Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1917-01-04
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union News Service.

Jan: s-11--Ninth Annual Poultry Show
Jan. 1l-1a-Poultry Show at Canon
ian; 2o.-Athletic club boxing contests
Jan; ao-s7IAnnual western Stock
tion at colorado Springs.
The Colorado Legislature convened
Wednesday.
Over $350,OoO was paid out Jan. 2
for interest on $17.50o,o00 in savings
to Denver people.
James J. Chambers, 90, the oldest
man in Denver. died at the home of
his daughter. Mrs. G. H. Ustik.
Frank Remont Robertson. traveller
and lecturer, died In st. Luke's hospi-
tai In Denver from appendicitis.
An organization to be known as the
Colorado State Firemen's Association
was launched at meeting in Colorado
Springs.
| William ]. Barker, president OF the
Denver Motor Club, was unanimously
reelected head Of that body by the
board of governors.
The Daughters of Colorado gave a
reception at the capitol on New Years
for the outgoing and incoming COVER.
nors and their wives
Mrs. Daniel Williams of Golden,
mother Of Wayne Williams, state in
dustrial commissioner, is seriously i'll
with double pneumonia.
| Freight rates on coal from the Wal
senburg and Trinidad districts will be
reduced under an order Just issued by
the State Public Utilities Commission
James P. Foley. 60, veteran Colo.
RADIO mining man and Democratic
leader. and father of William z. Foley,
district attorney-elect, died in Denver
Thomas Heating, 60 years old. hotel
proprietor of Red Cliff, who was strick-
en- with apoplexy in Denver restau-
rant, died in st. Luke's hospital in
Denver.
| The Denver City Council formally
ratified the acceptance by the munich
pality of the $4,000 branch libraries,
the, gift of Andrew Carnegie to Den.
yer.
A jury in the West Side Court in
Denver brought in a verdict of guilty
| against Mrs. Maud Latenser charged
with violation of the state prohibition
law.
w. F. Cody Fort No. 400, Benevolent
Order of American Scouts, was organ.
ICED in Denver and named IN honor OF
Col. Cody, Buffalo Bill" veteran
scout and plainsman.
More than s1O.OOO.OOO was spent in
Colorado by automobile tourists dur.
ing the year 1916, estimates State
| Highway Commissioner T. j. Ehrhart
in his annual report.
Denver high schools are to have
corps of cadets to be taught the rudi.
ments of military exercises until the
recently authorized Steever cadet sys.
TEN can be put into effect.
The Denver Negro Woman's Club
purchased quarters for the Girls
Friendly Club and Day Nursery at
1857 Clarkson street. OBLIGATORY ex.
ercises were held New Years day.
|
duced railroad rates in connection
with inaugural week, the fourth annu-
| al meeting of the Colorado Metal Min
ing Association has been postponed
until Jan. 9 to II.
William l.. Cooper, mining engineer
and for many years associated with H.
| A. W. Tabor In the management of
the latter's mines In Leadville, Ari.
IONA and Mexico, died at his home in
Los Angeles.
| Range problems, national forest
grazing. betterment of Colorado cattle
and other problems of interest to the
states stockmen, were discussed at
the annual meeting of the Delta Live
Stock Association in Delta
The annual convention of the State
Federation of the Colorado German.
American National Alliance will be
held Jan. in Denver. The number Of
members which will be represented by
delegates is about $4,000.
Increased prestige and political
power would be Germany's should the
war end in short time, according to
Prof. ID. Shaw Duncan, head of the
department of political economy at the
University OF Denver
Wide interest is being attracted to
the second annual food show of the
Denver Manufacturers Association
which will be held In the association's
headquarters in the Civic and Com.
fercial building from Jan. IS to 81.
At meeting Of the Denver County
Metal Mining Association held in Den.
yer officers were elected, director
of the state association chosen and
delegates and alternates to the state
convention. which meets in Denver
Jan. 8, were selected.
Between 100000 and 1000. 600
| acres Of DubliC land will ha taLa,, ,,r