Gilpin observer., 1918-05-02
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

WI 0urV0y II 1VsVVV BuOrL uOnbs Veluoo
at $3.50 per ton, or $3,500,000 for the
year. And now comes A. T. Carlton.
president Of railroad. sugar. banking,
mining and ore reduction companies
and also member of the board of
trustees of the Colorado School Of
Mines, with an assurancs-sent out
from Colorado Springs--thst the Col
den Cycle Mining and Reduction Com
pany, after careful experiments at
Colorado City, is prepared to produce
yearly an amount. of clean potash
which will exceed Americas total pro-
duction in the second year of the war.
Joseph W. Boyd of Denver was
placed in the awkward matrimonial
predicament Of having two wives when
Arapahoe County Court at Littleton
rendered the decision that the decree
of divorce obtained by Boyd from his
first wife, Mrs. Nello May Boyd, in
1911 was procured on forged sigma
lures of Mrs. Boyd and was conse-
Quently held for naught and annulled.
This case has been pending before the
Littleton courts for seven years.
There is no '1et up" to the dollars
that continue to roll into the third
Liberty loan Golfers of the state Of
Colorado. Outside of Denver the SIX
ty-two counties made a gain Saturday
Of $1.S03,900, reportinga total of $751;
073,600. Denver stands officially at
$10.097.750, making total oversub-
hn ofo 20 10
1858, 450. and a grand total Of $25,171,-
$50.
Following recommendations by Lieut..
Col. H. s. Graves, chief forester of the
United States forest service, after an
investigation made while in Denver,
the expenditure this year of $4,000 on
a road to be constructed to Mount
Evans by the federal government in
conjunction with the city and county
OF Denver has been approved by the
secretary of agriculture.
Colorado's crop acreage this year
will be 10 per cent greater than last
year, according to estimates received
at the office of the State Board of I'm
migration. The 1917 yield was the
largest In tho state. The acreage of
winter wheat is approximately 10 per
cent greater than last year, and the
area devoted to spring wheat shows q
decided increase.
So successful was Governor Gunter's
tour on the Western Slope on behalf
Of the third Liberty loan that the
Liberty Loan committee persuaded
him to make second short tour. The
governor urges that Colorado keep up
its efforts to make as big an oversub-
soription as possible until the very last
minute Of the time limit ON the loan.
Public and private schools thruout
the nation are expected to eliminate
German language study next Septem-
Der. in compliance with a recommen-
dalton Of the National Education asso
citation, of which Mrs. Mary G. c.
Bradford is president
Among the Denver women who en-
listed and have been accepted for Red
Cross work in France are Mrs. Harry
English Miss Agnes Wolcott Vaille,
Mrs. Elizabeth Budrow Mauff, Miss
Sheridan Whip and Miss Elizabeth
Dimes.
Funeral services for Mrs. j. W.
Carey, wife of the owner of the fam
Gus Carey ranch, near Steamboat
Springs, who died of heart trouble
was held from her sisters home in
Denver.
Twenty Denver nurses enlisted in
Base Hospital No. 20 have been called
for duty in the environments. This is
the third group which has been called
within the past months from the Den.
yer unit.
P. s. Roy, a resident of Colorado
since 1878, and identified with the
early mining interests of Central City
and Black Hawk, died at Black Hawk.
He had been in poor health for a year.
Twenty-Five miners were arrested at
Leadville for alleged disloyal remarks
State employees we're granted half
holiday, and Friday was generally OBJ
served as Liberty day to aid in pledg-
ing resources for successful prosecu-
ton Of the war.
State Senator George e. West has
received an appointment as head Of
one Of the seven Red Cross divisions
in France. according to statements
made in Durango.
The fly does not cackle when 1t lays
eggs, and the first unswatted flies Of
the season are now making arrange
ments to populate this and adjoining
counties.
Orlando A. Summers of Kokomo.
Ind, commander-in.chief Of the G. A.
R.. paid an official visit to the Colo
RADIO department at meeting in Den
yer.
John d. Ryan, appointed director of