Gilpin observer., 1919-12-11
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

wants good citizens all over the state
to act as volunteer officers for the
protection of neglected children and
dumb animals. Many have aided in
the past with marked success in COM
batting this abuse and have secured
much satisfaction in protecting the
helpless This is accomplished with
very little time and trouble and the
friendship gained many times repays
for enmity incurred. Their authority
is ample and backed by the bureau at
the state capitol. The bureau belongs
to the people of the state, and it Is a
duty of all good citizens to see that
its provisions are carried out In every
community.
The menace of tuberculosis IL shown
vividly in little health movie which
is now running In Denver and which
will be shown in every section of Colo
RADIO. The picture and movie slides are
being used to boost the campaign of
the Colorado Public Health Association
which is raising S150,OOO to be used in
this state to fight tuberculosis and to
promote public health. The entire
state has organized to back this cam
paign to build up Colorado by better
ing public health conditions in the
state Enthusiastic reports from every
section show that the people are arous-
ing to the need which exists for work
of the kind which has been undertaken
by the State Health Association.
E. d. Smith, agricultural agent for
La Plata county, has announced that
In the near future he will conduct
throughout the country series Of one
day institutes, at which he will in
struct the ranchers in farm manage
ment and the keeping of their ac-
counts, many Of them desiring infor-
nation on simple system Of book
keeping in particular, as they have had
much difficulty in the past of making
out their income tax returns.
In one of the first convictions re-
turned under the Colorado trust law,
James NJ. Campbell, Frank Theobal1,
q. w. Patterson, T. S. Barnes and
Thomas McCarty, members of the Mas.
ter Plumbers Association, were found
guilty In the District Court at Colo
RADIO Springs Of the charge of unlaw-
full combination in restraint Of trade.
1t Is the first decision in the plumb
ing trust cases which have been In the
courts since November, 1917.
The value Of all livestock on the
farms in Colorado in 1919, as estimat-
ed by the Bureau Of Crop Estimates
of the United States Department Of
Agriculture, was $172,751, 900. Asses
sors' reports show increases this year
in practically all classes of livestock,
so that Indications are that the State
Cooperative Crop Reporting Service
will find the value of livestock on
farms January 1, 1920, to be close to
$20O,O00,00O.
Struck by mammoth rock while at
work in the Sopris mine of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron Company, Antonio
Salla, coal miner, 80 years old, was
instantly killed. The rock, weighing
several tons, struck Salla on the head,
crushing it to pulp and scattering
brains about the working place. The
lower portion of the body was also
badly crushed The dead man leaves II
widow and two children at Soprs.
Girard Douglas, colored yodth,
charged with a statutory offense fol-
lowing his alleged attack upon Miss
Lutte Marshall, Sophomore student
in Colorado College, on the night of
Nov. IA, will be taken to Colorado
Springs for trial on the first day of
the January term of the District court.
the January term Of the District Court.
Court requesting his delivery into the
court on that day.
Florence McGlochlin, 14-year-old
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Nc
Glochlin, lost her voice through fright
when she and three companions met
four mountain lions on Potato hill, two
miles east of Hot Sulphur Springs. She
was taken home and put under the
care of DIR. f. z. Bernard and recov-
cred the power Of speech the next day.
The farm products of Montrose
county again came to the front when
John Howell Of Bostwick Park, with
exhibits IN the international grain and
hay show ut Chicago, captured sew.
eral of the most important prizes, in
the wheat and oats entries mainly
These same exhibits recently took the
main prizes at international exposl
tions at Kansas City and Wichita, Kan
Due to the stimulus of the two
weeks campaign to secure Jobs for ex
service men, employers in Denver and
Colorado have responded to tho cal
to such an extent that job is wait
ing for every Yank who is quail ficd to
fill 1t, according to reports received al
the rehabilitation bureau in ths
Chamber OF Commerce building in Den
yer.
new Roulder beef sugar comnnuv