Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1916-11-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES For COMING EyENTs.

4 81 1855
DATES Iron COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 1.s.Poultry Show at Denver.
| City.
Jan. 2o--Athletic Club boxing contests
Jan. 2O-27-Annual western Stock
Show at Denver.
Feb. 2-4-Y. M. c. A. Annual Conven-
| ton at Colorado Springs.
A total of $1,547,153.5O will be
raised by direct taxation in Denver
for school purposes next year. "f
The State Tax Commission has
been retained by $3.50 votes, accord
ing to figures which have been given
the commission by county officials.
Theodore Nelson, charged with kill
ing Roy j. Knapp in an automobile ac-
cident, appeared before the West
Side Court in Denver and gave a
bond of $4,000.
| Impressive and solemn exercises
marked the fiftieth anniversary cele-
bration of Colorado Commandery No.
l, Knights Templar, held at Temple
Ell Jebel In Denver.
Members of the state legislative
| board of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen met in Denver to devise a
legislative program for the coming
session at the State Legislature
Morris l.. Smith, manufacturer of
slides for motion picture theaters and
widely known as Smith, the Slide
Man." committed suicide in his home
at Denver by cutting his throat with
razor.
Fifty-eight Denver autoists paid
$3.50 in fines in Police Court follow
ing their capture for speeding, despite
the fact there had been two serious
accidents, one resulting fatally during
the week
An Idaho Springs report states that
the mining output in the old reliable
camp of Gibson gulch is brighter,
and more work is being done on the
old mines in the District than has
been done for several years.
A new record for bank clearings in
Denver was established for the week
ending Nov. %, when the total clear
ings reached $19,151,O 900. The increase
for the week over the same week last
year was 61.4 per cent. The clearings
also gained $1,481,O0 over the previ-
Gus week.
The Great Western Sugar Company
announced that it will contract for the
1917 sugar beet crop on the basis of an
average price of s6.75 per ton to the
farmer, an advance of 800 per ton
fI,o ,.,;-4 q
crop and SOC per ton over the price
actually paid the farmers this year.
Not an idle house in Breckenridge,
Kokomo, Robinson or Montezuma is
Summit county's response to the pres
ent fair prices for zinc, silver, copper
and lead. AS winter approaches the
need of houses to shelter the in
creased forces of mines in all of
these camps is very keenly felt.
J. Nj. Bryen of South Chicago, so
years old, was found dead in his room
at Greeley. A bullet hole in his head
indicated that he had killed himself
Mr.. Bryen was a brother of Photion
Bryen, in Jail at Greeley charged with
killing ]. E. Jackson, ranchman,
near Stoneham, last summer, in
quarrel over wages.
Walking without word to the bed
side of his wife, who lay very ill in a
rooming house at Pueblo, Charles
Niece, railroad switchman 81 years
old, drew revolver and shot himself
through the heart, dying instantly.
The wife received such shock from
her husbands suicide that it is said,
she probably will die.
The Consolidated Mines Develop
ment Company, operating the Yukon
group at Alice. have good ore in
three headings on the upper or 1870.
root level. One drift shows six to
eight inches of smelling ore, assaying
$50 per ton, and one and one. half feet
of mill dirt which assays from $40 to
$l2 gold per ton and four to six
ounces silver.
The social season of Colorado's
most exclusive poultry will open Jan.
! at the Denver auditorium and for a
week thoroughbred chickens, hens,
ROSTERS, turkeys and rabbits and the
whole aristocracy of the barnyard will
contest for ribbons, cups, premiums
and prizes under the auspices of the
Colorado Poultry Fanciers Associa.
ton in the seventeenth annual cham.
pionship show
Members and representatives of
more than thirty organizations in.
spired by patriotic motives met at
Trinity Methodist Episcopal church
in Denver under the auspices of the
Washington-Lincoln Memorial Associ.
alton to formulate plans for the Wash
ington-Lincoln pageant to be cele-
brated in Denver next February. The
knights of Pythias, Boy Scouts and
other bodies attended in full regalia