Gilpin observer., 1920-07-22
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

| Oh Lie 1910 anu thC u.s.
surances already given for this years
big show. At low estimate there
will be 1900 exhibits. Think of the
educational results to come from 10O,.
600 people studying 1,5OO interesting
and instructice object lessons. Fair
dates are September 10 to 25 and all
railroads are making rates from all
over the state to Pueblo.
| Killed and buried by snow slide
many years ago, unmissed, unidenti.
fled, is the story to be told by the
skeleton of man which was found
in the debris Of last years slide from
the Telescope mine near Chattanooga.
The bones were found by prospector
and the accident which befell the un.
known several years ago was only
revealed by another slide. Every eff.
fort is being made to connect the dis.
cOvery with some one missing fol
| years from the district, but so far none
has shed light on the mystery.
a total of 1856 automobiles have
| registered at Overland park, Denvers
| free motor tourist camping grounds
so far this season, according to re
port received by Walter B. Lowry
| manager OF improvements and parks
| FOR the anne period last year, wiier
| he camping place for motor visitors
was 1T Rocky Mountain lake, but so:
| automobiles had registered. AS eact
| machine averages four persons, 7,545
persons have enjoyed the privileges OF
Denvers free tourist camping grounds
so far this year.
Two Western slope swimming pools
were recently caught in the net which
local internal revenue collectors put
out for those who failed to pay proper
taxes to the government. The tax on
swimming pool sales became effective
in September, 1917, and up to the mid
die of this year the swimming pools
at both Ouray and Ridgway had not
made any payments of taxes. The pool
at Ouray was forced to pay more than
$500 in taxes. Appeal has been taken.
The pool at Ridgeway had to pay more
than 5000.
Ward Paddock, 1S-year-old stepson
Of L. E. Humphrey of the Denver
Times editorial staff, was killed in.
stantly Wednesday at Naturita, Colo,
when a runaway team threw him from
| the wagon on q sharp turn in the
| road and broke his neck, according to
word received here. Paddock was
employed in the commissary depart
| ment of the Standard Chemical Com
pany at Naturita and was transporting
| supplies from the warehouse to the
point when his death occurred.
William S. Tampkin, one of the old
est members of the local lodge of Elks
| of Denver, and resident of that city
| for the last thirty years, died at st.
| Anthony's hospital, after several
| weeks illness. Tampkin was II years
| old He was known to the lodge mem
bers as "Old Bill" For the last few
years he has been employed by the
Elks Club. Tampkin was born and
reared in the west. No close relatives
survive him.
| ApportiOnment of the $3.50, 191 "a
public school income fund which was
assigned. for distribution July /, 1920,
is now ready, according to a state
ment made from the offices of the
state auditor Mary c. c. Bradford,
superintendent of public instruction,
will make the apportionment, basing
the various sums on the district school
populations. The money will be turned
over to the counties for actual ex-
| pendture.
| Work has started on a 20,000-bushel
| grain elevator at Agate for the Scott
| George Grain Company of Denver,
Colo. This will place the total value
of buildings under construction there
at more than $4,000. This building
bonn is the result of the bumper crop
| of wheat and corn crops raised there
last year. The prospects are for a
much larger yield of wheat this year,
| and the corn acreage will exceed 49,
| 600 acres.
| The Colorado State Industrial Com
mission disclaimed all RESPONSE
bility for the failure of the Denver
| Tramway Company and its employees
TO reach wage settlement and re-
fused to hold further hearings or as
sumo further Jurisdiction in the mat
ter as long as the conditions OF the
controversy remained virtually un-
changed. The commission practically
charges that the Denver city council
and city officials are responsible for
the present situation on account of
their refusal to follow the commits
sion's recommendation in Its award of
May 10, 1920, that a proper fare be
granted the tramway company so that
1t could meet the wage award Of the
arbitration board handed down last
March.
More than 800 trophies of war will
be received by the state of Colorado
as it's share of the articles which are
being distributed to various states
and territories, on the basis of the