Gilpin observer., 1916-06-08

Aug. 2225-Annual Convention, Grand
Lodge X. of r., at Greeley.
sept. 5-s-Frontier Days celebration
at Fort Morgan.
Sept. 27-29-State Convention B. p. o. L.
at Trinidad.
Roy Slater was arrested at Pueblo
on bootlegging charge.
The old Pueblo city hall was struck
by lightning and damaged.
State officials, acting with the Dem
YER police, captured a carload of
whisky.
The Supreme Court has decided that
the safety clutch" eXempts the pro-
hibition penalty bill from referendum
vote
Contraband liquors valued at more
than $500 were confiscated in raid
on cafe at 1416 Larimer street, in
Denver.
The Silverton district in the San
Juan country is booming and the act
ivity in mining and milling is beyond
all precedent.
Funds amounting to $4,000 will be
expended in needed improvements of
Arapahoe county roads during the
coming season.
John Louis Stranahan, 80, wealthy
mining man of the Lakewood region.
died at the Boulder sanitarium follow
ing a brief illness.
1t is stated that VIM. NJ. Gilmore
was thrown through plate glass win
dow at Pueblo store by VIM. ii. Dill
lon in row over hat.
Twenty-Five autos carried the mem
bers of the Pueblo County Bar Asso-
citation from Pueblo to Beulah, where
the first annual picnic was held.
Collections ON thirteen estates,
amounting to $5,465.S1. were made in
bard, state Inheritance tax appraiser.
Residents of Fraser have cleared
Berthoud pass of the accumulation of
snow which threatened to keep out
automobile traffic for several weeks.
Lindquest and Company. leasers of,
the upper Dead Pine mine, are blamed
for the death Of Charles II. Wilson,
mine employe, in a verdict rendered
at Victor
The tungsten mill being erected by
the Rare Metals Ore Company at Rol-
linsville, Gilpin county, will be
opened for operation on June 10 or
Is at the latest.
Representative Undertakes bill for
an extension of the Rocky Mountain
National park to include six additional
Representatives.
Arthur Montague, sentenced to
serve from fifteen to twenty years in
the penitentiary for an attack upon a
l6-year-old girl In Denver store, was
taken to Canon City
The annual meeting of the Colora-
do Association of the American So
ciety of Civil Engineers will be held
at the Denver Athletic Club the night
of Saturday, June 10.
More than 500 delegates were in at
tendance when the twenty-seventh an
nual convention of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
opened at the Auditorium in Denver.
Sylvester Stewart was fined $3.50
in West Side Court in Denver by
Judge Wright for alleged secretion OF
IA witness, Muriet Henderson, the
prosecuting witness in felony case.
j. II. Burton, former United States
Senator from Kansas, who is making
tour of Colorado, arrived in Denver
He believes the present war in Eu-
rope will be the last of the great
world conflicts
Adj. Gen. Harry =. Gamble. of the
State National Guard, has accepted
the designations of three officers OF
the guard, Lieut.. Col. Edward j.
Boughton, Maj. Henry j. Hersey and
Capt. Hildreth Frost
Gordon Jones. Sr.. wealthy Denver
bank president, was the means of say.
ing the life of his daughter, Mrs.
Turner Jones, a victim of the tragic
automobile accident which took Il
toll of two lives near Bennett, on
April &C.
The fortieth anniversary of the
founding of the Society of Colorado
Pioneers and its auxiliary, the
Pioneer Ladies' Aid Society. is to be
celebrated by basket picnic" in
Denver Saturday afternoon and even.
ing, June "a. An elaborate program
will be given.
John C. Mcneil, lately acting war.
den Of the county jail and for twenty
years Denver detective, probably
the most, widely known man on the
Denver police force. died at his home.
1855 West Twenty-eighth avenue,
after an acute illness of only few
hours
The police of Leadville are looking
for man believed to be the hus.
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