Gilpin observer., 1918-03-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS


administration. According to w. d
Hoover Of the Great Western Sugar
Company, the terms granted to far.
mers are more liberal than the sugar
companies have been payin.;. The
commission places 50 ton as q min
imum price for beets with II to IA per
cent sugar content, but adds that q
minimum of $40 probably will be found
necessary to get the production to a
full normal acreage.
On March 20 and April 8, respective.
ly two drawings will occur in western
Colorado by which $4,000 acres of ir.
rigable land will be thrown open to
settlement: The government farms
contain from forty to eighty acres
each Of irrigable land, and are located
in two of the most beautiful mountain
valleys of the Western Slope. These
farms are included In two Of the great
irrigation systems built by the Recla-
nation Service known as the Grand
Valley and Uncompahgre projects.
Immediately following the war boys
will be born in a greater proportion to
girls than ever before in history, &C
cording to Miss Lydia Meeker, head of
the Meeker School for Detectives in
Denver and recognized among sociolo-
gists as an authority on the care and
education of defective children. She
addressed the Mothers Congress at q
meeting In the Woman's Club build
ing In Denver.
The trial of Philip Cohen, charged
with the robbery Of Mrs. Irene Nolan
at the Model road house Jan. 2 and
alleged companion of Frank Mulligan,
former Denver detective convicted on
the same charge, began in Brighton
when a jury was completed Thursday
with Father Burke as one of the first
witnesses.
The state food administrator closed
an Armenian's store at Walsenburg b.
cause the man failed to sell the re-
Quired amount of substitutes with
flour. There are two or three other
stores In the state that may be closed
for similar reasons.
Howard Holiday of Denver, . fly
ing cadet at Kelly field at San Anto-
nio, Tex, was killed, when his aero
plane fell 1000 feet. He was return
ing from q croes-country flight. His
mother 10 Mrs. Duncan A. Holiday of
Denver.
Machinists who have been negotiat-
ing with the Denver commercial shops
since Jan. l for an increase in pay
from 81 to 65 cents an hour struck.
many Of the shops refusing the de-
mand.
The working force at the Roosevelt
tunnel OF the Cripple Greek Deep
Drainage Company was increased re-
Gently to two shifts In all headings,
save in the Cresson and Portland
drifts.
Women of Denver made 17S,646 sur.
gical dressings, 5,616 hospital gar
ments and 9.305 knitted garments in
February, according to the official re-
port of the Denver chapter of the Red
Cross.
The El Paso Extension Company,
operating the Index mine. ON the
slope of Gold hill, under
bond and lease, will shortly have the
property back on the producing list.
Receipts of the State Inheritance
Tax Department for 1917 were $685.
330.1S, and the expense of conducting
the department $14.4OS.sS. according
to the annual statement.
Jim Goodheart, Denver's city chap
lain. applied to Mayor Speer for q six
leave of absence and will start
for France soon as the spiritual envoy
OF the Rotary Club.
One hundred draft registrants, who
have been drafted as chauffeurs and
mechanics, eft Denver for the aero
station Of the signal corps at San An
tonic, Texas.
The Denver Rotary Club voted unan-
imously to send Jim Goodheart to
France to serve as q chaplain In the
trenches six months.
Within few weeks all fire insur-
ance policies written in Denver will be
subject to 10 per cent increase over
the customary rate.
The price of lump coal was cut rs
cents ton at Pueblo under the gov.
ernment order reducing the price of
coal at the mine.
Cars arc In great demand by the op-
orators holding contracts for removal
of the dumps on properties of the
Stratton estate.
Philip Cohen was found guilty at
Brighton OF robbing Mrs. Harry T.
Nolan at the Model roadhouse ON
Jan. 2.
Mrs. Ella Altvater. 20. wife of Coun-
ty Treasurer Henry P. Altvater, died
in Central City.
Construction of a new alfalfa mill
east OF Olney has begun
Another sensational strike of min
eral is reported from the old Buckeva