Gilpin observer., 1920-09-30
COLORADO
STATE NEWS
stern Newspaper Union. News Service.
COMING EVENTS.

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COMING EVENTS.
Hugo. Colo.--The Lincoln County Fair
VIII be held at Hugo. Sept. 1880.
| Oct. l2.
The August production of gold from
Cripple Creek mines and dumps Is
placed at 36,991 tons, yielding SAT-, ,6O4
or an average of $12 to the ton.
One of the biggest and richest
ytrikes in the history of the old Mary
Murphy mine, near st. Elmo, is report
ed by men working on the property.
A vein of ore eight feet wide and
very rich in silver had been uncov-
cred
Merrill Holt, 81 years old, son Of A.
D. Holt, prominent retired rancher of
Boulder county, and sOn-in-law of
Jacob Fillius, prominent Denver at
torney and former supervisor Of that
city, committed suicide in Thompson
Park by shooting himself with a shot
gun.
Elmer s. Prather, proprietor of the,
Yuma ice plant. was badly buried
about the arms and face when a gas
engine exploded, nearly burning down
the ice plant. Mr.. Prather was in
jured year ago at the Washington
county fair at Akron in the auto races
and has not entirely recovered.
A large crowd was in attendance at
the second tri-county potato bake,
which was held three miles south Of
Eastonville. Tons Of huge red and
white potatoes were baked In special
ly constructed ovens, which were in
stalled in the Frank Evans pine grove,
while several steers we're barbecued.
Potato growers from all over the state
were in attendance.
Willie Smith, 16, son of Robert
Smith, a rancher living five miles north
Of Greeley, was drowned while duck
hunting at Boyd lake. Smith was alone
in the center Of the lake in q canvas
canoe. Howard Sanders, IL years old.
who was on the shore, saw him stand
up in the boat and fire at a flock
of ducks. With the shot the frail
canoe capsized and the youth disap-
peared in the water.
Willard l.. Straque, a workman In
the Wellington mines sawmill at
Breckenridge was beaten to death
when his clothing caught in a large
belt going at the rate of several hun
dred revolutions minute. He was
dead when his body was taken from
the machinery. He was SO years old
and had been working for the yelling
ton Company for about two years.
Increase in the output of coal over
the state is shown in the monthly re-
port filed by James Dalrympls, state
coal mine inspector. During August
1887 men were employed in the
mines, the report says Las Animas
county headed the list for the month
with an output of 361, 1913 tons. Routt
county again showed great decrease
in the output, mining only $4,000 tons.
A lone bandit, giving his name as
Clifford Riley, 10 years DID, wearing
mask and armed with big nickel
plated revolver, held up and robbed
a score of persons on westbound Santa
Fe passenger train No. 8. When ar
rested at La Junta, where he leaped
from the train into the arms of Charles
Stewart, special agent for the Santa
Fe, Riley said his name was John
Morgan.
Getting out of control on a steep in
cline at Baxter pass, near Atchee,
Colo. a new Shay locomotive OF the
Uintah railway, backed 200 feet down
the per cent grade, plunged from the
rails and rolled $50 feet into the gulch
along the track. Members of the 10.
comotive's crew, which was on the first
trip over this route and unattached to
any cars, saved their lives by leaping
from the cab as the engine began its
descent.
The Denver Il Rio Grande railroad
has been ordered sold to satisfy judg-
ment rendered in favor of the Equi
table Trust company of New York
amounting 10 more than $36,000,0OO.
The final hearing was held in Denver
before Judge Walter H. Sanborn OF the
United States Circuit Court OF Appeals,
who gave the decree in absence Of
United States District Judge Robert f..
Lewis.
Fifty thousand dollars worth of
whitefacs Herefords were shipped ont
OF Montrose in one day. This was the
first big shipment this year and in
cluded 600 hend OF cattle, which were
shipped to the Kansas City market as
feeders. The animals were In splen-
did condition. The 600 head, which
were fed on the range between Nntu-
rita and Nucla, wre driven over the
hills to Montrose and loaded there.
Two men whose names were not
taken when they hired taxi cab from
J. A. Slaton nt Grand Junction, to take
them to Mack, twenty miles west of
that city, stopped Saton, the driver,
after twelve miles Of their journey had
been covered, thrust revolvers against