Gilpin observer., 1919-10-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service

Western Newspaper Union News Service
COMING EVENTS,
Inter Mountain Live Stock and Fair
Grand Junction. Sept. 30 to Oct. 3.
Oct. rs. r''"
Miss Flora Brown, so years old, who
weighed 525 pounds, is dead in Denver
of heart trouble.
Half OF the Colorado Fuel and Iron
Company's coal mines in Trinidad dis
trict are closed and a total of over l..
300 men are out of work as a result
Sixty-six school teaches of Fort Col
Inns Will receive Il bonus of $3.50 each
on their years work, as a result of ac-
tiOn taken by the school board on a
petition asking FOR increases of % per
cent.
The budget for the city of Boulder
for next year, as submitted to the City
Council by Manager Salter calls for
expenditures In the amount Of $12O, ,23O,
which is the estimated total of re-
ceipts
Stock raising is, next to mining,
Colorado's oldest industry. The CEN
sus bureau found the value of all do
nestle animals sold and slaughtered
last year close to $l25, 100000 or 400
per cent better than in 1909.
S. E. Carver, Elkton, Colo, so years
old, pioneer miner, was killed at the
Cresson mine, near Cripple Greek,
when two tons of loose rock fell on
him in slope between the seventh
and eighth levels of the mine
The town of Ault, Colo, has applied
to the State Utilities Commission for
certificate of convenience and neces-
sity authorizing it to proceed with the
construction and operation of a muni-
clpal light and power plant.
Tony Marmone of Mt Harris mar
| :Owly escaped death at Oak Greek
when he backed out of the Newberry
garage into Oak creek He was caught
underneath the automobile and held
here several minutes before he was re-
leased
Clinton w. Dexter %, a sugar fac
tory employee. is dead from injuries
suffered when he was struck by an au,
tomObile at Longmont. Dexter made a
leap for passing truck in order to get
IL ride home, when he missed the vehi-
Gle and stepped in front of an automo-
bile coming in an opposite direction.
The strike of the steel workers at
Pueblo has resulted in the closing of
the canister quarries at Canon City
and the throwing out of work of con-
siderable number of men who are em-
ployed there. Canister is used as flux
in the making of steel and large quanti-
ties were furnished by the quarries
fere to the Minnequa plant
Threshing machines are busy in ev-
cry section of ROutt county and the
yield of grain is far above expectation.
Notwithstanding the dryest season
known for many years, Routt county
maintains Its position as Il section that
as never known n crop failure. In
quantity the yield is satisfactory in
some cases phenomenal.
Governor Oliver ii. Shoup has an
nOunced the names of three women
appOintees he has designated to repre-.
sent Colorado AT the Farm Women's
National Congress ut Hagerstown,
Md, on October 2S to 81. The an
pointees are Mrs. Harvey Van Horne
OF Dotsero, Mrs. Charles A. Lory of
Fort Collins, and Mrs. Bell Harbert Of
ManzanOIa.
The Western Slope Pure Bred Stock
Association is the name of a new or
;.anizaton of stockmen which was or
ganized ct Montrose. The purpose Of
this organization is to encourage the
production OF pure bred stock among
the counties of the western slope and
to cooperate among the members In
the growing and exhibiting of pure
bred animals In the realm of live stock.
The town of Flagler will construct
over two miles of cement sidewalks
this fall. Nearly n mile of concrete
curbing has already been ordered.
Many other civic improvements are un-
der consideration by the Flagler Com
mercial Club.
Lora Doak, 18-year-old son OF Mrs.
chalon Moon, twenty-five miles south
east Of Hugo, accidentally shot himself
while out hunting. The gun was dis
charged while the young man was TAX
ing 1t out of the wagon. the bullet strik-
ing near the heart. Doak lived but "A
few minutes.
The Rabbit Ear Pass highway,
twenty-five mile strip sixteen feet wide
extending from Steamboat Springs to
connection with the highway to Den
yer. has been completed after five
years of work, according to an an
Iouncement made at the United States
Gurenu In Denver.
Through AN agreement between the
State Highway Commission and the
commissioners OF Larimcr county S3G-
900 Will be spent in improving the
Loveland cannn road between Love-
land and Estes Park. 1t is expected to
have the work completed before travel