Gilpin observer., 1917-06-28

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can Race at Denver.
Sept; H-22-Colorado state Fair at Pu-
Colorado exceeds quota to Red
Cross fund.
Ordway has new fire truck and q
new fire chief
Denver contributed $65S,444 to the
Red Cross fund.
Broken pipe line cripples Canon
City water supply.
Second company of Pueblo national
guard is mustered in.
The man who enlists in the National
Guard is enlisted in the regular army.
Free transportation of farm hands
Is recommended by state labor COM
missioner
Work of paving the main street of
Littleton has been completed and it is
again open to traffic.
Fifty or more colored men have en-
listed in the Pueblo company of Ma
jor Campbelrs battalion.
Major Barney states that 474 men
are needed to complete Colorados
quota in the United States army.
The San Luis Valley Masonic Asso-
citation held their twenty-third annual
celebration at their park. June 25.
A mass meeting was held in the
Denver Auditorium to celebrate the
raising of $5O0,OOO for the Red Cross
fund.
Eight farm owners of Weld county
Will be the first Coloradoans to bene-
fit under the governments system of
land loans.
Pueblo Elks are making prepara-
tions to attend the annual national
convention to be held in Boston the
week of July g.
More than 800 persons appeared in
the county recorders office in Denver,
Monday, to obtain permits to have
liquor shipped in to them.
A resolution calling for the enforce
ment of the child labor law during the
war was passed unanimously by the
Denver Trades and Labor Assembly.
A coroner's jury in Denver brought
in a verdict that william Bruno fired
the shot which killed his wife last
Sunday night with felonious intent.
Mining activity in Colorado is great
ly encouraged by the steady advance
in the quotations for silver, spelter,
lead, copper, tungsten and molybde
mum.
Louis Schwarz of Glenwood
Springs, widely known banker of the
Western Slope, died in ST. Luke's hos
pital, Denver, from the effects of an
operation.
John and Rex Nisley, aged s and 5,
respectively, were swept from their
horse and drowned while trying to
reach an island in Platte creek near
Grand Junction.
Teller county has raised $21 100 for
the Red Cross and expects to turn in
$4,000 when all towns have been
heard from. The allotment for the
county was $4,000.
All employees Of the city of Denver
receiving less than $1,000 a year will
receive an increase amounting to not
more than Is per cent Of their present
wages after July 1st.
Five persons were injured, two of
them seriously, when the car of Welsy
Frasier, driven by Will O'Driscoll. ran
into a culvert six miles west of Mont
rose and turned over.
Through the Department of Com
merce at Washington the Pueblo
Commerce Club has received sugges-
tions for relieving the car shortage
and freight congestion.
Trainmen employed by the Denver
City Tramway Company have voted to
accept the companys offer of an in
crease OF cents an hour. About 900
men are affected by the raise in pay.
That Denver will obtain an army
supply depot through which food and
other supplies may be purchased of
producers and manufacturers of the
state becomes every day more proba.
BILE.
Full military honors marked the fu-
neral of Walter G. Ragland, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Neal Ragland of Arvada. A
firing squad consisting of six cavalry
men from Fort Logan took part in the
services.
Thirty foreign-born residents of
Colorado were granted final papers OF
naturalization by Judge Robert Z.
Lewis in the Federal District Court in
Denver and were sworn in as Ameri.
can citizens.
Robert Morris, pioneer resident
OF Denver and during its early days
actively identified with its political &C.
tivities, having served one term as
mayor, died at the family home, 1907
Franklin street, after an illness of
about two weeks.
rich discovery at depth for the
Ironclad Hill section has been made
by the Cripple Creek Deep Leasing