Gilpin observer., 1920-05-20
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Weld county's next factory of the
Great Western Sugar Company will be
located on the W. A. Purvis 2OO-acre
farm adjoining the town limits of
.JohnstOwn.
Alex Miller, the deaf-mute who Is
lodged in the Weld county jail on
charge of having murdered Adam
Shank, his wife and four children four
months ago, will be tried the week OF
May 81.
The substantial growth of Golden 10
shown by the annual report of H. L.
Curry, city clerk, who said that $12,-
SO99. the largest amount ever COL
lected in water rents, was taken in.
The report shows that it cost $1S,733
10 run the city in the last year. The
city debt is $139,OOO.
Professor w. J. Morrill,, state forest
-er and head of the forestry department
of the Colorado Agricultural College.
has distributed this spring at cost
about $4,000 small trees, including
Seeding elm, honey locust, black locust
and Russian olive, and about $4,000
three-year-old pines. These trees have
gone chiefly to farms in eastern Colo
RADIO.
With MOntrOse at one end and Du-
range at the other end of probably the
greatest eXpanse of scenic beauty In
the world, to be made accessible to
travel, thousands of citizens are eager
ly awaiting the completion of the Du-
rango-Silverton highway. This road
will enable thousands of tourists each
year to visit one part of Colorado that
has been closed book to all except
tourists who seek the most rugged
scenery. regardless of the trouble and
inconvenience of getting to it.
A bill introduced by United States
Senator Lawrence c. Phipps in Con
gress IL passed will establish in Colo
RADIO a second United States Public
Health Service Hospital for District
No. II, embracing the states of Colo.
RADIO, Wyoming, Utah and New Mex
leo. The first hospital for the dis
trict was obtained by the taking over
of the United States Army Hospital
at Fort Bayard. N. NJ, the formal
lTduSlcT VI WHlCu Will UC " tuC
health service in few days.
A. E. Evans Dunwody, a wealthy res.
ident of Colorado Springs for twenty
years, dropped dead in Philadelphia.
Pa, of heart disease, according 10
message received from there. He and
his wife, Mrs. Sarah Dunwody, left
Colorado Springs with the intention of
spending several weeks in the East,
where they visited frequently. Mr..
Dunwody, who was 73 years old, came
TO Colorado Springs many years ago
for his health and had lived part Of
each year since then in that city.
Thousands of dollars worth of fur
niture seized by the police in Denver
during raids on alleged gambling
houses has been turned over to the
Salvation Army by Chief of Police
Hamilton Armstrong and will be used
in furnishing that organizations new
quarters in Denver. Such furniture
is usually destroyed, but realizing
that it would be put to a good pur-
pose by giving it to the Salvation
Army, Chief Armstrong consented to
its being disposed of in that manner.
Alberto Madrid, railroad worker at
Trinchera, who was arrested at that
place and lodged in the county Jail at
Trinidad, confessed to District Attor-
ney J. w. Hawley that he attacked
with an AK Valentine Anaya, a barber
at Trinchera, while the latter was
asleep in his bed. inflicting injuries
which are expected to cause the death
of the victim. Madrid declared the
assault was committed with the mo-
tive Of robbery and that he had taken
$40, all the money that Anaya had at
the time.
A fund has been opened ut Fort Col
lns to finance recount, If it ca. be
obtained, of Fort Collins population.
The Commercial Club telegraphed Con.
gressman Charles Timberlake asking
him to endeavor to prevail upon the
Census Bureau to make second count
for the city.
The Boy Scouts of Longmont, Louis.
vile, Nederland and Boulder will co.
operate in field day exercises ut the
colorado Chautauqua at Boulder on
May 30 The Boulder brass band will
assist In the program and will lead the
parade. An extensive program, fol.
lowed by an all-night pOw-wow mt the
camp Of Troop No. 3, south Of Boulder,
has been arranged for by Scout Execu.
tive G. w. Badger.
Citizens Of Grand county and north.
western Colorado generally, holding
mass meeting at Hot Sulphur Springs,
following the opening Of the Moffat
road, adopted n resolution in which
they expressed their gratitude to res.
idents of Denver, the operating force
of the Moffat road, the State Highway