Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1918-05-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING HvENra


COMING EVENTS.
July s-13-Meeting National Associa-
July ls-Republican state Conven-
ssp, at sDans Stat. Fair ..
James Etchells, SO years old. was
slectrocuted in Marshall mine No. 2
1t Boulder.
Denver will vote on proposition to
Issue $13,97O,OOO bonds to buy the wa
ter works.
Lester j. Barkhausen of Denver has
reported at Fort Logan for service in
the army.
There Will be no horse racing meet
ings in Denver during the war the city
cabinet decided.
string of All lambs, averaging n
pounds, sold on the Denver market at
$19.15. per cwt.
First operations of the season in
canning were begun at Canon City.
starting on spinach.
Two knitted quilts that sixteen Den
yer school girls had made. netted the
Red Cross $3.50 at an auction.
H. r. Welter of Denver has been
appointed assistant secretary Of the
State Council of Defense.
Libraries of Colorado collected 56.-
412 volumes in the recent book drive
for soldiers and sailors libraries.
The seventeen large hotels in the
Rocky Mountain National Park will 90
on a wheatless basis for the summer
season.
Denver exceeded it's quota of $780,
900 for the Red Cross by about $780,.
900. The state also largely exceeded
its allotment.
A vast crowd gathered in the Audi
forum in Denver, Sunday. to pay trib-
ute to the memory of the city builder,
Robert w. Speer.
Americas War" is the subject sug
gested for Memorial Day addresses by
the speakers bureau of the State
Council of Defense.
Colorado shippers have made quick
response to an appeal by State Oil In
spector Duce for prompt unloading Of
tank cars and Oil barrels.
At Fort Collins, the stores all closed
in order that all might Join in bidding
Godspeed to forty-three draft men who
left Camp Cody at Deming, N. M.
Forty officers of the Colorado Ma.
tional Guard and 12O sergeants and
corporals will go into training during
June at the rifle range near Golden.
A Denver & Rio Grande freight
train was wrecked in the Royal Gorge
and seventeen freight cars are report.
ed to have been turned over into the
river.
At a meeting of the Farmers Non.
partisan League at Mead. $3.50 was
subscribed to the Red Cross, the mon.
ey to be sent through the Weld county
organization.
The Colorado Springs Light, Heat
and Power Company was granted per.
mission to increase gas and electric
light rates by the Colorado Public Util.
tiles Commission.
The Fort Logan military band will
furnish the music for the Red Cross
ball to be givon at Ell Jebel Temple
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Joseph's hospital 1urses.
Albert Combs. Denver boy who ia
with the Canadian aviation forces In
France, is reported to have been in.
jured in a flight in midair in which
his plane was set on fire.
Chief Justice w. A. Hill Of the state
Supreme Court and United States Dis
trict Attorney Harry B. Tedrow were
the principal speakers at an Italian
patriotic celebration in Pueblo.
Harry Smith, who was severely in
jured in an explosion at n mine at Sill
yer Plume. died at Denver hospital
William Stumpff, an experienced
leaser. backed by Denver capital. has
commenced work on the Deadwood
mine of the United Gold Mines group.
Former flat veins in the Deadwood
produced very high grade ore.
Horace N. Hawkins succeeds j. A.
Burnett as Denver councilman. When
w. +. r. Mills succeeded the late Rob
ert w. Speer as mayor, he named
Councilman Burnett manager of i'm
provements and parks.
The total eclipse of the sun which
will occur the afternoon of June s, is
attracting professors and astronomers
from all parts Of the country. A mum.
Der have already arrived and have sta.
toned themselves in the mountains
and at other advantageous points for
observation.
All cases Of anthrax or other con.
tagious disease among cattle must be
reported to Charles G. Lamb, state
veterinarian at the capitol building as
soon as detected in compliance with a
new order issued in an effort to check