Gilpin observer., 1917-04-19

June Tsn,;d. s;5s..cn,,...an ;,s nndeavor Con-
Aug. National Convention of Afri-
can Race at Denver.
Sept l7-22-Colorado state Fair at Pu-
Husky men of Fowler are organic
ing home guard.
Governor Gunter cuts out portion of
long appropriation bill.
Potatoes sold in Denver at $3.50 per
cwt. and flour at $5.65@5.75.
Denver police department ordered
to take guns from all alien enemies.
Farm lands in the vicinity of Limon
have been selling in large blocks re-
Gently.
New independent telephone COM
pany being organized in Morgan
county.
Footballs in the town of Yuma were
wiped out by majority vote of the
people.
Numerous patriotic affairs are be-
ing conducted by the Catholics of
Denver
Grand Junction has published call
for payment of bonds of that city to-
falling s19.95O.
Sons of American Revolution to
hold patriotic gathering on Licking
ton day. at Pueblo
More than 100000 was paid to the
farmers of the Greeley district for
last years bean crop.
The city of Ouray has issued call
for bonds numbered l to 10 of the
refunding bonds Of the city of Ouray,
totaling $4,000.
Two new trustees for Colorado col
lege are announced-Oliver H. Shoup,
who succeeds w. s. Jackson, and
Benjamin Griffith.
Field hospital corps No. 1, Colorado
National guard, has opened recruit
ing office in Denver, with Major E.
w. Lazell in charge.
An eight-foot vein carrying 25 per
cent lead and running from Is to 80
ounces a ton in silver has been
opened in the Keystone at Aspen.
Convention called at Boulder to
take preliminary action toward COM
mission form of government, which
was adopted at the city election.
United Mine Workers of America
will hold a mass meeting at Ludlow
on Sunday, April 90, when several
prominent labor leaders will be on
the program.
Members of the Colorado branch of
the German-American alliance will
form a branch of the American Red
Cross Society, it was voted at meet
ing in Denver.
The governors ways and means
committee continues to receive scores
of letters from over the state asking
help to get seed and tractors to aid
the big crop drive.
Free classes in French for soldiers,
who may eventually have to talk shop
with their new allies on the western
front, are planned by Nine. Lucille
Desmartin of Denver.
Among building projects at Gunni-
son now in contemplation are addi-
tional buildings at the State Normal
school, new county high school
building, new hotel and several resi-
dences.
Miss Mae Everitt, graduate of the
training school of the Longmont hos
pital, has enlisted in the United States
army nurse corps and is to be sta
toned after May l at the Preside.
San Francisco.
Colorado's National guard offers
service in practically every branch of
modern war work, with the exception
of aviation. Artillery, cavalry, in
fantry, crack machine gun corps-all
are needing red-blooded men
The dredging season in Summit
county is we'll under way. Three OF
the four gold dredging boats in the
breckenridge district are busy eating
away the deposits at French gulch and
Swan valley, and It promises to be the
most successful year this form of
mining has ever seen in the county.
Mayor Ray II. Kiteley has formed a
war council among the business men
and farmers of Longmont that will CO.
operate with him to secure the great
est efficiency in local affairs during
the coming summer and bring the
greatest possible results from doing
their part in the war crisis for home,
state and nation.
| Despondent over i'll health and
fearing that the United States would
confiscate his property which he had
been lifetime in accumulating along
with worry over financial matters
caused Fred Frickle, age 65 years, a
blacksmith, to commit suicide by fir
ing charge from a shotgun into his
head. at his shop in Pueblo.
Another offer in the cause of aerial
preparedness for Colorado was made
when Edward L. Bloom and Charles O.