Gilpin observer., 1916-08-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

Aug. I1-Progresslve State Convention
Aug. Io,12-woman's Party Conference
at Colorado Springs.
Aug. 14-Grand Lake Yacht Races.
aug. l4-Colorado Federation of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs.
Piatte eviiie. ''N'' LAY anu
Aug. 21-CeIebration of the opening of
the new state Highway. between Del
Norte and Pagosa Springs. at Du-
Aug. .22-25-Annuai Convention. Grand
Lodge X. of p. at Greeley.
All Ritle. si-serf Apple Pie Days a.
Sept. 5-s-Boulder County Fair at
Longmont.
Sept. 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept. 11-Meeting Midland Trail Assn
In Denver
Sept. 15-l6-Irarvest Festival at Num-.
Sept. 1S-23-State Fair at Pueblo.
Sept. 27-29-State Convention b. +. o. T.
There are s4.2e1 motor cars in
Colorado.
Governor Carlson has announced
his candidacy for a second term.
Clarence Chaffee, Is years old, was
drowned in the Fountain river at Pu-
eblo.
Four hundred horses and two car
loads of mules have arrived at the
Golden guard camp.
Denver is to have new apartment
hotel to cost $175,000 at Fifteenth
street and Cleveland place.
Many stockmen met at Glenwood
Springs to formulate plans for op'
posing the proposed herd law.
Officers of the grand castle of Col
orado Knights of the Golden Eagle.
will meet in Denver, Aug. 10 and IL.
There are now 500 Denver house
maids enrolled on the books of the
Domestic Workers Industrial Union.
A Union day picnic. at which it is
planned to bring 1000 union men and
women together, is being arranged
for Aug. 20. at Glacier Lake.
Colorado was forty years old on
Aug. l, and in all parts of the state
the birthday anniversary was cele-
brated with elaborate public affairs.
The biggest electric show ever
given in Denver will be held the first
week in December, according to plans
which are under way by the elec-
tricians.
Julian II. Moore was selected as a
candidate for the office of judge of
the Juvenile Court of Denver at the
primary election of the Denver Bar
Association.
Two days of heavy downpour left
practically every road out of Denver
heavy and slippery. One bridge, that
at Horseshoe bend on the Colorado
Springs road, was washed out.
To prevent being choked to death,
Mrs. Charles Eiser stabbed her hus
band during struggle in the kitchen
of their home in Denver. Eiser is in
the County hospital and may die.
Denver & Salt Lake railroad reor
ganization plans have progressed to
a point where formal action by the
board of directors of the company is
the next step in the proceedings.
The government safety-firs. train
will arrive in Denver the morning OF
Aug. and will be on exhibition on
the tracks in front of the Union sta.
ton on that day and the following
day.
Word was received at Lamar that
E. j. Cheland, SS years old, a pros
porous farmer, had been drowned in
the Arkansas river, just below the
head gate of the Amity canal in
Prowers county.
The clearings of Denver banks con-
tinue to show increases each week
and also gains over the same period
for last year. The clearings for the
week ending July 81, as compiled by
Bradstreet, were $l1,037,0 900. a gain
OF 22.S per cent over the same week
last year
Another shipment of 234 horses for
the Colorado National guard reached
the Boulder camp, making a total of
666 mounts received at the rifle
range. Another shipment. which will
bring the total up to about 900. the
number needed. is expected within a
few days.
James A. Floyd. former Denver
city employee and well.known mining
man of Colorado and Arizona, son Of
the first superintendent OF the Argo
smelter, who died suddenly when he
was overcome by the heat at Parker,
AriE.. was buried from the home of
his mother in Denver
Undaunted by blizzard of such
violence that they could find their
| way only by reference to compasses
and pedometers, seventeen members
OF the Colorado Mountain Club, sew
eral OF them women. climbed to the
summit OF Mount Evans July 30.
Footsore and weary. they returned to
Denver Monday night.
The Jane Jefferson Democratic
Club will celebrate the fifteenth an.
niversary of the founding of the club
Aug. IL. A banquet will be given in