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LATEST NEWS EPITOMIZED FROM TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS THAT COVER THE WEEK’S EVENTS. OF MOST INTEREST KEEPING THE READER POSTED ON THE IMPORTANT CURRENT TOPICS. V\ fsiern Newspaper Union News Service. WESTERN A Mexico City engineer named Balu rezo has been appointed governor of Lower California and Instructed to take over the state administration from Governor Salazar, according to an unofficial announcement from Mexico. William H. Duckworth of Clovis, N. Mex., has been selected by the Repub lican executive committee ns the nom inee for lieutenant governor. He re places Herman R. Crile of Albu querque, who was found to be in eligible and resigned. Max Short and Victor Alsop, avia tors of Snlinn, Kan., were seriously Injured nt Lincoln, Nebr., when the plane in which they were riding fell from a considerable height. Roth men were pinned under the machine. They were taken to the Lincoln hospital. C. E. Mills, manager of one of Omaha’s best known hotels, and a number of other hotel men announced reductions of twenty-five per cent in restaurant prices in that city. Lower costs of coffee and vegetables were given among other reasons for the re ductions. y Five hours after they had attempted to hold up Thomas Kelly, cashier of the Neosho Rapids, Ivan., State bank, two men, who gave their names as “Jones” and “Smith,” were on the way to the state penitentiary to serve inde terminate sentences of ten to twenty years each. Two men were seriously injured lr. accidents at automobile races at the county fair at Gallup, N. Mex. The car of Leo Leaden turned over on n curve and he sustained a broken arm and other minor injuries. J. R. Willis who was taking pictures of the race, was run over by one of the cars aril both legs broken, ids shoulder dis located and his head and face cut and bruised. A strike of about 1,500 bituminous coal miners in Texas ended when the strikers nt Strawn, Thurber and Lyra voted to accept an offer by operators of an increase of twenty-five cents per ton. Mines Jn the Rridgeport fields already had accepted the offer. In making this announcement, the miners-operntors conferees said they would meet again to work out details of the agreement. WASHINGTON Inquiry Into the source of the recent shipment of Russian gold to the United States has been ordered by the de partment of justice. Belief exists at tlie department Hint the gold inny be a part of the Russian Bolshevik prop aganda fund. Fred Roberts, president of the United Cotton Growers’ Association of America, issued a call to Texas farm ers to join in the national gathering of farmer organizations to he held in Washington, Oet. 12 and 12, to con sider the cotton situation. Postnl service between France and Brazil under the supervision of the French ministry of public works has been provided for by decree of the Frencli government, according to a re port from Paris to the department of Commerce nt Washington. United States mints during Septem ber coined 780,000 pieces of silver money for Culm and 040,000 pieces of silver for Peru, Director of tin* Mint Baker announced. No gold coins were executed for the United States during the month, but coinage from other metals amounted to 01,015,000 pieces aggregating $2,780,930. Investigation by the Postoffice De partment of recent postal airplane accidents in which pilots lost their lives when the machines caught fire in air has shown that the primary cause wus a defective gasoline feed system. Charges that the accidents were attributable to carelessness of employes were repudiated by the de partment’s announcement. The 1920 census will show that the population of the United States is 105,750,000, if the presont rate of the increase shown in the count is sustained, according to the census bureau. With the figures nearly complete, the population of 1920 shows an increase of fifteen per cent over 1910, when the total num ber of persons in the country was 91,972,266. West Virginia, with a population of 1,403,010, an Increase of 242,401 or nineteen and nine-tenths per cent over 1010, lias passed Maryland In the relative standing of the states. West Virginia stood twenty-eighth in 1010 and Maryland twenty-seventh. Supersenplancs, with a cruising radius sufficient to enable them to cross the Pacific ocean, now are un der construction and probably will be available for use by the nnvy depart ment early next sprlug, said an an nouncement In Wellington by the Manufacturers* Aircraft Association. FOREIGN Bank employes of Italy have startsd a movement to secure control of finan cial Institutions In that country, saya a dispatch from Rome. Northeast of Grodno the Poles have reached the River Ullu, half way be tween Grodno and Vilna, the Lith uanian capital, says the offlclul state ment on fighting operations. Capt. R. W. Schroeder of McCook field, holder of the world altitude record, will retire from the air serv ice as soon as he returns from France, where he flew in the Gordon Bennett race. Japanese troops have been sent to Hun-Chun, a town in Manchuria, near the Korean frontier, which was raided by hjindits. Reports received ut Tokio state that the attacking party consist ed of Russian Bolsheviki, Koreans and Chinese, who are bitter against Japan. m Two thousand peasants took part in the seizure of royal estates near Naples. As they marched toward the king’s property they carried shotguns and sung the “workmen’s hymn.” The property seized was called the “Car diello” and was one of the largest be longing to the royal house. With a big cocoa boom on, untold wealth is being won by the nutives of the gold coast, West Africa. More than 200 of them now run their own automobiles and another 200 are im pntiently awaiting delivery of theirs. European style houses, costing in some Instances ns much as $50,000, have been built by the most prosperous. Signature of the definite agreement between employers and workmen, which is expected to settle the dispute which resulted in the occupation of in dustrial plants by metal workers, took place In the presence of the prefect of Milan. The spokesman of the em ployers said they were obliged to bow to “impositions independent of their will.” GENERAL Four armed robbers escaped with SIO,OOO after holding up the cashier and bookkeeper of the American Cigar Company in New York. Five children were burned to death when fire destroyed the farm home of Ed Nelson at Irma, near Merrill, Wis. A sixth child was painfully burned. Twenty-two hotel owners in Chicago have ngreed to cut their restaurant prices from 25 to 33 1-3 per cent. Vegetables, fruits and cereals will be cut the most. Mrs. Elizabeth Niles, 02 years old, who with close clipped lmir and a uni form that concealed her sex, is said to hnvc fought beside her husband thru the Civil war, is dead at Rari tan, N. J. Howard W. Showalter, a hanker of Fairmount, \V. Va., who was sentenced to five years In federal prison in 1017 for misapplication of national hank funds, has been granted a pardon by President Wilson. A bill appropriating $3,000,000 for tlie construction of a thousand-bed hos pital for the care of the state’s World War veterans who have become men tally disabled, has been signed by Gov ernor Smith of New York. Twelve members of the crew of tlie steamer Speedwell, wrecked in a trop ical hurricane in tlie gulf, and one passenger, were picked up in a life boat by the steamer Lake Superior, according to radio advices received at New Orleans. Rosa Raisa, the Italian soprano, an nounced nt Bangor, Me., her marriage to Giacomo Rimini, baritone, who is in Maine witli her to take part in a musical festival. The wedding was celebrated in Naples Just before the couple loft for this country. Gustnf Nelson, son-in-law of United States Senator Nelson, was convicted ut Alexandria, Minn., of a charge of murder in the first degree. He was ac cused of the killing of Joseph Middle ton, a farm hand, who was shot during a scuffle for possession of a shotgun. Babe Ruth, world’s champion home-run hitter, on hiR way to Springfield in a new roadster, col lided with a truck in Meriden, Conn. Ho landed in a field, with his car wrecked, even to the steering post, but ho and a friend, who was his passenger, escaped unhurt except for scratches from the broken wind shield. Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, sent checks for $1,500 each to the ten members of last year’s team who were not in volved In the hasehnll scandal. Let ters accompanying the checks stated the money was sent to reimburse the players for the amount they lost when the White Sox failed to win the 1010 world series. Alvaro Obregon, of Mexico wllfm» a guest at Dallns and the state fair on International Day, October 16th, according to an an nouncement made nt Dallns, Texas, by W. 11. Stratton, secretary of the state fair. Mr. Strntton said he was notified by Consul Roberto Garcia of Dallas, who received a message from General Obregon stating he will attend the fair on that date. Lieut. Sidney Pedott of Chicago, a naval reserve officer, was drowned when a naval seaplane which he was flying plunged Into Lftke Michigan two miles off Lake Forest. Lieut. A. K. Bachelor of Saginaw, Mich., his companion, was thrown clear and swam back to tho wreckage. He made a vain effort to release Pedott's life belt before the wreckage sank. The largest shipment of gold—sl6,- 750,000—ever transported across tlie Atlantic, was brought to New York on the White Star liner Baltic, which left Liverpool September 22nd. THE GILPIN OBSERVER. COLORADO STATE NEWS Western Newspaper Union News Service. More than SB,OOO in diamonds and other Jewelry was stolen from the palatial home of L. H. Guldman head of the Golden Eagle Dry Goods Com pany in Denver. Approximately 5,500 teachers are ex pected to attend the annual convention of the Colorado Education Association to be held in Denver, Pueblo and Grand Junction from Nov. 2 to Nov. G. There are more than 5,500,000 acres of land, not Including orchards, In cultivation this year, compared with 4,820,946 acres Inst year, Howard Sul livan, deputy state immigration com missioner, has announced. Orchard mesa, the highland section lying across the Grand River south of Grand Junction, was awarded tho sweepstakes on community exhibits at the Intermountain Fair and Live Stock Association fair at Grand Junction. B. E. Speak, 44 years old, driver of n truck for tlie Masters Transfer Company, was seriously bruised and possibly internally Injured at Love land when the truck he was driving was struck by a Colorado A Southern freight train. A fifty-cent increase in the prices of all coni, effective Oct. 1, was an nounced by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company. It wns explained that this Increase was due to the wage in creases recently granted the men, and that no further increases, ns near as can he judged at this time, are an ticipated in the near future. Six and one-half miles of sand gravel road will be constructed by the state and federal government between Lamar and Granada in Prowers coun ty, if the United States bureau of public roads approves tlie project statement submitted by the state high way commission. The proposed road will cost approximately $83,000. Henry Hazelmeyer and Frank Ber sanry of Glenwood Springs are lying at the point of dentil In a hospital at Grand Junction, ns the result of an auto turning turtle four miles north of Mesa, Colo., on the Midland trail. The car rolled * down a hank on top of them after they lmd jumped clear of the machine. Tho steering gear was broken. Lieut. Arthur C. Wagner of the naval air service, who formerly was connected with the Denver police de partment, wns killed nt Hartford, ( when a naval airplane In which lie was riding with Lieut. Com. Wil liam Merrill Cory, Jr., commanding of ficer of the aviation section of the At lantic fleet, crashed to the ground on the Hartford Golf Club course. The city building department of Denver has issued a permit for the construction of the first extensive ad dition to the exhibition quarters of Denver’s ldg annual stock show. The Western Stock Show Association, which has charge of the show, ob tained permission to construct an ex hibition house for hogs nt tho stock yards. The structure will he ninety five feet in width and 180 feet In length. It will he built of brick nnd concrete nnd will cost $13,000. The Colorado Springs City Council has granted the Colorado Springs & I n ter urban Railway Company a seven cent fare, being an increase of one rent. The compnny has filed a peti tion with the public utilities commis sion, asking for a similar increase in its Interurhnn fares. The local street car compnny last June granted Its employes an increase of wages to fifty-eight cents an hour and then asked the City Council and the utilities commission for a one-cent Increase In city faros. The body of Mr. L. F. Grace, of Garfield county, who, with Zenas Urnwford, wns drowned In the Grand river In Glenwood enfion on May 21, wns recovered on an Island near Slit, sixteen miles west of Glenwood. The body was In nil excellent state of preservation nnd was identified by papers ami money found In the dead man's clothes. The taxable property In Colorado Is valued ut $1,592,007,796, according to tho annual report Issued by the Colo rado tax commission. The state Is richer l»y $96,704,137 than It was In 1919, this report shows. Abstracts of assessment submitted to tlie commis sion by the county commissioners from every county In the state have been examined by the state body. The Union Congregntlonnl church of Montrose, received the largest dona tion this week which lins ever been mode to n local church, which came when C. H. Nye, local philanthropist nnd financier, deeded over to the church the large Nye store building In that city. This building Is valued nt $50,000 nt the minimum nnd will boa source of groat revenue to the church. Recruiting offices for the Colorado nntlonal guard hnvc been opened in Denver, with Col. Joseph C. Taylor In charge. All members of the old guard organizations will he mustered out nnd new units nre to be recruited In Den ver ns well ns over the state. Local bootleggers nnd distillers were given n distinct shock nt Teluride wtion a swarm of federal prohibition officers, hended by Mnrshnl J. Burris, raided several Joints Including two stills nnd several soft drink stands, where large quantities of liquor were found. COLORADO NEWS NOTES. Colorado’s principal crops In point of acreage are wheat nnd corn. The area devoted to corn in the state this year Is more than 1,100,000 acres, of which about 9.5 per cent is irrigated nnd 90.5 per cent non-Irrigated. About the same acreage was devoted to win ter wheat, of which 89.2 per cent was non-irrigated. The spring wheat area is about 850,000 acres, of which 51.7 per cent is non-irrigated. Last year about 90 per cent of the corn grown In the state was non-irrigated, 88 per cent of the winter wheat and 51 per cent of the spring wheat. In 1910 51 per cent of all the wheat grown in the state was irrigated and about S per cent of the corn. Fully 70 per cent of the acreage devoted to crops in the state in 1910 were irrigated, while this year about 75 per cent of the culti vated acreage is non-irrigated. Unless there is a very considerable change in prices before November 1, the date when the value of farm crops to the farmer is generally estimated, wheat will, for tlie first time, prove to be Colorado’s leading crop. Final es timates of production, based upon acreage figures received by the State Immigration Department from county assessors, will put the crop somewhere above 26,000,000 bushels, which at prices now prevailing will be worth qbove $52,000,000. In the past hay has always been this state’s most valuable crop, but present indications nre that it will fall somewhat below wheat this year. Last year’s hay crop wns worth about $45,000,000, nnd apparently the crop this year will not be worth In ex cess of $50,000,000. Approximately 200 acres of heavily forested land in Wagon Wheel Gap have been cleared of timber nnd un derbrush by officials of the United States weather bureau nnd forest serv ice, to determine the effect on the water flow and drainage of barren land formerly timbered. Virtually a year will be required to conduct the experiment, according to P. Kuplinger, forest examiner, following an inspec tion of the work. An experimental station has been maintained jointly by the forest service nnd United States weather bureau at this point for the last ten years, to obtain data information on the ex tent of the wnter flow from timbered land. There are 909 more children in the Denver public schools today than there were at this time last year, according to an announcement given out from the office of Jesse H. Newlon, super intendent of schools. The largest in crease Is in the elementary schools nnd the junior high schools, in each of which there Is an Increase of 400 over the number enrolled last year. The figures for the enrollment In the Den ver schools for September for the Inst three years nre as follows: 1918, 80,- 612; 1919, 34,584; 1920, 35,493 pupils. George A. Levy, president, and Ezra K. Bner, secretary, of tlie Liberty Fuel Company of Denver, were in Craig re cently to perfect arrangements for the development of a $400,000 coal mine on their property near Crnig. A dia mond drill will he used to determine tlie depth nnd quality of the coal on the 500-acre tract recently purchased by Mr. Levy nnd his associates. Ten tative plans cnll for the opening of a mine fully equipped with every ef ficiency nnd safety device nnd for the establishment of a model mine. The first deer hunting fatality of the season Ims been reported. Wal ter n. Herrod, prominent Fort Collins man, wns killed when Ills rifle was accidentally discharged In the wilds twenty miles northwest of \Vnlden, near Pearl, Colo. Albert Bernard Russ, 22 months old, wns drowned within three blocks of Ills home in Denver, when he fell Into tlie city ditch while playing with other children in n vacant lot near Wash ington park. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Buss. Peter Waltz, 10-yenr-old son of George Waltz, a farmer living about four miles from Loveland, was instant ly killed when ho fell from a truck be longing to the Colorado Condensed Milk Company, about n mile from his home. According to George McKie, driver of tlie truck, Peter, in company with his 12-year-old brother, John, nnd his sister, were riding to school. Peter wns standing on t|ie running hoard when the nmchlne gave n sudden lurch. La Junta Is soon to be ranked as one of Colorado’s beat Improved cities. At a recent meeting of the city coun cil n resolution creating a paving dis trict, which Includes all the down town district, wns passed. Work on the actual paving will start early next spring, while a great deni of the pre liminary work will be started right away. A new white way Is planned on the main streets when the paving is put In place. The first official motor car trip over the newly completed Fall River rond thru the Rocky Mountain Na tional parks, was made by a group of pnrk offiicnls nnd business men of Estes Park. The tramway strike cost the city nnd county of Denver more than $38,- 700. The figures Indicating what the tnxpnycrs must pay for the city’s un prepnredness to meet such situations as tho rioting Incident to the strlko were ninde public by Deputy City Auditor Alvin H. Pickens. New York sends out a report that rich radium-producing ore (cnrnotlte) has been located nenr Tellurlde. Tho probable yield Is placed at ninety grams of radium, which nt $120,000 per gram means $10,800,000 In this I one location In southwestern Colorado. CASTORIA For Infants and Chfldren. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always i , Bears the $ Signature yV/jp* of H’flir l\ty \Jr For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA Exact Copy of Wrapper. the ccntauh company, hew nn cm. THAT LEGACY HELPED SOME Of Course Newspaper Man Really Had Done Well, but Not Entire ly by His Own Efforts. “When I see a ragged man,” said the chairman, virtuously, “I say to my self there goes one of life’s wasters. There goes a man who has refused to make the most of his gifts. There Is no excuse for peverty, gentlemen. Ev eryone should rise—" “Henri Henri” cried his hearers. “Everyone,” exclaimed the chair man, "may carve out a good position for himself If he wishes.” “Perhaps yon nre right,” Interposed n member. "Only today I met a news paper man who told me that 20 years ago he came to Chicago with exactly $5 In his pocket. He Is now worth $40,000 and he owes this entirely to his own ability and energy, combined with good health and a high code of ethics, nnd to the fact that his uncle recently died nnd left him $39,095.” — Chicago News. ’ A Regular One. He was looking for n good canine companion, nnd had answered nn ad vertisement In the newspaper. The following conversation ensued: “You advertised a sensible dog for sole!" "Yep." “What do you mean by a sensible dog?” “This pup has never had n ribbon around his neck and has never ridden In n limousine since the day he was bom He’s a happy-hearted, bone burying, cnt-chnslng, 100 per cent aog.”—Houston Post. If you go Into a labyrinth tuke a clew with you. Girls like compliments—also lee cream and oysters. Whatsoever a man reaps some man mast have planted. That ’Wholesome lable Drink Postum Cereal gains new friends right along ecause of its pleasing taste healthfulness, and saving in cost Postum Cereal is delicious when properly made: boil fully fifteen minutes after boiling begins. The more you boil Postum Cereal the better it is. V/hen ordering be sure to get the original RRM W Postum Cessal ftSjjßggßg 3 A 50-cup package TOmP usually sells for 25$ '"SUfeJiT 5 SHieS R *SS. c S3l^ ne ’ iJlgglp Rents Hurt Ghost Industry. In England desperate people In search of houses to rent or buy are advertising that ghosts are no draw back. Any one who happens to own n hitherto unrented house because tra dition says It Is haunted Is assured that the seekers for a domicile will accept It at the rental asked for re gardless of the haunter or hanntess. It Is suspected that In England, as In several other countries, ghosts of landlords would be less objectionable than those of other folk. Whatever his losses In the past, the landlord ns a rule Is regarded In these days with deep suspicion as a profiteer. In many cases this attitude Is probably unfair; there are some considerate landlords.—Toronto Globe. Parr’s Great Age Discredited. Is It worth while, when money Is needed for legitimate objects, to an swer the appenl to save from Bale the cottage In which Thomas Parr lived! His claim to fame Is that he lived to be 152 nnd that he did penance for Im mortality nt 100. Careful Inquiry last century discredited the tradition as to the number of his years. His age was attested only by village gossip and by quacks, who sold what they falsely called “Parr’s Life Pills.” Brought to court In wlint wns nllegcd to he Ills 153 d year, Parr died In tlie course of a few months, killed by excessive diet— London Mall. Making Sure. "Charley, dear,” said young Mrs. Torklns, "I am glad to see you taking as much Interest In politics ns you for merly took In racing.” “It is the duty of every man and woman to take an Interest In polities.” "Do you wish me to vote for the same candidate that you do?” “Why shouldn’t you?” “I thought It might be a good Idea for me to vote for the other one. It would be a satisfaction to feel that one or the other of ub has at last succeed ed In picking a winner.”