Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1899-08-31

A one legged man, using crutches,
walked up Pixies peak in eight hours
recently.
AS result of the striking of coal
oil near Trinidad number of new
companies have entered the field to
prospect.
An eX-convict of Utah tried to get
even with the judge and warden by
sending them boxes of dynamite, but
they were not exploded.
The horse purchasing board which
has been buying horses for cavalry pur-
poses at Cheyenne met with extraor-
binary success and II finer lot of ami
mails was submitted to them for selec-
ton than at any other market in the
West. Over 10 per cent. of the horses
submitted were bought.
Permits for grazing sheep on the tim
Der reserves south of the thirteenth
standard parallel, excepting Clear
Creek, Piney and Ten Sleep lake coun-
try, wyoming. have been granted to
twenty-four tiockmasters. The flocks
Will range in numbers from 1000 to
5000, and in all 159, 800 will be driven
in,
George Curry, sheriff of Otero coun-
~, New Mexico, and n former captain
of Roosevelt's Rough Riders, has been
appointed lieutenant of the Eleventh
cavalry, now forming in the Philip
pines, and has accepted. His appoint
ment was secured through the intlu-
ence of Governors Otero and Roose-
welt.
The district attorney has had war
rants issued for the arrest of X. G. Pen
nlSton, cashier, and J. ID. Maben,
president of the insolvent bank of
Creole. The charge Is bank wrecking,
and accepting bank deposits when the
bank was known to be insolvent. The
charges will implicate number OF
stockholders. The amount will reach
$4,000.
The Annual Corn Roast at Loveland,
Will be held this year on Labor Day,
September 1. These corn roasts have
become so popular that large attend
ance is assured. particularly as the
date falls on n holiday. The Colorado
Road will make extraordinarily low
rates to LOveland and return for this
occasion and is making preparations to
handle very large number of people.
A forest fire has broken out on the
mountains below Morrison. The dry
pines on one of the lower ridges caugh!
Sunday, probably from some campfire,
and seem to be burning steadily The
weeks of dry weather particularly on
the eastern ridge of the mountains has
left the timber as dry as chips, and for
fear of destructive blaze campers
have been warned to eXtinguish their
fires.
The size of the iron works at Pueblo
Is to be increased. For n year or more
the most elaborate alterations have
been under way, and only within the
last six months has the output been
pushed forward in earnest. Hundreds
of thousands of dollars have been ex-
pended and the pay rolls increased by
the employment of vast army of new
men, but still the contracts are away
behind
The Bessemer City hotel, n three
story brick structure of twenty-seven
rooms, was totally destroyed Monday
night by fire which originated in the
kitchen ut $50 o'clock. The loss Is
$4,000; insurance, $4,000. Inside of
thirty minutes from the time the fire
was discovered the entire structure
was enveloped in flames. and owing
to the lack of water pressure, they
gained remarkable Roadway.
George Craddock. Joseph Inman,
Jerry Cronin. Alexander Wills. and
Patrick Addudel, and three others, I'M
der indictment for the murder of Smith
and Cheync in the Wardner riot of
April last, escaped from the stockade
Mt Wardner the other night. One of
the soldier guards is also missing. The
county is thoroughly aroused and every
possible effort is being made for their
recapture. The manner of the escape
Is unknown. but no one doubts that
bribery played an important part.
Gorgeous and spectacular will be the
queens parade and triumphal march
at the Festival of Mountain and Plain,
to he held in Denver September 25th
to Both. attended by the king OF the
mountains and escorted by outriders,
cOurtiers and the military. She will
come from her mountain home In n
gilded coach drawn by twelve white
horses and be crowned by her loving
subjects beneath Il blaze of light and
surrounded by her maids of honor In
the presence of thousands. 1t will be n
sight to remember.
The coal camp of Rouse on the Colo
RADIO 4 Southern, near Walsenburg, is
deserted, and the mines are being rap
Idly closed down. the reason being that
the properties are nearly played out,
and that the operators are troubled
with water. The Colorado Fuel and
Iron Company has enough other coal
ground I'm the same vicinity to Justify
moving Its machinery to some other To-
cality. The plants will be transferred
to Pictou and Maitland. As Rouse il
distinctivcly II coal camp. this change
will leave 1t II deserted village, all Of
the buildings of any consequence be.
Ing torn down for the sake of lumber
A Cheyenne dispatch says. Hon.
John A. Martin and General vanards-
ale, as non-partisan committee, ARE
to-day circulating notes for the $4,000