Gilpin observer., 1919-06-05
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

MORE tnan $lO,UUU mas Deen ralB0u
in Springfield for the erection of 4
flour mill.
Tony Cuaz, So we'll known as high
grade operator in the Cripple Creek
district, who was released from the
federal penitentiary at Leavenworth,
Kan, three months ago, died suddenly
of heart failure in the Baltimore hotel
at Victor.
The famous old Yates house, built in
1872 by Charley Yates and enlarged
in 1873, was nearly destroyed by fire
at Georgetown. Some years ago large
portion of the former famous hostelry
was torn down, as it threatened to fall
into the creek
The thirty-second annual session Of
the Second District Normal Institute
will be held at the State Preparatory
School at Boulder, June 8 to 20. A
large attendance is assured G. L.
Brown, superintendent of the Greeley
schools, will be conductor.
A killing frost which struck the fruit
belt in the Montrose country did dam
age to the fruit and vegetable crops es-
timated at between $1,OO0,0OO and ST.,
100000 loss. The thermometer went
as low as % degrees and half inch
Of ice was reported from Ridgeway.
More than 500 young people, affili-
ating with the various church auxiliary
organizations, will participate in
great wienie roast near Grand Junction
on the evening of June u. The an
nouncement of the big roast was made
following meeting of the presidents
of each of the five churches included
in the union.
William Il. Smith, 70, who drove
from Chicago to Denver in 1869 with
an OK team and later settled in Pueblo
county, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the heart at Rye His
daughter, Mrs Cora Meredith, commit
ted suicide at the same place four
years ago. Smith had been in i'll health
for long time.
Unnaturalized foreign-born residents
of Colorado have but a short time in
which to hunt. r. G. Parvin, state fish
and game commissioner, has given no.
tice that the department was prepar-
ing to enforce the law as passed at the
last session of the Legislature prohib-
iting aliens from hunting or even car
rying firearms after June 49,
The crops in the Montrose section
and most of the great Uncompahgre
valley are two to three weeks ahead of
the five-year average. The alfalfa
crop is over 100 per cent average and
IL ready for the first cutting now
Some potato patches are showing re-
markable development and the farm
ers are declaring it is one of the most
advanced springs in the history of
Montrose county.
With but one dissenting vote, the
taxpayers of KeOta voted $4,000 worth
of bonds for the installation Of com
plete waterworks system for domestic
and fire purposes. The bonds were al
ready sold at 1886 and some of the
material was on the ground ready to
commence work as soon as the bonds
were voted. The water will be OBJ
tanned from a deep well and pumped
into a big iron stand pipe 100 feet
above the town on a large hill
After lying unconscious for four
days with several ribs fractured, his
chest crushed to pulp, and his body
badly bruised and battered, n. J. Nc
Kenan, farmer of Feota, died as the
result of an accident. He was assist
ing in loading large steel tank into
wagon, using pair of wooden skids
for the work, whenone of the skids
broke and let the tank, which weighed
more than ton, fall, catching him un-
derneath 1t.
DIR. ]. G. Crabbe, president of the
State Teachers College since the death
of DIR. Y. X. Snyder few years ago,
has been offered the presidency Of the
Kentucky Wesleyan University at Lex
ington, KY, at a much larger salary
than he is getting but has declined the
offer. This is the second time the Of
fer has been made to him, and was re-
ceived by wire the last time.
Sixteen thousand acres Of wheat and
sugar beets in southeastern Weld cOun-
ty around Hudson and Keenesburg,
will be saved from drOuth by 10000
acre feet of water from Cheesman
dam, which has been purchased by the
Henrylyn irrigation district. Some of
the Cheesman water will be used this
week, but there will be sufficient re-
naming for two late irrigations.
Friends and relatives of T. Fl. Col
man, "a, who is missing at Colorado
Springs, hold out fear for his safety,
as no trace of the missing :::s:: las
been discovered. Colman escaped from
st. Francis hospital, where he was to
have undergone an operation. The po-
lice have been unable to find a trace
and believe he went to the mountains