Gilpin observer., 1917-02-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


Western Newspaper Union News Service
DATES FOR COMING EVENTS.
March 1-2-Midwinter SKI Carnival at
eblo. =
Robert E. Palm, 32nd degree Ma
son, died OF paralysis at the home of
Andrew Misner in Castle Rock.
Six arrests were made at Pueblo in
connection with tho killing Of Mich
olas Venezio. taxicab driver.
Potato raisers in the Fort Collins
district are holding out for $3.75 per
cwt.. with 900 carloads on hand.
Chaloner B. Schley. leader In soci-
yety Of Denver and Colorado Springs,
died at Colorado Springs after an ex-
tended illness.
George c. Beckley, wealthy sugar
man of Honolulu and brother-in-law of
Princess Kawananakoa of Hawaii,
will make his home in Denver.
G. M. Sutherland, 60, OF Salina, ten
miles west of Boulder, dropped dead
..
Mabel Ardourel, in Money Musk.
Residents OF La Plata county have
petitioned the Postoffice Department
for the creation of q rural route
along the Pine river, Texas creek and
Wallace gulch districts.
The first of the 81 and 81 legal
tender notes recently issued by the
Treasury Department were received
by Rowland K Goddard, United
States secret service agent in Denver.
Aspen authorities are considering
the proposition of securing a complete
title to the Wheeler Opera. House
building for the city and then convert
ing it into a city hall and fire sta.
ton.
The Missouri society, composed of
former residents of the "Show Me"
state, will give a dinner in Denver
March 3, to be followed by entertain
ment. It will be the annual meeting
for the election of five directors.
Word has been received in Denver
of the death of John ]. Buel. the man
also plated the site of Boulder and Of
Central City, and later founded the
city of Quinnesec, Mich. He died
there.
Deputy District Attorney Paul Nc
Govern Of Denver has filed an infor-
nation against Homer Ware, charging
him with robbery and assault with in
tent to kill DR.. D. B. Mcmahon, pro-
prietor Of drug store. Mcmahon was
shot by a holdup.
the State Board of Charities and Cor
'rections. on the appointing of an as
sistant secretary and an Investigator,
failed to show any sign of weakening
at an adjourned meeting, and the
places are still untitled.
The principal witness against the
forty Denver youths Of good families
who are accused Of comprising the
"revel ring" that is being Investigated
by state and federal authorities, has,
for the second time since the probe
started, "mysteriously" disappeared.
Lying unconscious for more than
twenty-four hours, suffering from a
severed artery at the base Of the brain
and badly fractured skull, d. b. Free
man, aged 20, Of Virgins, is not ex-
pected to live as the result of an auto
mobile accident just south of Platte
Vile.
Colorado has the opportunity for be-
coming the greatest poultry raising
state In the Union. according to an au-
thoritative statement in booklet just
issued by the State Agricultural Col
lege. The information contained in
the booklet was compiled by Prof. w.
e. Vaplon.
The Vernon mine at Ironton is prov
ing somewhat of a sensation in the
district, and it is reported that there
are very favorable chances of the
smelter, which was started few
years ago on the Mono-Baltic prop
erty, being completed and in opera
ton before the year Is out.
Secretary Huston Of the United
States Department of Agriculture will
visit Denver next June, with the pri-
mary object of studying opportunities
and possibilities in connection with
the development of the Mount Evans
region and the general mountain parks
system in the vicinity of Denver.
With about 100000 subscribed and
In sight, 200 volunteer workers who
have been active in the campaign to
raise $4,000 for the support OF Den.
ver's seventeen Federated Charities in
the next fifteen months met and voted
to continue the solicitation of funds
until the needed sum is obtained.
The Rico-Argentine Company, which
has been driving tunnel under the
workings OF the old Black Hawk mine
to tap the large copper deposits OF
the latter at much greater depth