Gilpin observer., 1920-07-29
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
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western Newspaper Union News Service.
Another municipal election has been
called at Colorado Springs September
8. when $584,OOO in bonds for paving
are to be voted on by taxpayers.
Within the last six weeks three pairs
of twins have been born in Craig. The
q boy and a girl each.
Word has been received from Los
| Angeles of the death Of William H.
Noel, formerly widely known Denver
business man and resident of Denver
for many years. Death followed an
operation.
A federal cattle inspector named
Woods was killed near Fort Morgan
when an automobile in which he was
riding struck telephone pole and
overturned. Roy Huckins, Fort Nor
gan man, who was driving the car, was
uninjured.
While on fishing trip at the head
waters of the Rio Grande, thirty-one
miles west of Creede, Mrs George Fos-
ter, 10, the wife of George Foster of
Pueblo, was drowned in reservoir.
The body was recovered from the deep
water below the dam.
Fort Collins Commercial Club re-
ports busy month in June, figures in
dicating this having just been COM
piled. The office received 1,763 tele-
phone calls, 1854 callers and 662 visit
ing tourists during the month. Forty
two letters Of inquiry concerning Fort
Collins were answered.
Preliminary arrangements are being
made for big picnic and barbecue to
be held at EldoradO Springs by the
American Legion on Saturday, Aug. 81
According to E. j. Huff, who has
charge of the arrangements, several
special trains will be run to accommo-
date the several thousand persons who
are expected to attend.
Although Denver has shown q steady
increase in population, theschool CEN
sus for the current year shows a de-
crease Of 5000 as compared with that
of 1919, according to figures made pub
lie by the state superintendent of pub
lie instruction. This year the school
census returns only $3.50 as Of school
age, while last year there were &C, ,453.
A number of office buildings are to
be rented by the Boulder school board
to take care of the overflow from the
Boulder schools this fall. The audi
toriums of the Whittier and University
Hill schools will likely be converted
into classrooms. These changes are
made necessary by the prospects for a
nrl hrn oft
Work upon the compilation of the
| Colorado statutes, authorized by the
Twenty-second General Assembly in its
regular session, has progressed to a
state where the revision commission is
getting ready to commence printing
their report for consideration by the
next General Assembly. Contracts for
the printing will be let within the next
few days.
Archibald Chisholm, So, of Denver.
an inmate of the State Insane Asylum
at Pueblo, fell from a third-stOry win
dow of the institution. His neck was
broken, and he was dead when attend
ants reached him. Chisholm had been
an inmate of the institution for sew
eral years, and not being violently in
sane, was appointed ''trusty" some
time ago, and allowed the freedom of
the grounds.
One of the most disastrous fires in
the history Of northern Colorado com.
pletely destroyed the plant of the
Farmers Union Milling and Elevator
Company at Milliken. The fire broke
out during heavy thunderstorm. The
| mill was operated by electric power
and it is believed that lightning struck
the wires. The total loss is estimated
covered by insurance.
Vacations for girls should be con-
sidered with relation to home making,
said Prof. ]. Adams Puffer, field sec
retary of the National Welfare League
| In an address under the auspices OF
the summer school of the Colorado
| Agricultural College at Fort Collins.
The road between Depver's city
| limits and Arvada will be paved with.
| In the next few months. II project
submitted by the state to the federal
roads bureau Is approved. The pro.
| ject calls for the paving. in concrete
Of one and half miles at an esti.
mated cost of $4,000. Twenty thou.
sand dollars per mile, or $4,000 In all
Is asked OF Uncle Sam through the
roads bureau toward defraying the ex.
pense. the state to stand the balance
Colorado gains the first Important
railroad construction since the return
of the rail lines to private ownership
according to word received that the
project for the construction of line
from Garden City, Kan, TO Trinidad
Colo. through Baca and Las Anlmas
counties, will be undertaken by the
Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa Fe railroad
this year. and that the 200 miles OF
new trackage will be completed In time