Gilpin observer., 1919-03-13
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
George Andrews, SO, resident of
Boulder since 1868, is dead from pneu-
monia. He was one of the largest in
iividual property owners in the city.
Former Governor Elias NJ. Ammons
has been selected as president to head
Denver's next Stock Show, Mt the an
nual meeting of the directors held in
Denver. Fra
Oil excitement caused by the spud-
ding in of three wells in the Round
Butte field, west of Carr, has caused
al unusual number of visitors and
workmen to go to that locality.
The annual value of Colorado's farm
output has increased more. than 1875
per cent since 1910, yet less than
one-fourth of the. arabic land in the
state is now in cultivation.
A party of members of Congress,
many accompanied by their wives,
have left New York for visit to the
Panama canal. Among them will be
representatives Reavis, Nebraska, and
Taylor, Colorado.
Eleven hundred Jobs for returned
soldiers and sailors have been OBJ
tained through the Rocky Mountain
Auto Trades Association. This state
ment was made by Harrison Gold
smith, secretary of the association at
Pueblo.
Thomas Wilson, leaser on the
Portland mine at Victor, was serious
ly and possibly fatally injured when
he fell forty feet down a stope ut the
B0O-foot level, fracturing his skull. He
was taken to the district hospital. Will
sons wife and five children live in a
suburb of Hollywood.
The $4,000 Carnegie public library
dedication was attended by 500 people
from Florence and adjacent communi-
ties. The building site, consisting of
three lots on the corner of Pixies Peak
and Second streets, is the gift of Mrs.
A. r. Gumaer, and the 5000 books are
the gift of the Florence public library.
Western slope beet growers, at a
meeting at Grand Junction, served no.
tice on the Western Sugar Company
that the $40 flat beet scale must be
granted at once if the company ex-
poets any beets on the slope this sea-
son. The growers declared otherwise
they would put the acreage into wheat.
A posse from counties adjoining
Denver are securing the roads and
hills in search of two bandits who,
after pillagng the village of Mount
Morrison, eighteen miles southwest of
Denver, blew up the postoffice, rifled
the contents of the safe and set fire
to several buildings, the blaze threat
ening to destroy the entire town.
Teachers salaries, vocational edu-
cation, after-war school finances, re-
construction in education and the new
school legislation will be among the
subjects to be discussed at the super
intendents and principals spring con-
ference of the Colorado Education AS
sociation in Denver at the East Den
yer High school, April IS and 10, ac-
cOrding to an announcement from
Supt G. Il. Brown of the Greeley
schools, chairman of the conference
board of directors.
Posing as colonel in the United
States army, man giving the name
of Lloyd Garrison of Boston won the
heart and almost succeeded in marry.
ing Mrs. Louise Mcpherson of Colo.
RADIO Springs after a brief courtship.
A marriage license obtained at the
county clerks office spoiled the plans
Of Garrison. The police did not like
the cut of his uniform and hailed him
to headquarters where he confessed
that Garrison is not his right name
and that he is not colonel. He is
being held for further investigation.
A 100000 corporation is in process
of formation by the farmers of Eaton
to be known as the Eaton Potato
Flour Factory 1t is planned to use
all Gull potatoes in the manufacture of
flour, and the mill to be erected will
have capacity of 10000 pounds of
flour every twenty-four hours and will
employ nearly 100 men and women.
A fire In the coal mine at Somerset
has been burning since Feb. %, and
has not yet been placed under control.
The United States mine rescue car
for Colorado is on the scene, and a
special group of eight Colorado Fuel
Il Iron Company employees, trained in
mine rescue work, has been sent from
the southern cOaI fields of TINT com
pany.
Arbitration is not substitute for
preparedness, but only an adjunct to
It," Gen. Leonard Wood declared in an
address at Colorado Springs. "The ma
tion which Is organized and strong
can arbitrate more successfully than
one which is unnrmed. Belgium trust
ed to n treaty hut the Swiss trusted
to organized national defense, and the