Gilpin observer., 1916-12-28
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.

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at Brush.
Jan; 11-1s-Poultry Show at Canon
Jan. 2o.-Athletic Club boxing contests
at Denver.
JAN 2o-27-Annual Western Stock
Show at Denver
Feb. 2-4-Y. M. C. A. Annual Conven-
| ton at Colorado Springs.
Earl Langley, IS, of Pueblo, was
shot and seriously injured following q
quarrel with an Italian in a skating
rink.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred C. Grant enjoy
the distinction of being parents of the
only Christmas baby in Denver in
1916.
With nearly 300 more fires to fight
in 1916 than during 1915, the Denver
fire department reduced the fire loss
$67,055.6S.
Early Christmas morning two armed
men held up and robbed John Hayes
night clerk at the Mountain View no
tel, Denver.
Railroad officials report the biggest
Christmas holiday travel for several
years on the reduced round trip rates
in Colorado.
While Christmas merrymakers
packed Fifteenth street early Satur.
day evening, highwaymen slugged and
to his store in Denver.
The Rev. Irving P. Johnson, who be
comes bishop Of the diocese of Colo
RADIO in the Protestant Episcopal
church on New Year day, spent
Christmas in Manitou.
Routt county bituminous coal
reached the highest price in the his
tory of the state when it was ad
vanced to 81 ton, an increase in the
former price of so cents.
The largest gathering of children
ever assembled in Denver enjoyed
Denver's first community Christmas
party. More than 10000 greeted San.
ia Claus and his aides.
At Colorado Springs ]. p. Madden,
recently reelected city magistrate,
was stricken while at the office OF
the county clerk where he had gone to
file new bond of office.
There were thirty-five fewer deaths
in Denver during November, 1916,
than in the corresponding month in
1915, according to the monthly report
of the Denver Bureau of Health.
The Silverton district shipped 173
cars Of ore per month on the average
during the year ending December 1.
The net average monthly return on
the shipments are estimated at $780,
600.
Pueblo had the biggest Christmas
in the history of the city All stores
in the city report buying greater then
ever before. The B. p. o. E. delivered
264 baskets to the poor on Christmas
morning.
More than 1000 persons were turned
away from the doors of the Cathedral
of the Immaculate Conception when
the first solemn midnight Christmas
mass in the history of Denver was
celebrated.
That the problem of conserving and
adding to the bird life of Denver is
one which demands attention and will
ne given serious study during the
coming year is assured by plans now
under consideration by Denver park
officials.
The unequaled prosperity of Denver,
which has been demonstrated at the
stores, at the banks, and at the post.
office during this holiday season,
came to its zenith Saturday and set an
absolutely new mark for Colorados
capital city. ....
The life of guardsman on the
Mexican border itsn't nearly so dis
agreeable as some would have It
seem, according to Sergt. Frank
Stark of Denver, who is home on fur
Tough. THE climate is healthful and
hracing all along the border" he said,
'and one cannot fail to benefit by the
military life and discipline"
The annual report of the United
Gold Mines Company of Cripple Creek,
| which covers the work accomplished
during the year, was sent TO stock
holders with their dividend checks. II
| SHOWS that in the first eight months
OF 1916 1878 tons of ore of gross
value of $219,215.75 were taken out by
the lessees with net return of $124,
| S5O.04. The royalties in that period
amounted to s30,S53.41.
George w. Ryan and George Wilson,
the two yeggmen who blew the safe in
the NiWot bank and were captured by
Sheriff Buster and deputies at Louis.
vile, have admitted to postoffice in
spectors that they burned the $4,000
stamps they took out of the safe. The
value of the stamps. according TO the
report of Cordia Clifford. postmistress,
was 1892. She deposited them in the
bank safe the night of the robbery.
Boulder police are steadily endeav.
| oring to draw the net of tho Ia ~