Gilpin observer., 1920-04-08
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
Western Newspaper Union News Service.


Opening of the Muncey hard coal de-
pOsits in the Ragged mountains in
western Gunnison county is announced
as one of many development projects
to be undertaken In that county this
summer.
Greeley painters and paperhangers
were given a 25 per cent increase in
wages by the contractors. The men
have been receiving 80 cents an hour
for an eight-hour day, but the wage
was raised to 81 an hour.
Trout streams in the Montrose sec
ton will be wonderful meccas for an
glers this year, according to announce
ment by George L. Price, secretary Of
the Montrose Fish and Game Club,
who stated that arrangements had
been made for an unusually large
stock for the local streams.
Arthur Davis, "a, a taxi driver, was
cut to ribbons when his car hit the
rear end of truck near the Union sta
tion at Pueblo. He was hurled through
the windshield and fell to the pave
nent thirty feet from where the colli-
sion occurred. He died few minutes
later.
With the arrest in Denver of a man
giving the name of "a. F. JONES'" the
local police and state brand inspectors
believe they have captured the man
who has stolen at least $4,000 worth
Of cattle in Colorado during the last
few weeks. Jones is being held in the
Denver city Jail.
Inheritance taxes received by the
state for the last half of March to-
tailed $40 9,S25.94, bringing the total re-
ceipts for the biennial period to date
to slightly over q million dollars. The
largest taxes were on the estates of
Amelia o. Peters and Lewis G. Colds
borough, which were appraised at
more than $5OO,0OO each.
Americanization work will be empha-
the University of Colorado, which
opens June ii. Three courses in Amer
icanization will be conducted and the
training will be supplemented by lee
lures delivered during the quarter by
noted educators and AmericanizatiOn
workers from all parts of the country.
Grand Junction will raise $1,000, and
raise a like amount, to make the $4,-
900 which the government says must
be raised to pay for the building of
the link road between Mesa, Colo, and
the national forest. 'Lhe edge to con-
meet Mesa, Colo, with the Mesa lakes.
The government is to spend $12, 700 on
the roal, work on which will be start
ed shortly.
One thousand, five hundred and six
ty pieces Of war material captured by
American troops from the German
army will be distributed in Colorado,
according to a confidential memoran-
dunn sent by the War Department to
Chairman julius Kahn Of the House
military committee. The various
states will share, according to the per-
centage of troops furnished in the al
lotment of 2,197 pieces of artillery, A.
900 war vehicles and s41, ,117 small ar
ticles Of various kinds.
Chief Quartermaster Edeart L. Ost-
rander, who resides at Golden, Colo,
re-enlisted at the navy yard, at Ports
mouth, N. H., and has been trans
ferred to the U. S. Navy Recruiting
station, Denver, Colo. Chief Ostran-
der Is considered first-class athlete,
mOtorcycling being his long suit, and
Ia ready for a race at any time. While
at the Portsmouth station he organized
the All Navy Basketball team that won
AZ Of the A games they played, there
by carrying away the big cup. While
in the Asiatic fleet he was coxswain of
the fast U. 8. S. Denver race boat that
cleaned up the station.
Five hundred pounds of coal fell
from the roof of a mine near Lafay-
cite, pinning James Snow to the
ground and so badly injuring him that
he may lose leg. He was taken to
the University hospital at Boulder
and surgeons stated that 1t was the
worst injury of the kind they had
ever seen.
According to information received by
the Colorado Cooperative Crop Report
ing Service, through the Colorado
branch of the U. s. Bureau Of Mar
kets, there are in the state yet to be
shipped only about 500 cars Of pota-
toes from the 1919 crop. compared
with about 5000 cars at this time last
wear. Shippers in the Northern Colo
rado district were receiving So per cwt.
for potatoes about the middle of
March, which is said to be the record
price at that season during the his
tory of the potato industry there. Rec
ords of the Bureau of Crop Estimates
and the Bureau Of Markets show that
up TO March Goth there had been S,574
carloads Of potatoes shipped from
points in Colorado, compared with
11,222 carloads shipped to the same
date last year and a total shipment