Gilpin observer., 1917-05-03

May 17-20-Convention Colorado Sum
day School Association at Colorado
June 1-22-christian Endeavor Con-
vention at Salida.
Aug. National Convention of Afri-
can Race at Denver.
sept 17-22-Colorado State Fair at Pu-
Buena vista's Chautauqua will be
held this year on June 1s to 90.
Another Y M. c. A. building cost.
ing $225,O0O assured for Pueblo
Over 100000 insurance to be paid
relatives of Hastings mine Victims
The postoffice at Granada and
Springfield have been advanced to the
presidential class.
The City Council of Salida has ap-
propriated 5000 year for the support
of municipal band
new high school building is in
course of construction at Burlington,
at a cost Of $4,000.
At the close of its fiscal year the
town of La Junta had $28,S65 on hand,
which sum included $4,000 in the wa.
ter bond fund.
A movement started through the La
mar Rifle Club has resulted in the en-
listment in the army, navy and
marines of fifty men.
Flour advanced SO cents in Denver
Saturday. bringing the sale price of
popular Colorado-made brands to
$6.45 and $685. hundred pounds.
The open season in running
streams for trout and grayling. not
less than seven inches in length, will
begin May 25th and end Oct 31st.
After long negotiations between its
various towns and villages. Huerfano
county has engaged county agricul-
tural agent. His name is Kidder.
Funeral ceremonies at the burial of
Col. w. F. Cody buffalo BilD, which
will take place June 3rd on Lookout
mountain, will be conducted by the
Masons.
Grazing permits for $4,000 sheep and
10000 head of cattle have been grant
ed for the Montezuma national forest
Mancos will be the distributing point
for the stock.
Thirteen physicians of Denver are to
be on the firing line in France within
three months. DR.. Cuthbert Powell of
the Denver County Medical Associa-
ton announced.
| In expectation of an Immediate call
for mobilization, officers of the Colo
RADIO National Guard ordered their
commands to pack suitcases and be in
readiness to move within an hours
notice
Colorado's state convention of the
Court of Honor fraternal lodge will
hold its annual state convention in
Greeley on Monday, May 7th There
will be about 125 visiting delegates
present.
| Women of Colorado are to organize
regiment of infantry differed and
commanded by women, which they
will offer to the nation in any capac-
ity desired. even to going into the
field and fighting.
Representatives of thirteen farmers
| oranges in La Plata county met at
Durango and perfected central organ
ization under the name of the La Plata
County Farm Bureau, the organization
having membership Of over 1000.
That a number of residences on Cap.
itol Hill and in East and South Den
ver-notably those occupied by Ger
mans or families of German descent
are marked with strange symbols was
the report made to the Denver police
| and federal authorities
julius Pearse, one of Denver's pio-
neer fire chiefs and an organizer of
its first volunteer fire department.,
died at his home, 252S Stout street, as
the direct result of an injury to foot
received two years ago while exam.
lining a fire truck. Blood poisoning
developed, causing death.
The strike of 1870 students at the
Golden School of Mines came officially
to the attention of Governor julius C.
Gunter when committee of Golden
citizens, committee of two repre-.
senting all of Colorado. and delega.
ton of students from the institution
presented the case to the governor.
In a party of thirty-two recruits
passing through Leadville. bound for
San Francisco bay, three were from
Leadville itself, and one of these was
Earl NJ. Anderson. 6 feet A inches. He
attracts attention wherever he goes
and his shorter mates allege that his
job will be to watch enemy airplanes.
The body of every Greek miner
killed in the disaster at Hastings has,
upon search, yielded substantial sum
On the leg of one was discovered, Sc
curely tied, a portion OF a girls stock.
ing. in which was $1.70O in currency
Most of the Greek miners carry on
their own persons. in that fashion, all
their mobile wealth.
About 15 per cent OF the filings
made ON land In Colorado nndo. Tic