Gilpin observer., 1917-07-19

Nus. .; 10 STATE Federation OF Lapo!
meeting at Boulder.
sept; l7-I2-Coiorado State Fair at Pu-
Leadville miners postpone strike
one week.
New state prohibition law is de.
creasing liquor shipment.
Large party of Boy Scouts from
Rocky Ford is in camp near Rye.
Colorado Bar Association elects
new officers at Colorado Springs con-
vention.
Federal government refuses to oper-
ate Leadville mines to prevent strike
Of miners.
Use of women and girls as conduc-
tors on Pueblo street cars considered
improbable.
Six companies of Second regiment.
Colorado National Guard, parade
streets of Pueblo.
Boulder county farmers have re.
ported much damage to crops from
the bean beetle.
Eight convicts asked the state Par
den Board for pardons, but only one
parole was granted.
Paul Allen. nine-year-old son of Rob-
ert Allen Of Pueblo. was drowned in
the Arkansas river.
More than $1,000 has been contribut-
ed to the Red Cross fund by the
churches of Denver.
The annual picnic of the Denver
Pressmen's Union will be held at
Dome Rock August 18th.
Mrs. Nellie Hollarman. aged 10, at
tempted to commit suicide at Pueblo
by drinking carbolic acid.
Proposed extension of Pixies Peak
highway to be inspected by officers
of the highway association.
Pueblo Trades and Labor assembly
will ask for use Of Mineral Palace
park for Labor day celebration.
An estate valued at approximately
$4,000 was left by Charles A. Benkle-
man, Denver mining operator.
Drainage work on several hundred
acres of waste seepage land in the
Sugar City vicinity is being pushed.
A Holly man is getting the high
price for cattle. Recently he received
5000 for a seven-months' old Hol-
stein bull.
From Two Buttes and from Spring
field fast auto trucks each day run to
the creamery with 100 gallons of milk
from each village.
Police are searching for Leonard
Setaro. 10 years old, and Edmund
Hall. 21 years old, who disappeared
from their homes in Denver
Paul Konisko, lessee of the Guada-
loupe mine at Ironton park, broke into
a high-grade copper-silver vein, assay
ing 81 per cent copper and 55 ounces
silver.
That some of the sum raised by the
Pueblo Y. M. C. A. in the recent Y.
M. c. A. war fund campaign is to be
used in Pueblo has been assured the
Pueblo Y. M. C. A.
In honor Of the French national
feast commemorating the fall of the
Bastile, July 10, 1889, the Alliance
Franchise of Denver held big cele-
bration at the home of Mrs Horace
w. Bennett, Wolhurst.
A statewide search is being made
for Neal Wright, the 14-year-old son of
Mrs. w. M. Fay, formerly Mrs. Berta
Wright. who disappeared from his
hime in Denver, after being repri-
manded for going in swimming.
William S. Moore of Broadmoor will
receive $660,00O as his share of the
estate of his father, the late Maj Ken
meth c. Moore, according to the an
nouncement of his mother, Mrs. Laura
M. Moore, executrix of the estate.
Progress is being made in the effort
to settle the differences between the
miners and the mine operators in the
Leadville camp thereby permanently
averting the threatened strike in that
district, according to Werner 2. Reed.
lilo |. Boak of Denver, head consul
OF the Woodmen of the World and
president of the National Fraternal
Congress, has been appointed a mem.
Der of the national insurance commit.
tee by Secretary Of the Treasury Nc.
Adoo.
Thousands of quarts Of gooseberries
are being put up by Otero county
women, and soon the same can be
said OF cherries. II the supply of cans
holds out great quantities of all kinds
OF vegetables will be saved for the
winter months.
Within two weeks movie picture
houses all over the country will be.
gin showing $4,000 feet of film depict.
Ing the scenic, climatic, Industrial, ag
ricultural and other features that max
Colorado one Of the most desirable
states In the Union.
Four thousand three hundred and
fifty-three vacant lots. or 81 acres
have been cultivated by Denver's anna
tour gardeners since the beginning oil