Gilpin observer., 1913-11-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.


Association Show at Denver.
jan; 24.-National Western Stock
Show at Denver.
,oAssoGiation at Colorado Springs
l9lo.-Last Grand Council of North
american Indians at Denver.
thousand men resumed work Mon
day at the Minnequa steel plant at
Pueblo.
The skip-stop service was voted
down unanimously by Denver's COM
missioners.
A reduction of so cents ton on
steam coal was made in Denver by the
large coal operators of the state.
Mayor Cherrington announced he
would use the work pile to put an end
to bootlegging in Grand Junction.
George w. Thompson, county COM
missioner from the Clifton district,
has disappeared and a months search
has failed to locate him.
Denver lodge No. III, Independent
Order B'nai Birth, will celebrate the
B'nai Birth day at Temple Emanuel
Sunday evening, Nov. 90.
George ]. Langman, landscape
xardener, forty-five, was caught under
his overturned automobile at Colora-
do Springs and instantly killed.
Chicago people will see a peck of
fine Greeley potatoes which will be
placed with the Colorado exhibit in
the Burlington depot in that city.
Morton Rogers, son of Joseph E.
Rogers, pioneer and probably the
wealthiest man in Park county, was
drowned in a well on the Rogers
ranch at Howbert.
Six people narrowly escaped death
when two. automobiles collided 1T
Eighth avenue and Logan street in
Denver, known to automobilists as
Dead Mans corner"
Asphyxiated by gas, the body of
Mrs. Beda Lind, twenty-nine years old.
was found in her bed in the home of
William A. McCutchen, in Denver,
where she was employed as maid.
Fort Collins farmers were paid
$650,000 for their October delivery OF
sugar beets. OF the 100000 tons raised
this year all but about 10000 tons
have been delivered.
Grand valley apples will keep in
storage for more than a year, accord
ing to w. B. Cross, Denver business
man. who owns one of the largest
orchards in the Grand valley, west of
Clifton.
Richard Leon has been arrested in
Lander, Wyo., charged with the theft
of diamonds valued at $4,000 from
Mrs. Florence Allen, September g.,
1913, and will be taken back to Dem
yer for trial.
Twenty-six charitable and philan-
thropic organizations of Denver pre-
viously operating independent of each
other, Joined hands in the formation
of the Denver Federation of Charity
and Philanthropy.
The Colorado State fair for 1914 al
ready is being considered, and the di-
rectors elected have commenced the
task of arranging to present the best
exposition ever held in the state at
Pueblo next autumn.
The Queen City Foundry Company
of Denver will extend its operations
to the manufacture of steel castings
after January !. A huge stn~'
verter, with daily capacity of 10000
tons, will be installed within the next
few weeks.
Congressman II. II. Seldomridge CT
Colorado 81 rings has announced in a
letter to ID. ]. Montgomery, county
chairman of the Democratic Central
Committee, that he would recommend
Emmett C. McAnelly for the postmas.
tership at Fort Collins.
Chas. Richards, Chas. Shepard, Ed.
ward Krupa, Peter Rich, Daniel and
Edward Richards all reported to have
confessed to shooting from ambush r.
G. Adams. Harry Bryan, Walter Whit.
ten. Luke Terry and William Gamblin,
at La Veta, on the Sth.
The Festival of Mountain and Plain,
of greater magnitude than any that
haS been held in the past, will be given
under the direction and management
of the festival association in 1914. The
directors of the association held their
annual meeting and unanimously voted
to hold the festival next year in Den.
YER
Although large percentage Of the
teachers present will be from the Pu.
eblo city schools, 1t remains fact
that the rural school is to come in for
a big proportion of attention during
the coming State Teachers conven'
tion. which will be held in Pueblo dur.
ing the week beginning November 23.
Postal savings depositors may ex.
change deposits for government bonds
by making application at the office IS
suing their certificates on or before
December /, 1913. The registered or
coupon bonds will be issued in demon
nations OF 500, 800 and $500, bearing
interest from January 1, 1914, at
rate Of 2H per cent, payable semi-an.
nually.