Gilpin observer., 1919-09-18
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
vestern Newspaper Union News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

COMING EVENTS.
Phiilips J County Fair Holyoke. Sept
saguaehe County Fair. saguache. Sept
coloradocNew Iora Mexico Fair. Durango
COLORADO State Fair. Pueblo. Sept. 20.
Grand County Fair. Kremmling. Sept
Crowley County Fair. Sugar City. Aug
ter-Mountain Live Stock and Fair
Grand Junction. Sept. 80 to Oct. 3.
Douglas County Fair. Castle Rock
Platteville has just completed one
of the most modern and up-tO-date
school buildings in the state, costing
$4,000.
Four miners were shot and killed in
the TombOy gold mine at Telluride by
unknown assassins, and fifth was
shot in the leg and badly wounded.
The Greeley school board has award
ed contracts totaling $91, 900 for new
Buildings. A new six-rOom building is
to be erected on the. west side Of the
city and four-roOm building on the
east side.
and most up-tO-date theater buildings
in the northern part of the state when
w. G. Vorreiter completes the $780,
600 building that he has under con-
struction at this time.
Struck by steel mine car weighing
forty feet from landing, Albert, the
4-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Sieg of Golden, was killed at copper
mine in Cananea, Mexico.
The Big Thompson road from Love
land to Estes Park has been closed
for the winter to enable workmen to
widen and improve it. Denver travel
ers to the park ar now going over
the north and south st. Vrain cations.
The report made by Mrs. G. II. Bris-
tol, chairman of the canteen commit
tee of the American Red Cross in La
Junta, shows that the local canteen
served total of 40,79O soldiers in the
period from July 16, 1918, to Sept. l.,
1919.
Gov. o. III. Shoup has issued proc
lamation designating Wednesday, Sept.
II, as Constitution day and urging the
people of Colorado to give all possible
assistance for properly observing the
anniversary of the adoption of the ma
tional constitution.
The seventh annual San Juan Nav
ajO Indian fair will be held at Ship
rock, n. NJ, for four days, cOmmenc
ing Sept. 30 and lasting until Oct. 3.
This is the only fair scheduled for
the extreme northwestern county of
New Mexico and is attracting more
than ordinary interest, inasmuch as
the Navajos have had an exceedingly
prosperous season.
Jose Gonzales and Santoz Ortez,
MeXicans, who shot and killed Police
man Jefferson Evans in the pepper
sauce bottoms, Negro and Mexican
settlement of Pueblo, were taken from
the city Jail by a mob and lynched at
the Fourth street bridge, near the city
limits. None Of the members of the
mob was recognized, as all wore
in blue overalls and blue jumpers or
plain blue OverullS.
The Industrial Sugar Company, a
S4.OOO,OOO corporation financed by
sugar beet growers, is to build its
first factory at Fort Lupton, according
to announcement of the board of
directors. The factory will contract
1000 acres in the vicinity of the town.
1t is planned to have the factory
ready to handle beets in the fall of
1920. AS Fort Lupton already has
two canneries and large milk con-
densary, the new sugar factory will
make it the biggest manufacturing
center in the county.
Warren Poston, IA, accidentally shot
and killed himself while hunting ducks
on lake one and half miles east of
Stoneham. The youth had separated
from two companions few minutes
before and was crawling across n ledge
when his gun exploded.
The Loveland Masonic order will
have new temple when the work on
the State Mercantile building, which
was purchased some time ago by the
Loveland Masons, is completed Work
has been started on the remodeling of
the building.
Wesley Cruise, father Of County Com
missioner Joseph Cruise, and one of the
best known ranchers of jefferson
county, is dead at his home in Morri
son, after long illness. He was 7t
years old and had lived in jefferson
county for thirty-four years.
Plans for the new Montrose county
court house which Is to be n memorial
TO the soldiers and sailors of Montros,
county, have been accepted by the
board of county commissioners. Tn,
plans were prepared by Denver archi
tect. The new building will be erected
In the center of a block, but the loca
tion has not yet been determined.
will cost S125,OOO.