Gilpin observer., 1920-10-07
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
More than $1,000 in diamonds and
other jewelry was stolen from the
palatial home Of L. II. Guldman head
of the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Com
pany in Denver.
Approximately $500 teachers are ex-
pected to attend the annual convention
of the Colorado Education Association
to be held in Denver, Pueblo and
Grand Junction from Nov. 2 to Nov. 6.
There are more than 5,5OO,OO0 acres
of land, not including orchards, in
cultivation this year, compared with
4,S20,946 acres last year, Howard Sui
Ivan, deputy state immigration com
missioner has announced.
Orchard mesa, the highland section
lying across the Grand River south
Of Grand Junction, was awarded the
sweepstakes on community exhibits at
the Intermountain Fair and Live Stock
Association fair at Grand Junction.
b. e. Speak, A years old, driver of
n truck for the Masters Transfer
Company, was seriously bruised and
possibly internally injured at Love-
land when the truck he was driving
was struck by Colorado & Southern
freight train.
A fifty-cent increase in the prices
of all coal, effective Oct. 1, was an
nounced by the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company. 1t was explained that
this increase was due to the wage in
creases recently granted the men, and
that no further increases, us near as
can be judged at this time, are an
ticipated in the near future.
Six and one-half miles of sand
| gravel road will be constructed by the
state and federal government between
Lamar and Granada in Prowers coun-
ty, If the United States bureau Of
public roads approves the project
statement submitted by the state high
way commission. The proposed road
will cost approximately $4,000.
Henry Hazelmeyer and Frank Ber-
sanry of Glenwood Springs are lying
at the point of death in a hospital at
| Grand Junction, as the result of an
auto turning turtle four miles north of
Mesa, Colo, on the Midland trail. The
car rolled down bank on top of
them after they had jumped clear Of
the machine. The steering gear was
broken.
Lieut.. Arthur G. Wagner of the
naval air service, who formerly was
connected with the Denver police de-
partment was killed at Hartford,
Conn.,, when naval airplane in which
he was riding with Lieut.. Com. Will
| liam Merrill Cory, Jr., commanding Of
| ficer of the aviation section of the At
lantic fleet, crashed to the ground on
the Hartford Golf Club course.
The city building department of
| Denver has issued n permit for the
construction of the first extensive ad-
dtion to the exhibition quarters of
Denver's big annual stock show. The
Western Stock Show Association,
which has charge of the show, OBJ
tained permission to construct an ex-
hibition house for hogs at the stock.
yards. The structure will be ninety
five feet in width and $50 feet in
length. 1t will be built of brick and
concrete and will cost $4,000.
The Colorado Springs City Council
has granted the Colorado Springs &
Interurban Railway Company seven
cent fare, being an increase of one
cent. The company has filed petit
tion with the public utilities commits
sion, asking for n similar Increase in
its interurban fares. The local street
car company last June granted Its
employees an increase of wages to
fifty-eight cents an hour and then
asked the City Council and the utilities
commission for one-cent increase in
city fares.
The body of Mr.. L. r. Grace,
OF Garfield county, who, with Zenas
Crawford, was drowned in the Grand
river in Glenwood caiion on May 81,
was recovered on an island near Silt,
sixteen miles west of Glenwood. The
body was in an excellent state of
preservation and was identified by
papers and money found in the dead
mans clothes.
The taxable property in Colorado is
valued at S1,592 2,OO7,796, according to
the annual report issued by the Colo
RADIO tax commission. The state is
richer by S96,794,137 than it was in
1919, this report shows. Abstracts of
assessment submitted to the commits
sion by the county commissioners from
every county in the state have been
examined by the state body.
The Union Congregational church Of
| MontrOse. received the lorpest dona-
ton this week which has ever been
made to local church, which came
when c. II. Nye, local philanthropist
and financier, decided over to the
church the large Nye store building In
that city. This building is valued Mt
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