Gilpin observer., 1918-08-01
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

The Democratic State Assembly In
Denver named J. @. Guntsr and Thorn
as ]. lyman for governor; Harry
Churchill and w. X. Lockhart for
lieutenant governor: James r. holland
for secretary of state; Chas. H. Leck-
enby for state treasurer; Thos. T.
Barnard and John w. Mcmahon for
state auditor; Leslie e. Hubbard and
Chas. E. Friend for attorney general;
Mrs. Mary G. G. Bradford for superin-
tendent Of public instruction; Ernest
Morris and Arthur King for regents,
and Chief Justice VIM. A. Hill and
Justice g. Harrison White for SUI
preme Court judges.
James ]. Manuel, a negro clerk in
the State Auditors office, has been
appointed member Of the Commit
tee Of One Hundred organized by the
federal government for patriotic or.
ganization and education of negroes.
]. N. Redman and associates, leasing
on the Wheeler mine at the head Of
the South Platte in the Consolidated
Montgomery mining district, near
Alma, Park county, have uncovered q
promising body of ore and are now
working on fourteen-inch streak of
so per cent lead ore and . ten-inch
streak of $50 gold ore.
New sugar orders were issued by
the Federal Food Administration for
Colorado. Families will be allowed
two pounds a month for each person
in the family; candy makers and max
ers Of non-essentials, like soft drinks,
will get two-thirds of their July allot-
ments; manufacturers of essentials
will get full amount; hotels and
public eating places will get two
pounds for each ninety meals; bakers
will get 10 per cent Of July allotments
The agricultural output of north.
western Colorado this year will be the
largest in the history Of this section
of the state, according to Howard D.
Sullivan, statistician of the State I'm
migration Department, who has re.
turned to Denver from trip thru
Grand, Routt, Moffat and Rio Blanco
counties, collecting data - be used
by the department in its work of
bringing new settlers and investors to
the state.
It may not DO generally known that
the Colorado School of Mines gives
to each accredited high school in Colo
RADIO a scholarship of the value Of
SITS. The holder of the scholarship
is exempted from the payment of all
laboratory fees for the four-year
course on the recommendation Of the
hiph cNhooI faculty.
C. A. Kendrick, of the State Council
of Defense, has been appointed by
Governor Gunter chairman of a spe-
cial committee organized by the Den
yer Civic and Commercial Assoca-
ton which will soon launch a cam
paign to aid home Industries by great
er purchases of Colorado raised and
made products.
Mrs. Mary o. Barbee, 90 years old.
and in her younger days a famous
Kentucky beauty, died at her home in
Denver. She had lived in Denver
since 1880. She was born in Danville,
KY. and was married when 20 years
old to Samuel P. Barbee, Mexican
war veteran, and who later served in
the Civil war.
The grand lodge of the knights of
Pythias. colored, held its thirteenth an.
nual session in Denver. William H.
Bess, the grand chancellor, presided.
The lodge adopted resolutions affirm.
ing loyalty to the United States, and
offering every support in the present
war.
All Denver men classified by the
nine draft boards as being eligible for
active service and who were placed
in Class 1 will be in some branch OF
the army or navy when the calls for
August have been filled, according to
the announcement made by practical
ly all Of the boards of Denver
Altho the crops of Colorado this
year are reaching the bumper stage
in magnitude, reports OF county agri
cultural agents to the Colorado De.
tense Council for the week ending
July IS show no serious labor short.
age.
Near Idaho Springs a very impor.
tant ore strike is reported from the
Sunburst lode. which is worked thru
the Scepter. About 100 feet below the
Grant level about six inches of ore has
been opened that carries polybasite
and gray copper and is worth in sill
yer alone $4,000 per ton.
John Clifford Ferguson, who was
the first Trinidad boy that enlisted in
the navy after declaration of war, was
on the cruiser San Diego when that
vessel was sunk by submarine and
was among the thousand rescued.
The Modoc Company. operating the
mine Of the same name. through the
deal closed in Chicago, will assume
the operating also Of the Last Dollar,
according to Cripple Creek officers
the company.