Gilpin observer., 1911-10-12


Everything is in readiness for the
Colorado Electric Show. which begins
in Denver October 17th
From all parts of the state exhibits
are being sent into Denver for the big
New York Land Show.
Colonel James Leonard. who has
been familiar figSre in Denver for
the last thirty years, is dead.
Beet digging is on in all parts OF
the Greeley district and recent rains
have put the ground in excellent
shape.
The jury in the Fred Hargis case
at Grand Junction returned a verdict
of not guilty. He was accused of cat
tie stealing.
G. G. Phillip of Fort Lupton. has
hen which has adopted family of
eight young kittens and is taking good
care of them.
Frank r. Castleman, director Of
athletics at the University of Colo
rado, is advocating an intercollegiate
cross-country run.
Northern Colorado is the scene os
more activity in railroad, ditch and
reservoir building this fall than ever
before in its history.
Seven miners were injured when
sixty pounds of dynamite exploded in
the shaft house at the Lewis mine,
six miles southeast OF Telluride.
OF the t93O3 children enrolled in
the public schools of Denver for the
present year 36.522 are the sons AMI
daughters of American parents.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Board of Missions of the Interior viii
be held in the Congregational Church
in Denver October 24th, 25th and 26th
The oil refining plant of the Colo
RADIO United States Refining Com
pany, in the Boulder oil fields, seven
miles from Boulder, has been put in
operation.
The explosion of missed" shot
in a mine of the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company at Tabasco near Trini-
dad, caused the death of Joe Bertek,
an Austrian miner
Hotel men from all over Colorado,
Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico will
be in Denver November 2 to for the
annual meeting of the Rocky Noun
tain Hotel Mems Association.
The high school building at Steam
boat Springs. just being completed at
a cost Of 100000, was built in the rec
ord time of two months to replace the
building destroyed by Tire.
In order to boost the Denver Apple
Show the Grand Junction Fruit Grow
ers' Association has offered to pay the
freight charges on fruit sent to Den
yer from the Grand Valley.
The granite monument erected at a
cost of several thousand dollars at
Trinidad has been unveiled over the
graves of forty-five Polish miners who
let death in mine disasters in thai
inty within the past year.
The Palisade ranchers whose orch
ards are cut by the proposed High
Line canal, have agreed to 25 per
cent reduction in the damage claim
they had filed at Washington. This
claim was for S540.000 and the ranch
ers are now willing to accept 100000
Members of the United Mine Work
ers of America from Colorado will
join with members of the organiza
tion from other states in an effort to
force. Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation of Labor, to
resign his membership in the Ma
tional Civic Federation.
Reports from the cloudburst on the
summit of Sierra Blanca mountain
sweeping both sides of the range, car
rying millions of tons Of water into
the lower valley, breaking reservoirs
and drowning settlers. are slowly com
ing in. The isolation of the flood
swept district makes 1t impossible to
get authentic news concerning the loss
of life.
After saving his mother from drown
ing. Decker Baker aged twelve. son
OF Il. e. Baker of Crestone, sacrificed
his own life in trying to save his
father from a similar fate. When the
flood came. young Baker succeeded In
putting his mother upon horse which
carried her to safety. When he went
back for his father a tree knocked the
horse off its feet and threw the boy
into the water. The elder Baker was
saved.
That the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company has collected illegally not
less than $4,000 for rental OF state
school lands on which 1t holds leases
for operating coal mines at Berwind
ear Trinidad. was one Of the charges
in report of the legislative commit.
! tee OF the Trades and Labor Assembly
in Denver.
AS the flood waters at Del Norte
recede 1t is estimated that the county
has sustained loss of $4,000, OF
which $25,000 is damage done to the