Gilpin observer., 1916-05-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newnpnper unlon New. servIce.

/ western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES ron COM.NG EVENTS.
May 1S-Democrat;c State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 20-Progressive State Convention
In Denver.
June 17-Nineteenth annual Strawber-
ry Festival and Carnival at Glen
wood Springs.
Aug. 2--National Convention of Rep
resentatives of Negro Race at Den
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly at
Denver.
Blossom Day" was celebrated at
Canon City.
Fire did 5000 damage to the M. J..
Blaney residence in Grand Junction.
NJ. C. Gile, professor of Latin and
Greek at Colorado College, died at
Colorado Springs of heart failure.
Lawrence and Sellers sold a wagon
load of tungsten ore from the Catas-
trophe mine at Nederland for $4,000.
The April output at the Cripple
Creek mines amounted to STAG tons,
with a gross bullion value of $1,127,-
$50.
The trial of Rienzi Dickens for the
Boulder by the illness of one of the
jurors.
A vein of copper ore about six
inches wide has been opened at a
depth of 1900 feet in the Portland
mine at Victor.
Roscoe c. Moore, So, was impris-
oned and killed by cavein in the
White Rock mine at Gold Hill, twelve
miles west of Boulder.
Snow in Cripple Creek and Victor
was eighteen inches deep Monday
morning and two feet deep in the
hills surrounding the camps.
The Denver & Rio Grande is pre-
pairing to expend 100000 in ballast
ing it's Denver-Pueblo line between
Pueblo and Colorado Springs this
summer.
Ernest II. Pettigrove, invoice clerk
for Swift & Co., at Denver, was ar
rested at Hot Springs, Ark, where he
had fled after it was reported that
he was $4,000 short
The Irish flag was floated from the
mountain side that surround the city
of Ouray, when word reached there
of the outbreak in Dublin.
Because, it is said, his aged moth
er refused to give him money, Har-
old Sebastian, % years old, attempted
to slay her with a butcher knife in
the Sebastian home in Denver.
Another raise of 10 per cent in the
wages of all the 5000 men employed
at the Minnequa steel plant in Pu-
eblo was announced, making total
increase of 20 per cent within few
months.
Three days after the death of her
son, H. S. Shepardson, from pneu-
monia, Mrs. Eta McCord died in
Denver at the same institution from
the same affliction, ignorant of the
loss of her son.
Robbers broke into the drugstore
of Charles o. Carlson in Frederick.
and blew open two safes, one con-
tanning postal orders and stamps for
the postoffice, maintained in connec-
ton with the store.
Catholics from all parts of Denver
united with Father A. p. Brucker, as
sistant pastor of the Sacred Heart
church, in celebrating his golden
jubilee, representing the fiftieth an
niversary of his priesthood with the
church.
Fred Hall, "a, steel sampler at the
Minnequa plant at Pueblo, was killed
when he was caught between box
car and an ingot mould that swung
from travelling crane against him.
He was taken to the MinneQua Hos
.pital where both his legs were ampu-
tated He died without regaining
consciousness.
A new ore valuable for fluxing pur-
poses in the manufacture of iron and
steel products, has been discovered
In the vicinity of Cortez. Montezuma
county. 1t is called "hallarite" after
its discoverer, and, although its exact
composition is held secret it is said
to contain 10 per cent of an acid com.
pound never found before.
Ray Shattuck, said to be the wealth.
lest express messenger in the United
States. was made defendant in a di-
vorce action filed in the District
Court in Denver by his wife. Mrs.
Lottie Shattuck, who charges him
with having three other women
friends" whom she names, besides
Others too numerous to mention"
The Lyric theatre, Cripple Creeks
opera house, was totally destroyed by
fire. Firemen prevented the flames
from catching the Cripple Creek
State Bank. adjoining. The loss is
about $4,000, with $4,000 insurance.
The building. originally built by the
Odd Follows at cost of $25.0OO, was
remodeled in 1910 to replace the
former opera house, which also was
hurnad d0wn