Gilpin observer., 1919-07-24
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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James w. Bucklin, lawyer, state leg
1s!ator, capitalist and one of the found.
"rs of Grand Junction, died at his home
in Palo Alto, Calf, according to mes
sSages received.
Michigan, Colorado and Utah show
hig increases In beet sugar prospects.
Forecasts show COlorado's crop as 3
024.0O0 tons, an increase of $4,000:
and Utah's 1,20S,OOQ tons. an increase
of 2O5, 900 tons
All the Jefferson county men who
served in Uncle Sans military or nav
al forces during the war We're guests
of the city of Golden and people came
from all section of the county to at
tend the "WelcOme Home" day cele-
bration held there.
Greeley business men will furnish
funds to provide a life guard and safe
ty equipment for Seeleys lake, the
scene of several recent drOwnings, dur
ing the remainder of the bathing sea-
son. They have also inaugurated II
campaign to construct large concrete
bathing pool in one of the city parks
which will cost at least $4,000.
Louis Mantz, 81 years old, of Colo
RADIO Springs, was arrested at Mont
rose by Sheriff ]. II. Gill and con-
fessed to stealing the car he was driv-
ing to visit his sister, critically i'll in
Lewiston, Idaho. The youth showed a
telegram from his sister asking him to
visit her. The sheriff took the car and
the boy back to Colorado Springs.
What is believed to be the first case
of typhus fever ever recorded in Den
yer caused the death of Harley Will
son, a decorator. Wilson, who was 81
years of age and has been employed
by the Denver Omnibus and Cab Com
pany, became i'll June 49, The attend
ing physicians recognized the disease,
but We're unable to stop it's progress.
That the beet acreage tributary to
the Windsor factory of the Great West
crn Sugar Company has been reduced
from 14.500 to about 10000 acres by
the ravages of web worms and drouth
is the estimate Of factory officials.
The officials expect another attack
from the worms early in August and
have made big preparations t& fight
the pest.
A tent city, splendidly decorated,
will be established at City park in
Denver as part of the Colorado day
celebration on Aug. l this year. The
iorty-third anniversary of the admis-
sion of Colorado to the sisterhOod OF
states will take the form of a 'wel-
come home" for the returned fighting
ne ha or,,rv nd for the
war nurses.
Mrs. Guy U. Hardy, wife of Repre-
sentative Hardy of the Third Congress
siOnal district of Colorado, has accept
ed an invitation to sponsor a 9600ton
steel steamer which is to be launched
in Seattle Aug. IS. Mrs. Hardy will go
10 Seattle with her husband to attend
the convention of the National Edi
tOrial Association, of which her hus
band is president.
Denver will begin the construction
+ the south wing to the Colorado Mu'
scum of Natural History in City Park
shortly. as the result of gift of S1OO,.
900 for that purpose to the city by Il
Denver citizen whose name is being
withheld for the present by Mayor
Dewey C. Bailey. The name of the
donor will be revealed at the formal
opening of the Civic Center Aug. l.
Colorado will produce this year 49,
S27 900 bushels of wheat. compared
with production of 1895, 900 bushels
last year, according to estimates just
completed by the Colorado Co-opera-
tive Crop Reporting service. The pro.
ductiOn of corn, If conditions remain
favorable until harvest, will be approx.
imately 23,14S,000 bushels, compared
with 23,5S5, 900 bushels for 1918.
A team composed of seventeen men
of Colorado's National Guard will rep
resent the State at the national rifle
matches to be held at Caldwell, N. j.,
the week Of August 25.
The old car barn on ColfaX avenue,
near Aurora, which thes tate highway
commission recently purchased from
the Tramway company in Denver, Is
being repaired for the storing of some
of the army trucks now being received
from the War Department. Forty-sev-
en- trucks have been received thus far,
and viii be sent to the counties for
use on county roads as soon as they can
he replaced with the dump bodies.
Mrs Jennie Murphy, six months
bride of John J. Murphy, is in Jail with
her husband charged with attempting
to aid him to escape from the county
Jail, where he is held on a charge OF
forgery st Pueblo. 1t is claimed that
Mrs. Murphy visited the Jail and gave
her husband some bananas. Inside
each banana was a hard steel saw ca
pable Of cutting through the steel bars
in rapid time Murphy hid the saws In
Lis coll hut thn In nilar In making his