Gilpin observer., 1919-02-27
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.


E. B. Ffeld ST., president Of the
Mountain States Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, is dead at his Den
4 yer home.
AS soon as the frost is out of the
ground work will be started on the
electric light plant which is to be the
latest addition to Craig.
Government reports show that there
are now 100000 hogs in Colorado,
worth $S.932, 900, as compared with
1924 in 1910. worth $1,56S, 1853.
Proposals for an appropriation Of
$75O,OOO for tubercular hospital in
Colorado were rejected by the United
States Senate, according to dispatch
from> Washington.
Il. ID. May, % years old, fireman on
the MOffat road, was overcome by gas
III the snow sheds at Corona and died
two hours later in the railroad eating
house at Kremmling
That Colorado is likely to receive a
large appropriation for the building or
roads and trails in the national forests
of Colorado is the prediction of fores-
try officials in Denver.
The acreage of wheat harvested in
| Colorado in 1918 was 742,OOO as COM
pared with 34O,729 acres for 1909. The
increase has been largely in the acre
age devoted to winter wheat.
Julio Chavon, Mexican, pleaded
guilty to killing mountain sheep in
Glen canon near GlenwOod Springs,
and was fined 500. This is the first
conviction of it's kind in a number
of years.
At the city election April 1st the
taxpayers will vote on bond issue
of S55,OOO for the building of new
city hall at Longmont, and an issue
of $65,00O for the improvement of
city parks.
At monster smoker of the Alamosa
Automobile Club a committee was
named and plans made to erect
$35,00O building here as a memorial
to the soldier and sailor dead of the
| San Louis valley.
| Work on the memorial gateway at
the army recuperation camp, the gift
OF union labor of Denver, will begin
within a few days. The contract for
the memorial was let Monday. The
gateway will cost S6,OOO
Officials of eight Denver bonding
companies appeared before the Little
ton town board and offered tentative
bids for the floating of a $4,000 bond
issue, the money to be used in the con-
struction of a new municipal building
| at Littleton.
Colorado holds first rank among the
states in acreage of land cultivated
Under irrigation, with total of nearly
| 100000 acres; yet there is nearly as
large an area which might be irrigated
| by the completion of contemplated ir-
| rigation systems.
Building permits asked for and re-
ceived in Greeley seem to indicate
that the spring may open with good
amount of building to be done. The
city council at the last meeting acted
favorably upon applications involving
\ an expenditure of $4,000.
| Willford Burwell and Morey Good
man of La Junta have been awarded
buttons by the United States Treas
|
savings and thrift stamp sales. They
will also each receive a letter of COM
mendation from officials in Washing
| ton.
A novel means of concealing liquor
was unearthed in Denver by Sergeant
Hannebuth and Policemen Kelly and
Pitt when an examination of steam
heating radiator in the home of Nick
Reitto 1857 Larimer street, proved 1t
To be fitted up with tiny faucet and
used as receptacle for whisky.
The field artillery branch of the ar
my at. Washington has recommended
the establishment Of field artillery
unit at the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege Fort Collins, as well as the es-
tablshment of an engineering corps
unit at the University of Colorado,
Boulder, according to information re-
ceived in Fort Collins.
Authorities of the United States i'm
migration service have started to in
vestigate the circulation in Denver of
pamphlets, said to PROFOUND Bolshe-
visit principles. The circulation Of the
pamphlets has been under way for sew
crn days. Several of the leaflets have
fallen into the hands of the officials,
and they are now consulting with the
Washington office with reference to
handling the situation.
Liquor interests in the hope of re-
versing the stand of the nation on the
prohibition issue are seeking referen-
DUN elections in fourteen states, of
which Colorado is one. Announce
ment of the movement was made by
the National Association of Distillers
and Wholesale Liquor Dealers in Gin
cinnatl. 1t is rumored that the cam
pnign in Colorado will he directed Inv