Gilpin observer., 1916-11-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES ron COMING EVENTS,

Jan. 1-s-Poultry Show at Denver.
ian; I-1s-Poultry Show at Canon
Jan. 2o---Athietic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
Jan. so-21-Annuai western stock
Feb. 2-4-Y. NJ C. A. Annual Conven-
ton at Colorado springs.
Work has been started in Denver
on 100000 machinery manufacture
ing plant for compressor company.
Mrs. Millicent Hart Wall, wife of
Charles j. Wall. prominent cattle
man of Fort Collins, died in st. Luke s
hospital in Denver.
President Wilson received 16O out
of the first 200 votes cast under the
absent voters law, which were
counted by the Denver election COM
mission.
Lloyd A. Duncan, son of Robert
Duncan. Denver mining man, was
found not guilty of the theft of an
automobile by jury in the District
Court at Boulder.
An announcement from Washington
confirms the plan Of making Denver a
district headquarters for the admins
tration of federal grain standards,
which is to go in operation Dec. 1.
George Riley, bookkeeper at st.
Joseph's hospital in Denver, is in a Sc
rious condition as result of an at
tack by negro whom he discovered
lurking in the rear Of the nurses quar-
tiers at the hospital.
DIR. David Starr Jordan, president
OF Leland Stanford University of Cali
fOrnia, will be the guest of the Ad-
vertising Club bureau of the Denver
Civic & Commercial Association Fri
day evening, Dec. 1.
The control of the Modoc mine, To-
Gated in the Cripple Creek district
and from which has been produced
more than 100000 worth of ore,
has passed from Pueblo men to a
group of Denver men.
Nearly 100000 will be spent in Den
yer within the next few months in the
erection of buildings to care for the
business Of Armour & Co., packers. OF
this amount 100000 will be expended
in the construction of new storage
plant.
Colorado commandery, No. /,
Knights Templar of Denver, will cele-
brate it's fiftieth anniversary Monday
evening, Nov. 81, at Ell Jebel temHe.
with an entertainment in the Egyp-
tian room. followed by ball in the
Alhambra hall.
A bill opening in some manner the
Mount Evans region as a scenic attrac-
ton for the benefit of Denver can
easily be passed in the United States
Senate, in the opinion of G. M. Hitch
cock. United States senator from Ne.
braska, who visited in Denver.
The people of Denver bought 10000
articles made in Colorado during the
ten days home products campaign re-
Gently conducted by the manufacture
ers' bureau of the Civic Association
as indicated by the cards so far re.
turned to the headquarters of the as.
ISOLATION.
In an effort to collect a board bill
due him at Dawson, N. M, and which
brought him to Trinidad in pursuit OF
an ex-boarder, John Marks, Glenn
Tsurdas, a boarding house keeper OF
Dawson, was shot in the leg in pis-
toll duel at the Santa Fe depot at
| Trinidad.
The third death from the effects
of the collapse OF the Colorado
| Springs stadium at, the Welsh-White
fight, Labor Day, occurred when J. f.
Finnegan. 40 years old. died at the
County hospital in Denver. Finnegan
returned to Denver after the fight
and was taken to the hospital on
Oct. 2.
Worry over the tragic death of his
favorite daughter, Ruth, and the
events Of the subsequent trials al
which DIR. Floyd w. Noble and DR.
Robert j. Mason, the latter, the daugh
ter's fiancee, were tried for murder
are said to have caused the death o.
Sherman H. Merriweather, Denver
business man.
A private tip from Trinidad re
suited in the arrest of F. o. Kelcey
Pueblo billiard hall owner, on the
| charge OF importing liquor without ue
claring 1t. Kelley was met at Walsen
burg by number Of detectives ant
trailed fifty miles to Pueblo by the OF
ficers in automobiles and motorcycles
Here his car was searched and thu
liquor found.
Bitter rivalry between the Univer
sity of Colorado and the Colorado
School OF Mines, which began fou
years ago over the possession of |
goat-the mascot of the University o
Colorado football eleven-broke on
afresh when fifty students from Boul
der motored to Golden and painted tn,
School OF Mines buildings with re,
and black paint.
The legislative board of the Brother
hood OF Railway Trainmen has beel