Gilpin observer., 1917-12-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.

COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 14-19-Annual Farmers Congress
at Fort Collins.
Jan. 14-19-Central Colorado Poultry
and Pet Stock Show at Salida.
The Christmas dollar membership
campaign committee of the Red Gross
started the drive for eight days, until
Dec. 26.
Garfield county hopes to have the
new highway through the Glenwood
cafion on the Grand river completed
by Jan. 1.
To determine the cost of bread from
practical experience the city of Den
yer has established a bakery in the
county jail.
DR.. c. H. Waxham of Sugar City
has received notification from Wash
ington that he has been accepted as
an army surgeon.
The navy recruiting station Satur-
day accepted 1875 applicants, establish
ing the greatest number in the history
of the Denver office.
Thomas Williams, 20 years old, a
pioneer freighter of Colorado and for
forty-nine years, a resident of the
state, died at his home in Denver.
The University of Colorado has in
formed Governor Gunter that $50 stu
dents, alumni and faculty members,
are now in active service in the army
and navy.
Chaffee county chapter of State
Metal Mining Association met at Sa-
Ida and elected five delegates to the
state convention which will meet at
Denver Jan. 10.
More than 600 of the 500 food re-
tailers in Denver have established a
one-delivery-a-day system and discon-
tinued the solicitation of orders by
calling at homes.
Henry Clay Barnabee, famous char
acter of robin Hood" who died in
Boston, was grand uncle of Mrs
William r. Thomas and of Miss Flo
renee George of Denver
The dollar Christmas membership
campaign of the American Red Cross
was begun in earnest in Denver when
nearly 1000 team workers started to
cover the districts assigned them.
Tremendous saving In food staples
in the state is shown in the report for
November by Elmer E. Lucas, chair
man of the hotel and restaurant divi-
sion of the Colorado food administra
ton.
The Tungsten Mines Company of
Beaver Creek in Boulder county, is
now operating six of its eighteen pat
ented claims, having struck twenty
inch vein Of ore in the Mammoth
No. 1.
The citizens of Crowley county
have launched campaign whose slo
gan is "20,OO0,00O for Crowley county,"
meaning 2O0OO,O0O pounds of sugar
are desired from that county during
the 1918 season.
Mrs. Georgia Scott Townsend, mil
lionaire society woman of Denver and
Fort Worth, Tex, will sail for France
sometime in the near future to become
actively engaged in Red Cross work
on the battle fronts.
the Estes Park fish hatchery, states
that 100000 eggs of eastern brook
trout now in the process of Matching,
will be placed in the Estes Park
streams in April and May.
Among the victims of the Boche is
Ernest Smith, Denver boy who enlist
ed In a Canadian unit some time ago,
who was killed in battle Oct. 30, ac.
cording to word received by his
brother-in-law, Carl s. Everett of
Edgewater.
John Brisben Walker, Jr.. John B.
Fowler and his wife, Helen K Fowler
arrested upon warrant charging con
tempt of court for accusing Judge
Harry S. Glass of being pro-German
were fined $25 and costs each in the
District Court at Golden.
Joseph C. Benson, nephew of the
Archbishop of Canterbury, England, is
defendant in suit in the District
Court before District Judge ii. s
Class of Brighton, in which his wife
seeks to obtain partition of prop
erty said to be worth approximately
$4,000.
Colorado has taken the lead In the
tourist industry Of the country, accord
ing to the annual report to Horace M
Albright, acting managing director Of
the National Park Service of the De
partment OF the Interior; and officia
reports Of visitors to other than fed
eral Fairgrounds in the state.
Convinced at the end of a three
hours sweating of Roy DUSTY,
Ferguson that he is the man respon
sible for the death of Henry Mogen
sen. Denver druggist shot to dealt
during a robbery, Chief Armstron,
will lay his evidence before Distric
Attorney Foley in Denver and ask tha
an information be filed against tn,
man in custody.
| The State Council of nefopaa ha,