Gilpin observer., 1917-11-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
coM,NG EVENTS.
w.stern Newspaper Union New. service.

The Pueblo packing house strike
has been settled.
Denver boy students have formed
class in knitting.
Denver chambermaids have formed
q union to secure better wages.
A large crowd was present at the
opening of the auto show in Denver.
Twenty-three Austrian smeltermen
from Leadville were convicted in the
Federal Court at Pueblo of being
slackers.
Three United States soldiers were
killed and fifteen others injured in a
rear-end collision mile west of Coto-
paxi. Colo.
About 1900 bean growers In Colo
RADIO are now getting price bulletins
from the Committee on Markets of
the Colorado Council of Defense.
Under orders effective Nov. 1S, the
Union Pacific and Burlington lines
will each take off one of their Denver
Omaha, Chicago passenger trains.
Food conservation was the topic of
chief Importance at the seventeenth
annual convention of the Rocky Noun
tain Hotel Mems Association at Den
yer.
A movement to conserve sugar
among the ice cream manufacturers OF
Denver threatens body blow on Ices
and a glancing shot at chocolate ice
cream.
Judge Rothgerber in the County
Court at Denver held that the city
ordinance forbidding premiums as an
inducement to buy any commodity
was illegal.
Fifteen Denver girls who work
every day now spend every Thursday
evening knitting garments for the
Sammies in France at the Y. w. c. A.
rest and recreation rooms
In Leadville district the Denver &
Rio Grande Railway Company has
completed the standard gauging of the
line to the mines in Big and South Ev-
ans gulches and Breeze hill.
Denver is pensively bidding au re-
voir to the chocolate eclair, the choco-
late bonbon, the fruitcake, the Danish
buttercake, French pastry and pie la
mode as her latest sacrifice in food
conservation.
Word was received that 100 miners,
mostly Greeks. have gone on strike
in the mines at Coalmont in Jackson
county. The men quit work after
their demand for higher wages had
been turned down.
Dividends amounting to s1.769,OO0
were paid to stockholders of the Cres-
son mine during the thirteen months
that the company has been under the
Carlton management, according to the
annual report of President A. E. Carl
ton.
A production of forty carloads of
cider vinegar was saved by success
of the transportation committee of
the Colorado Council of Defense in
finding cider mill lost in the east
ern freight car jam and getting it to
Grand Junction.
Miss Ida Wilson. we'll known Den
yer girl who has recently returned
from Chicago, where she had been at
tending the Moody Bible institute, will
leave for China to become a mission
airy under the auspices of the China
Inland Mission Board.
Military honors were accorded the
first Puebloan killed in the service of
the government during the war when
the firing squad of the Spanish War
Veterans fired a salute for Neal Dea-
ton, who was killed in boxing match
on board ship at San Diego. Deaton
was an enlisted man in the navy.
Former Governor Alva Adams, q
member of the Scottish Rite Masonic
body of the state, one Of the Colorado
men who recently received the thirty
third degree at the biennial session of
the Supreme Council held in Washing
ton, has been appointed inspector gen.
eral of the Scottish Rite for Colorado.
That the defendants have taken pos
session of her homestead in Grand
county and have converted 1t into a
mining proposition, damaging her to
the extent of $4,000. is alleged in a
suit filed in the District Court in Den.
yer by Mrs. Emma Il. Thomas against
A. V. Johnson, N. c. Hoffaker, Edward
Ehrle and the Kremmling Mining and
Milling Company.
The prices for fruits and vegetables
in Denver last summer were lower
than In any other city of Denver's
size In the country, the committee on
markets Of the Colorado Council of
Defense has informed Governor Gun
ter. The Denver market proved un-
usual for its large volume Of trade and
it's reasonable prices. As many as 600
growers contributed their produce to
the market in one day.
Seven men and ten women were ar.
rested in spectacular raid on the
Hiawatha roadhouse, Sand Creek, re.
sultinp from disclOaures made nv