Gilpin observer., 1920-06-03
COLORADO
STATE NEWS

A movement is on foot to obtain an
infantry company or cavalry troop
in the reOrganixsd Colorado National
Guard for Grand county.
Ralph Clifford Harris, 2-year-old son
of Robert T. Harris. farmer, living
near kersey, was drowned when he fell
from a high fence into a metal water
tank.
Hans Bonichsen, 20 years old, was
Instantly killed by lightning while at
work on the ranch of his father near
st. vrain. The men were planting seed
In the field when the accident oc
cured
What II declared by mining men to
be one Of the most important strikes in
the San Juan district in recent years
has been made by the Paymaster
Mines Company, operating the Paymas-
ter group Of claims in the Red Noun
tain mining section.
The Rangely bridge, which fell into
the water three weeks ago, has been
raised and practically all the structure
saved, at a saving to MOffat county Of
5000. The bridge will be safeguarded
against future mishaps by concrete
abutments.
When G. F. Thayer Of Fort Morgan
attempted to crank his automobile the
machine bucked forward, knocking him
unconscious, and then continued its
course across the sidewalk and through
the plate glass window of grocery
store.
Anspering the spirit calling, she said
few minutes before. Of a former hus-
band, James Waddsll, who is dead,
Mrs. Josephine Stiles OF Denver, the
wife of Frank Stiles, committed sui
eide by poisoning in her bedroom at q
hotel in that city.
The first candle fire to occur in Den
loss at the home Of Vic Walker, depu-
ty constable, 1920 Lafayette street.
The candle had been placed on table
earlier in the evening and when men,
bers of the family retired for the night
II is believed they forgot to extin-
1uish 1t.
Denver is overwhelmingly Ameri-
can, according to figures compiled
from the official census received by
the Civic and Commercial Association,
giving the city population in 1920 of
256,800. In 1910 the number of native
horn citizens was 1882 as against
208, TOT in 1920, a gain of 2O.2 per cent
as compared to gain of pol per cent
in the entire population.
Resolutions authorizing the director
ate of the Industrial Sugar Company
to issue negotiable bonds to the value
of $3.50, 900 at any time it may see fit
to do SO, to remove the company head
quarters from Fort Morgan to Denver.
and to increase the directorate from
five to seven members were adopted at
special meeting of the stockholders
of the company at Fort Morgan.
The man who was killed Mt James
vile, Wis, was not Earl Ballard, the
son of Mr.. and Mrs. II. +. Ballard Of
Longmont. This was proven when the
casket supposedly containing his body
arrived from Janesville Mrs. Ballard,
mother of the supposed dead man, and
several of his sisters and brothers and
other relatives positively disclaimed
any resemblance between the dead
man and Earl Ballard.
Benjamin f. Smith, alias Hal H.
Hubbard, Jr., 20 years old, was SEN
fenced to n term of six to ten years
in the state penitentiary on n charge
of obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, by District Judge Charles Corn
forth at Cripple Creek. Smith is al
legged to have passed number of bad
checks in Colorado Springs and Salida,
but was successful in obtaining money
on but one check here.
Railroad men have acquired new
mining property at Monarch lake,
about fifteen miles north of CRANKY,
on the south fork of the Grand river,
which Is expected to develop into one
of the big mineral discoveries of Colo
RADIO. A small corporation has been
formed and work is being pushed. The
lead is said to be sixty-five feet wide
and ut depth of twenty-five feet gives
returns of over 500 per ton in gold. 1t
is thought by expert geOlogists to be
the biggest proposition that has been
found In the state.
The forest resources of America are
today being destroyed three times as
rapidly as nature, assisted by the or
ganized forestry movement, can re-
place them with new growth. Unless
prompt and effective measures are In
troduced to arrest this process Of dis
sipation the country will, probably
within twenty-five years, find itself nc
longer able to meet the market demand
for forest products. Such n condition
can only result in Industrial stagnn
tion, exorbitant prices for wood pro
ducts which enter into the daily life OF