Gilpin observer., 1919-01-02
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

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Western Newspaper Union News Serves.
COMING EVENTS.
Jan. 2o-z1-Mid- winter meeting OF
Colorado Editorial Association at
IAN. aI-2e-Western Stock Show a.
an. 3l-2s-Mesting American National
| Live Stock Association at Denver.
The Greeley postoffice was looted
Of $4,000 in stamps.
Routt county was the ninth to go
over in the war savings drive.
Colorado stone is being urged for
use in the Durango public building.
Fifty cases of influenza were re-
ported to the reformatory at Buena
Vista.
After a vacation since Oct. 6. the
school children of Denver return to
their studies Thursday. Jan. 2.
Oswald c. Brewster, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James H. Brewster of Denver
received the croix de guerre for brav-
cry in action.
George Knorr, driver of an automo-
bile filled with whisky, wines and
champagne, valued at $4,000, was ar
rested in Denver.
The Colorado Equal Suffrage Asso-
citation held a reception in honor OF
Mrs. Oliver H. Shoup. wife of the gov
ernor-elect, in Denver.
The Mt. Logan Mining and Refining
Company, seven or eight miles north
of DeBeQue, has established camp st
the base of Mt. Logan.
The American Shale Company nal
q camp fourteen miles north OF Do
Beque, on Conn creek, an eastern
tributary of Roam creek.
John Wollum of Evans has proved
that tobacco can be raised there. He
has 100 stalks OF tobacco stored in
his homo that has been grown this
year.
The Boulder County Metal Miners
Association passed resolutions favor
ing q rigid "blue sky" law, and asked
the Legislature to pass such
measure.
Nearly $4,000 was reported on the
opening day Of the campaign of the
Denver Federation for Charity and
Philanthropy to raise $115.O00 for its
1919 budget
Twenty-Five appointive officers OF
the state house presented to Cover
nor Gunter a silver centerpiece set as
q token of the friendly relations en-
joyed through the administration.
The 500 crippled soldiers now fight
ing slowly back to health in the gem
eral hospital at Aurora are in need OF
music, need scarcely appreciated by
the citizen in good health whose
phonograph is constantly on hand.
Shipment of seed beans from the
Eaton district is being delayed be-
cause of the impossibility to get cars.
according to one bean seed dealer,
who says he has been trying for over
Q week to get o car for shipping pur-
poses.
The soldiers at the recuperation
camp at Aurora were entertained at
the Red Cross rooms in Denver by the
FL Jebel Shrine band Of forty pieces,
which rendered a concert with pro-
gram of patriotic and popular selec-
tions.
Denver's intensive campaign to
raise 100000, its share Of the states
quota of $25O,O0O for the relief Of the
suffering Syrians and Armenians, is
rapidly taking form. The campaign
will start Jan. IL and continue for one
week.
Three Civil Service Commissions,
instead of one. may concern them
selves over the welfare of 1900 state
employees before the legal questions
arising out of the adoption of the
amendment recently by the voters are
decided.
The Greeley police and postal in
spectors are still without trace of the
person or persons who looted the
Greeley postoffice of war savings
stamps to an amount now estimated
after careful checking as between
5000 and $4,000.
Legislators to the Twenty-second
General Assembly assembled for busi-
ness on New Year day, an occasion
which does not often come in the
routine of legislatures. The law pro-
vides that the legislature shall meet
on the first wednesday in January.
The Colorado State Council Of De-
tense has taken up the advisability Of
utilizing the facilities installed at the
State University and State Agricul-
tural College for training soldiers pre-
paratory to service, and converting
them into training camps for both in
dustrial vocation and farming educa-
ton.
The Hall ranch, comprising 1.100
acres OF land between Colorado
Springs and Fountain has been sold