Gilpin observer., 1915-02-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Feb. 17.-Dry Lana iDay meeting n
Lamar,

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Governor Carlson appointed r. w.
McQueary to be county commissioner
of Grand county, vice Fred Feltch, re-
signed.
Men Of all ages appeared at Golden
to register for the three weeks short
course FOR prospectors, started by the
State School of Mines.
Alan NJ. Bashford, formerly a Den
yer mail carrier, shot and killed him
self at his home because of despond-
ency over the loss of his position.
Suit for $4,000 has been entered
against the retail association of the
Denver Chamber of Commerce by the
Western Railway Advertising Com,
pany.
Grand Junction bakers have reduced
the size of all loaves of bread, due to
the price of flour, which is $1.20 per
hundred pounds higher than it was a
month ago.
The Colorado Alfalfa Meal Com
pany's plant in the Newdale district.
near Rocky Ford, is working full time
and is now turning out forty-five tons
of alfalfa meal every day.
A charter has been granted by State
Bank Commissioner Drach to a new
bank to be located at Louisville. incor
porated under the name of the First
State Bank of Louisville" with capi-
tai of $4,000.
A present there are six convict road
making camps in the state and about
three hundred prisoners from the
penitentiary are employed in connec-
tion with them in the construction of
public highways.
|. S. Nichols, fifty-two, for the last
twenty-three years agent for the Den
Yer & Rio Grande at Colorado City,
died theme after two weeks illness.
He was member of the school board
there for the last twenty years.
Theodore Dakin, the young man who
was arrested at Telluride for taking a
$3.50 money package from the local ex-
press office, pleaded guilty before
Justice of the Peace Maddox and was
bound over to the District Court.
The petitions for paroles and par
dons of nine prisoners in the state
penitentiary, who were convicted of
murder, are to be considered by the
State Board of Pardons at its first
meeting with Governor Carlson
While getting off the engine tender
of Santa Fe No. 10, on which train he
Morley, Clemacio Valdez. nineteen
years old, slipped under the wheels of
the first car and lost his left foot.
Senator Frank II. Means of the
Seventeenth district, including Archu-
leta, Rio Grande and Saguache coun-
ties, is the youngest man ever elected
to the Senate of the Colorado Legisla-
ture. He is twenty-seven years old.
Oliver Nero, Sr., eighty-five years
old. who was in charge of the con-
struction of the government mint and
the Union depot in Denver more than
thirty years ago, died at his home In
Leavenworth, Kan. Death was due to
old age.
AS a result of the creation of the
Rocky Mountain National park the
mountain scenery of Colorado will re-
ceive advertising this year, without ex-
pense to the state or the people of the
state, that could not be purchased for
S1.O00,000
Joe Felles, an Old Mexico Mexican
cook at the Santa Fe saloon, lies at
the point of death in San Rafael hos
pital at Trinidad as the result of two
knife wounds inflicted by Ismael
Lopez in the saloon kitchen Lopez is
in the city Jail.
Coorado's first special train TO the
Panama-Pacific exposition carried the
delegates from Denver and other Colo
RADIO cities to the national convention
of the Western Fruit Jobbers' Associ-
alton, which will be held in Los An
geles next week
Dairy Day, Feb. IL, and Dry Farming
Day. Feb. II are two days of the an
nual farmers week given under the
auspices of the Lamar High School
cooperating with the State Agricul-
tural College, the u. S. Department of
Agriculture. and with Lamar com
mercial organizations. The other days
are Live Stock Day. Feb. Is, Farm
Management Day, Feb. 10 and Farm
Community Day. Feb. 90,
With the filing of another caveat to
the will of the late William Barth,
pioneer real estate man, the contest
over the aged millionaires estate will
assume three-cornered aspect. Carl
F. Grass, formerly an employe of the
German American Trust Company,
through his attorney, served notice
upon the executors and attorneys for
the estate that he would oppose the
probation OF the will when the docu-
ment is presented to County Judge
Rothgerber
Immediate work upon the solution
of Colorado's low-grade ore problems
can be begun by the federal bureau of