Gilpin observer., 1917-12-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EvENTs.
Jan. 1s-2s-Live stock show at Denver.

SoiorduO guards are now IN france
The tax levy for Grand county is
14h mills.
Colorado's pinto bean crop this year
totals 90,00O,00O pounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clay M. Van of Denver
celebrated their fiftieth wedding ami
versary.
The one-delivery plan went into ef-
feet with the retail grocers and
butchers in Pueblo.
In Breckenridge district the mill
formerly known as the Old Union has
again been put in shape.
The contributions on tag day to the
Saturday and Sunday Hospital Asso:
citation in Denver totaled $7.739.SS.
Lieut. Harrison d. Wilson. Civil war
veteran of Westminster, was buried in
tse G.. A. r. Plat at Crown Hill Gene.
terry in Denver
w. H. Bartleson harvested about
$2.100 worth of honey from 206 hives
of bees located in the West orchards,
east of Olney.
The body of DIR. Henry C. Watt,
sOn-in-law of the late Gen. William
j. Palmer of Colorado Springs, was
cremated in Denver and the ashes
taken back to the Springs.
Fred Hole, recently arrested In
Longmont on a charge of having es-
capped from an interned German mer-
chantman at Boston three years ago,
was taken to Denver and placed in
the county Jail.
William Bruno, a Mexican con.
victed by jury in the Denver West
Side Court Nov. 26 for the murder of
his wife June %. was sentenced to
life Imprisonment in the Colorado
state penitentiary
The receipts of the Denver postof.
flee for November were $188, 1864
an increase of $55.676.22, or 41.9 per
cent over November of 1916, and the
biggest months business in the his
tory of the office
A threatening note scribbled in a
woman's handwriting, received by
Mrs. Edward C. Leisenring of Denver
demanding $500 or the woman's life,
started the secret service officials on
search for the writer.
Central City reports that the new
mill of the Cashier Mining Company,
being erected at the Pittsburg mine
is inclosed and its owners are now
constructing an addition to accommo-
date an 1S,000-gallon water tank, also
a 140-ton receiving ore bin.
Frank E. Wire of Denver an.
nounces the organization of the Cen
trail Consolidated Tunnel. Mining and
Milling Company, capitalized at $780,
900. in 100000 shares, and owning a
bond and lease on the Burns Moore
Tunnel, Mining and Milling Company
holdings.
Cattle growers of the West are to be
given an opportunity to hear Wash
ington officials connected with the
United States food administration tell
of the need for increased livestock
production next January at the annual
stock show to be held in Denver, il
the plans of the Colorado Council of
Defense carry.
Fifty years ago Harvey Stewart,
then a stalwart young man, ranching
in the Clear Creek district four miles
from Denver and near the once FAM
GUS Bakers crossing, was married to
Miss Mary Patrick of Fillmore, Mo-,
and they celebrated this momentous
event in their lives with a beautiful
golden wedding at their present home
in Denver.
With the receipt of $22,5OO worth
of thrift stamps and war savings GER
tificates at the Denver postoffice and
the allotment of q proportionate
amount to the other postoffices, Colo
rado, first state in the Union to or
ganize for the new national thrift and
savings drive, took hold of the move.
ment with will and spirit that pre-
sage most successful campaign.
While awaiting definite word from
Washington. NJ b. Tomblin, secretary
of the Colorado Metal Mining Asso-
citation, declared that petty differ.
ences had been buried and that the
American mining congress and all 10.
cal Colorado silver organizations were
ready to unite to boost the production
of silver for the government If the
federal purchasing price permitted a
fair profit.
The Denver division of officers who
recently arrived home after being
commissioned at Fort Sheridan train.
ing camp, met at luncheon and eff.
fected organization of a local branch
of national movement looking
toward taking care of the needs of the
officers and their families, so that the
officers minds will not be distracted
by domestic and business affairs while
they are at the front.
w. J. Galligan, federal fuel admin.
istrator for Colorado. who returned
from Washington, stated that the peo