Gilpin observer., 1916-07-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Service.

| Denver.
Aug. s--Meeting Colorado Editorial AS
aug. 1O-Republican State Assembly at
Denver.
Aug. i4-coiorado F Federstion ratio NofeI of Labor
meeting at Colorado Springs.
A1g. ,, is.iS-Pickle Day and Fair al
Aug. 21-Celebration of the opening of
the new State Highway between Del
Norte and Pagosa Springs. at Du-
Aug. 22-25-Annual Convention. Grand
Lodge X. of p. at Greeley.
Aug; sl-sept. Apple Pie Days at
Sept. 6-s-Frontier Days celebration
Sept 11-Meeting Midland Trail Assn
Sept. 15-16-Harvest Festival at Num-.
Sept 27-29-State Convention b. p. o. E.
at Trinidad.
The dancing pavilion at Nederland
was destroyed by fire.
Eighty-five horses were burned to
death in Denver livery stable.
j. F. Mallery, formerly of Denver,
died at Fort Logan, after q lingering
| illness.
John F. Campion, noted mining and
business man, died in Denver, follow
ing long illness.
Eight girl strikers were fined s.
and costs in Denver for menacing
five girls who refused to strike.
Twins, one black boy and white
girl, were born to Caucasian moth
er at the Denver county hospital.
A call has been issued for the an
nual meeting of the National Mid
land Trail Association in Denver the
week of Sept. IL.
Miss Jean Lauge, a 21-year-old Den
yer manicurist, attempted suicide
after being deceived and married to
Geo. H. Mills of Newton, Ia.
Fifteen hundred soldiers from the
Golden rifle range paraded through
Denver streets Saturday, and then
were guests at Denver theater.
Angelo Girardo, 60, Boulder vege-
table and fruit grower, was struck
by a C. & 8. passenger train on
crossing near Marshall, and instantly
killed.
While crossing Nineteenth street at
California in Denver, John Myers, 70
years old, a retired rancher of Gard
ner, was run down by an auto driven
by ]. E. Kennedy.
The new Pixies Peak automobile
highway to the summit of Pixies Peak,
built at cost of 100000. was formal
ly opened Sunday when hundreds OF
autos made the ascent.
From May l to July 15 last year
when saloons existed in Colorado
the state penitentiary received 1877
Disoners. From May /. to July ID
this year = under prohibition - the
penitentiary received A prisoners.
case of infantile paralysis af-
flicting a Park Hill girl IL years old
was reported to the State Board of
Health in Denver, and Dr. s. " Nc
Kelvey, it's president, reported to Sur
geon General Blue of the United
States health service at Washington
by wire.
State Bank Commissioner Grant
McFerson announced the following
appointments as his office staff: A.
b. Olson, chief deputy state bank
commissioner; Sidney w. Clark, dep
uty state bank commissioner; Richard
B. Brown. deputy state bank commits
sioner; Frank Stansfield, clerk, and
Mrs. Rose Laudon, stenographer.
His hand torn suddenly from his
sisters handclasp, as he was walking
along the Morrison road just outside
Denver, Leo Taffet, 6-year-old son OF
j. II. Taffet, was hurled forty feet
when hit by passing automobile and
> left mangled and crushed in the road
} to die. He sustained injuries which
: resulted in his death at his home an
hour later.
) Mrs. Anna b. Fell of Denver, foster
: mother of Catherine Erickson, the
, l4-year-old girl who fatally shot vii
liam Atkinson, station agent of EN-
! pire, and who was absolved from
| blame by coroner's jury, confirmed
/. the announcement that the girl hat
!, been married to 17-year-old Paul AL
bert Piquet, French youth who has
. been in this country two years.
). The celebration of the opening O
0 the new state highway between De
, Norte and Pagosa Springs will bt
a held at Durango, Aug. 81. AS linl
in an important highway, the Spanish
n Trail-Grand Canon highway. pro
. jected between Denver, Colorado
!, Springs, Pueblo, Walsenburg, Ala
q mosa, Del Norte, Pagosa Springs
A Durango, Shiprock, Gallup, Holbrook
, Kingman, Barstow to Los Angeles
!, the new San Juan Highway No. IL
4 marks an epoch in Colorado roa,
building.
/. DR.. Bennett Graft, the Denver ply
sician who was convicted June 16 o
n having performed an illegal operation
r on Mrs. Ruth Camp. was sentence,
!, In the West Side Court in Denver b.