Gilpin observer., 1913-12-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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Dec. ,29.-Midwinter Exposition at Pu
eblo.
Jan. 12-15.-Colo. Poultry Fanciers' AS
Jan. 15-16.-Meeting Colo. Good Roads
Assn at Colorado Springs.
Jan. 15;-Annual Meeting Colo. Farm
lege. Fort Collins.
Jan. 15-16.-Meeting Mountain Division
eaticn at sprinEs
Of Commercial Executives at Colo
Jan. Is-24.MNational Western Stock
July 1s-l4:-Grand Lodge Session. B,
p. o. Elks at Denver
Sept, 7.-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
1915.-Last Grand Council of North
American Indians at Denver.
For the second time in twenty-six
months. Nora and Ernest Lapsley of
Pueblo have been divorced.
The provisional battery of artillery,
in command of Capt. John Donovan,
departed from Trinidad for Denver.
The Chicago Society of Etchers has
placed on exhibition at the university
at Boulder 100 of it's master pieces.
Augustus G. Black, a prominent Pu-
ebloan, sixty-six, dropped dead at the
steel works, where he was employed.
Peter James, fifty years old. sec
ton hand, was found dead in bed at
Colorado Springs. Acute pneumonia
was the cause of death.
Grand junction is promised another
railroad now, the Albuquerque. Cortez
& Salt Lake, which has been building
on paper for two or three years.
The Grand Junction Fruit Growers
Association shipped a barrel of Gran
berries by parcel post, the cost being
about half OF what it would have been
by freight.
Negotiations for the consolidation
of all the fruit shipping associations
of the Grand valley have been re-
sumed, and prospects are for the final
amalgamation.
Last year the forest service dis
tributed 10000 baskets willow cut
tings; $4,000 to forest schools, 10000
to agricultural experiment stations,
and $1,000 to individuals.
Santa Claus visited 8,279 coal
miners children, many of them for
the first time in their lives, through
arrangements completed by the
United Mine Workers.
Prof. Henry w. Lamb, assisting in
the department of metallurgy at Col
orado college for many years. died at
Colorado Springs of pneumonia at the
age of sixty-nine years..
Prof. F. R. Schrader, who is exten-
sively engaged in the poultry business
at Longmont, made a clean sweep at
the Kansas City poultry show with his
fancy Rhode Island Red birds.
Samuel B. Morrison, we'll known in
business circles of the west, killed
himself at Colorado Springs by shoot
ing himself with a revolver in his
room at Glockner sanatorium.
At the morning service at the Meth
odist church at Montrose a mortgage
of $1,1OO on the new church building
site was burned on a platter in the
presence of a large congregation.
That temperature of fifteen de-
grees below zero is worse than sixty
six below in Alaska was the state
ment made by Joseph Montgomery
who Is visiting relatives at Greeley.
The Palisade growers are planning
to establish drying and vinegar plants
and canneries next season, the pro
posed consolidation with the Grand
Junction Association having fallen
through.
The Rev. Strange Brooks, aged
ninety-one, an old soldier and sur
veyor of the 'Quantrel massacres, died
at the home of his daughter at Grand
Junction. He was active on his ranch
until two years ago.
Nearly $4,000 was spent on coun
ty roads bridges and state highways
in Morgan county during the last
year, according to the report Just
made by County Clerk John A. Muir
ray to the state highway commission
The colonization of thousands oi
acres of semi-arid and newly irrigated
lands, bordering Denver on the east
was given impetus by the purchase OF
$500 acres lying under the Antero pro
ject by a syndicate of Fort Worth,
Tex, capitalists for a consideration OF
$250,000.
The Greater Colorado bureau of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce is
sending out circulars to the agricul.
tural districts of the state urging the
farmers to send in the best exhibits OF
corn they can supply to be forwarded
to Dallas, Tex, for the sixth annual
corn exposition, which opens in that
city Feb. 20.
Ben Tucker, well known restau
ranteur of Colorado Springs is in a
serious condition and three chauf
feurs are nursing cuts and bruises as
a result of clash with police Off,
cials of Colorado City and Ramona
the latter a wideopen town of half
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