Gilpin observer., 1916-09-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES ron COMING EVENTS

Oct: 6.Frontier Day Celebration a,
Oct. I2-Annual Poudrs Canon Picnic
Jan. 20-27-Annual western stool,
Show at Denver.
Seventeen men were arrested II
Denver in raids on two alleged boot
Logging headquarters.
! Many Denver Elks attended the
thirteenth annual state meeting of the
B. p. o. E. at Trinidad.
The 1916 Synod of the Presbyterian
church, district of Colorado, will meel
in Grand Junction, Oct. 1919.
The trade-making trip of the Den
yer Civic Association members to the
San Luis Valley was started Sunday.
Work will be started to widen the
mountain road running from Ever.
green to Bergen Park. The survey
has been completed.
The National Association of Life
Underwriters elected ]. Stanley Ed
wards of Denver second vice presi
dent at its annual convention at st
Louis.
John Reidy, Colorado pioneer and
deputy United States marshal for
eighteen year, died at his home in
Denver. He had been i'll about two
weeks.
Don P. Blackwood, Denver attor
ney, on trial for his sanity in the
County Court in Denver, was de-
| clared sane by the verdict of jury
of laymen.
The fifty-third annual session of the
Rocky Mountain Baptist Association
met at the Baptist church of Love
land. Thirty-six Of the forty churches
of the association were represented.
The first subscription to the Den
yer Labor Temple, which unions OF
the city are planning to build. was
voted by the Denver Trades and La
Dor Assembly at its regular meeting.
Tungsten exists in the Leadville
district. Its presence has been proved
by the discoveries of scheelite and
hubnerite recently made In the Gar,
butt and Ibex properties on Breeze
hill.
Mrs. M. A. Potter, prominent soci-
ETY. woman of Indianapolis. sustained
concussion of tho brain and may die
as the result OF an automobile acci
dent on the Cheyenne road near Colo
rado Springs.
A budget or $S,2S2,OOO was decided
upon at the conference in Denver be-
tween experts representing thirty-two
Western irrigation projects and OF
ficials of the United States Re-lama
tion Service
That the great Cresson ore "vug,"
discovered in November, 1914, is not
yet exhausted is indicated by re-
port from Colorado Springs. stating
that recent ton shipment from the
mine to the Golden Cycle plant at
Colorado City was paid for on the
basis of 81 per pound or $4,000 for the
lot.
Romance, of the sort fiction lovers
seek, burst into the full blossom OF
reality in Denver, when Mrs. AIDA
Hauk, one of the Dexter twins,
wealthy widow and well known social
ly, was married to |. Francis Rankin
said to be an educated, full b!ooded
Cherokee Indian. The wedding took
place at Colorado Springs.
The leasers on the Senator mine
below Black Hawk, shipped carload
of concentrates from the Iron City
concentration, weighing 1920 pounds.
to the Globe smelter, which was set
tied for at Les ounces gold, 1882
ounces silver and 6.7 per cent lead,
showing the ore to be worth s42.77
per ton, producing a check for $356.97.
Twenty-three Colorado pioneers at
tended the thirty-third annual ban
quet Of the Colorado Veterans Associ-
alton in Denver. Among them wer4
ten veterans of the Civil War. Rem.
! iniscences of the early days when pio
neers had to fight Indians, and later
answered the call for volunteers,
stirred the oldtimers.
The arrest in Chicago of Willard
Powell, alias the Waco Kid" as a
suspect in connection with the nation.
wide matchmaking gang being round
ed up Ivy the federal authorities Of
Chicago. Is one OF the latest develop
ments In the case with Colorado
angle. The Waco Kid" was arrested
in Denver last June on a charge OF
wire-tapping" and was later extra.
dited to Illinois.
High prices on potatoes are bring
ing wealth into Colorado this year
| although unofficial estimates in ,ica.e
that the crop will be 100000 bushels
lower than for last season. The crop
for 1915 Appreciated 7.250.00O bush.
els as compared with 5.250.O0O bush
els for this season. The prices last
year. however. ranged from 45 to 80
cents per hundredweight, while this
year they range from $3.50 to 81 go