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

Ordinance against stray chickens /,
rigidly enforced 1T Florence.
The alfalfa mill at Fowler still has
$50 tons of hay to be transformed in
to alfalfa meal. n
Mrs. Homer c. Crones was elected
president Of Craig Colony at the an
nual meeting of the officers in Den
yer.
st. Patrick's day was observed gen
orally in Denver this year. as former
ly, with the exception that there was
no parade.
Colorado will be virtually out of
flour on May l. according to the state
ment of Robert ]. Grant, executive
manager Of the State Food Admins
tration.
Miss Lesta Bennett of La Junta, is
station agent for the Santa Fe rail-
road. replacing an employee who went
to war. She is one of the first women
to be employed in this capacity by the
railroad.
That the price for wheat paid to the
farmer should be well above 50 a
bushel and that production in Colo
RADIO and the intermountain states will
be materially reduced in 1918 unless
the price is advanced, was the opinion
expressed in Washington by J. w.
Mullen. Of Denver.
Twelve mines in the bituminous
coal fields in Colorado. having total
production of $500 tons of coal daily,
ceased operations as a result of the
Fuel Administrations order reducing
the price of coal, according to reports
made to the Colorado division Of the
Fuel Administration.
Gov. ]. c. Gunter will attend meet
ing OF governors and other state and
federal officials in Washington April
8 in response to an invitation from
Franklin X. Lane. Secretary of the In
terror. Efficiency in industrial and
agricultural pursuits are among the
topics to be discussed.
Under new instructions issued by
Frank Adams to the state constabu-
larry regarding the stopping of automo-
biles on the Cheyenne road, no mem
ber of the force Is hereafter to shoot
unless fired upon. The men are to
rely rather on a new plan of first
erecting a stop" sign in the path of
the oncoming automobile and leave 1t
to spiked boards placed across the
road to bring the machine to halt in
case the driver refuses to do so.
There were fewer fatalities in the
metal mines Of Colorado during 1917
than either In 1916 or 1915, according
to the annual statement concerning &C.
cidents issued by the commissioner of
mines, Fred Carroll. Fffty-eight min
ers died OF injuries last year against
sixty-one in 1915 and sixty-seven in
1916. There were in all 1,781 acci-
dents during 1917, by reason Of which
lost time in the mines totaled 2s.088
days. in the mills e.14e days and in
the smelters sos days.
Though the members of most school
classes gradually drift apart and lose
trace Of each other through the years.
the extraordinary manner in which the
sixteen living members out of the orig
inal twenty-four Of the class of 1880
at East Denver High school have
clung together for forty-four years
was signalized by the attendance Of
twelve Of the survivors at the funeral
Of Miss Emily Miles. who for nearly
half Q century was associated with tho
Denver public schools a. student or
director of drawing.
Bombed by German war planes,
shelled by Hun artillery. Bishop Fran
cis ]. Mcconnell. head of the Metho-
dists Of Colorado, has crowded into q
few weeks all the excitement of a nor
NAL lifetime since he left Denver last
January in company with William E.
Sweet to answer a call from the Brit
ish foreign office for representative
American men to speak to the British
and American troops on the western
front. Letters received by Mrs. Mo
Connell from her husband indicate
clearly that Bishop Mcconnell has on
several occasions been in serious dan
ger.
Denver is to have recuperation
camp for railroad men in military
service who return from over there"
for rest, and medical attention. Guy
Adams. mail traffic manager for the
Union Pacific system. Of Chicago and
Denver. has given forty acres OF his
Double Header ranch, sixteen miles
above Morrison and one mile from the
old Leadville stage road, to the cause
and on which. II present plans are
completed. will be constructed cot
tages and buildings to accommodate
100 men by July /.
At the recent conference of Home
Economic Directors which was held at
the U. 8. Food Administration in
Washington, Colorado was represented
by Miss Inga Allison. Miss Allison
was asked how the people OF Colorado