Gilpin observer., 1917-08-16
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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COMING EVENTS.

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COMING EvENTs.
Aug. 25-Pickle Day at Plattsville.
Aug. 2s-s0;-Annuai Convention x. p
R..Id R.nH pxsSs L9Sss
OF Khorassan,, at Colorado Springs
Sept. s-7-Frontier Day celebration at
Fort Morgan.
County Fairs.
Aug. 2S-Sept. l-Prowers County at La
Aug. 2s-31-Larimer Coanty at Love-
land.
Aug. 2s-s1-crowley County at Sugar
Aug. 31-sept. Farmers Fair at Fow-
Ter.
Sept. 4-7-Boulder County at Longmont
sept. 4-7-Arkansas Valley at Rocky
Sept. 6-s-sedgwick County at Jules
burg.
Sept. 49, -21-Cheyenne County at Chey-
enne Wells.
Sept. 49, 21.-Western slope at Mont
Sept. II 22-colorado State at Pueblo.
Sept. 20-22-Phillips County at Hol-
yoke.
Sept. 252S-Colorado New Mexico at
Sept q; ;2s-Las Animas County at
Sept. 26-2S-El Paso County at Calhan.
sept. 27-29-Grand County at Kremm-
Oct. 2-5-Kit Carson County at Bur-
lington.
The Crowley county fair will be held
Aug. 81.
Fifty men working on the Pueblo
city hall walked out.
Mrs. Julia Quirk, pioneer Pueb-
OF ho ~
South Side exemption board of Pueb-
10 will call second list of 100 men,
Several Colorado men obtain Off
GERS commissions at training camps
Fourteen Pueblo men were given
commissions at officers training
camps.
State labor convention adjourned
after passing resolutions condemning
constabulary bill.
Team of fine mules valued at $500,
property of Henry Hayhurst, killed by
lightning south of Las Animas.
1t will take $4,000 refrigerator cars
to move the crops of the western slope
in 1917, according to G. S, Kelch
Bears and other wild animals are
becoming numerous on the ranges be-
tween Grand Junction and Montrose.
Not one of the nine draft districts in
Denver will obtain it's quota from the
first call, and second will be made.
Announcement was made of the call
ing off Of the Pixies peak automobile
races, scheduled to begin on Sept s.
The sixty-third annual convention of
the International Typographical Union
opened at colorado Springs on Mon
day. N
All the alfalfa mills in Bent county
are running full force and are fast
making away with the bumper alfalfa
crops.
1t is stated that seventy more Colo
RADIO men are to win posts, in addition
to the 800 already commissioned, at
Fort Riley.
Advance of half dollar per hundred
in wholesale price of sugar last week
is expected to be followed quickly by
another smaller raise.
six days in one-all the same
Cheyenne" is a sentence in the an
nouncement of the annual rodeo to be
held in Cornish, Aug. IS.
Twenty-Five thousand Coloradoans,
in the greatest patriotic demonstration
ever made in Denver, met the Colo
RADIO contingent from Fort Riley on its
Homecoming.
Because he tore up an American
flag, Joe Garharici, Mexican, is un-
der arrest and has been arralgned be-
fore United States Commissioner
Gates on charges of desecrating the
flag at Pueblo.
The city of Pueblo has saved $173,.
610.75 since the commission form of
government went into effect In Janu.
ary, 1912, according to the report OF
j. Knox Burton, commissioner of II.
nance, made to the City Council
The officers in charge of the Arkan-
sas Valley fair, Wild West carnival
and Watermelon day have about com.
pleted all arrangements for the annu.
al event at Rocky Ford which attracts
the attention of everyone in the West.
The threatened strike of $50 men in
the Harris mine, twenty-five miles
west of Steamboat Springs. was avert.
ed when the company met substantial.
ly all the demands of .the miners re-
garding the checkweight system and
increased wages.
Dorothy Frost, 19-year-old Denver
stenographer, who, according to n
story told by the parents to Roy o
Samson. chief of the Colorado divi
sion Of me department of Justice, left
Denver month ago for Washington
with w. II. Clark, sergeant In the
Colorado guard, on promise of Clark
to place her in a government position
has wired for ticket home. The wire
was sent from Providence, r. |. Fed
eral officers are looking for Clark He
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