Gilpin observer., 1917-01-25
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
DATES ron COMING EVENTS,
es.ern Newspaper Union New. Service.


DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
Jan; 2o-27-Annual western Stock
tion at Colorado Springs.
Feb. 28-March Carnival of Mid-Win-
ter Sports at Steamboat Springs.
A shorthorn bull, exhibited at the
Denver stock show, was sold for ST.
900.
Bon l. Look, Denver merchant, died
Of pneumonia in the home of relatives
at Pekin, Ill.
Notwithstanding the zero weather
society night at the Denver horse
show brought out large crowd.
Lewis N. Smith, 60, who was home
steading a government claim near Di-
vide. was found dead in his cabin.
William H. Gabbert, former chief
justice of the Supreme Court. will
make Denver his home in the future.
Jack" Cummings was convicted of
assaulting 6-year-old girl by a Jury
In district court at Steamboat Springs
Governor Gunter addressed the
members of the Mountain States
Hardware Dealers convention in Den.
yer.
Three hundred grocers attended the
seventeenth state convention of the
Retail Merchants Association at
Boulder.
cantaloupe inspection bill was
prepared at meeting of Rocky Ford
citizens, and will be presented to the
Legislature.
Many persons inspected the food ex.
hibits and specimens of Colorado's
manufactured products at the Denver
Chamber of Commerce.
Philip D. Armour III. of Chicago,
with party of about forty employees
of the Armour Packing company, ar
rived in Denver to attend the stock
show.
A passenger train from Alamosa
was reported stalled in the snow at
the top of Cumbres pass Monday. The
snow plow was stuck in drifts on the
summit
Wounds received on Oct. 80, when
he was attacked by a mad dog,
caused the death of Virgil Harring.
ton. 15-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. T. Harrington of Denver.
The Ohio and Colorado Smelling
and Refining Company of Salida
awarded increased wages of twenty
cents shift for all employees on the
payroll, beginning Jan. 1.
San Miguel county mines shipped
gold, silver, lead and copper ores val
ued at $2,O26,102 to the American
Smelling and Refining Company's'
plant at Durango during 1916.
Railroad travel to Denver for the
National Western Livestock show, at
the stockyards stadium, was the
heaviest in the history of the show,
according to officials at the Union sta
ton.
Twenty-Five people, all save one un-
acquainted with John Lawrence
Smith, who was shot to death by his
wife, Mrs. Stella Newton Moore
Smith, gathered in Denver for th..
funeral services.
come the feeder cattle market of the
country within the next ten years
were made by H. A. Jastro, former
president of the American National
Livestock Association, while visiting
Denver.
and assistant supervisors, who keep
watch over Uncle Sans vast national
forests in Colorado, South Dakota,
Minnesota and Michigan, will meet in
Denver Jan. 29 for conference last
ing until Feb. 3.
Montrose is considering an ord'-
nance which calls for an election on
Feb. 20 to vote on a proposition to is
sue $4,000 in Ak per cent bonds for
the purpose of funding the present Is
sue of water bonds which must be
paid on or before the year 1920.
The death Of J. Il. Mum, a govern
ment meat inspector, who was scalded
Meat Company last October, while
making an examination of the place,
is the basis of suit for $4,000 filed
in the District Court in Denver by
Harold e. Mum, son.
At Rico a surface tunnel has been
run on the New Year property to con-
meet with the air shaft. Connection
has been made and drifting Is proceed.
ing on a vein showing native copper
and some very high-grade lead ore,
some of which is said to assay as
much as rs per cent lead.
For the first time in the history OF
the Boy Scout movement, n city has
been designated as the Headquarters
of large district outside its own
boundaries. Denver has become the
center OF the work in the Rocky Noun
tain region through the special &C