Gilpin observer., 1916-08-17
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.


Aug. 20 25-Annual Convention. Grand
A1si Kitls. sl-s'n'' Apple Pie Days at
Sept. 5-s-Boulder County Fair at
Sept. .ts-Frontisr Days celebration
Sept. 1I-Meeting Midland Trail Assn
Sept. l5-16.Harvest Festival at Num-.
Sept. 1s-23-State Fair at Pueblo.
Sept 7,29-State Convention b. p. o. T.
Sept. 28-sO-Third Annual Pine River
Valley and Southern Ute Indian Fair
Jan 2o-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
Cahtaloupe shipments have started
from Rocky Ford.
Big wheat yields are reported in
the Longmont district.
Battery b at Golden is proud of its
evenly matched horses.
Miss Elsie Green of Denver will go
to China as a missionary.
Gasoline dropped one cent per gal
Ion in Denver on Monday.
| improvements in the U. 8. mill at
Sugarloaf are being installed.
John Hartman, Al, railway con-
ductor, was killed in an auto accident
at Pueblo.
President Wilson is expected to
| speak at Denver on his proposed trip
to the coast.
Two more miles of the Fall River
road, over Mummy Range, will be
completed this season.
Mrs. Cora Newland, wife of Ronald
| o. Newland, was killed in an automo-
bile accident at Greeley.
Howard C. Parmelee has been
elected president of the Colorado
School of Mines at Golden.
The order dispatching the Colorado
National guard to the Mexican border
has been temporarily revoked.
Four persons were injured in a
head-on auto crash at the South Boul-
der bridge, three miles from Boulder.
Colorado guards at Golden rifle
range were paid Monday, approximate
ly $4,000 being distributed among the
men.
DR.. Cyrus w. Policy saved two child
rem when he stopped runaway team
travelling at breakneck speed in Boul-
der.
Jewelry to the value of $240 was
stolen by burglars who entered the
home of Mrs. Ella Ackridge in Den
yer.
Many unique attractions have been
arranged for the silver anniversary
Arkansas valley fair at Rock Ford,
Sept. 1924.
The Colorado Federation of Labor
opened it's annual convention at Colo
RADIO Springs, with about 200 dele
gates present.
]. H. Everman, 3S, of Denver COM
mitted suicide because he says he was
unable to provide the luxuries de-
manded by his wife.
Five thousand Oklahomans, spend
ing their vacation in the Pixies Peak
region, joined in celebrating Okla
homa day at Manitou.
The Sharon Springs band, said to
be the best cowboy aggregation of
musicians in the country, has been
engaged for Morgan Frontier Days.
The semi-annual report of the board
of county commissioners shows that
Larimer county has approximately
$l4S,3S7 in resources over it's Ii.
abilities.
According to the current issue OF
the American Contractor. a Chicago
publication, Denver last month made
a gain of 81 per cent in value OF
building permits over July of last
year.
The Lucky Seven leasers found
free gold in their stope in the Logan
mine near Boulder. The find was
made on the 400 foot level and the
, ore is thought will carry from $25 to
$50 a pound in free gold.
Mrs. c. Minton, mother of David
Minton, charged with burglary in the
: West Side Court. left Denver to go to
her home near Fort Lupton, on which
: she intends to place a mortgage tC
obtain the release of her son on a bono
of $1,000.
Although marred somewhat by
, severe rain the second annual straw
berry carnival held at Steamboat
Springs was most gratifying sue
cess in every particular and severa
thousand people were most pleasant
!. ly entertained.
The selection of Denver as the meet
ing place of the international commits
sion to settle the difficulty between
. the United States and Mexico ha
I been recommended to First Chief
. Carranza by Andres @. Garcia, d.
'acto consul in El Paso.
Quartermaster Sergeant f. C. Fren
( eel of the commissary department a
/ the Golden rifle range was promote,
t % be first lieutenant, attached to tn