Gilpin observer., 1917-08-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
n Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

SSpe. i'-El-Masohlc meeting AZ Den
Nov. 12-1s-Automobile show at Den
yer.
| County Fairs.
Sept. 1I-14-Logan County at Sterling.
| enne Wells.
Sept. .1s-21.-Western slope at Mont
Sept. 17-22.-MiIitary Festival at Pu-
eblo.
Sept. 2c-22-Indian Fair at Ignacio.
| sept. .2O-22-Phillips County at Hoi-
Sept. 25-2S-Coiorado New Mexico at
Sept; ;2s-Las Animas County at
Sept. 26-2S-El Paso County at Calhan.
| sept. 27-29-Lincoln County at Hugo
sept. 27-29-Grand County at Kremm-
Oct. 25-Kit Carson County at Bur-
lington.
Longmont's big fair will show its
record crops.
Trinidad's winter Chautauqua will
open Sept. eth
Mining men faced with serious
shortage of labor.
Colorado must increase acreage of
wheat by per cent.
There will be a livestock exhibition
at Monument, Sept. 18TH
Colorado farmers are asked to in
crease winter wheat acreage % per
cent.
Fifty Guardsmen with fifty bricks
wrecked Curtis street candy shop
in Denver.
A Denver-made United States war
ambulance will be presented to the
Red Cross on Aug. 81.
Farmers near Mead have stacked
their wheat in the straw and started
plowing for a new crop.
Union barber shops of Denver-ap-
proximately seventy-five-close at 10
o'clock on Saturday nights.
The Denver Union Stockyards Com.
pany is to begin at once improvements
to cost approximately $4,000.
A federal market bureau will be
conducted in Greeley during the Weld
county potato shipping season.
improvements to cost 100000 will
be made on the Denver & Salt Lake
railroad within the next two months.
Fifty-four persons appeared in the
U. s. District Court in Denver and
asked for second papers of naturaliza-
tion.
]. P. Lower, pioneer Denver mer-
chant and champion rifle shot, died at
his home in Denver after an illness of
two months.
A new 1917 $40 gold piece minted in
Denver will be given to each of 5000
guardsmen as an expression of thanks
for their loyalty to the state.
Evidence suggesting that Sergt. d.
c. Breckenridge, who has been lectur-
ing in Denver and other Colorado cit
les, is bogus hero, continues TO pile
up.
Louis Schaefer and associates, who
have lease on the Galena Queen
mine near Gladstone, in Porcupine ba.
sin, have been busy for the past few
weeks unwatering the shaft that con-
stituted the main workings upon the
property.
Walter Dickinson, one of the wealth
lest cattlemen of Dolores county, to-
gether with three of his employees,
were arraigned before Alfred f. Camp,
United States commissioner at Du-
range, on a charge of intimidating
nomesteaders on public domain.
Plans of Colorado army officers.
commissioned at the Fourteenth Pro-
visional Training Camp at Fort Riley,
Kan, were changed upon receipt of
official information that they are to
report at the regiment headquarters,
where they graduated recently, on
Sept. or 3.
The sugar price reduction for Den.
YER, Colorado and vicinity will not be
less than l cent pound and probably
will be the full III cents, to take ef-
fect as soon as the next crop is avail.
able, presumably in January. The saw
ing to the state for the ensuing year
will be s1,200,0O0.
Tents, tin buckets, canvas buckets.
table dishes, blankets and other para
phernalia sailed away from Fort Lo-
gan when miniature cyclone struck
that camp and sent everything scatter
ing before the wind Two men were
by ridgepole of tent falling upon
him.
With continued fine weather. the de.
velopment of old and new properties
In the San Juan region is making not.
eG progress, and number of fresh
shippers appear on the lists. The pres
ent high prices for silver, lead and
copper make the recovery of old mines
o. the 1898 period not only feasible
but profitable.
When David William Thompson Of
Denver is called for examination In
District he will be told to go to war
and be hero. His wife, Mrs. Bessie
Thompson OF Loveland, says he is a
pool shark" and should be made to
use some of his skill at shooting Ger.
mans.