Gilpin observer., 1918-06-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.
July aa-Democratic state Assembly In
Aug. 22-24-Colorado State Firemsn's .
Convention At Georgetown.
Sept. 23-2s-Colorado State Fair at
Sept. 2s-2s-LAneoln County Fair At
Banker John B. Cosgriff of Denver
died from stroke of paralysis.
ouray Boosters Club is arranging
for Fourth of July celebration.
Andrew Ceilings Of Salida was
killed in a railroad wreck near Salt
Lake City, Utah.
The Grand and Gunnison rivers are
at flood stage and threaten the rail-
way tracks in many places.
With admissions placed at 1, 3 and 8
cents, the Fort Collins Juvenile Circus
Company raised $59.40 for the Red
Cross.
Queen and Jake. the two largest
East Indian Rhesus monkeys in the
Denver City Park zoo. are celebrating
the advent of boy.
Julius A. Meyers, pioneer Denver
bushes man and thirty-third degree
Mason, died at his home following an
attack of pneumonia.
Orders to consolidate the American.
Adams and Wells-Fargo Express COM
panies in Denver was received, to be
completed by July 1.
Helen Snyder. IL. suffered . frao-
tured skull and other injuries when
she was struck by an automobile
driven by 8. B. Buckley Of Denver.
Nearly fifty representatives ny
eastern Colorado towns met at Fort
Morgan and laid plans for starting .
big War Savings Stamp campaign.
A wage scale adopted by the newly
formed Vulcanfxers' union asking in
creases ranging from $S to IS per
week have been handed the employ
ers in Denver.
Boiled beef on Tuesdays and Thurs
days, roast beef on Wednesdays and
beefsteak on Saturdays at one meal
ON days named Is the new beef con-
servation plan.
Twenty-Five hundred ia the estimate
Of Mark A. Skinner, collector of in
tesnal revenue, of those who have
failed to respond on the last day un-
der which income tax could be paid
without penalty.
Swollen streams caused BY melting
snow in the higher attitudes under the
hot spell, has filled irrigation bitches,
and for the present, at least. dis
PEELED any fear of the loss of 10000
acres of wheat, valued at $3.50, 900.
Thomas j. lyman, warden of the
state penitentiary at Canon City, will
speak at a mass meeting to be held
June % at Englewood. Tho mass
meeting will be to aid the Red Cross
and an auction Of livestock II to be
held.
Twelve thin-vein coal mines in the
Walsenburg bituminous field were
granted increases over the fixed gov
eminent prices through an order is
sued by ]. 8. Murphy, manager of the
Colorado division of the Fuel Admin.
istration.
A day of devotion to the American
flag was brought to a fitting close at
a large public meeting held at the Au-
ditorium in Denver when floral altar
of red, white and blue was erected
on the stage in the presence of the
audience.
Those living in lower Georgetown
have been in danger Of being carried
away by the flood caused by the ex-
ceptionally high and rapid rise of the
water in the Silver Plume branch of
Clear creek. The lower rooms of
homes have been flooded and war gar
dens have been washed away
Wilson L. Burns Of Cripple Creek
was arrested in Trinidad on a charge
Of bringing liquor into the state.
The State Board of Nurse Examin-
ers has modified the regulations gov
erning the training and examination
of nurses in way which will shorten
the course Of training and makes avail
able for home service many women
who can replace those registered or
professional nurses called into active
service.
In all probability. within the next
few days there will be plan evolved
for taking over the Denver Union Wa
ter Company by the city, according to
James A. Marsh, city attorney, who
has returned from Washington. where
the bond issue was approved by the
capital issues committee Of the United
States treasury.
A Mexican who refused to give his
name. but who answers the descrip-
ton Of Isadore Saltillo. was arrested
at Grand Junction In the railroad