in public and
private grounds in Denver, an organ
1zation known as the Denver Society
of Ornamental Horticulture was
formed.
An order for 100000 worth of tung.
stem ore for an Eastern steel concern
to be used in the manufacture of
munitions for European governments
was received in Denver
Neither of Colorado's United States
senators, Charles S. Thomas and John
F. Shafroth, will be a candidate for
delegate to the Democratic national
convention which meets in st. Louis
June IA.
Petitions for a responsible and
representative mayor form of govern.
ment and amending the charter of the
city and county of Denver by abol-
ishing the present commission system
are being circulated.
The tax controversy between the
heirs of the late William Barth and
the city ond county of Denver was set
tied by an agreement on the part OF
the estate to pay $4,000 for the years
1911, 1912, 1918 and 1917.
| The contract giving the city of Den.
yer an option on the Denver Union
Water Company plant 1t figure to
be fixed by the United States Su.
preme Court was signed by the COM
pany and the Utilities Commission
and ratified by the city council with
out a dissenting vote
Joseph Cuthbe, to1n, 27, Rock
Island locomotive fireman, suffered n
broken back when both driving rods
of the engine pulling eastbound pas:
senger train No. 40 broke while the
train was running mile minute
near Siebert, in eastern Colorado. He
is in Colorado Springs hospital.
Word was received in Denver of the
death in San Francisco of Capt. Fred
L. Perry of the coast artillery of the
United States army, former resident
| of Boulder and lieutenant in the
First Colorado volunteers when it en-.
tered Manila, the first regiment to
make its appearance in the city
Prompted by what is believed by
friends to have been despondency
over "A shattered love affair, Gustave
Liljeberg, II. living at 2501 Harlan
street, Edgewater. ended his life by
swallowing several ounces of chloro-
form and cutting his wrists with a
razor. He died at the county hospital
In Denver
Hurled headlong against "a stone
curb in Il crash of autos at Eighteenth
avenue and Grant streets In Denver,
Mrs. Fulton Jack, SS years old, wife
of prominent attorney of Beatrice,
Ncb.. received injuries which it is be
lieved will be fatal. She was return
ing from the funeral of nephew. Mrs.
Jack came to Denver to attend the
funeral of Robert Wood. a 7.month.
old son of C. ID. Wood. Boulder
tungsten mill superintendent.