Gilpin observer., 1918-10-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

COMING EVENTS.
oot Fourth Red Cross homo service
institute at Denver.
A baby buffalo has been born to
one OF the cows in the Denver City
Park herd of bison.
Aurora is to have a special fourth
class postoffice to handle the mail OF
General Hospital No. 20.
Phil Hornbein was named chairman
of the executive committee of the cen
tral state Democratic committee.
Herman Oaklers of Brighton is now
in training at Mare Island, Cal, with
the United States marines. e.
The Fourth Liberty Loan quotas for
Colorado and Denver are S37, ,1S3,250
and $17,911.7 .75O. respectively.
Private Harold Griffin, Montrose,
died at Camp Grant, H., of injuries re-
ceived in "a motorcycle accident.
The Deer Creek Canon road was
opened to travel for its entire distance
by the Jefferson county commission
ers.
Only one bid for the sum of $4,000
was received by the state highways
commission for the Rifle-MeekerSro road
building contract
The union BARRIERS of Denver went
on strike Saturday night Their de-
man is for $40 per week guarantee
and 65 per cent OF receipts over $50.
Miss Nancy E. Nix of Denver has
enlisted in the Red Cross service as
nurse and has been assigned to the.
naval hospital, Fort Lyon. Las Ami
mas
Horace Eugene Craig, formerly a
student OF the South Denver high
school, was drowned in the Des Chutes
river, near Tacoma, while on a camp
ing trip.
A blonde female bootlegger, with .
taste for literature and finery, has the
police officials of Boulder, Larimer
and Weld counties at their wits end
in an effort to effect her arrest.
In response to draft calls from their
different home states. as many as
twenty-six men came down in one
month from one mine alone in the
Sneffels district.
Albert Nelson, "a years old. son Of
Charles B. Nelson, a farmer near
Longmont, died Of Spanish influenza
at the Norfolk navy yard. near Hamp-
ton Roads. Va.
A call to Red Cross service abroad
has come to Miss Agnes Leonard Of
Denver. Miss Leonard is a native Of
Kentucky but has lived in Denver
since her school days.
A bill is now pending in Congress
to provide for potash experiments at
present under way at the School Of
Mines testing plant in Golden and at
the Portland mill in Colorado City.
Colorado Germans are being reached
by the Americanization committee of
the Colorado State Council of Defense
and a German America First Society
has been organized in Globeville.
The Public Utilities Commission is
sued an order, authorizing the Inter
mountain Railway, Light and Power
Company to increase it's rates 20 per
cent for electricity in the city Of La
mar.
Disbarment proceedings against
George ]. Humbert, a Denver lawyer.
from practising law in Colorado were
taken by Attorney General Hubbard,
in compliance with instructions from
the Supreme Court.
George Herman, Jr.. of Fort Collins.
is reported dead of Spanish influenza
at Camp Dix, in a telegram received
by his father. Two men of that name
departed June "a in the draft contin-
gent from Fort Collins.
Ten thousand permits were issued
for the deer season-Oct. 1 to 4.
Though the Walsh-McLean millions
are back of 1t. the development of the
Hidden Treasure mine in Imogene ba-
sin is at present limited to the work
of one lone miner and this with plenty
of shipping ore in sight.
Samuel Ard of Logan county has
filed proceedings in the Supreme
Court attacking the constitutionality
Of the automobile license law, after
having been fined in his home court
for running car without license.
Colorado already is short 1000 men
for essential war industries and every
effort will be made to remedy this
condition and prevent any further
scarcity Of all kinds of labor, accord
ing to officials of the Colorado board
OF the United States Department of
Labor.
How captured Colorado soldiers cap.
tured in France by Huns, turned on
the latter and made them prisoners is
told in an order issued by General
Pershing, a copy Of which was re-
ceived in Pueblo from Lieut.. Leo p.
Kelly by friend and read before
cheering crowd at the State Fair nv