Gilpin observer., 1918-08-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS.
Western Newspaper Union New. service.


COMING EVENTS.
Aug. 22-24-Colorado State Firemen's
Convention at Georgetown.
Sept. mining Engineers meeting In
Denver. tx
Sept. FIFTY sixth annual confer
ence of Colorado M. q. Church at
Sept. 4-6-shoe Dealers Association
meeting in Denver.
Sept. s-6- arkansas Valley Fair at
Rocky Ford. r1f
Sept. 1s-Beaver Park fair at Penrose.
Sept. 23-2S-Colorado State Fair at
Sept. 2s-2s-Lincoln County Fair at
F. b. Schorr, a Denver carpenter.
was shot by holdup on Stout street.
There were 292 deaths in Denver in
July, compared with 244 in July last
year.
Water rates at Boulder have been
advanced 25 per cent. by the City
Council.
Lieut.. Henry P. Reynolds of Denver
was killed in the Marine drive in
France.
Mrs. Mollie Griffin of Pueblo was
accidentally shot and killed by her
husband
The body of woman was found in
the Platte river, near the Swift plant.
In Denver.
Colorado will get $19.273 of the fed
eral fund of $2.3O7,460 for vocational
education 1888.
DR.. Nelson Drew Wells of Fort Nor
gan was commissioned q captain in
the medical corps.
William Lamb, Jr., IL years old, was
instantly killed at Pueblo whom run
over by an auto truck.
Nina May Coates left Denver for
France, where she will be an execu-
tive secretary in the Red Cross.
Oliver H. Shoup of Colorado
Springs has filed his petition rs Re-
publican candidate for Governor.
Kern H. Copeland of Grand Junction
was awarded a commission az q sec
ond lieutenant In the sanitary corps.
Members of the International Union
Of Mine, Mill and Smeltermen In SEES
sion In Denver decided to hold all OF
their conventions In the future In
Denver.
A forty-ton ore shipment was load
ed recently from the Pueblo mine Of
the Free Coinage Gold Mining Com
pany, on the southwestern slope OF
Bull cliffs.
Mildred Scarf. characterised by the
police as the most confirmed forgel
in Denver" n Gin again." She wa
arrested ON a charge Of passing q
worthless check for 80.
The first statewide organisation Of
women in Colorado to set aside five
minutes at noon for prayer for the
American soldiers overseas il the Jans
jefferson Democratic Club.
The Silver Chief mine. ON Beal
creek, near Telluride, is being cleanet
out preparatory to resuming opera
lions on the property. which has beer
idle for q number of years.
The Salvation Army has been giveI
| the hearty approval of the State Coun
Gil of Defense in it's plaps for RAISING
5000 in Colorado for the Salvation
war work among the soldiers II
France.
The Vernon property. Ironton dis
triot, on the equipment and develop
ment of which $250,OO0 was expendet
during 1916-1917, is now idle as re
lult of war conditions and financia
contraction.
A. q. Bauer, manager of the Walsh
Hidden Treasure group. Imogene bs
sin, sent out a twentytwo-ton ship
'ment of ore that shows an absence O
the zinc content that characterized tn
early-day shipments.
Over $500 Colorado boys are helI
ing win victory by working on farmi
Interpretation of the rights of con
mitteemen and committeewomen an
the manner of their election in Denve
developed controversy between tn
Republican county central committe
and the city elections commission tina
is to be decided in the courts.
Twenty-seven game refugees, one q
them established by the city of Der
yer, should be located throughout tn
state. according to Smith Riley. dii
trict forester Of the United States To-
est service, who has made an extel
sive study of this phase Of the gam
problem, SO that the state might 81
Joy a constant supply Of game.
All properly qualified youths of Co
orado are urged by Governor Gunte
, and the State Council Of Defense to g
to college this fall and enlist in tn
, Students Army Training Corps, orgal
, lied by the War Department. The
, they will be called upon to serve tn
government in the capacities In whic
> they are the most valuable whenev,
, wanted by the government. While g
ing to college thew will he soldior