Gilpin observer., 1919-04-10
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

The source Of much of Telluride's
bootleg supply was discovered when
officers raided room in the business
section and discovered lively young
still in operation.
Alfred I. Bell was elected mayor
of Englewood in the city election at
EnglewOOd. He is head OF the Tax
payers ticket. Bell won by vote
Of approximately to 1.
Great preparations are being made at
Rocky Ford for the annual convention
Of the G. A. r., department of Colo
rado and Wyoming, which will be held
for three days, June 4th. 5th and 9th.
Asa Sterling, II years old, president
Of the First National Bank of Greeley,
director and stockholder in nearly ev-
cry business and irrigation enterprise
In northern Weld county, IL dead at
Greeley.
Every public school pupil in Little
ton 10 happy because a new modern
and up-to-date high school is in sight.
The voters, In addition to electing a
new set of town officials. voted $780,
900 for that purpose.
DR.. ]. A. Jeannottee, Democrat, was
elected mayor Of Leadville, over Hyde
Heller, Republican, in one of the quiet
est elections ever held in that city.
The Republicans elected five Of the
six city aldermen.
Approximately 2,5OO,OOO acres of
excellent agricultural land in Colorado
would be irrigated, in addition to that
now being watered, If all partly con-
structed irrigation systems in tho
state were completed.
A Jury returned a verdict of not
guilty in fifteen minutes at Boulder
after an all-day hearing of the case of
Victor s. Sinners, a returned soldier,
who was accused of killing an elk
near his cabin at Nederland.
The Republicans carrier the city
election in Trinidad by the heaviest
vote in recent years. Z. D. Wright
was elected mayor by 1,1Os majority.
The present city officials, with no pol
itics, were all reelected at Sterling.
Kenneth, the 2-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Corey, fell from his high
chair at the family table in Olathe and
struck on pairing knife lying on the
floor with such force that the blade
was driven four inches into his brain.
The board of education of school
district No. "a have decided to sub
NIT proposition to the voters ut the
annual school election, May 9th, to
bond the district for $4,000 to erect
an addition to the school building al
IgnaciO.
A mOonshine still was raided at the
home of Gus Lindstrum in Santa Rita
n suburb Of Victor, by Sheriff Won
Publ and Assistant District Attorney
Shaw. The still, made of copper, was
in operation when the officers ap
peared. 1t was located In an outbuild
ing and several gallons of raw white
whisky were seized.
lieutenant in the American Red Cross
overseas service, has returned home
after seven months of devotion to
work among Bulgarian refugees, wear
ing the Grecian medal of valOr, the or.
der of st. Thomas, conferred upon
him by the king of Greece, and will
take up again the practice Of his pro
fession in his home city.
Crawling from his Grip in which his
mother had laid him for few min,
utes while she went to another part OF
the house, the 2-year-old son of Mrs
Henry Lachmann at Windsor, slipped
from the window sill and was caught
by his clothes on II nail, hanging with
his head down until he died. A cor.
oner's inquest disclosed the fact that
he had been checked to death by the
clothes pulling around his throat.
c. o. Earnest, well known Montrose
banker, has been elected president OF
the Chamber of Commerce by the new
directors, in executive session. Sec.
retary Il. Il. Schuyler, whose record
has been splendid, is retained for an.
other year.
A corOner's jury at Aguilar investi-
gated the explosion in the Empire
mine Of the Empire Coal Mining Com
pany, In which thirteen miners lost
their lives on March 31st The verdict
as returned found that the explosion
was due to an accumulation of gas ig-
nited In some manner unknown, and
that both the fire boss, Joe Jackson,
and the mine foreman, William Wad-
dell, had been negligent in the dis
charge Of their duty.
Eleven out of twelve members Of
Boy Scout Troop No. 8, the first scout
organization ever formed in Greeley,
wore their country's uniform during
the war. One, Lester March of Mill
ken, was the first Weld county boy to
be killed in action. He died last June
near Chateau Thierry, when the ma
rines, of which he was member, were
blocking the Hun advance. Another
member, John Beem died of Influenza