Gilpin observer., 1917-11-22
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS.

Ohitcu MiHel WOrkeTS plau new
wage scale.
Threats of strike cause shutdown Of
furnaces at zinc smelter at Pueblo.
OIL company strikes small flow Of
oil west of Pueblo.
Five colored soldiers arrived at
Portland to guard the railroad bridge.
A second motor mail route will soon
be in operation at Eads. .i
Police are asked to arrest all negro
troopers found in Pueblo without
passes. ..
| Three Las Animas men were found
guilty of illegally importing liquor in
to Colorado.
Uncle Sam gets Del Norte man
named Gold and Monte Vista man
named Young
Samuel Downer, one of the early
settlers of Prowers county, died in
hospital at Lamar.
| Buena Vista is to have flour mill
which will take care of the wheat
raised in the upper valley.
Collections of the Inheritance tax
lOl lut ptIlOu UetWeeu NOV. L ana
Nov. Is amounted to $11.533.29.
Turkeys in Denver this Thanksgiv-
ing will be scarce and prices will be
high, Denver grocerymen say.
Eloise Horton, the two-day bride of
e. s. Horton of Denver. swallowed
five grains of bichloride of mercury
with suicidal intent.
Four hundred farmers in Moffat,
Routt and Grand counties are facing
the problem of getting approximately
$50 cars to move their potato crops.
New York's Engineering and Min.
ing Journal makes editorial mention
of that vast and undeyeloped mineral
resource, the oil shales of Colorado.
The Denver Y. M. G. A. campaign
committee, together with the local
Y. w. C. A. and Recreation and Play
grounds Association. reached the
$4,000 mark
Peter Frison, 10, one of the oldest
brakesmen on the Colorado Midland
in point of service. was killed at AS.
pen when engaged in switching cars
at the Smuggler mine.
The coroner's jury in Denver held
that Mrs. J. Forbes Manning came to
her death from a gunshot wound and
held Ed Allison responsible, with j.
W. Gingrich and Edgar H. Watson ac-
cessories
The formation in Denver of a col
ored woman's auxiliary that is doing
work for the colored men sent to the
front has been reported to the Wom-
ans Advisory Council to the COVER
nor.
Lee r. Harrison, president and
cashier of the Sulphur State bank,
Hot Sulphur Springs, was named by
John Evans, provost marshal, as chair
man for Grand county for the war
certificate campaign.
Denver detectives are engaged in a
search for an unidentified man who
fired two shots at Capt. Henry b.
Cassell. organizer of Denver's home
guard, near the garage of his home at
351 Lafayette street
Mrs. Charles H. jacobson, chairman
of the organization committee of the
Woman's Advisory Council to the gov
ernor, is suggesting that men be urged
to subscribe to the food conservation
principles as well as the women.
The Rt. Rev. John Henry Then,
third bishop of the Lincoln diocese,
will be enthroned third bishop of the
Denver Catholic diocese on the morn
ing of Nov. 2S at the Immaculate Con
s-.. L.
the late Bishop Nicholas c. Matz.
The proposed revival of the Colora-
do chapter of the American Mining
Congress, steps toward which are to
be taken at a convention to be held
in Denver is to meet with objection
from the Colorado Metal Mining AS
sociation, according to statement
made by M. b. Tomblin, secretary of
the latter organization.
| A plan of action to stamp out the
hog cholera wherever 1t develops in
any part of the state. has been put
| quickly into effect in Weld county by
a special committee of the Colorado
Council of Defense. 1t involves a
combination of national. state and
county authority that can and will be
utilized for most drastic action when,
necessary.
The new Martin Luther Memorial
Chapel. the Messiah English Lutheran
Church, at East Colfax avenue and
Elizabeth street. Denver. was dedicat-
ed In recognition of the four hun
dredth anniversary of the founding of
the Lutheran Church and the Protes-
tant reformation, and to the memory
Of Martin Luther. A large congrega-
tion witnessed the dedication cere-
monies.
Denver Thrift House women have
stored 700 quarts of fruit and vege-