Gilpin observer., 1918-12-05


Dec. z0-zI-Niu winter meeting OF
Colorado Editorial Association at
Denver.
January-Western Stock Show at Dem
yer.
Seven employees of the State Land
Board have been dismissed.
James l.. Wright of Yuma was
wounded In action in France.
Plans are being perfected to give
returning soldiers their old jobs.
Consideration of the 1919 budget Of
the State Highway Commission has
been postponed until Dec. 16.
The distribution of patronage in the
incoming Legislature is occupying the
attention Of Republicans and Demo-
Gratis.
Thirteen Denver men returned as
the result of their battalion at Camp
Macarthur, Waco, Tex, being demobi-
lized by the government.
Colorado may yet add $6O.O0O to it's
inheritance fund through the assessed
tax against the $3,0OO,OOO estate Of
John H. Harbeck Of Boulder.
Franklin NJ. Richie, pioneer Colo
radan and for fifteen years secretary
to the public librarian in Denver. was
buried in Riverside cemetery.
Conditions in general through the
state show an abatement of the Span
ish influenza epidemic, according to
reports received by the State Board
of Health.
Twenty-Five $10O bills were handed
to Mayor w. F. R. Mills of Denver by
citizen to pay for thirty-six drinking
fountains to be placed throughout the
business district.
The sugar division clerical depart
ment of the Federal Food Administra-
ton for Colorado has closed. The
canceling of the sugar cards ended
the clerical work
Lieut.. Col. Rice Means and Lieut..
Harry M. Gambrel are recovering in
q hospital at Bordeaux, France. They
were gassed just few days prior to
the signing of the armistice.
Commissioner T. J. Ehrhart of the
State Highway Commission was
called to Salida, where his son, Earl
Ehrhart, rancher, and the latter's
wife are seriously ill from Spanish in
fruenza.
Flu masks went off the people OF
day, the exception being of nurses.
doctors and others attending suffer
ers of influenza in hospitals or private
homes.
Plans of the government to cooper
ate with employers of labor by dis
charging skilled men from the army
on request were announced by the
United States employment service in
Denver.
Every citizen is asked by the Dem
yer County Council of Defense to en-
courage soldiers to stay in the army
until regularly discharged and to
work against deliberate or thoughtless
desertion.
Colorado is expected to enroll 5000
boys for work on the farms next sum-
mer, as a part of the activities of the
United States Boys Working reserve.
during national enrolment week,
early in 1919.
The body of an unidentified man
was found at the foot of cliff near
the Good Night ranch, fourteen miles
west of Pueblo, by Freeman Frazier,
boy Of IA years, who was out hunt.
ing rabbits.
Wilson Pottinger of Glenwood
Springs accidentally shot himself
through the heart while on his way to
the hills to indulge in practice shoot.
ing. He died instantly, the bullet
piercing his heart
The manufacture of near beer at the
three big breweries in and around
Denver stopped at midnight Nov. 80
in compliance with the government or
der forbidding the manufacture oi
beer or near beer from grain.
Miss Stella Raithel of Denver re
ceived a telegram announcing the
death on Nov. of her sister, Miss
Hattie NJ, Raithel, a member of the
army nurses corps. She was buriet
in London three days following heI
death.
That the Colorado National Guart
has been authorized by Washington
authorities to hold a thirty.day en-
campment as soon as the equipment
arrived. was announced by Gen. Franl
ID. Baldwin at a dinner Of the Officers
Club In Denver.
BY unanimous choice of the mem
bers of the Denver Liberty Loan com
mittee. Mayor Robert W. Speer, Den
vers Liberty Ship" was selected a
the name of the ship now under con
struction by the emergency fleet cor
poration, which Denver II entitled Z,
christen by reason OF having been tn,
first city in its class to oversubscrib,
its quota in the Fourth Liberty loan
| Miss Nettie Hornbeck. we'll know,