Gilpin observer., 1916-09-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FoR COMING EVENTS.

sept. 1s-Z3-State Fair at Pueblo.
Cheyenne Wells.
Sept. 21-22-Agricultural and Live
:, stock Show at Holyoke.
at Trinidad.
Sept. 2S- S-3O-Third Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
Jan. 2O-27-Annual western stock
Show at Denver.
The Rifle postoffice has new quar-
ters.
Rifles Apple Pie Day celebration
was largely attended.
A three-day count of tourist automo-
biles passing Flagler showed total
of 4O7
The state convention of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians held a two-day
session at Pueblo.
Considerable mystery surrounds the
disappearance of A. M. Hall of Monte
Vista from Colorado Springs.
The Farmers Union at Ault will
commence the erection of an office
and warehouse building at once.
AS far as the railway brotherhoods
in Denver are concerned, the proposed
railway strike is thing Of the past.
The government has called for bids
for carrying the mail between Sun
beam and Ladore in Moffat county.
Six thousand Denver Sunday school
children participated in the largest
children's parade ever held in Denver.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist, and
DR.. Ben l.. Reitman, her manager, ar
rived in Denver from New York city.
The Florence chamber of commerce
is calling attention to the desirability
of Florence as the site for a canning
factory
The Colorado Single Tax association
held its annual banquet in Denver in
honor of the seventy ?seventh anniver-
sary of the birth of Henry George.
More than seventy-five persons were
injured when the bleachers on the
south side of the White1Welsh fight
arena at Colorado Springs gave way.
The union plumbers of Pueblo, num-
bering about thirty-five, went on strike
following the refusal of the master
plumbers to increase wages from S.
to SC per day.
A school and garden club operated
by boys and girls of Greeley during
the summer realized over $15O from
the sale of flowers, vegetables, chick
ems and rabbits.
Jacob Horber, 72 years OF age died
at the County hospital in Denver from
injuries received when he was struck
by an automobile driven by a 16-year-
old boy, Carl Sutton.
j. X. Mullen, millionaire phianthro-
pist, has purchased two tracts of land
in North Denver, upon one of which
he expects to erect home for the
aged at a cost of 100000.
Extensive stocking of the Big
Thompson river is in process. a
consignment of 10000 rainbow trout
was received from the government
fish hatchery at Saratoga, Wyo
Bearing American flags in token of
their loyalty to country and wearing
commemorative buttons that signi-
fled devotion to the principles of
unionism, thousand children, be-
tween the ages of and 16, all from
workingmen's families, marched with
their elders in the Labor day parade.
In celebration of the recognition
gained by the Masons of Colorado this
summer in Los Angeles and Buffalo,
the order will hold barbecue at STRAIT
ton park, Colorado Springs.
The receipts of the Denver postof-
flee broke all records in August.
There was an increase of II per cent
The total was S139,0Sl.7i, or ST.
1894 more than the same month of
1918.
An order to all railroad companies
in the state to file monthly state
ments, enumerating delays to all first
and second class passenger and
mixed trains was issued by the State
Public Utilities Commission.
Building permits issued in Denver
for the present year show an in
crease of $950,000 over the first eight
months of 1915, and the month of
August gives a gain of $4,000 over
the same month a year ago.
Robert Everett York, 10, graduate
of East Denver High school, has
passed the examination for entrance
TO the United States Military academy
at West Point recently given to mem
bers of the Colorado National guard.
The government needs about 200
stenographers and has announced civil
service examinations. to be held Sept.
12 and 26, at the following places in
Colorado: Denver, Colorado Springs,
Durango. Grand Junction. Greeley,
Montrose and Pueblo. The initial
salaries in most cases are 5000 year.
The collection at the Cathedral of
the immaculate Conception in Denver
on the 3rd was the largest ever taken