Gilpin observer., 1916-01-13

ocean highway Association. at Den
Jan. 10 a2.-western Live Stock show
Feb. 11-12-Annual convention Colo
rado Metal Mining Association. at
FEB: asn,I laIMes.ps Me-, I, Rspns,lsan a state
rep l6-lS-Sports Carnival at Steam
boat Springs.
Merchants Associations Food and
Industrial Exposition at Denver.
Over five hundred auto licenses for
1916 have been issued at Boulder.
Mrs. Ida Whitford, wife of former
District Judge Greeley w. Whitford,
died at her home in Denver.
Fort Collins, dry for nineteen years,
and extra dry for three days, arrested
its first drunk in 1916. on the 5th.
Denver retail coal dealers an
nounced an advance of % cents ton
on the price OF coal to consumers.
The Colorado Retail Hardware am
Implement Association will hold its
fourteenth annual convention in Den
yer Jan. is, 10 and 20.
The Senate confirmed the following
Colorado postmasters: Charles S.
Logan, Buena Vista; William ID. New
ton, Palisades, and Reita NJ Vigil.
Trinidad.
Thomas Mathews, aged 15 son of a
prominent mining man of Central
City died on train en- route to Den
yer, where he was to have been op-
Grated on for appendicitis.
Suit for $12,S7O was filed in the
District court at Boulder by George
w. Koontz of Iowa City, Ia. and
others, against the White Cloud Min
ing & Milling Company.
Mrs Elva Higley and son, James,
We're arrested at Grand Junction,
house, on charges of selling liquor in
violation of the prohibition law.
The State Supreme Court in de
cision declared that Judge Ben b.
Lindsey of the Denver Juvenile Court
erred in reopening a case regarding
the dependency of Catherine Mulertz,
l2 years old, in custody of the State
Home for Dependent Children, after
the legal limit for action in such
cases had expired.
AS soon as the officials of the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron Company receive
definite information from the United
States Steel Corporation and other
competitors in the East as to their
increase of pay for steel workers, the
Colorado firm will meet the advance
and put in effect another scale of
wages, according to Denver reports.
Ten years in the Leavenworth peni-
tentiary-the heaviest sentence pro-
nounced in the Federal District Court
in the memory of the present Off
cials-was imposed in Denver b.
Judge Il. L. Lewis on each of the four
soldiers recently convicted of attack,
Ing 15-year-old North Denver girl
on the Fort Logan military reserva-
ton
That the recent uprising of the Ute
Indians in Colorado and Utah was the
result of conditions of shameful neg
lect' at the Ute Mountain Indian
agency and of n badly bungled" plot
to drive non-reservation Utes off the
public domain and seize their land, is
the charge made in n report by NJ. X.
Sniffen, special Investigator of the
Indian Rights Association
A peremptory writ of mandamus.
ordering the town OF Aurora AMI its
officials to pay $4,000 to Samuel G.
Hickman, resident of Pennsylvania
was issued in Denver by Federal
Judge II. T. Lewis. The writ provides
for partial satisfaction of $225, 900
Judgment obtained by Hickman in the
United States court last March In n
suit to recover on Aurora water bends
which matured in 1906.
AS an aftermath of the Piute Indian
uprising in Utah, last winter and the
battle that occurred in Bluff City dur.
ing the attempted arrest of Tse-Ne.
Cat, recently acquitted in Denver of
the murder of a Mexican sheepherder.
Senator Shafroth introduced bill for
$4,000 compensation for the widow of
Joseph c. Akin OF Dolores, the deputy
marshal killed by a bullet fired by a
member of Old Folks band. accord
ing to Washington dispatches.
Members of the Brewery Workers
Union and other trades allied with the
late liquor industry marched in body
TO the state capitol to present in per.
son resolutions passed at a mass
meeting in the Denver Auditorium.
calling upon the governor to convene
special session OF the Legislature
10 provide employment for those
thrown out Of work when the dry law
went into effect. The governor sur.
gested the opportunity for employ.
ment in the beet fields.
Introduction in Congress OF n bill
by Representative Ben C. Hilliari O.
Denver to give that city, through
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