Gilpin observer., 1919-10-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western newspaper rnlon News Service.

COMING EVENTS.
The Red Cross Roll Call drive will be
conducted nationwide from Novem
Der to IL. 1919.
take place all over the United States
from December to 10. 1919
Colorado will receive $1,755,7 5,759. II
from the United States government for
good roads under the provision of the
1915 law providing federal aid for post
al routes.
The united population of MontrOse
are preparing to stage the largest cele-
bratlon in their history on Tuesday,
Nov. IL, in honor Of the signing of the
armistice.
A twenty -four-hour endurance test
for motorcycles is to be held In north
ern Colorado Nov. 1 and .. 1t starts
promptly at noon Nov. l and continues
until noon the following day.
While being tubbed at the Phi Gam
ma Delta fraternity house, Junius Day,
freshman student in the University of
Colorado, was severely scalded by a
stream of boiling hot water.
Louis Kern, 7S years old, vice presi-
dent of the First National Bank of
Windsor pioneer farmer and landown-
er of the Poudre valley, was found
dead in his bed at his home in Wind
Sor.
State Senator Harry Casaday, chair
man of the committee to push the isSu-
ance of S25,OOO,0OO for good roads in
Colorado, outlined the proposed route
of the roads before the Boulder Lions
club.
Edward Prng George Snare and
VIM. c. Johns were found guilty of in
voluntary mansaughter by a jury in
the second hearing of the Samuel Hunt
murder case in the District Court at
Colorado Springs.
The trial of John S. Little, charged
with having killed Richard Pullian at
the Leyner Engineering Works, near
Littleton, on Aug. 6. terminated when
jury, after three hours deliberation,
found Little guilty of second degree
murder. The penalty is from five to
twenty years in the pententiary.
Three small sons of Joe Stain.
farmland. were burned to death near
Greeley when the house in which .
Stain family lived on the ranch of w.
NJ. Wilson was destroyed by fire. The
father and mother We're working in a
field near by at the time. Wilson was
severely burned in attempting to res
cue the children.
Early reports indicate that the acre
age planted to winter wheat in Colo
RADIO this fall will be considerably
short of that planted last fall partly as
a result of the poor yields obtained in
many districts last year and partly be-
cause of fear that the price of wheat
will go down after the government
price guarantee is removed.
The proposed improvement Of an
eleven-mile strip of the COlorado-to-
Gulf road has met with the approval
of the New Mexico highway commits
sion, according to n report sent to J.
S. Bright, district engineer OF the fed
eral bureau of public roads at Denver.
The estimated cost of the work is S93,-
300. The strip which Is to be improved
is to he surfaced with crushed stone 1t
il near Clayton, Union county. n. NJ.
Gov. o. II. Shoup declared that no
salary increases for statehouse en-
ployes would he recommended to the
Legislature in his call for an extra ses-
sion. There are no funds available for
such increases at this time, he pointed
out. StatehOuse employees in formal
L., 80
include in his call recommendation
for increase OF pay of all state EN-
ployes now receiving not more than
800 n month.
have set S15 as the minimum price that
they would accept for their crop of hay
this winter.
The demand for sugar in Denver is
so great that the supply of that com
modify on hand at the plant OF the
Great Western Sugar Company at
Brighton never exceeds n trucklOad, ac-
cortling to officials of that organiza-
tion. The shortage has been so acute,
they say. that the wholesale and Job
hing houses Of the capital city are TAX
Ing the entire output from the Brigh-
ton factory. Local dealers In turn are
buying back from Denver.
Oren Flinde, aged 20, was convicted
| of first degree murder at Boulder after
the jury had been out forty-five min
utes The jury recommended life i'm
| prlsonment. The youth was on trial
| for Staying his father and ranch
hand employed by the latter on Sept.
II, Mt Niwot. Colo. The trouble had Its
start several days before the killing
when the father killed dog belonging
| to the boy. The latter brooded over
| tho mnifer for severnl dnys md ihon