Gilpin observer., 1919-12-04

Aheie are ABOUT IO,VuO lamDS penn
fed in the Mesita-San Acasia territory
The proposed auditorium at Mesit.
seems certainty. Over $1,000 hal
been raised already.
George L. Murray, son of Mrs. Ellis
A. Murray, returned to his mother a
Colorado Springs after being reported
missing in the United States arm,
since April.
Proposals for $5OO,OOO bond issut
to erect an auditorium, gymnasium
and additional clasSrooms at the lOca
high school were overwhelmingly de
feated at Colorado Springs.
William Edwards of Trinidad, a
brakeman on the Santa Fe coal run
between Trinidad and Starkville, was
jolted from the top of a car and was
ground to death under the wheels OF
the next car.
Increases of from Is to 25 per cent
in all city salaries are provided in an
ordinance adopted by the city council
| at Colorado Springs. PatrOlmen, fire
men and city clerks Jared best with
increases Of from $40 to $35 monthly.
of the United States forest service
have begun cooperative work with the
San Isabel Public Recreation Associa-
tion for the development of new
Colorado national playground on the
San Isabel forest.
Expert yeggmen opened the safe at
the Portland (Colo.) postoffice and es-
capped with $1,000 in stamps, thrift
stamps and liberty bonds, and robbing
the drug store in which the postOffice
is located of another $1,000 worth Of
jewelry and stock
There were twice as many babies
born in Pueblo in October than there
were deaths, according to statistics
given out by the city board of health.
OF the babies born, the majority of
them were boys. The health report
shows that there were eighty-siX
babies born in October and fifty-three
were boys.
The body of the unidentified man,
murdered several months ago, which
was found by three women strOlling
across the prairies near Pueblo, is be-
ieved to be that of Tony Lapresto, 80
years old, a former saloonkeeper of
Agular, Colo, who disappeared last
January after threats of blackmail had
been made to him.
A contract has been awarded by the
State Highway Commission to George
Toupaine of Grand Junction for the
construction of the first quarter of a
mile of the proposed concrete road
from this city to Palisade. Appropria-
tions have already been made for an
additional three miles on this road, ex-
tending the concrete roadway to Fruit
dale.
Ten miles of the new roadway up
Big Thompson canon leading to Estes
Park, have been completed and auto
lists declare the road one of the best
and safest mountain highways in the
state. The road bed is from twenty to
thirty feet wide at all points, thus elm
mating much of the danger to passing
vehicles that has always heretofore ex-
listed.
Discovery of an artesian water basin
in the Larsen dry farming district
northwest of Grover has caused great
rejoicing among cattlemen and farm
ers. The flow was struck on the Wick
ert ranch which is fifteen miles north
west of Grover. There is n volume
sufficient to keep two-inch pipe
filled, and the water is free from sui
phur and other distasteful contents.
An engineer who investigated the well
believes that the nrtesian basin lies
under large acreage Of land.
George Golden. negro, serving a
life sentence, made sensational dash
for freedom at the state penitentiary at
Canon City, but was captured after he
had scaled the twenty-five-foot wall,
swan the Arkansas river and reached
the foothills in South canon.
Stickers, human and otherwise, come
in all varieties! The gayest of 1920
stickers is the Christmas seal which
has been issued by the Colorado Pub
lie Health Association. It's redolent
of Christmas cheer as fir tree all
trimmed with candles or brisk snow
storm or n bright red holly wreath
hung In the window. It's done in soft
blue, and green and red and has n
Santa Claus climbing down chimney,
his back bent under the CHEEKY mes
sage he carries of "a Merry Christ
mas, Health and Happy New Year."
That's n new message for Old Man to
carry. It's the message of the Colo
RADIO Public Health Association to
every man, woman and child of Colo
RADIO. It's going on letters and bills
and Christmas packages and mail of
every description through the medium
Of "health" Christmas seals which are
a national institution.
Salaries of El Paso county officials
and the maintenance of the courts and
institutions of the county will cost
approximately $25O,OOO during 1920,