Gilpin observer., 1899-07-06


well-known temperance worker of
Colorado, died on the 27th.
The President has appointed Louis
A. Knackstedt of Colorado to be agent
OF the Southern Ute Indians.
The Buckeye mill, located near Mag
nolia, Boulder county, was destroyed
by fire last week. The loss Is estimated
Mt $4,000.
Clarence f. Johnstone Of Cheyenne
has been appointed an assistant in the
irrigation department of the Agricul-
tural Bureau at a salary of 81 800 year
ly.
The pipe organ presented to the First
Presbyterian church of Boulder by An
drew Carnegie, the iron king, has ar
rived. The organ is the only instrument
of its kind in the city.
Rural free delivery postal service has
been established at Morrison, Jeffer-
son county, with one carrier, George
g. Strickland, to take effect July 9Th.
The service will cover an area of
eight miles and serve 400 persons.
AS an experiment the Santa Fe rail
road is employing Navajo Indians as
section men on its road near Gallup.
About 100 men have been employed,
and thus far the experiment has been
pronounced success by the railroad,
which will probably engage several
hundred more of them.
Officers of the Western Slope Hunt
ing Association are arranging elabo-
rate plans for their second annual lion
hunt, to be held at DeBeque. and they
have called upon General Passenger
Agent Bailey of the Colorado Midland
to announce that the hunt will be held
October 25th this year, instead of in
December, as in 1898.
Jesse NJ. Smith of Layton, Utah,
president of the Utah Wool Growers
Association, and Senator Arthur
Brown of Salt Lake City are on their
way to Washington, where they ex-
pect to protest to the Interior Depart
ment against the recent order of the
government forbidding the pasturing
of sheep on the forest reserve of the
Uintah reservation.
Thomas Tobin, one of the most eff
cient guards ever employed ut the
Colorado penitentiary, was fatally
wounded at 1915 o'clock Wednesday
morning. in a most unfortunate en-
counter with two officers from Flor
ence, all parties being in search of
Charles Nichols, the escaped convict,
who was captured by still another par
ty and is now safe in his old cell.
Something peculiar in the monthly
report Of the Board of Health, which
will be issued in a few days, is the
fact that for June the number of
deaths of women about equaled those
of men. This is very unusual, as n
glance through the records of the
Health Department will show. In
May eighty-four males and fifty-one
females composed the deaths, and in
April the ratio was Ill to sixty-six.
The workings of the Vulcan mine at
Newcastle are becoming so hot that
work is almost impossible. The i'm
mense fans are running at full speed
to drive out the great volumes of gas
thrown off. The fire in the vein is
liable to break out at any moment.
The management is rushing the work
men in an attempt to get out all the
coal possible. but the danger is very
great and shutdown must come
Soon. ,Ii
The Salvation Army colony near
Granada has been the center Of attrac.
tion for several days, owing to the
presence there of Commander Booth
Tucker. The commander found mat
ters at the colony in very satisfactory
condition. The people are doing we'll
and making the experiment n success.
Fifty more families will be sent to the
colony this summer. The commander
expects to visit the colony at no dis
tant date.
1t now seems possible that the Stricll-
Ter tunnel, to supply water for Colorado
Springs, may be completed by the
time snow flies. 1t is announced that
the work on the west end, which was
abandoned last fall, will be commenced
again. 1t Is thought that the water
now in the tunnel can be pumped out
in about ten days. The present short
age of city water is considered by many
as n proof that the tunnel should be
finished without delay because of
financial misunderstanding or any
other cause.
Train No. on the Midland Terminal.
which left Colorado Springs at 7:2O
Monday morning. was brought to
complete standstill by caterpillars. 1t
was on n steep grade n few miles from
Cripple Creek. The train was MOVING,
slowly, the engine putting great clouds
of black smoke out upon the mountain
air, when suddenly the wheels began
to revolvc with great rapidity. The
train stopped, and the engineer and
fireman discovered that Immense cater
pillars covered the rails completely for
u distance of about 100 yards.
L. s. Trew, Il. NJ. Blachley and Will
lam Galpin have returned home from
an exploration trip to the Chaco coun-
try, in the Navajo desert. They We're
about hundred miles south OF Aztec.
In the San Juan valley. In two weeks
they upearthed about 200 pieces of
quaint pottery, besides many other Gu
rios, bends nnd turquolscs. "A white