Gilpin observer., 1918-04-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
The State Council Of Defense has
advised the Sedgwick County Council
OF Defense that there is no authority
for interference with the activities OF
legally formed organizations such as
the Non-Partisan league 30 long as
they conduct their erations in legal
manner. The Sedgwick council was
fearful that organisation of the Non
Partisan league would interfere with
war activities in the county and de-
clared that disloyal remarks had been
made by one organizer. The State
Council advised that disloyal remarks
are individual affairs and should be
reported to the United States district
attorney for investigation and prose
cution.
The Denver Board of Education rec
commended about 1000 teachers and
other employees for appointment to DO
sitions in the schools of Denver, ef-
fective Sept 1. 1918. The board fur
ther recommended that the minimum
elementary salary be $3.50 a year,
and that the maximum element
ara salary be fixed for the year
1888 at $1.26O, and that each
teachers salary included in this
recommendation designated at $1,000
or less be increased $50 q year.
Every federal forest service employ6
in the state of Colorado is now q po-
tential spy hunter and guardian Of
government, state and private proper
ty near or in federal forests, accord
ing to an order promulgated from
Washington and which bore its first
fruit when the Denver forestry off,
cials received word from a ranger that
grocer on the Western slope was
disregarding the Food Administration
mandates.
The body of Otto Grant, Yellow
Jacket miner, credited with being the
first snowslide victim in the Ouray
district three months ago, was found
by Charley Urick, 500 feet below
Curved point on the Grizzly Bear trail.
a mile away from where 1t was be-
lteved he went over. The body was
covered with snow, one leg was brok.
en- and the head badly smashed. The
body was raised to the trail with
"opes.
The Denver-Littleton concrete road
of four miles, costing $4,000. is now
under construction. The Pueblo-Wal-
senburgTrinidad highway, costing
$26o.O0O. probably will be completed
this year.
Duncan Cameron of Denver was
killed in Cleveland, Ohio, when a stag.
ing on which he was at work as sign
painter collapsed. Another man, en-.
ployed as a helper for Cameron, also
was killed.
Lightning struck and instantly
killed John Myers, 63, at a ranch five
miles east Of Rye. A horse Myers was
leading was uninjured. His coat was
torn from his shoulders and the flesh
was burned to a crisp.
Reports of the county agricultural
agents made to the State Council of
Defense show good conditions in most
of the farming counties and that the
recent rains and SHOWS have helped
immensely.
Two children are dead and Q third
critically i'll as the result OF arsenic
and strychnine poisoning. caused by
eating prairie-dog poison on the home.
stead of James d. Cameron at Briggs.
dale.
Colorado must increase its beet sug.
ar production. Not only do economic
conditions call for bigger production
but 1t is the patriotic duty of the
growers to increase their yield.
A new chairman of the Republican
state central committee will be chosen
at meeting to be held April 80 at
Denver.
The German-American alliance,
composed of seventy-two local organi.
zations. will dissolve. according to Q
decision reached by the state execu.
tive committee at Denver.
The United States government and
the state Of Colorado will conduct
Joint employment bureaus to handle
the labor situation in this state this
summer and fall.
Salt Creek Petroleum Company
which lost the well 1t has been drill
ing near Seibert, reports that its SEQ
ond well now is down 300 feet.
The naval reserve II in need of men
The Denver navy recruiting station
has received telegraphic orders to en-
list every man possible.
At Rocky Ford plans are being per
fected for the greatest fall fair and
wild west carnival in the history oi
the Arkansas valley.
Quietly, and minus the uproar oi
peace years, Colorado 10 preparing fol
the greatest summer tourist season in
her history. d.