Gilpin observer., 1916-06-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.


Aug. s-Democratic State Assembly at
Aug. 18-19-Pickle Day and Fair AT
Platteville.
Aug. 2225-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. of r.. at Greeley.
Sept. 5-S-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept q .29-State Convention B. p. o. E.
ut Trinidad.
A. L. Babcock and wife of Denver
celebrated their golden wedding ami.
vsrsary.
Ot.s Long, chief of the Victor fire
department, died following an oper-
alton for appendicitis.
Congressman Ben Hilliard, acord-
ing to court ruling, is member
of the Denver school board.
Preparations are being made for the
annual exhibition of the Denver Ken
mel Club, to be given at Lakeside,
July 2.
The triennial head camp session of
the Woodmen of the World will be
held in Denver during the week COM
mencing July II.
In the case of Mrs. Geo. Jackson
at Pueblo, Judge Essex decided that
sales of liquor within Colorado made
to persons outside the state we're
valid.
DIR. Noble o. Hamilton, convicted
in Denver of causing the death of Mrs.
Ada Williams, was given the mini
years
Oil and gas have been encountered
at 3,130 feet in Well No. l at Aurora,
according to a report given out by
Thomas B. jefferson, drilling super
intendent.
Two prizes were awarded to Den
yer drill teams in the team drill con-
test of the annual council of Knights
and Ladies of Security, held in To-
ledo, Ohio.
The summer school of missions,
conducted by the interdenominationa
committee of the Rocky Mountain
region, will hold it's tenth session at
Boulder, July to IL.
A jury in the West Side Court in
Denver found DR.. bennett Graft
guilty of murder in the eecond degree
in having caused the death on Feb.
2, of Mrs. Ruth Camp.
The Great Western Sugar Company
has organized a department of re-
search for the purpose of promoting
efficiency in the thirteen factories
row owned by the company.
After they had kept the secret for
nearly two years, the marriage of
John Thorpe of Denver and Miss"
Eveline NJ. Stephens of Boulder, on
Nov. IS, 1915, was announced at Boul-
der.
The Epworth league biennial con-
vention that closed its sessions in
Colorado Springs was one of the
strongest ever held in the state, from
the standponts of institute and plat
form faculty.
The railroads in Colorado are facing
shortage of section hand labor, and
some of the officials frankly admit
that should an exodus of Mexicans to
Mexico take place the situation will
become serious.
There is shortage of men in Weld
county and some farmers are handi-
capped seriously. 1t is estimated that
more than 400 farm helpers can find
employment at good wages, as the
call comes from over all the county.
Doc Ottoman Ear Adusht Hanish,
founder of the Mazdaznan cult of sun
worshipers and recently "A prominent
resident of the Cook county Jail in
Chicago, has returned to Denver,
bringing with him five followers, two
middleaged women, two young men
and boy.
Immediately following his acquittal
on charge OF removing mortgaged
property upon which the Mercantile
National bank, of which he was presi.
dent, was alleged to have held lien
William b. Slaughter left Pueblo for
his home in Dallas. Tex. accompanied
by his attorney, Joseph w. Bailey.
|, Describing in detail the methods by
which 1t is said Swift & Co. packers
were defrauded out of more than S2S.
600 by +. II. Pettigrove, Max Pepper
and John B. Dunning. an amended
complaint III, tHe sult 10 recover TINS
sum was filed by the attorneys fol
the packing company in the District
Court in Denver.
Fully recruited, the strength of the
Colorado National Guard. when mobi
lized according to War Department
orders, on account of conditions II
Mexico, will be approximately eigi
companies of infantry. numbering 93t
men; four troops of cavalry, 400 men
two batteries of artillery, 300 men;
signal corps of rs men; two engineer
ing companies, 200 men; field hospi
tai corps, so men.
The tungsten outlook in the Neder
land district received the biggest i'm
petus toward renewed activity sine,
the early boom with the arrival from