Gilpin observer., 1917-12-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

's"' 1S-1o--ive stock show at Denver
The McClune farm near Platteville
was sold for $4,000.
A girl bandit held up a woman in
Denver and secured 500.
Num- has organized home guard
unit with fifty members
The snow and cold weather Dec.
and 10 delayed Denver trains.
New woman county agent for Pu
eblo county arrives in Pueblo to take
up her duties.
The Methodist church of Longmont
has purchased $4,000 cathedral pipe
organ with chimes.
Bakeries are now under government
license and eleven cents is price fol
pound loaf in Denver
Mrs. James E. Hanley, wife of the
postmaster at Cripple Creek. died aft
er an illness of about month.
Miss Eva Lang became Mrs. John
Halliday, in the presence of the mem.
bers of the Denham Company in Den,
yer.
In four days at the Denver livestock
market 32,i74 cattle were weighed
and disposed of, breaking past rec
ords.
The Rev. DIR. John Henry Hough.
ton, one of the best-loved ministers
ever in Denver, died in st. Luke's hos.
pital.
Forty-seven of the sixty-three Colo.
RADIO counties propose to expend a to-
tai of $1,800,000 for state highways
alone in 1918.
Charles Ellsworth Pierce of Las
Animas. who was aboard the de.
stroyer Jacob Jones when it was sunk,
is among those saved.
The Denver municipal coal depart.
ment has sold $4,000 tons of coal to
the poor of the city since beginning
operations two months ago.
The Ell Paso County Women's Coun.
Gil OF Defense has arranged for speak
ers to go to all kinds of meetings to
arouse spirit of patriotism.
The sugar factory at Grand juno.
tion paid 81 for beets this year, but
now announces that for the beets OF
next season it will offer $3.50 per ton.
Alcoholic liquors confiscated in Col.
orado and not turned over to the hos.
pitfalls by the courts will in all prob.
ability be given to the government for
military use.
Although the election of officers Of
District 10. United Mine Workers, ia
not until Jan. 3, the campaign prom
ises to be one of the liveliest in re-
cent years in the ranks OF the union
miners.
Wallace Simpson, negro, whose
father lives in Denver was cabin
| steward on the American destroyer
Jacob Jones, which was sunk Dec. 6
while on duty in the war zone His
name does not appear in the list OF
survivors.
Henry w. Deutsch, Denver man ap.
pretended as an alleged Austrian spy
in Hugo. roped, shot at and forced to
kiss the flag by mob of indignant
townspeople and cowpunchers, sue.
ceeded in furnishing $4,000 bond and
was released.
The Denver District Court, through
Judge John II. Denison, entered an or.
der discharging Marshall b. Smith
from the receivership of the Denver
Laramie & Northwestern railroad
which had been in financial difficult
ties for four years.
The trial of Undersheriff Edward
Allison, charged with murder in con
nection with the mysterious death o.
Mrs. Margaret Manning. In the office
OF Denver creamery company, or
Nov. Is, was set for Jan. 8, in the
Denver West Side Court.
Hundreds Of young girls of Jeru
salem-Jewish and Turkish alike
are giving themselves into the keepins
OF German soldiers, preferring SLAYER,
to starvation, according to the story
told by Celia Moinestea, who, will
her mother, has arrived in Denver
q refugee from Jerusalem.
The janitors and janitresses o
Denver. impelled by the increased
cost Of living. and feeling that of al
classes of labor they have received tn,
least consideration in the way O
wages, hive organized union and ar,
planning a concerted demand for high
er pay and better working conditions.
Unless .foremen in Colorado Goa
mines receive wage raise. they will
quit their jobs and start work as min
ers. With the increased pay to Goa
, miners recently ordered by the gov
! ernment. the miners now receive BET
ter wages than the foremen unde
whom they labor.
/ A Colorado branch of the American
Red Star. the national organization
which bears toward the animals O
war-the horses and the dogs-th
same relation that the American Re
Cross bears toward the soldiers, ha