Gilpin observer., 1916-10-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES ron CoMING EyENTs.

Oct. 6-Frontier Day Celebration al
Castle Rock.
Oct: 12-Annual Poudre Canon Picnic
Oct. 17.19-Meeting of Synod of Pres
byterian Churches at Grand Junction.
Jan: 2O-27-Annual w est ern stock
The price of milk was raised by all
dairymen of Pueblo.
A beet harvester company has been
incorporated at Sterling.
The banks of Larimer county have
more than $5,OOO.OOO in their custody.
Over $4,000 sheep were received at
the Denver Union Stock Yards Mon.
day.
The $1,OOO,OOO estate of Adolph ].
Zang will go to the widow and five
children.
Samuel Rogers, 81, steel worker,
was shot three times and probably
fatally injured at Pueblo.
Henry B. Teller was appointed a
member of the Denver election COM
mission by Mayor Speer.
A community farm exhibit is planned
by the people of Grand Valley and
vicinity for Friday, October 81.
Thomas f. MCGUIRE, slayer of Har
ry R. Montgomery, July 5, 1915, is
dying in the Denver county jail.
The abstract OF assessment of Ote
ro county for the year 1916 shows
an increased valuation of $53,235.
| The Progressive mining property ad.
joining the Harvard, on North Fryer
Hill at Leadville, has been reopened.
| The state industrial commission has
| received notice Of a demand for in
crease in wages from the miners uni
on at Leadville.
1t is rumored that the Bear Gulch
property of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company in Fremont county will re.
sumo operations.
southeast of Artesia, have secured
four cuttings of alfalfa this summer
from sixty acres.
coroner's jury at Ft. Morgan held
John Swan responsible for the deaths
of Charles Eyser, night marshal, and
Mrs. Mary Weimar
The cost of the proposed paving
and lighting improvements in the
South Side district of Pueblo is esti.
mated that $500 for each pair of lots.
Reports from Denver bring the
news that the government high line
project has been allotted 100000 for
construction work for the fiscal year
1918.
Many interesting topics in club and
educational work were brought out in
the annual convention of the Colo
RADIO Federation of Women's clubs,
held in Glenwood Springs.
The first organization of Campfire
Girls in Mesa county was completed
at Mesa with Miss Edna Vigus as
guardian, and will be known as Ma.
vajo Lodge of Campfire Girls.
Mrs. Caro- Spofford Cove, Colorado
pioneer and wife of Aaron Cove, who
was superintendent of Denver public
schools for more than thirty years,
died suddenly OF heart disease.
E. L. Kolb, of Grand Canon, Ariz.,
and Bert Loper, of Torrey, Utah, sue.
cessfully navigated the Westwater
canon rapids of the Grand river 30
miles west of Grand junction in a
canon.
According 10 the most reliable re.
ports which come from the federal
farm loan board, Fort Morgan boasts
the first completed organization OF
fa,, i,,to
United States
Hurled from the platform of Colo,
RADIO & Southern train while it was
travelling at the rate of forty miles
an hour, Thelma Osborn. 17-year.
old high school girl of Denver, was
dangerously injured
Judge Thomas Henry Anderson, Sc.
nior justice of the Supreme Court OF
the District of Columbia, author lee.
turer and former minister to Bolivia,
died in st. Joseph's hospital at Den,
YER. He was SO years old
According to statement given out
by w. ID. Lippitt, assistant secretary
of the Great Western Sugar Company,
Colorado farmers will this year re.
ceive approximately $14,OO0,000 as pay
for their sugar beets.
Denver will have a new park and
| playground as result of a gift made
TO the city by Mrs. Rachel l.. Hal.
lack. widow of Charles Hallack. Sr..
and Mrs. Lucille Kettelle Hallack.
widow of Charles Hallack, Jr.
Dr. Gail II. Van Wye, 30, "A Colo
rado Springs dentist. was arrested by
Inspector Goddard, chief of the United
States secret service at Denver. on
a charge of counterfeiting. Inspector
Goddard seized number of moulds
and dies made of plaster of paris
which had been used In making spur.
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