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Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Female Trees.

After nearly twenty-five years of ar
gument and discussion about the
abatement of the cotton nuisance
the city commission of Albuquerque
New Mexico, has ordered the cutting
down of all female or cotton-bearing
cottonwood trees within the city
limits.
A large proportion of the shade
trees of many western cities are cot
tonwoods, writes Aldo Leopold in the
American Forestry Magazine of Wash.
ington. The individual trees are OF
two sexes and the female trees bear
annually most prolific crop of cot.
ton, which acts as n mechanical irri
tant to sufferers from hay fever, and
which during the months of June and
July litters the streets, screen doors
and plastering with unsightly masses
of soiled cotton.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
KEEP old CURIOS
British Business Houses Have
Their Own Museums.
interesting Relies and Samples Thai
Have In Some Cases Been Pre-
served for More Than
q Century

The curiOsities preserved by various
business houses In Britain and else
where would make a museum of great
size and unparalleled interest, observes
London Answers.
The Worcester china works, for in
stance, possess samples Of all the va
riOus kinds of china which they have
manufactured for nearly $50 years
past, including examples Of dinner
services made for many celebrities,
such as Lord Nelson and George ~.
Another Worcester firm preserves
with tender care little faded slip of
yellOwish paper On 1t is written the
recipe, now some two centuries old,
which was purchased by former
head of the firm from butler, and
has been the means of creating large
business and several large fortunes.
More than one firm cherishes some
similar recipe. The Sprules, who sup
ply lavender water to half the royal
families in the world; the Nanis. who
hold the original recipe for maraschi-
no. Both these carefully preserve the
writings which founded their fortunes.
The famous firm of Sheffield cutters.
Joseph Rodgers & Sons, show visitors
a knife with 1900 blades. Ten fresh
blades are added to 1t every tenth
year. A second curiosity of which the
firm is proud consists Of three pairs
of scissors SO minute that all three can
be covered by an ordinary lady's thin
ble Another Sheffield firm possesses
knife which, though only an inch in
length when closed, has seventy
blades, all of different shapes.
A London firm of potted meat man.
ufacturers possesses an interesting
collection of the covers of the large
china pots in which potted meat used
to be sold some forty years ago. These
are daintily printed in color from de-
signs by some of the best known Dutch
and English artists of the time. Each
is framed, and probably no other house
can show prettier or quainter cOllec-
ton.
Shipping firms of old standing often
accumulate wonderful stories of inter-
esting relics. One Liverpool firm pos
sesses a huge bone taken from whale
which good many years ago deliber-
ately charged ship of theirs in the
north Atlantic. The steamer was bad
ly damaged but the whale was killed.
A good many firms preserve historic
machinery of one kind OF another
Richard Arkwright's own spinning
frame Is still to be seen at the Crom-
ford mills. 1t looks clumsy enough
compared with the complicated and
highly finished machinery Of today. but
it was practically the source of Lam
cashire's great cotton trade and unex-
ampled prosperity.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
TWO THOUSAND COUNTIES IN
CONFERENCE.

In 1000 counties in thirty-six states
the pastors and laymen of thirty great
denominations will meet in conference
this month.
1t is the kind of conference that gen.
erals hold before critical engage
ment that business men hold before
entering new market. A conference
of Judgment, not emotion; a clear-eyed
facing of the facts.
A Survey that Business Men Must
Admire.
For more than year hundreds of
workers have been quietly engaged in
making scientific survey of the mis-
sion fields, and of America county by
county.
The facts developed are startling.
The charts and maps will amaze you.
No such picture of Americas religious
situation has ever before been drawn.
On the basis Of these surveys thirty
Protestant denominations are uniting
in a
Nationwide Cooperative Campaign.
Each of the thirty denominations has
its own Forward Movement" organ
lied and Differed The Interchurch
World Movement is the clearing house
for all of these.
1t is the agency which the churches
have created to avoid duplication, to
foster cooperation and make sure that
every man and dollar render the ut
most service possible.
The month of April will be devoted
to making the facts of the survey
known to America; in the week of
April 25th-May 2nd, will come united
simultaneous financial campaign.
Whether You are Inside the Church
or Out.
To every man and every woman who
loves his country, these 1000 county
conferences are vitally important
For the facts developed by this great
survey show vividly what forces are ut
work In America-and what kind Of a
country this country is to be.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
cIty's Many Expenses.

The surprising range of modern
city government is revealed by some
of the items in the municipal budget
of Philadelphia. Music for afternoon
and evening concerts cost the city
$4,000; meats and groceries for the
municipal court, $1,000; celebrating the
Fourth of July and Memorial day, $14,-
750; removing ashes from the city
hall, $1,000. To tide observer the
city pays every year $1,000; to piano
players and swimming teachers, So.
600; to a shoemaker, $500; to a col.
iector OF biological specimens, $1,000
to n barber, $3.50; to masseuse, $3.50
to dairyman, $500; to several
plumbers, $1,000 apiece; to an entO
nologist, $1,000; to a sheet-iron work
er, $500; and to an expert pole
climber, $3.50 a day.-Youth's Com
panIon.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Notice of Forfeiture

To A. S. Tucker, his heirs, admin
istrators, and to all whom it
may concern:
You are hereby notified that
have expended one hundred dol
lars in labor and improvements
during the year 1916 and also one
hundred dollars in labor and i'm
provements during the year 1917
OH each one of the following
claims, to-wit:
The Shabona and the Wautauga
Lode Mining Claims, location cer-
tificates thereof being recorded IN
book SIS, pages 293 and 294, of the
records of the County Clerk and
Recorder of Gilpin County, and
said claims being situate in Lake
and Enterprise Mining Districts,
Gilpin County, State of Colorado,
in order to hold said claims under
the provisions of Section 1924 of
the revised statutes of the United
States, and the amendment there
to, approved January %, 1880,
concerning annual labor on min
ing claims, being the amount re-
CURED to hold said claims for the
periods ending December 3lst,
1916, and December 31st, 1917.
And if within ninety days after
the publication hereof, you fail
or refuse to contribute your pro-
portionate share of such expendi-
ture as co-owner your interests
in the claims will become the
property of the subscriber by the
terms of said section.
GEORGE +. FRITZ.
Black Hawk, Colo, March 10, 1920.
First Pub. Mch. IL. 1920.
Last Pub. June 10, 1920.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Lizards House Pets In Siam.


Lizards live In houses In Siam, Just
as rats and mice do here. Some in
teresting facts are told by George Pratt
Ingersoll, former United States min.
lister to Siam. Among the Siamese
lizards is large one known as the
'tOh-ke," or tokay, about foot long,
having a black body, sometimes with
white stripes, ugly. bulging eyes, and
short, clumsy legs.
The tokay is not pleasant to look
npon, but Is in no way dangerous, and
will run away when disturbed, as rap
idly as his uncanny body and legs will
allow him. The tokay crows with a
hcarse, Internal voice quite loud some
five or six times, followed by a rattle
or fiendish chuckle. These large liz
ards are found throughout siam in the
thickly inhabited cities as well as in
the uncultivated districts.
The lizards are harmless, but no
)ne rejoices in their company, even
the Siamese, who, from their Buddhist
training and teaching are kind to all
living things. So when tokay Is dis.
covered in house the Chinese serv.
ants are called, and they fly, with
sticks and with glee, to the attack, and
usually succeed In dispatching the
reptile.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
eAMBLED WITH GRIM DEATH
Advsnturers Whe Sought Wealth In
the kIondIks Left a Ghastiy
Trail Of Tragedies.

The old overland journey from Ed.
montOn, Alta, to the Klondike was q
trail of tragedies. A weather-beaten
skeleton of an old wagon of the prairie
schooner type, the woodwork rotted
and only fragments of the wheels re.
naming, recently was found in the
rugged Lizard river country. On a
piece OF tattered canvas that once had
been the wagon cover. printed in black
paint in letters foot high half ef-
faced by the rains and SHOWS of years,
were the words "Klondike or Bust"
Many stories are told by old-timers
of the argonauts who found tragedy
instead of gold on the north trail
which began at Edmonton. Thou
sands of men from all parts of the
world fiocked to the town in 1896 dur
ing the KlOndike rush. They Outfitted
at the Hudson Bay company twO-story
frame store which then was consider
ed the greatest store In western Can
ada. Today, when the company has
thrown open all Its lands to farm set.
tlement and is centering its energies
On lIe III SChCio oi
dising. big modern department store
rises on the site of this ancient en-
porium in the heart of Edmonton.
Turning their faces toward the Yu-
kon, the gold seekers struck out on a
perilous journey of 1000 miles across
an untracked wilderness of forests,
muskegs, mountains and mighty riv-
ers. OF the thousands who started,
only a few ever reached their desti'
nation. Many turned back disheart-
ened to Edmonton. Many beat back
to civilization by way of the British
Columbia coast. Still greater num-
bers were swallowed up in vast un-
known northern land never to be heard
of again. They gambled with death
who travelled that trail.
From time to time in succeeding
years the bleaching bones of the adj
venturers who followed their dreams
over the rim of the world, the bat
tered relics of old camp outfits and
the wrecks of wagons and pack sad
dies have been found in lonely north
ern places, grim reminders of the old
DAYS when men went mad for gold.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
SPOOK IS HUNGRY
"Hant' Makes Announcement,
but Can't Be Located.
Providence. (Rhods IsIand) Citizens
Have Real Sensation In "Mant-
festations" Which Have eaf-
fled Elueidation.

Residents Of Pond street, in Provi-
dence, II. l., are all on edge, for the
house ut POT, they assert. Is undOubt-
edly "haunted."
For week manifestations" have
been going on there, and when 1t came
to the point where the cellar was
jammed full of curious people and
line was waiting out through the
yard into the street, the police took
hold. Tenants said they would move
If they could only find a place to move
to, and both up and down the street
dwellers said If someone did not do
something pretty soon they would
think of m1,.Mg.
1t all came about through "strange
voice" which, the neighbors say. EN-
anates from the cellar. A week ago,
quoting one of the Pond Streeters, a
tenant went into the cellar and was
startled by the voice Saying: "Give
me something to eat, W. starving"
The tenant upset his coal scuttle,
but was not nervous about it. He did
not want to worry the other tenants,
so he said nothing until someone else,
entering the cellar, heard distinctly
"Take me out O. here"
There was a consultation; tenants
laughed when they looked at each 9TH
err, but they listened when they passed
the cellar stairs. A neighboring mar
ketman was called into consultation.
He went downstairs Ito be shown"
and with amazing promptness an eerie
voice from behind the confines of the
cellar announced: II know you; you're
the butcher"
Comparison of notes led to the OBJ
servations that the voice was heard
most frequently at 10 noon and at Q
a. m. Noises in the night and the re-
port that gas range jazzed across
the kitchen floor and back have all
been orally chronicled to prove that
there is something the matter.
Patrolman Mclaughlin, the man on
the beat, was called in. He heard
noises and went in the second day.
Then he took the matter up with Cap
tain Higgins. They went down in the
cellar together, explored the walls for
pipe ends, but found no improvised
speaking tubes. They looked the house
over outside and discovered no rosin-
coated twine attached to it, as juve-
line telephones are sometimes contriv-
ed, and then they shook their heads.
Between thirty and forty persons at
time visited the cellar each day.
hoping to obtain direct evidence of the
manifestations" Everybody who
went away after waiting in vain heard
meanings but, Of course, had not ex-
pected anything intelligible from the
haunted house with such big
crowd on hand.-BOstOn Herald.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Queer Plant.

"Tul-Tul," as the natives call It. is
the most wonderful vegetable plant in
the world.
1t grows on certain South Pacific
islands and In appearance Is like n
giant turnip, but blood-red in color.
To the white man. 1t is very tough
and tasteless vegetable. To the ma
tives. however, 1t is a main item Of
their diet. They cook 1t and mix it
with their coconut and breadfruit, for
it is supposed to be very nourishing.
They cultivate the plant in rough
sort of fashion in large bitches or
swamps.
Its most peculiar feature Is that It
has to be fed, and for this purpose the
native children go over the island col
lccting all decayed vegetable matter.
This is soaked in plenty of salt water
and Is then taken in armfuls to the
plants and put in the center of the leaf
stems or on the short. thick stem from
which the leaves spread out on every
side.
Slowly. but surely, the decaycd mat.
ter disappears, the leaves stiffen and
spread out erect-signs, apparently.
that the plant has dined heartily, for
IL really is case of feeding n plant.
There Is no opening of the stem or
leaves; the food is slowly and gradu.
ally absorbed in silent and wonder.
full manner.-Boston Post.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
"Reatina the Roundsn by Air

Port Melbourne has improved on the
ancient British custom of "bcatlng the
bounds" of municipality. Instead
Of solemn peregrination, the mayor
Councillor Page, and colleague flew
over Port Melbourne In an airplane
and then visited South Melbourne.
Whether this airy way of performing
solemn duty will he the cause OF
civic revolution has yet to he deter.
mined and the fact that the inspection
was made on Sunday may bring
down more wrath. There is OF course
distinct advantage in viewing rutty
roads from the air, but Port Mel
bourne has no reason to fear more
minute inspection Of her highways
and byways.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
omens Of Good Luck.

1t has been explained that we need
to be prepared for bad luck. but that
good fortune does not require to be
guarded against.
All the same, 1t would certainly
add to the cheerfulness of life in gen
eral II lucky omens were more widely
known, says a writer in London Tit
Bits. How much brighter things look
to us II we have reason to hope that
something good is coming to us!
Everybody, Of course, knows that
1t is lucky to pick up bit of iron or
coal. So it is to pick up pin II
Its head is toward you; If not, let 1t
lie.
1t is sign of good fortune to put
on some garment inside out. but only
II It is done by accident and the gar
ment is allowed to remain reversed
during the day. William the Con-
queror put on his mail shirt back to
front on the morning of the battle
of Hastings, and we all know what
luck-he had on that occasion.
II you find your keys or other steel
articles rusting. do not be annoyed
about 1t; 1t only shows that somebody
Is putting money by for you.
1t is luck to be followed home by
stray dog. Still better is it If a
strange cat comes to stay at the house.
Speaking of cats, pessimists. of
course, assert that when it tears the
furniture with its claws it is sign
of rain; but others hold that she Is
Scratching luck" to her masters.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
CHURCHES IN
THE MOVEMENT

Below 10 . list of the thirty denom-
nations taking part in the united ST.
multaneous campaign. There are
other denominations which are tied up
10 the movement in other ways, 20
the movement consists of more than
the thirty denominations in the cam
>aign:
Advent.
Advent Christian Church.
Baptist.
Northern Baptist Convention.
National Baptist Convention.
General Baptist.
Brethren.
Church Of the Brethren.
Brethren Church.
Christian.
American Christian Convention, or
Christian Church.
Congregational.
Congregational Churches.
Disciples.
Disciples Of Christ.
Evangelical.
Evangelical Association.
Evangelical Synod of N. A.
United Evangelical Church.
Friends.
Society of Friends in America.
Society of Friends of California.
Holiness.
Holiness Church.
Mennonite.
General Conference of Mennonite
Methodist.
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Methodist Protestant Church.
Free Methodist Church of N. A.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church.
Colored Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Reformed Zion Union Apostolic
Church.
Presbyterian.
Presbyterian Church in the U. 8. A.
Presbyterian Church in the U. S.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian
Synod.
Reformed Presbyterian Church of
N. A., Synod.
United Presbyterian Church.
Reformed.
Reformed Church in America.
Reformed Church in the u. 8.
United Brethren.
Church of the United Brethren in
Christ.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Seek American Rule.

The people Of the Virgin islands
are begging to be Americanized. Now
that they are under the American flag,
they have a right to be dissatisfied
with the old Danish laws and customs.
One of these makes It necessary for
n man to have an income of $500 a
year in order to vote. This law gives
only about 800 people In the Islands
n chance at controlling legislation.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Mining Application No. 026649
Mineral Survey No. 1886
u. s. Land Office


AT Denver, Colorado, Mar. s, 1920.
Notice is hereby given that in
pursuance of the Act of Congress,
approved May 10, 1872, The Jum-
bo Mountain Mining Company, by
Preston H. Barker. its agent,
whose postofiice is Denver, Colo
vado, has made application for a
patent for 1900 linear feet on each
of the Arlington Extension, Jum-
bo Extension and independence
Extension No. Q Lodes, bearing
gold and silver, with surface
ground on each 800 feet in width,
situate in Pine Mining District
-GiIpin County, State of Colorado,
and described in the plat and
field notes on file in this Office, as
follows, viz:
Arlington Extension Lode.
S664 feet N. &C. 90 E.-S36 feet S.
90 % w. from discovery cut.
Beginning at Cor. No. l whence
the N. IA Cor. Sec. 8, T. 2 S., R.
G3 w. 9th P. M. bears N. 60 39'
E. 1885 feet; thence S. "a E. 800
feet to Cor. No. 2; thence N. &C.
90 E. 1900 feet to Cor. No. g.;
thence N. "a w. 300 feet to Cor.
No. a; thence S. &C. 90 w. 1900
feet to Cor. No. /, the place of be-
ginning.
Jumbo Extension Lode.
100 feet N. sc 90 E.-14O0 feet
S. &C. 28 W. from discovery shaft.
Beginning at Cor. No. l whence
The N. IA Cor. Sec. 9, T. 2 S., R. 73
w. 9th P. M. bears N. O. 13' E.
342 feet; thence S. "a E. 800 feet
to Cor. No. Q; thence N. &C. 28' E.
1900 feet to Cor. No. 81; thence N.
"a w. 800 feet to Cor. No. A;
thence S. &C. 90 w. 1900 feet to
Cor. No. 1, the place of beginning.
Independence Extension No. 2
Lode.
20 feet N. &C. 80 E.-148O feet S.
Sc 28' w. from discovery shaft.
Beginning at Cor. No. l whence
the N. "a Cor. Sec. 9, T. 2 S., R. 73
w. 9Th P. M. bears N. So g. w.
634.4 feet; thence S. "a E. 300
feet to Cor. No. 2; thence N. &C.
80 E. 1900 feet to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. "a w. 800 feet to Cor.
No. A; thence S. &C. 90 w. 1900
feet to Cor. No. 1, the place of be-
ginning.
Containing 21.S77 acres, ex-
prcssly excepting and excluding
all conflict with surveys Nos.
16950A, Independence lode, 1924,
Pearl, Adelpha and Little Bonan-
Ia lodes, 1886, Arlington and
Jumbo lodes and 19595B Jackson
millsite, and forming a portion of
the N. ~ Sec. 9 and S. E. "a of
Sec. 4, Twp. 2 S., Range 73 w. of
the 9th principal meridian. Said
location being recorded in vol. =
page = of the Records of Gilpin
County, State of Colorado.
Adjoining claimants herein and
the unknown owners of Sur. No.
1924, Pearl, Adelpha and Little
Bonanza lodes.
MARY WOLFE DARGIN,
Register.
First pub. March 18th, 1920.
Last pub. May 18th, 1920.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
PRESIDENT HieeEN OF PRINCE.
TON.

1.-THE spirit Of Christianity alone can
cope successfully with those lnflu-
ences steadily growing In our country
which tend to destroy our great In.
stitutions."
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
WILLIAM }. FOSTER.
(Membsr Of the National Committee
for the Organization Of Iron and
Steel Workers.)

az the churches will get back to
their primitive position Of defending
the Interests Of the weak; II they will
become active and see to It that soms
degree Of Industrial justice 10 set up
In this eountry-as there seems 4
strong tendency on their part to do
I think they may be Of great service"
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Strictly Correct.

Ernest and Henry go to minis.
ter's home every day to do little odds
and ends for him. One day Ernest
came home and said: Mother. me
and Henry were over to the minister's
house today" Ernest" l said. "you
should lave said, Henry and t." to
which hc quickly answered, swell,
got there ahead Of him."
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Got Him Worrylnu.

Tom-You don't really imagine that
girls actually propose sometimes, do
you?
Dick-well, all I know is that this
Is leap year and some girls are getting
mnrried who never got married before.
Boston Transcript.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
WILLIAM g. MeADoo.

"a can think Of nothing that would
exert SO powerful an influence upon
the future good Of the world as a
great religious revival which will de.
veiop again those finer ideals Of life
and reverence for God which have al.
ways been the greatest hope Of man.
kind"
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
DR.. ARTHUR T. HAoLEY.

1.-THE fate Of the American people
nay, the fate Of the whole civilized
world Is bound up with the possIbiI.
ity Of maintaining amid all these diff.
fieuIties an essentially Christian phil.
osophy Of life"
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
GOVERNOR OLIVER II. sHouP.

From what know of Movement ho.ro
" VIII prove to be Of the Of
FORWARD me moral aud religious side Of American life s
AS understand It, the ,bo M
uon ana cooperation OF the Of hs
n Win view or avoiding expense hu,
win sll greater view Of making u'
church OF his choosing rench nv,h,n s NV
o"s cope'"oh oetween the churches
OLIVER II. SHOUP Governor
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

"a have long since reached the con-
furnish not A solution, but the ONLY
solution Of the worlds difficulties,
and would like to see the church real.
izs more fully the strength Of the
commi ssion which II holds"
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Prints.

"Do you think these socialists will
by any chance leave footprints on the
sands Of timer"
"I'm not concerned about their foot
prints" replied Senator Sorghum.
"What we need from them now IL n
reliable collection Of thumb prints"
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Ready Explanation.

"waiter. II seems to me the portions
have grown smaller than when was
In here last summer"
THAT is only by comparison. sir I,
we have enlarged the place.
Transcript.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
A. MITCHELL PALMER.

"First Of all, the requirement is for
q cIeansed mind, a sterner conscience
and more universal realization Of
the simple requirement Of being good"
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
A Lena way on.

Jud yunkins says that II they ever
get the singin' school running half
way amicabie. mebbe he'll begin think
ing about trying a soviet.
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
Real Luxury.

"Did the bride receive many hand
some presents7"
II should say 80. One the detec
tives at the house never took their
eyes on was a case Of eggs"
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
FRANK A. VANDERBILT.

at 10 not 90 much a matter Of the
people accepting the tenets Of demon.
national churches a. It 10 the genuine
fundamental spiritual awakening that
we need"
Gilpin observer., 1920-04-15
z. y. GARY.

"a genuine religious campaign is o.
the highest Importance In combating
the BoIshevist spirit"