Gilpin observer., 1919-02-06
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Nersp..,."r Union News service
Washington county is again covered
with heavy blanket of snow, and as
d result the wheat farmers are smil
ing.
An army Y. M. G. A. Club for re-
turning soldiers and sailors is to be a
feature of Denver's reception to the
Yanks in the future.
Thomas B. Bishopp, famous in the
early history of Colorado as an In
dian fighter, freighter and prospector,
is dead at Greeley at the age Of 81.
An old landmark and relic of Gree
ley's earlier days will disappear soon
when the old Colorado house is torn
down and modern business building
Is constructed.
Notice has been issued by the land
office at Montrose that on April Z,
1913, Twp. ~, south, R. 81 west. 9Th
D. M. which has been withdrawn for
resurvey. will be reopened to entry.
]. A. Clay, general manager of the
Western Colorado Power Company.
which is moving its main offices from
Montrose to Durango, has been elect
ed president of the Durango Ex-
change.
The Denver & Rio Grande has be-
gun laying sixty-five-pound steel from
Montrose east toward Salida. The
steel will be laid until it meets the
heavier steel which has been already
placed on the Marshall pass part OF
the line.
Pablo Martinez, a Mexican section
hand, who pleaded guilty to wreckins
Union Pacific fast train No. 100 last
October by throwing switch, was
sentenced to fifteen years in the state
penitentiary by Judge Bradfield at
Greeley.
The second annual convention Of
the American Sugar Beet Agricul
turalisN will be held in Denver late
in January, 1920, it was decided at its
meeting at Logan, Utah, at the clos
ing session of the first gathering Of
the organization.
As memorial to her son, Lieut.
Harry Wray, who died recently OF
wounds received on the battlefields OF
France, Mrs. U. S. Okey has donated
to the Canon City Young Mems Chris
uan Association her splendid private
library of 260 volumes.
Supervisors of agriculture for thu
leading railroads in Colorado con
ferred in the offices of the State
Board of immigration to make plant
for furnishing information to home
seekers and returned soldiers desir
ing to settle on Colorado land
Two aliens now in the county jail
at Leadville, Sam Nelson, Swedish
and Gus Lipkins, Russian, are to bt
deported. They will leave here ant
start east on special train coming
from San Francisco to pick up eE
route all undesirable aliens who have
been ordered deported.
Thieves broke into the office of thu
Climax Molybdenum Company at Gil
max, forced the company's safe ane
escaped with registered Liberty bondi
OF the fourth issue valued at between
$4,000 and $4,000. The bonds were
the property of employees of the com
pany that had been left in its safe fol
security.
A million-dollar copper enterprise
for western Montrose county was an.
nounced by James N. Mcbride. rep.
resentative of syndicate of Michi-
gan and Colorado mining men who
have obtained an option on the old
Cash In mine, long owned by Mich
gan widow. Mcbride is on his way
to the mine to arrange for flota.
ton mill which will employ 500 tc
one with native vein of copper In
Colorado.
Colorado has the greatest extent
and widest variety of mountair
cenery found in the United States. II
has more than forty mountain peaks
above $4,000 feet high and approx
mately 325 above 10000 feet "A
The Steamboat Spring Ski Club viii
hold IA tournament this year. the date.
selected being Feb. 81 and 90 AS hal
this year will eclipse all others a.
added attractions are being obtained
and the top notch professionals Of tn,
world will be In attendance to tr,
again to lower the worlds recors
Jump made on the local track.
Complete casualties have been an
nounced for the Eighty-ninth division
which is largely made up of Colorado
men. The division obtained it's fam,
in the war beginning with the frs
day of action when the men of tn,
Eighty-ninth entered the st. Mihie
ialient on Aug. and fought through
the succeeding days until the armis
tice was signed by the sacrifice of s,
473 men. according to dispatch from
the army OF occupation. This tota
includes the mer that were killed