Gilpin observer., 1919-11-27
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

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In the past few years, is being ex-
tended into the public schools. With
In the past year the State Immigra-
tion Department has had hundreds of
requests from school children for
booklets on different sections of the
state, to be used in class work. The
heaviest inquiry has been from the
city of Chicago, where students in the
intermediate grammar grades have
been making a study of the Centen-
NAL state with particular reference to
Its Industries and resources rather
than its scenic attractions.
The State Inheritance Tax Depart
ment received a check for $44 ,495.4 A
in settlement of the inheritance tax
claim Of the state against the estate
OF the late Walter S. jackson Of Ell
Paso county. The value of the estate
was appraised at $1,36S, ,552.5 SO. De-
ductions amounting to SAB 3,553.65
brought the net taxable estate to
N,324 99S.90. If the United States Su
preme Court decides the state inheri-
tance tax may be levied prior to de-
duction of the federal tax, the state
will receive $4,17265 additional.
Karl G. Schuyler of Denver is trying
to give away fifty and two twenty
five dollar prizes. He has offered
500 for the three best editorials which
are printed in any Colorado publica-
tion before December 18th on the need
and opportunity Of public health work
In Colorado. Inquiries should be ad-
dressed to the Colorado Public Health
Association, contest editor.
Members of the State Highway Com
mission have asked John s. Bright,
district engineer of the Bureau of Pub
lie Roads, to approve the building of
an eighteen-mile stretch of road be-
tween Burlington and Idalia, so feder-
al aid may be secured for the project.
The road is to cost approximately S42,
600, according to the estimates of the
state.
Wesley Saunders, 20, and Martin G.
Kerren, so, lost. their lives when fire
destroyed the Cripple Creek Colorado
Springs car barns at Cripple Creek.
Both men, who were employees of the
car barn, were asleep, and were suf-
| focated. The fire started from an
over-heated stove. The loss by the
| fire, in which six electric cars were
destroyed, is estimated at $4,000.
The teachers in the grade rooms of
the local schools have organized at
Montrose for the purpose of securing
more adequate salaries for their serv
ices. The local organization will coop
60 -taN- IL,
campaign for the betterment of the
teachers salaries and working condi-
| tions.
Bernard Cummings, 14-year-old son
| of former Game Warden w. B. Cum
| mings of Durango, died from wounds
sustained by the accidental discharge
of his shotgun while he was hunting
ducks on Horseshoe slough, three
miles north Of that city. His right
arm was almost shot away from the
shoulder by the load from the gun.
Lee F. Williams, Pueblo contractor,
has just been awarded a contract for
the construction Of a new depot for
the Missouri Pacific Railway Company
at Sugar City. 1t is to be duplicate
Of the new depot at Ordway. The con-
tract calls for first-class modern de-
pot building of brick, concrete and
tile and will cost about $4,000.
John Sachs of Denver pleaded guilty
at Golden to charges Of breaking in
to and stealing valuable property from
the summer home of e. L. Scholtz,
Denver druggist, in Bear Creek canon
last spring, and was sentenced to from
fifteen months to three years in the
state penitentiary.
The once famous silver mining camp
Of Creede is again entering upon
new era Of prosperity. Scores of new
faces are taking out leases and vacant
houses are filling up steadily. The
Wabath Company is shipping ore
daily and also installing machinery.
Elaborate preparations are being
made by the people Of Wheatridge for
the dedication on December 2nd Of the
splendid new gymnasium and assembly
room at the Wheatridge High School.
The new building has just been COM
pleted at cost Of $4,000. An ap.
proprlate program is being arranged
for the dedication, and the principal
speaker will be DIR. w. J. Ellison.
New Workers afflicted with tubercu-
losis, who imagine that mere residence
in Denver or any other point in Colo
rado will effect cure, are warned by
the health department of New York
that unless such victim has enough
money to live on for two years in rest
and quiet the triD and sojOurn in Dem
yer will practically sign his death war
rant.
Forty-two per cent of all the land in
Colorado is patented, according to COM
pilations made in the State Immigra.
tion Department from records of the