Gilpin observer., 1918-11-28

Durango il to have nov alfalfs
mill.
The biennial moving season preced
ing the session of the Legislature II
ON at the state house. sf
New rulings issued by the Food Ad
ministration permit the manufacture
and use of powdered sugar.
A kick from horse instantly killed
John Carter. 10 years old. pioneer
farmer at Hygiene, five miles west OF
Longmont.
w. w. Degge, postmaster Of Norfolk,
Va, during the administration of Pres
ident Grover Cleveland, died at Boul-
der Of apoplexy.
News has been received In Denver
Of the death near White River, six
miles from Meeker. of Mrs. ]. A.
Pierce, daughter of former Congress-
man H. M. Towner.
Hard hit by the influenza, but still
plugging ahead. the mining camps Of
the San Juan district are showing re-
markable staying power in mainte.
nance of ore production.
Former State Humane Officer Nor
ton M. David, son Of Mrs. Roy F.
David of Denver, has been promoted
to corporal In the quartermaster's
corps at Camp Funston.
Situated about three miles south of
Ouray and easily accessible to the
Red Mountain wagon road, no great
amount of capital will be needed to
put the Mount Hayden tungsten de-
posit on the market. f
The meeting Of the federal grand
jury, first scheduled to be held Nov.
8. then postponed until Nov. %, has
been put off until Jan. 6 because Of
the latest closing order of the Den
YER health department
The month of November has
brought the heaviest death toll in the
history of Logan county in like Pc
riod. The "flu" has killed seventy-one
persons. most Of whom have died aur-
ing November month.
With victory in the hands Of the
allies, the minds of Americans turn
to the sometimes puzzling question,
What will the boys 10 when they
come back?" To Denver the answer
is simple: They will go back to their
old Jobs"
Petrolman Peter Walsh and his
wife of Denver, died within . few
hours Of each other Saturday from in
fluenza. Walsh is the second patrol
man of the local department to die
from influenza within twelve hours.
Patrolman Frank Potestio having died
late Friday night.
DR.. Erlo E. Kennedy. secretary of
the Colorado State Board of Health.
has been appointed by Surgeon Gen.
eral Blue of the United States Public
Health Service to represent the fed
eral body in Colorado and cooperate
with the State Board of Health in the
control of social diseases.
NJ. de Golyer. late manager of the
Vernon Mining Company. Ironton, has
secured an option ON the McLennan-
Dunmore tungsten property ON Mount
Hayden. The property is considered
by those competent to Judge to be the
most promising tungsten proposition
In the San Juan region.
October production of Colorado coal
mines shows falling off over the An
gust production and an increase over
the September output, according to a
statement issued by James Dalrymple,
state coal mine inspector. The Octo-
ber output was 1.121, ,101 tons, and the
total for the first ten months 1O,S12.-
S48 tons.
Eva Lewis. member OF the Jones'
Lewis bandit band which terrorized
Denver In September, was found
guilty of robbery with gun, by g
jury in the Denver West Side Court.
Five Colorado boys are on the lists
Of casualties made public by the War
Department Nov. 23 They are I:
George N. Arndt. Blaine, missing in &C.
ton; William M. Wickhorst. Brighton,
wounded, degree undetermined; and
the following severely wounded In &C.
ton: Louis Everett Baldwin, Den.
YER; Lloyd B. Dunn, La Sale, and
Joseph p. Cough, Rocky Ford.
Return of $1,350,000 in dividends to
stockholders within II period of three
years is the record of the Wellington
mine at Breckenridge. owned and op.
Grated by the Wellington Mines Com.
pany. An index OF the productive
capacity Of the property is had in the
fact that during the past fiscal year
alone the company paid federal taxes
amounting to no less than $145.O0O.
At present the property is working q
reduced force. owing to the labor
shortage resulting from draft induc.
tions, demands OF essential" indus.
tries. inroads made by the infiusnxa
epidemic and other generai nanaicsps
Figures compiled at Washington
and sent to the Food Administration