Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1918-03-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Mrs. Elise Vandergrift Benedict
former Denver newspaper woman ant
for the past four years field organizer
for the National Woman Suffrage AS
ISOLATION, has accepted an offer from
a lyceum bureau to tour the Pacific
coast and give course of lectures or
What the World War Will Win fol
Women"
Investigation shows that Felix
Olgin, whose body was found in an
abandoned shaft near Trinidad, was
murdered. He had been shot in the
head and neck. No motive is known
Olgin's wife had died two weeks ago
leaving five children. Two Sicilians
are under arrest on suspicion.
A cablegram was received by the
wife of Capt. Lee Foster of Denver
announcing his safe arrival at a
French port. He is with the First
motor mechanics regiment of the
signal corps and was last located at
Camp Hancock, Ca, which place he
left one month ago.
United States Marshal Samuel ].
Burris left Denver for Los Angeles,
Cal, with Jacob Meinninger, dis.
charged soldier recently arrested at
his home in Globeville, on a warrant
issued by federal authorities of Cali
fornia charging him with stealing gov
eminent property
Colorado has been asked by the
War Department to give $50 chauf.
feurs and truck drivers and fifty gen.
eral engine and automobile mechanics
for General Pershing's army. They
are to be selected from the lists of
men registered under the draft.
Ninety-nine per cent of the men at
Camps Kearney and Funston have
taken out the government war risk in
surance. Most Of Colorado's men are
in these camps and it is probable
most of them have obtained the in
surance.
Celedone Martinez and Sostenes Es-
pinoza, MeXicans, were arrested in
Walsenburg by Deputy United States
Marshal Charles E. Goodfriend on
warrants charging them with failure
to register under the selective service
draft.
The trial of Edward Allison, deputy
sheriff of Denver county, accused of
the murder of Mrs. Margaret Manning
last November in the office of a Den
yer creamery company on Curtis
street, opened in the West Side Court
Governor Gunter delivered a series
of patriotic addresses in the San Luis
valley. He emphasized Colorado's eff
fective war work and the states de-
termination to maintain the high
standard it has set
One thousand volunteer ship
builders have already been registered
in Colorado. W. N. w. Blayney, Colo
RADIO director of the u. S. Public Re-
serve, has reported to Governor Gun
ter.
Coloradoans who are flocking to the
national capital to answer the call for
war emergency service have COM
pleted plans for organization of the
Colorado Society of Washington. d. c.
S. E. Gatschett of Montrose is pros
pecting for the mother vein of a ma
terial known as mineral wax, small
pieces of which have been discovered
in the shale hills near that town.
The 100000 issue of the city of
Golden refunding water bonds will be
purchased by the Colorado State Land
Board for investment in the perma-
nent school fund of the state.
Colorado potato growers produced
in the season just passed 100000
bushels, of which 5,027, 900 bushels are
estimated to be still in the hands of
the men who raised them.
Loveland is to have pickle factory.
Between 100000 and 10000 trout
will probably be placed in the streams
of the Pike National forest in the
North and South Pixies Peak districts
during the coming summer
Five carloads of corrugated cul.
verts have been received by the La
| Plata county commissioners, to be
used in road work as soon as the
weather permits.
Ball and banquet of the Ouray Coun.
| " Pioneers society held at Ridgway
was varied by drawings for Red
Cross steer, hog and turkey. Net pro-
ceeds, $34S.
Contracts for the erection of a wa.
ter stand-pipe at Fourteenth and Lin.
coin avenue In Loveland will be
awarded early in April. .
All booze captured by the Weld
county officials is being turned over
to the city hospital in Greeley for
medical purposes.
| The Boulder Commercial Club
passed resolution asking members
OF that organization boycott German
made goods.
The fifty-fifty flour regulation has
been changed from n money basis to