Gilpin observer., 1919-05-22
COLORADO NEWS NOTES

The State department OF Safety will
~ out of existence June 1st instead Of
July 18th, It was announced at the gov
ernor's office. The announcement
came after Governor Oliver II. ShOup
accepted the resignation Of Col. Henry
f. Allen superintendent of the depart
ment to take effect on that date. The
Legislature at the last session provid-
ed the department with funds enough
to last until July Is. According to a
recent :uling of Attorney General Vic
tor E. Keyes, however "se department
will continue to exist .a name, no law
having specified its abolishment
The sheriff's office at La Junta cap
tured Ventura Antizeros while he was
trying to dispose of some silk goods,
and after an examination it was
learned that he had Il quantity of goods
in the east end of town. His premises
were searched and five silk dresses,
silk waists and two coats, valued ut
ST5 each, besides a number of trousers
and overalls, We're found. The goods
were identified as those belonging to
Il store that was robbed in Pueblo of
$1,000 worth of silk.
"The division of morale is soon to
be organized as the seventh arm of
service of the United States Army"
This statement was made by Raymond
+. Fosdick, chairman Of the National
Commission on War Camp Activities,
who has just returned from five
months in Europe with General Per-
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moor, at Colorado Springs, where he Is
enjoying rest with his family after
two strenuous years of service
Sunflower enslage is to be given
test by members of the Adams county
farm bureau, acting under the drec-
ton of George II. Smith, county agri-
culturalist. Different members of the
organization will plant an acre each
to give the flower that made Kansas
famous chance to show what it can
do for Northern Colorado. Over on
the Western Slope sunflower ensilage
has been given test the last year,
and proved a valuable feed.
The great Revenue mine, producer Of
millions of dollars worth of rich sill
| vir and gold ore in Ouray's heyday,
has just been sold to eastern parties
according to announcement of G. r.
Whitley. Lately heavy ore bodies have
been uncovered in the workings and
| the purchasers state that they are GO
ing to install modern machinery and
build Improvements to cost several
hundred thousand dollars
Greeley police are looking for man,
partly identified as the assailant of u
16-year-Old Greeley girl on the campus
of the Greeley high school. The girl
was attacked by two men, but escaped
and ran to the campus of the state
teachers college, where she tainted
from terror and exhaustion and was
found unconscious several hours later
beside clump of bushes, with most
of her clothing torn away.
George T. and Thomas Boske, bro
Tiers, We're arrested at Kenilworth,
Utah, after eluding sheriff's officers
In three-day chase in the hills Of
| Northern Colorado This information
was telegraphed to Sheriff Sam Thorn
as on his return from the hills. The
men are charged with the murder Of
Will 4. Hunter and Elton H. Parks,
near Pueblo, six weeks ago.
Edward S. Lannon, 60, former mar
shal of Victor and an old mayor of the
camp, and J. f. Raney, an old resi-
dent, were found crushed beneath an
auto which had gone over steep EN-
bankment in Phantom canon, twenty
miles from Victor, in Fremont county.
Both men We're dead. They We're on
their way to Pueblo and the Arkansas
valley for visit.
Two collie dogs, pets of the house
hold, saved the life of l.. A. Jewel, u
farmer living ten miles northeast OF
Haxtun. Jewel was attacked by
bull, and had been repeatedly tossed
and trampled until almost dead, when
the two dogs attacked the bull from
the rear, drawing his attack, and CIV
ing time for a neighbor to carry Jew
el to a place Of safety.
Secretary Lane announced plans for
establishing an automobile line from
Denver TO and through Rocky Noun
tain, Yellowstone and Glacier National
Parks, via Boulder, Loveland, Colo.
Cheyenne, Douglas, Casper, Thermop-
oils and Cody, Wyo., and Livingston,
BoZeman, Boulder, Townsend, Helena
and Choteau, Mont.
According TO his own statement,
John Jensen, Il Denver & Rio Grande
shopman of Grand Junction, estab-
lished new auto speed record on
county roads in that vicinity by ramb
ling thirty-five miles in thirty-five
minutes. He made the record dash
between Grand Junction and Garmesa.
The State Highway Commission has