Gilpin observer., 1920-10-21
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Newspaper Union New. Service.

GlenwoOd is to have a new 100000
grade school building, for which the
ground has already been broken.
There are 14.123.52o acres Of good
grazing land in Colorado today and
one sheep or range COW for every seven
acres Of 1t.
r. l.. Green, a brakeman on the Pa
gosa branch, met horrible death
when he was crushed under the trucks
of coal car loaded with ties, near
Dyke. He lived a half hour.
Robbers entered the North Fork
bank at HOtchkiss and stole about
$1,000 in cash and Liberty bonds. Aft
er the robbers "jimmied'' the front
door they wrecked the door Of the
vault and then blew the safe.
In a recent bull calf contest held by
the Dairy Farmer, Miss Marie Kalberer
Of Broomfield, Colo, won the prize
Holstein bull calf, son of CarnatiOn
King Sylvia, the 100000 Holstein bull
of the Carnation Stock Farms Com
pany.
Mrs. Carl White, wife of farmer
who lives thirty miles east Of Hugo,
was instantly killed and their 2-year-
old son seriously injured when a shot
gun was accidentally discharged while
going to town with a truck load of
wheat.
Automobile bandits cracked safes in
the Deertrail State Bank and the First
rif do
posit boxes, which contained many
thousands of dollars worth of securi.
ties, and escaped with $4,000 in cur.
rency.
Fred Jacobs of Red mountain and les
see Of the Maybell mine in Poughkeep-
sic gulch, has opened up rich ore
shoot and last week loaded out a car
load that is estimated at better than
$500 ton.
Harry Voss, San Juan pioneer,
shot himself at his home in Eureka.
Mr. voss was IS years of age and had
lived around Silverton and Eureka
since 1880. The cause for his commit
ting suicide is supposed to be financial
difficulties and poor health.
The first annual San Luis Valley po
tato show will be held at Center, Colo,
on Nov. IL, - and 49, The fourth an
nual meeting of the Saguache county
farm bureau will be held on the open
ing day. At the potato show premiums
will be offered duplicating those given
at the Western potato show in Denver
last January.
Thieves broke into the Roggen Mo-
moved the office safe to the middle Of
the street, melted the door off with an
acetylene torch, and made away with
$3.50 in cash md papers valued at
$3.50. The money and papers belonged
to Henry ]. House, proprietor. No
trace of the robbers has been found.
]. Thompson, 10, bell boy, pleaded
guilty in the District Court at Fort
Collins, to the charge of having stolen
an automobile, $500 in cash and four
railroad tickets from Enos A. Mills, the
eminent writer, and proprietor OF
lOuk q cum lih III lLotCo ISCGhI'
ly. He was given an indeterminate
sentence to the state reformatory at
Buena Vista.
Revenue amounting to $50, ,727 ,957.2e
was collected in Colorado by the
United States Internal Revenue De-
partment for the fiscal year Of 1920, II
has been announced. The collection
for the state of Colorado represents in.
come and excess profits tax, together
with numerous miscellaneous taxes.
The revenue from income and excess
profits tax amounted to SO per cent
more than the fiscal year of 1919, Of
ficials said.
The first Indian divorce suit in the
history of Ell Paso county has been
filed by Mrs. Odell Denoya against
Wesley DeNoyn, both full-blooded
Usage Indians, the wife charging
cruelty and naming Colorado Springs
white woman as the correspondent.
She asks $3.50 month alimony from
DeNoya, who is the owner of much
valuable Oklahoma oil land. She
claims her husbands income from the
government for his oil lands is $1,000
a month.
Among the associated movements
during the mining convention week,
Denver, commencing Nov. Is, viii be /:
Conference of Gold Producers Confer
ence Of Coal Operators; Conference on
Taxation, National and State; Confer
ence of Users of Oil Flotation Con
ference on Standardization OF Mining
Machinery; Life and LaborSaving
Devices; Conference on War Minerals
Conference of Officers and Faculty
Members OF Schools and Colleges de-
voted to mining, etc. Men of nation
wide prominence will take part In the
discussions. Whatever is accomplished
means much for the country outside
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