Gilpin observer., 1917-12-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.


: Canon City had a municipal Christ
mas tree,
A lumber yard at Mancos was de-
stroyed by fire.
The holiday passenger traffic was
unusually heavy.
Colorado's farm products for 1917
valued at s145, 5,56O,OOO.
Sixteen new recruits for the navy
in one week at Trinidad.
Value of Colorado's farm crop 60 per
cent greater than in 1916.
A record number of liquor permits
have been issued at Pueblo in Decem-
ber.
Salida sent hundreds of Christmas
packages to the soldiers. The Red
Cross chapter gathered boxes of gifts
which go to the Chaffee county boys
Commissioners of Montrose county
have bought three steel bridges for
the Rainbow route between Montrose
and Cimarron.
The amount of money fixed by the
assessor to be collected in Fremont
county during the coming twelve
months, which will be the 1917 taxes.
will be $422.S23.
The United States government has
supplied four headstones for the
graves OF veterans of the Civil and
Spanish-American wars who are
buried at Berthoud.
Fifteen hundred boxes of candy, one
for every Sammy at Fort Logan, was
the Christmas remembrance given by
pupils Of the third and eighth grades
of Denver's public schools.
Citizens of Japan and China are not
eligible for enlistment in the reserve
corps of the United States Army, ac-
cording to telegraph orders received
by Maj. c. N. Barney from Washing
ton.
The monthly report of the Isabella
mine shows that good progress Is be-
ing made in development work and
that the two recent strikes are hold
ing up, one of them assaying $615O a
ton.
The sale of Red Cross Christmas
seals this season far exceeded the
sales Of former years, both in Denver
and in the state of Colorado. The pro-
ceeds go to the Denver Anti-Tuber-
culosis Society.
Jim GoOdheart of the Denver Sun
shine mission received an unexpected
consignment of 1850 pounds of rab-
bits. There were about 1000 rabbits
in the lot and they were sent to Good
heart from Sterling, where the citi-
zens had just had a rabbit hunt.
Col. P. ]. Hamrock, commanding the
One Hundred and Fifty-seventh Infan-
try, Camp Kearney, Cal, received or
ders announcing the promotion of elev-
en- second lieutenants to the grade of
first. and of three enlisted men to be
second lieutenants, all Coloradoans
A census of all nurses in the state,
both men and women, who are
trained, graduate, professional or prac-
tical, will shortly be begun by the
Nurses Survey Board of the Colorado
Woman's Council of Defense, recent
ly appointed by Gov. julius c. Gunter.
One of the most striking develop
ments in metallurgical processes in
the last few years has been the sue
| ceessful results obtained with oil-flota-
tion methods of recovering metals
from their ores, linked with the in
stallation process.
Ed Johnson and associates, who are
leasing on the Aspen mine, situated
on Hazelton mountain, only a couple
of miles from Silverton. are doing
considerable work with small force
of men and have been steady shippers
for over year past.
A divorce suit is Mrs. Teresa e
Lees definite answer to the action re
Gently instituted by her husband, DR.
George +. Lee. against her parents
Mr., and Mrs. Frederick j. Schmidt Of
Denver from whom he demands $95,
600 damages for the alleged loss o.
his wife's affections through "a ma
licious pro-German conspiracy"
Miss Marie Shaw, a former Denver
girl, now residing in San Diego, II
given thanks and warm praise by th'
Colorado boys in training at CAM
Kearney, Cal, for her thoughtfulnes
in having the Columbine Club OF Sai
Diego entertain the soldiers from tn,
Centennial state at series of dance
given especially in their honor.
With $42,615 collected on the dol
lar Christmas membership drive
which represents as many new mem
bers as dollars. the campaign commit
tee OF the Denver chapter Saturda
night was sure that Denver would "g
over the top" with the $4,000 member
that the committee had set as Der
ver's quota in the nationwide driv
for 100000.
Frank Boseker and w. L. Marhal
alleged bootleggers, who were cal
tured with an auto, two rifles. sho
gun and fifteen cases OF whisky te
miles south of Walsenburg by Sherii