Gilpin observer., 1916-09-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES Fon COMING EVENTS.


Sept. 7-2s-state Convention B.PoE
at Trinidad.
Sept. 29-Prohibition State Convention
at Denver.
Sept. 2S-3O-Third Annual Pine River
valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
Sept: 30-Harvest Festival at Briggs
dale.
Oct. l2-Annual Poudre Canon Picnic
Jan. 20-27-Annual w 8 rn Stock
Show at Denver.
Senator John F. Shaffroth has re.
turned from Washington.
About 1000 Masons from all parts
of the state are in Denver attending
various annual meetings of the order.
Construction work will begin soon
on the Boulder county end of the road
between Pine Cliff and Rollinsville, to
cost $4,000.
Members of the federal farm loan
board were guests and speakers at
luncheon given by the Civic associa.
ton of Denver.
Travelling on special train, con
tingent of business men will leave
Denver Sept "a for trade-making
trip through the San Luis valley.
Governor Carlson was one of the
speakers at the fifteenth annual en-
campment of the Beecher Island Bat.
tie Memorial association at Wray.
Denver is the first city in America
to receive samples of "cyanocuprol,"
the new preparation for the treatment
t,,I. IL l. H.
of Japan.
The Rev Edwin Seldom, pastor
emeritus of the Broadway Baptist
church and widely known in Denver
religious circles, died of tuberculosis
at the Oakes home
Prospectors on Junction creek near
Durango have uncovered blanket
vein of ore short distance below
grass roots that runs twenty-five
ounces in gold and 1,133 ounces in
silver to the ton.
Former governor ]. Frank Hanly OF
Indiana, nominee of the Prohibition
party for president, and Rev. Ira Ian
drith of Tennessee, the vice presiden.
tial nominee, will campaign in Colo
RADIO the last week in September.
Dr. w. S. Connett of Ration, N. NJ,
while on his way to Denver to meet
his wife and daughter, was killed
eighteen miles south of Pueblo when
his automobile overturned. He was
found lying dead by the roadside.
Despite all efforts on the part of the
police no trace has been secured OF
the two safe-blowers who visited four
downtown Denver business houses
The authorities believe the crooks,
after getting nearly $3.50, left the city.
Colorado leads every state in the
union in tungsten production by more
than 100000 annually. according to a
statement contained in a report sub
mitted to a committee of the Metal
Mining Association at a meeting held
in Boulder.
The state convention of the Colo.
RADIO Prohibitionsts will convene at
the Trinity Methodist church, Denver,
Sept. 90. The convention will nomi-
nate full set of presidential electors
on state ticket.
Sister COrnelia O'Hara, Sister of
Charity for more than forty years and
for the last twenty years one of the
most popular and efficient members of
the nurses staff at st. Joseph's hos.
pital, died of acute paralysis after an
illness of three months.
In none of the Colorado districts
has the influence of higher prices for
silver. lead. spelter and copper been
more perceptible than at Robinson and
Kokomo, two pioneer camps in Sum.
NIT county. just over the county line
from the Leadville district.
Hardly had the words that pro.
nounced Philip Lambusta and pretty
Margaret Festa, of Naples, Italy, man
and wife, died from the lips of the
priest at st. Joseph's hospital in Den.
yer when the bridegroom breathed his
last, victim of tuberculosis.
Managers of thirty-two reclamation
and irrigation projects upon which the
government is expending $l1 ,OOO, 900
this year, held three-day session in
Denver to estimate the amount of
money needed for construction work
on the various projects next year.
Evidence indicating fraud in the
signing of petitions sent out with
hired circulators in Denver was pre-,
sented at the hearing of arguments
in the application for n mandamus pro.
hibiting Secretary of State Ramer
from putting the so-called herd law on
the ballot.
The paternity of the Mable Owens
twins. one black and the other white,
has been established. investigations
made by Denver city and state author.
tiles have resulted in disclosing from
the records of st. Joseph's hospital
that the father was Jack Civilian, a