Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1918-08-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

| Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
Sept. !-S7shos DsalsrG Association
Meeting in Denver.
Sept. Arkansas Valley Fair at
sept s.s-Fronti.r Days show at Fort
Sept. IS-Bsavsr Park fair at Psnross.
sept. 2s-2s-coiorado state Fair At
Sept 2s-2s-Lincoln County Fair at
Oct. Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
A hospital IL to be established at
Nucla.
A new coal mine has been opened
up in Mesa county.
The dehydration plant at Fort Col
Inns has been completed.
A local telephone company at Eads
has applied for a franchise.
New floors have been put in the
grade school building at Rifle.
A bean elevator and sacking plant
are under construction at Rocky
Ford.
y. v.
receiver and John r. Beavers register
of the land office at Hugo.
John B. McGauran of Denver has
been reappointed surveyor general Of
Colorado by President Wilson.
Members of the American Institute
Of Mining Engineers will meet in Colo
RADIO the week commencing Sept. 2.
John Adair Of Hayden has pur-
chased two ranches of the late J. v.
Soldant estate, the price paid being
$4,000.
Eleven people were injured, some of
them seriously, as the result of two
automobile accidents at Colorado
Springs.
Included in the casualty list il the
name of Private Harion A. Vescovi,
Denver boy reported to be wounded
severely.
Sinking and development work IL
under way at the Rooney coal mine
near. Morrison and . large output 10
expected.
Word was received at Boulder that
Ralph Kennicott of q company. 18th
infantry. now In France, was missing
In action.
H. L. Chambers, Buckingham, is on
the list Of casualties Of Americans in
tho Canadian forces. He was wounded
in action.
Through the efforts Of the Ladies'
Club Of Ward. q fish pond u under
construction on the triangle above the
postoffice.
Perly Briddle. a youth Of 10. was ar
rested in Denver. and the police be-
lisve that he has committed twenty
burglaries.
Plans for an allied war exposition in
Denver from Nov. "a to Dec. 1, are
now being considered by the Denver
Civic Association.
Senator Shafroth took steps to OBJ
tain for Colorado one Of the several
nitrate plants which the government
is preparing to build in the West.
Carl Koebel, farmer of southern
Morgan county. was seriously injured
when in helping to fill a silo he fell
into 1t. suffering fractured hip.
Mrs w. J. Smith has been appoint
cd carrier on a rural mail route in
salida formerly handled by Mr.. Smith,
who is training for military service.
A butterfly collection valued at $780,
900 has been presented to the city of
Denver. The collection will be in
sfo11 cd ", ha 81 IL
Denver will contribute 1O1 men to
the draft calls of Sept. 8. one Of which
Is for limited service at Fort Riley,
Kan, the other for general military
service at Camp Funston.
Holders Of tax titles will come into
possession Of some $4,000 acres of Or
chard Mesa land this fall, which will
result in the immediate cultivation OF
the land, some OF which has already
been put into crops.
The Last Dollar and the Modoc
mining properties in the Cripple
Greek district have been consolidated.
A new two-compartment shaft IN be-
ing constructed on the Modoc prop
erty, which will be sunk to the 1000
, foot level.
e. c. Chamberlain. the young Amer
loan aviator mentioned as having won
honors and promotion as a result of
having brought down five enemy
planes while making one flight In
France, is a Boulder product, and his
father and mother, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
win O. Chamberlain. are living there.
The strike of Denver Gas Company
employees was satisfactorily settled
largely through the efforts Of Thomas
o. Spaosy. special mediator appointed
By the Denver Trades and Labor As
sombly. who induced the men to waive
insistsnos on the closed shop clause