Gilpin observer., 1917-01-18

Association ana banquet TO Members
of Colorado Assembly at Denver
Jan. ls-27-Annual Food show at Dem
Jan, ao-27-Annual western Stock
Feb 2-4-Y M. G. 4. Annual conven-
Thomas A. Vaughn, Colorado poet,
died in Denver from apoplexy. at GA
years.
Scores of visitors from all parts OF
the state already are registering at
Denver hotels for stock show week,
Jan. 21-27.
An increase of 1873 per cent in build
ing operations was shown by Denver
during December, 1916, over the rec
ord for December, 1915.
Grover c. Bebout, 80, foreman of
one of the departments of an iron
company, was shot from ambush at
Pueblo as he was about to enter his
home.
Senator Shafroth has nominated
Kenneth C. Caldwell of Grand juno
tion for the Annapolis naval academy,
and Robert E. Milligan of Denver, as
alternate.
The Denver Women's committee, or
ganized to make and send surgical
dressings to the warning nations sent
out consignment of 1000 bandages
to France.
AS a result of an alteration over a
trivial matter, Lee Stear, 32, was shot
through the head and instantly killed
on the ranch of ]. l.. Savage, thirty
miles west of Pueblo.
Former Gov. George A. Carlson has
officially closed a contract with an
Eastern lyceum bureau for lecture
tour beginning next June, it was an
nounced in Denver.
Dr. Ward Slosson Gregory, noted
surgeon of New York City, died at
Colorado Springs and the body was
taken to Denver for cremation. DIR.
Gregory was 36 years old.
Henry l.. Reno, formerly a soldier
in the United States army, has been
engaged by the Denver school board
to aid in the preliminary organization
of the Denver high school cadets.
The eighth annual session of the
Colorado Farmers Congress was
called to order at Fort Collins by o.
F. Gardner, president, who opened the
session by delivering his annual ad-
dress.
Colorado expended s4,O75.5 500 on her
roads during the period of 1915 and
1916, according to 7. j. Ehrhart, state
commissioner. Half of this
sum. or $2,O42,765.S1 was used to i'm
prove state highways.
In a fit of dementia, Lena Lind, ~,
a butcher knife, in the Lind home, at
Denver, inflicting deep cash extend
ing from the cheekbone to the point
of the chin on the right side of his
face.
There were BATS fewer police pa
troll calls in 1916, the first year of
prohibition in Denver, than there
were in 1915, according to statistics
by Acting Sergeant Frank
Campbell for Chief of Police Arm
strong.
A ghastly repetition in Denver of
the Greeley tragedy when Mrs. Bessie
Crozier murdered her children and
killed herself, was probably averted
by neighbors of Mrs. Ellen Burbridge,
in Denver, VINO summoned the police
as Mrs. Burbridge was threatening to
kill her three little children with a
butcher knife.
Examiner Myron A. Pattison of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
the hearing in the federal
District Court in Denver of the com.
plant of the Colorado Fair Rates AS.
socation against all of the railroads
running west of the Mississippi river
which handle freight to and from
Colorado common points.
Deepening snow drifts on the noun.
tain slopes behind Aspen have driven
the elk and deer down to the outskirts
of the town, according to reports
which have been received by w. B.
Fraser, state game and fish commits
sioner The animals, grown tame by
hunger. have become bolder and bold.
er until now they go to the hay stacks
o the farms and ranches and help
themselves to food.
Gold and silver production in the
United States in 1916 fell below that
of the year before by S,719,300 of gold
and 2,077,275 ounces of silver. The
director of the mint announced that
the total gold production for the last
year was $92,316,400, and the silver
production 72,SS3.S00 ounces. Cali
fornia led the Union in the produc
ton OF gold with 1,069.5SG ounces,
valued at $22.11O.300; Colorado was
second. with 919.565 ounces, worth
$4,000, 100, and Alaska third with 1885,.
721 ounces, worth $16,242,3 300.
A mysterious burglary at the Park
hill home OF Mrs. Stella Moore Smith,
in Denver where she shot and killed