Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1916-11-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES rOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan. l-s-Poultry Show at Denver.
jan; i1-as-Poultry Show at Canon
Jan. io-Athlstie Club boxing contests
Jan: ao-s7.Annual western stock
Feb. sly. N. G. A. Annual convsn-
tion at Colorado Springs.
The Houston opera house In Flor
ence has been leased.
The cornerstone for q Carnegie Ii
brary has been laid at Littleton.
The second advance in coal prices
this winter has been made in Denver
The third advance in the price Of
coal in six weeks became effective in
Denver.
The pickle company commenced
work on three new buildings in
Brighton.
The Garfield hotel at Greeley,
owned by the D. A. Camfield estate,
was sold for $4,000.
An increase of one-tenth of . mill
In the municipal tax levy at Loveland
for 1917 will be ordered.
A total of twenty-six buildings are
being constructed in Pueblo. aggregat.
ing an expenditure of 100000.
Judge Rice sentenced John Golden
TO thirty days in the Denver Jail and
to pay fine of 500 for bootlegging.
In Boulder county Frank Tarbet,
backed by Boulder associates. has
started up the Prussian mine and MILL
approximately 500 out-of-town per-
sons availed themselves of the absent
voters law and cast their ballots in
Denver.
A new local council for the Boy
Scouts Of Denver, to supervise and ex-
tend the benefits of scouting, has been
formed.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany reports 300 outgoing cars of
freight from the town of Ault during
October.
Armour & Company contemplate an
increase in capital stock to 500, 100000
and the declaration of 400 per cent
stock dividend.
Beets are being received at the
Loveland sugar factory at TIE rate OF
5000 tons day. The plant is slicing
1000 tons day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Theo Petzoldt cele-
brated their Golden wedding annivers-
airy in Denver with twenty-three de.
scendants present.
George w. Schell, sentenced in the
Denver District Court to eighteen
months for bigamy, filed an appeal be-
fore the Supreme Court.
The official canvass of returns from
the election will be begun by the state
canvassing board Nov. 20, according
to Secretary of State Ramer.
The Hygiene consolidated school
district has awarded contract for
the erection of a two-story modern
schoolhouse at Hygiene. The cost to
be $10.422.
Vance C. Mccormick, chairman Of
the Democratic national committee,
has telegraphed Fluctuations to John
T. Barnett of the Denver national
headquarters.
The Masons of Denver will hold a
ceremonial session at Ell Jebel temple
Wednesday, Nov. 20, beginning at IL
a m. and continuing into the follow.
ing morning until the ceremony" is
over.
Grand jurors drawn for the Novem.
Der term of the Federal District Court
in Denver met in the grand jury room
OF the federal building-the first time
that grand jury has used this build.
ing.
A new coal mine is to be opened In
Routt county. 1t ia to be in the same
gulch as the Routt-Pinnacle and In.
dian Creek mines. 1t will be about
500 feet from the track which has been
laid.
A golden jubilee commemoratins
the fiftieth anniversary OF the Zion
church and covering eight days. will
be held during the week of Nov. 10 to
"a by the members Of the church in
Denver.
Rapid progress is being made in or.
gahizing the nine states directly in.
terested in the proposed park-to-park
highway. the circle road that is to link
all the national parks and begin and
end in Denver.
Denver is fortieth in a list OF Ill
American cities In percentage Of gain In
amount Of building permits issued last
month. The average gain is ~ per
cent, while Denver shows a gain Of
~ per cent.
Attorney General Farrar and Gov.
ernor-Elect Julius G. Gunter. with
Senator DELPHI Carpenter, will appear
before the United States Supreme
Court in Washington ON Dec. 4 to ar.
que the Colorado-Wyo water suit