Gilpin observer., 1917-11-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
WESTERN Ncwspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

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Longmont is starting a flag pole
fund.
Farmers are urged not to dispose of
calves.
Thirty-five German citizens regis
tered in Pueblo.
Changes to be made in bread prices
to benefit consumer.
Government expert in Pueblo look
ing over sites for recuperation camp.
Amzi E. Moyn, 79 years old and a
pioneer of Denver, died in Los An
geles.
The Pueblo city council has appro-
priated $346,070 for city maintenance
in 1918.
Protests against prices charged for
Colorado Ignite sent to Washington
and increase granted.
Controversy breaks out between fac
ulty and students at Agricultural Col
lege at Fort Collins.
Ten factories of the Great Western
Sugar Company paid the growers $6,-
952.SO9 for beets during October
Former Governor James Hamilton
Peabody died in Denver Friday, sur
rounded by his family and friends.
The Oak Creek reservoir, near
Ouray, which is nearing completion,
will cost in the neighborhood of 5000.
There has been remarkable num-
Der of fatalities this year in the ranks
of old-time settlers of southern Colo
RADIO.
Denver residents Sunday visited the
capitol to pay their last respects to
former Governor James Hamilton
Peabody.
Coal at Alamosa is now 1925 per
ton for lump and $7.75 for nut coal.
The price is rs cents a ton higher
than last winter.
The Denver, Boulder & Western
railway, which has no Denver connec-
ton. except through other lines, is to
attempt to go out of business.
Two carloads of the new municipal
organ for the Denver auditorium have
been shipped from the Wurlitzer fac
tory in North Tonawanda, N. Y.
Over 4O,SOO packages of tobacco
have been sent to American soldiers
and sailors abroad by contributors to
the Denver Sammy Smokes fund
A threshing outfit consisting of
separator and its equipment. owned by
Walter Saunders, was destroyed by
fire, while threshing wheat south of
Norwood.
Fifty-six comfort kits of the design
approved by the government has been
sent to as many boys from Alamosa
county who are in the service, and
fifteen more.
State authorities have been notified
that the numbers of cattle found lying
dead on the forest ranges above South
park is far too large for customary
natural causes.
Considerable excitement was caused
in Pueblo by rumor that the Colum-
bine Oil Company had struck oil at
Wildhorse park, fifteen miles north
west of Pueblo.
Coincident with the announcement
that the building of canning factory
on Beaver Park is an assured fact
came the further news that Penrose
is to have electric lights.
A dog with rabies attacked children
playing in the grounds of the Fair
mount school in Denver, bit two OF
the children and the principal, and
was killed by school boys.
The Knights of Pythias of Colorado
held a reception in Denver in honor
of the official visit to Colorado of
John ]. Brown Of Vandalia, H., su-
preme chancellor of the order.
The Five Fields Oil Company of
Denver, purchased a drilling outfit at
Florence and shipped 1t to Seibert
where the company will upon the ad-
vice of biologists do extensive drill
ing for OIL
Littleton and Englewood were literal
ly rocked by an explosion that was
heard for several miles when an en-
ploye of the Hercules Powder Com
pany touched off about 500 pounds Of
giant powder that had been con.
demned.
One Of the largest oil shale projects
OF Colorado got under way when pa
pers for $10,000,000 corporation were
filed in the name of the Columbia Oil
Shale and Refining Company. The
concern represents capital from Colo
rado, Tennessee and Chicago.
An exhaustive survey of Colorado's
oil possibilities is to be undertaken
by the state Dec. 1, when geologists
and field men begin the collection Of
data already in hand but not compiled,
and also make careful investigation
of recent developments in many parts
OF the commonwealth.
Convinced that q malicious effort is
being made by pro-Germans in Den