Gilpin observer., 1918-09-19
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
e.tern Ntwspaper Union News servlce.

COMING EVENTS.
Sept. .2s-2s-Colorado State Fair st
Sept 2s-2s-Lincoln County Fair At
Sept. 2s-2s.-ara.d County fair and
I race meeting.
Oct. 1-Fourth Red Cross home service
institute at Denver.
About 10000 men in Denver regis
tered for selective service.
Tag day in Denver for the blind
nettsd several thousand dollars.
Experimenting with the battery Of
telephone and dynamite cap at Fort
Collins cost Earle Williams, 15 years
old, three fingers and An eye.
E. A. Lawrence, 81 years old, pio-
neer of the Cripple Creek district and
charter member of the Victor lodge
of Elks, died at his home in Cripple
Creek.
The sum of $1,27o,000 has been ap-
portioned to Colorado as her share of
the s17O,5OO,OOO to be raised over the
United States for the united war work
campaign.
Walter r. Chiles of Paradox, and
Oliver N. Goodson of Fort Collins, are
among the missing in action in the
casualty lists made public by the War
Department
Findlay L. MacFariand will be gen
eral manager of the water plant when
the city assumes control in November,
according to announcement made by
the Denver water board.
Lloyd Simpson of Grand Valley, %
years old, has been killed in action in
France. He has two brothers, Frank
and Alexander, in France, and the lat
ter was wounded several weeks ago.
Eighteen members of the old Cooks
Drum Corps, all of them bandsmen in
the 157th infantry, have arrived safely
in Europe, according to a message re-
ceived by George e. Turner Of Den
yer.
Gov. julius G. Gunter has been
asked by the Civic and Commercial
Association to speak early in Decem-
ber on reconstruction policies to come
before the Colorado Legislature this
winter.
Sergt. Robert P. Land, who lived in
Denver for about four years and who
enlisted in the national army from
Idaho. died at Tours, France, Aug. 4,
from wounds received in the battle of
the Marne in July.
The fuel administrations skip-stop
for street railways will not become eff
fective until after Oct 15 under a de-
cision reached at q conference in Den
yer between city officials, Tramway
officials and the local fuel administra-
tion.
Martin Martinsen, an employs of
the Cripple Creek & Colorado Springs
railway at Cripple Creek, was killed
when two cars which had become de-
tached from moving train bumped
into the car under which he was
working.
After living the life of nature
man" in the rugged hills of Box
Canon mountains in Larimer county
for two weeks, following his escape
from penitentiary road camp, ]. Ar
thur Montague, itinerant curio mer-
chant, was captured in a cave near
Livermore by the Colorado constabu-
larry.
Patriotic citizens of Colorado will
hold a convention in the Auditorium
the night of Sept. 20, under the aus
pices of the League to Enforce Peace,
to organize a Colorado branch of the
league. The object Of the league is
to aid the President, to make the
world safe for all time in the COM
pete defeat of German militarism and
to keep the world safe by league of
nations.
The Deadwood mine OF the United
Gold Mines Company has been leaseu
to e. C. Stumpff of Denver for a per
iod of eighteen months.
The first call to the colors in Octo-
ber was issued by Provost Marshal
General Crowder, and includes sos
Colorado white men. They are to be
entrained for Camp Kearney during
the five-day period beginning Oct. T.
The call will affect about 80 per cent
Of the men remaining in the special
class of registrants of date Aug. "a of
this year, according to instructions.
Two of the original band of seven
bandits involved in the series of shoot
ing affrays with police officers in
Denver and Colorado Springs, Friday
and Saturday. have been lost in the.
shuttle and the authorities are pro-
ceeding on the theory that there were
but five members of the gang, aside
from the women Three of that num-
ber are under arrest and Cf the where
abouts of the two still at large-sup-
posed to be the murderers of Chief of
Detectives Rowan of Colorado Springs
and presumably the slayers of Patrol
nan Luther McMahill of Denver
there was no tangible clew on Mon