Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1918-05-23
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
June Race meeting at Denver.
July s-1s-Meeting National Associa-
ton of Colored Women in Denver.
July 16-Republican State Conven-
Sept. zs-2s-Colorado State Fair at
Arvada raised $3.50 at q Red Cross
dance.
Colorado women sold $5,126,35o
worth of Third Liberty Loan bonds.
Ten thousand paraders opened the
! Red Cross drive for 100000 in Den
YER.
| Building permits to the amount Of
$5S,4O7 were granted in Pueblo during
| April.
Joseph Hurtgen, Jr., has been ap-
pointed forest ranger in the Sheephorn
district.
An epson salts mine has been open
ed ON the ranch Of D. Sanderson. north
OF Meeker.
The northwest quarter of section 9,
unimproved land near Otis. was sold
recently for sos per acre.
| A flag staff is to be erected in front
of the town hall in Rockville at =
height of ninety-three feet.
The Four Minute Men OF Colorado
planned greater work for this year at
q state conference in Denver.
Denver will supply 438 men Of the
1900 quota asked the state In the lat
est draft call issued by Provost Mar
shall General Crowder.
The Vindicator flotation mill. located
In Cripple Creek. in April treated 20r
ia tons of low grade ore with head
value Of $2,04 per ton.
DR.. Charles A. Lory. president Of the
State Agricultural College, declined to
become a candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor.
Tho Leadville debating team won
the championship Of the Colorado
High School Debating league at the
contest held at Boulder.
Company A, signal corps Of the Colo
RADIO National Guard was mustered IN
to state service in the auditorium Of
the public library In Denver.
From Placervills come reports that
twenty trucks are hauling caxnotits
ore from the Paradox valley mine and
that q trip is made every day.
It is reported that B. 8. Boyce. .
farmer, and C. B. Wood. his former
hired man, fought a pistol duel ten
miles southeast of Holyoke IN which
both are said to have been wounded.
Immediately after w. =. r. Mills
was sworn in as mayor of Denver to
succeed the late Robert w. Speer. hs
appointed James A. Burnett a. man
ager of the department Of parks and
improvements.
Manitou Springs on May IT present
ed its claim to being the most patriot
10 community in the United States
when 1t was announced that the city
had trebled its quota in the second
Red Cross drive.
Suits involving the title to large
areas bf ground in the Climax molyb-
denite field. which are 10 be heard be-
fore the state Supreme Court in June.
have held up work of the Pingrey
Mines company, the third big operator
that has entered the molybdenite
area.
Idaho Springs reports that the sue
cessor to the former Empire Tunnel
Company. now Incorporated as the
Randolph Gold Mining. Milling and
Tunnel Company, which recently ac-
quired the property at a trustees sale.
has been organized. The new COM
pany has started to clean up and put
the property in shape for extensive
working.
An innovation has been introduced
by the Portland Gold Mining company
In the employment OF women chemists
at both the independence and Victor
mills, to take the place of the younger
men, former employees of the company.
who have been called into the service
of the United States by the draft.
Governor Gunter and 500 speakers
enrolled by the State Council of De-
Tense are helping in the Red Cross
campaign. The governor will speak
at Sterling. Thursday evening. May
20; at Fort Morgan. Friday evening,
May "a; at Brush. Saturday afternoon.
May 20. and at Akron, Saturday eve.
ming. May rs.
| In accordance with a resolution
passed at the recent meeting of the
Republican state central committee, q
committee was appointed by w. A..
) Dollison, chairman of Denver county,
to draft platform for the guidance of
candidates and voters in the state
election. Members of the committee