Gilpin observer., 1920-12-23
COLORADO NEWS NOTES.

with the Denver Press Club In staging
at the Denver Auditorium, during
Stock Show week, n "Cowboy Stam-
pede." Extensive preparation is being
made for one of the biggest times ever
pulled off in the West. Excellent vau-
deville acts for an hour and half will
entertain the crowd, after which the
great Auditorium floor will be given
over to dancing. The Editorial Asso-
citation holds it's annual gathering in
Denver, Jan. 81 and 30, and this splen-
did feature is booked to close the ses-
sion. Held as it will be during the
week of Denver's big stock Show, the
attendance will be large. 1t is expect
ed that every publisher In Colorado
will attend.
Charged with picking up his two
year-Old daughter and throwing her
across the floor at his wife after the
couple had quarreled over his alleged
previous inhumane treatment of the
child, Arthur Christensen, formerly a
Denver photographer, was taken into
custody by Undersheriff Robert Nc
Namara of Littleton. He was later
transferred to the Denver city Jail by
State Humane Officer Harry Richter
and is being held pending the outcome
of the Injuries alleged to have been in
flicted upon his daughter.
Grant McFerson, state bank commits
sioLer, sen. examiners to Timnath and
Kirk to take charge of the Farmers
Bank of Timnath and the State Bank
at Kirk, which have closed their doors.
The bank commissioners records show
that the Farmers Bank of Timnath
had a capitalization of $4,000, surplus
of $4,000, undivided profits of $lO,-
600, and deposits of $2O5OO0. The Kirk
State Bank had a capital of $4,000,
surplus of $1,000, undivided profits of
$1,000, and deposits of $4,000.
Benjamin o. Cook, former Salids
rooming house proprietor, convicted of
the murder of Charles Cope, u business
rival, has been pardoned by Acting
Governor George Stephan. Cook was
sentenced to serve from twenty to
IN tsntyy-ff00ur years Ger the crime. He
would have served his maximum SEN
tence by Jan. 8. 1922. Finding of new
facts tending to show that Cook had
acted in self-defense was given by Gov
ernor Stephan as his reason for grant
ing the prisoner his freedom.
Nearly a score of deputy sheriffs,
heavily armed with machine guns,
have been placed on the Colorado Utah
line to be In readiness for an emer-
gency that may arise in the sheep war
that is menacing the western slope.
Cattlemen all over the White river
district are said to be up in arms be-
cause of the strict quarantine that has
been placed, holding nearly 10000
head of sheep near the line pending
investigations by the authorities.
Another industry has been added to
the long list of new factories which
have been started in Delta during
factory, being combination of the
Uncompahgre Valley Cement State
Silo Company and other interests. The
company expects to spend 100000 in
the erection of suitable plant in
Delta similar to the one they recently
erected at Rocky Ford.
The demoralized condition of the su-
gar market has caused construction of
three sugar factories In the mountain
states district to be discontinued. The
Great Western Sugar Company an
nounced that work on their new plants
mt Johnstown, Colo, and at Minatare,
Neb., has been stopped. The Industrial
Sugar Company is holding up building
at their new factory in La Sale.
The central offices Of the Mountain
States Beet Growers Association are
to be located in Greeley instead of at
Longmont. Directors of the organiza-
ton have elected George NJ. Houston
secretary and treasurer of the organ
ization In place of James H. Golden
of LongmOnt
Inquiries received by the State
Board of immigration during the past
twelve months showed some decrease
in the interest of people from other
states in Colorado lands and business
opportunities, as compared with the
| preceding two years, though the inter-
est is still considerable and indications
| point to a reasonably good movement
to the state in 1921.
| While guards from the state hospi-
tai for the insane were searching the
countryside for her. Mrs. Andria Da-
wick, AZ years old, died OF exposure In
a vacant shack on the Beulah road,
seven miles west of Pueblo.
/! City Manager Il. p. Mcdaniel re-
ported to the city council of Montrose
that 1t would take approximately
$39,837 to pay the expenses OF the
city government of Montrose during
1921