Gilpin observer., 1916-04-13

May First Congressional District
hepubIican Convention at Colorado
April 26--Annual Convention western
Colorado 1. o. o. F. at Grand juno
April 29-May s-Food show at Colo
rado Springs.
May. 2.-RepubIican state and Third
and Fourth Congressional District
May 1s.Democratic State Convention
at Colorado Springs.
May 20-Progressive State Convention
Aug. S-Democratic State Assembly at
| Denver.
Divorced persons must wait one
year before remarrying in Colorado.
Governor Carlson has appointed ].
A. Miller of Gunnison water commits
sioner for District No. SO.
George Seegar, 45 years old, a
farmer near Brighton, has been ar
rested on charges preferred by his
14-year-old stepdaughter.
In memory of O. H. Snyder, former
presiuent of the State Teachers Col
lese, who died last fall, an auditorium
costing 100000 will be built at the
college in Greeley.
Commercial and civic bodies
throughout the country are uniting
with the new centralized Denver or
ganization in urging the passage of
the national park service bill
Denver restaurant keepers are
planning to raise their prices to meet
the advanced cost of foodstuffs which.
they claim, has been consuming all
their profits during the last two years.
Bulkeley Wells, president of the
Colorado Metal Mining Association,
has appointed committee to investi-
gate changes in the mining laws pro-
posed by the Foster bill now in Con-
gress.
Harry McAndrews, charged with
stealing a $3.50 diamond stickpin from
Bradford Dubois, was acquitted in
the West Side Court in Denver after
the jury had been out only five min.
utes.
The funeral services for Joel v.
Vaile, who died in California, were
held at the family residence in Den
yer. Prominent jurists and attorneys,
railroad employees, workmen and peo-
pie in all stations of life attended.
The Colorado Springs city council
has adopted resolution calling for
the appropriation in the 1917 budget
Of $2,500 toward a fund of $4,000 for
the construction of a municipal con-
tagious disease hospital.
The highest price ever paid on the
Denver market for fat steers weigh
ing around 1.225 pounds, was paid TO,
twenty-five head, average 1921
pounds, marketed by j. r. Rigden Of
Fort Collins, when they sold at $780,
Little hope is entertained for the
recovery of Miss Lucille Martensen,
81 years old, of Denver, who was
burned in saving her employers
property by seizing a blazing can of
varnish and hurting it through win.
dow.
r. w. Clark, who left Denver fifty
two years ago, arrived in the city
again on Pullman and could not be-
lieve it was the same place. He
could not find a single spot that was
familiar. He came to Denver in 1862
and left in 1864.
More than 200 grizzled veterans OF
the Grand Army of the Republic in
Denver helped turn the half century
mark Of the organizations existence
with patriotic exercises in Trinity
Methodist church. Five hundred peo-
pie were in the. audience.
E. Z. Drach, state bank commission
er, has started suit in the District
Court against holders of 27S1s shares
of the capital stock of the defunct
Lafayette Bank & Trust Company,
suing each stockholder for $10O on
each share of stock held.
Denver's prosperity is progressive,
according to the weekly statement of
bank clearings issued by Bradstreet,
which shows that last weeks clear
ings through the five national banks
totaled $12,062 900, an increase of $2,-
100000 over the previous week and of
37.5 per cent over the corresponding
week Of 1915.
According to the officials of Adams
county. drunken revelry. extending
into the small hours at the Sand
Creek roadhouse, participated in by a
dozen Denver people, ended disas-
trously when knives and broken bot.
ties were welded in free-for-all
fight, probably fatally injuring one of
the women, who is now in hospital
in Denver.
Receipts accruing to the national
forests In Colorado for the last ten
years. aggregating $2,O27, 7,9S7.97, have
not only stimulated livestock and lum-
ber activities. but have brought a re-
version to various counties Of the
state of more than $500,OOO for road
and school purposes, according to sta.
tistics received from Washington by
Smith Riley. district forester.
| The remains of Sidney William