Gilpin observer., 1919-05-15
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News ssrvies.
George SOuthcotte, 90, pioneer of
Colorado Springs and a wealthy real
estate man, committed suicide by in
haling poison fumes. His body was
found by a neighbor.
Miss May Henderson, a clerk in the
office Of the State Board Of Charities
and Corrections, was appointed secre-
tary of the State Board Of Pardons by
Governor Shoup.
bond issue of 100000 was voted
by the Brighton school district at the
election for the purpose of erecting an
eight-room addition to the present
grade school building.
Price of food took a sudden leap up-
ward at Loveland and reached a high
water mark. At Farmers Union pie
social, pie made by the belle of the
evening finally sold for $21.
Neil Bogie, SO, of Goldfield, was
killed and Harry Jones, fellow work.
man, was badly injured by prema-
ture explosion in the 1,s0O-foot level
of the VindicatOr mine at Victor.
N. II. McCreery, manager of the
Longmont plant of the Great Western
Sugar Company, announces that the
company will build $4,000 dormitory
for the use of the employees of the COM
pany during the coming summer.
g. g. Lamb, acting president of the
Western Slope Livestock and Fair AS
sociation, has called a meeting of the
board of directors of that organization
to meet in Grand Junction May 23rd.
The fair will be held September 23rd
to 26th.
The Holly Sugar Company of Grand
Junction, according to the annual re-
port of its president, A. L. Carlton,
registered a profit of $5094S5O during
the year ending March 31st. The to-
tai volume of business for the wear
was given at slightly less than $780,
600.
Five men were injured, three of
them seriously, in the collapse of a
new concrete bridge over irrigation
ditch No. 2, nine miles northeast of
Greeley. The men were removing the
scaffolding when the structure crum-
bled and they were caught and buried
in the ruins.
Were other crops not to be consider
ed, the sugar beet crop alone would
spell prosperity for the Longmont Sec
ton this year. The acreage is the
largest by far in the history of the
Longmont factory, being more than
$4,000 acres, and all Indications are
the crop will be hummer.
Clifford S. Davis, the only Fremont
county man as far as known who has
been awarded the French Creix de
Guerre for extraordinary valor in ac-
tion, has arrived at his Canon City
tive service attached to both the
French and American armies.
One of the Oldest buildings in Lead
vile. the Hyman Isaacs clothing, dry
goods and household furnishings store,
has collapsed. The building was erect
ed in 1879 and was at first of logs,
being one of the first two-story log
business buildings in Leadville. 1t was
remodeled about 1882 and portion
was bricked
Mich Obroderich and George Guicich,
miners who went from Silverton TO
MontrOse, were arrested there and
their grips searched They were sus-
pected of knowing something about
the murder of Frank A. Carlson, of
Denver, in Telluride The men were
arrested by Sheriff Gill and they stat
ed they had come direct from Silver
ton and We're going to Bingham Canon,
Utah, to work. Obroderich had a
bloody handkerchief and a revolver in
his grip and Guicich had a pair of
brass knuckles.
Sixty years ago this spring, John II.
Gregory discovered the elusive and
much-rumOred gold of Colorado in a
gulch between Central City and Black
Hawk. Sixty years ago the news was
spreading around the Clear Creek dis
trict, percolating into the villages on
the site of Denver and beginning the
great Colorado gold rush.
The union miners in the SiIverton
district of the San Juan basin unani-
mously voted to reject the proposed
reduction of % cents a day In wages
and an increase of % cents day for
board, amounting TO 30 cents day
less money, when they met to consider
and vote on such request from the
mine owners. The prevailing wage is
$3.50 for mn eight-hour day.
Miss Helen Dove has accepted po-
sition ms lookout for the forestry serv-
ice and will spend the summer on Dew
lis Head mountain, forty miles south
west of Denver. 1t will be her duty to
report forest fires In the surrounding
area of 1000 square miles, which in