Gilpin observer., 1918-04-11
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service
]. F. McMasters of Denver drew
the seventh best tract of land in the
government drawing at Montrose.
Samuel c. Wasson OF Avondale cap
tured the first tract. Joseph Neuman
of Chicago, Edith Hazlett Of Delta,
Chester Torrey Of Olathe and Frank
Whitemack Of Boncasbo were drawn
In the order named. There were 105
units of land offered for settlement
of which thirty were taken. There
were 154 applicants for the thirty
tracts disposed of.
When the body Of Raymond E. Voll-
mar, the. 22-year-old son of Charles l..
vollmar, pioneer dairy farmer of
Platteville. was found in the harbor
at Norfolk, Va. the stigma of being a
deserter from the United States Navy.
which had attached to the young sail
or's name, was removed. Foul play
is suspected in the death of Vollmar
and the naval authorities have started
thorough investigation. Young Voll-
mar enlisted in the navy at Denver
July 26, last year. and was soon sent
into active service.
With reports pouring in to state
headquarters from all sections of Colo
RADIO showing that many counties fully
met their maximum quota, while a
number oversubscribed from 300 to as
high as 900 per cent of their allotted
quota on Saturday, the first day Of
the third Liberty loan drive, indica-
tions were that the people Of the Cen
tennial state would far oversubscribe
the state quota of $20,312.0O0.
Eight thousand acres OF farming and
grazing lands owned by the state were
disposed Of at the monthly sale Of the
state land board. One quarter section,
designated as the northeast quarter of
|. Sec. IL, T. S., R. 44-W, was appraised
at SIS and brought $40 an acre. Tracts
sold included acreage in Larimer.
Lincoln, Saguache, Sedgwick. Wash
ington and Weld counties.
Proposed increases in rates on cleo
tricity and gas furnished by utilities
companies for power and domestic
uses show gradual growth of produc-
tion costs over year ago, according
to schedules filed with the Colorado
public utilities commission. Advances
in coke. oil, labor, coal and supplies
are given as reason for increased
rates.
Convinced that the interests of the
country would be better served in war
times IL labor for government work
could be mobilized through one source.
the Colorado labor advisory commit
tee sent resolutions to this effect to
President Wilson, Secretary of Labor
Wilson and President Samuel Gompers
of the American Federation of Labor.
The entire wheat supply of Colo
rado must be turned over to the gov
ernment at the nearest mill or grain
elevator before May l, according to
an order issued by Herbert Hoover Of
the U. s. Food Administration and ap-
proved by the Southwestern Food
zone of which Colorado is part, at
a meeting held in Kansas City April A.
Mulligan and Cohen, convicted at
Brighton of robbing Irene Nolan while
she was at the Model roadhouse with
Father Burke on Jan. 2, We're SEN
fenced to five-year terms at Cahon
City by Judge Glass. A thirty day
stay of sentence was granted, but re-
lease on bond pending appeal was de-
MED.
A preliminary estimate of the gold
and silver production of the United
States in 1917 has been made by the
Bureau Of Mines. 1t places the total
of silver at $61. .14O.3OO Colorado is
credited with $15.955.l00 in gold and
$6,722, 700 in silver
Declaring the national organization
Of the Non-Partisan League to be one
Of the most dangerous movements at
work in the United States, Mark T.
Mckee, Michigan Red Cross worker,
compared the league with the Bolshev-
list movement in Russia, in an address
before the insurance bureau at Den
yer.
The board of trustees of Colorado
College at Colorado Springs issued a
formal statement to the alumni of the
college In which 1t is stated that the
dismissal of former Dean Edward Par
sons will stand, and that no further
consideration will be given to appeals
for his reinstatement.
Clearings of the Denver banks for
the month of March totaled S94,766,-
S7s establishing a new record. For
the same month OF 1917 the total
clearings were $65,740.507, so that the
increase for March of this year was
| s29,026,371.
Deputies in the office of Mark A.
Skinner, United States internal reve-
nue. collector at Denver, are organic.