Gilpin observer., 1917-03-15

March 20.-Auto Show at Denver.
sept; 17-22-Colorado State Fair at Pu.
Denver is to have fine municipal
organ.
A class in citizenship for allies has
been formed at Colorado Springs.
Ben Hurmore, 2S, formerly of Butte.
Mont, killed himself in a Denver
rooming house.
President Wilson is reported con-
sidering E. P. Costigan of Denver for
place on the Tariff Board.
A rifle shoot, to rouse interest in
better preparedness along these lines,
Will be held at Littleton on Memorial
Day.
Pueblo police were asked to assist
In the search for an escaped convict
registered at the institution under the
name of Bridges.
Forty have applied for the place as
superintendent of the Pueblo public
schools made vacant by the resigna-
tion of F. D. Slutz.
Thomas Hale Potter, one of the
early settlers of Central City and for
merly a prominent banker and mining
man, died in Detroit
Bootleg raids in North Denver re-
suited in twelve persons being taken
to Jail and-a large quantity of whisky
and beer confiscated.
Word of the death of Thomas Hale
al fv,tv,
banker of Colorado, at Detroit, Mich,
was received in Denver.
Miss Mabel Kee, nurse at the
Longmont hospital, was possibly fatal
ly injured in an auto accident nine
miles west Of Longmont.
E. r. Harper, who recently resigned
as state insurance commissioner, left
for New York, from which place he
will sail for Dutch Guiana.
The Wayside Inn, a roadhouse west
OF Englewood, will soon close perma-
nently. according to District Attorney
Samuel w. Johnson Of Littleton.
Pueblo police have been asked to
locate man who wrote a check on
defunct bank and then had the
nerve to pass 1t in a business trans
action.
A resolution to hereafter disregard
absolutely the State Industrial Com
mission" was unanimously adopted at
a meeting of Denver Typographical
Union No. 40.
Changes are pending in the railway
mail service in and out of Denver in
pursuance Of the plan of the Post
office Department to reorganize the
service throughout the country.
Mrs. Sarah Edwards Quinn, mother
Of Mrs. M. v. Gallaher, one of the
pioneer settlers of the Vineland dis
trict, died at the home of her daugh-
ter Mrs. Edward s. Warner, Rock
vale, Mont.
Raymond M. Lowe, born in Greeley |
in 1882. is being held in Java, unable |
TO get back to the United States be-
cause the authorities will not issue
him passport until his American
citizenship is established.
Four times around the world and
half way around on the fifth trip is
the achievement of Bernard Swacken-
berg, the Oldest mail carrier of the
Pueblo force, who celebrated his sew
ehty-second birthday anniversary.
Mrs. James B. Grant of Denver has
decided to be candidate at the COM
ing election by the national society of
the Daughters of the American Revo
luton for the vice presidency of the
order. The election will be held in
Washington in April.
Protests against war and against
the high cost Of living were voiced at
meeting of the Denver branch of
the international Brotherhood Welfare
Association, otherwise known as the
Migratory and Casual Workers, at
the Club building in Denver.
Hogs, 1,112 carloads of them, and
valued at not less than $3.50 900,
were shipped out of the San Luis val.
ley during the past year, according to
report made to the State Immigra.
tion Commission by Charles Erdman,
secretary of the San Luis Valley Hog
Growers Association.
The general appropriation bills
have been completed by the appro-
priations committee and presented to
the House. They carry general ap.
propriations Of $3,0O0,0OO and allow
the governor $4,000 for enforcing the
prohibition laws as against $4,000 al
lowed two years ago.
By hitting the bullseye with unerr-
ing skill from the standing, kneeling
or sitting position, Robert M. Lind
say OF Denver has qualified as Il
sharpshooter in the United States Ma.
rine corps, winning the medal of
sharpshooter and an increase of pay.
according to an official bulletin from
Washington.