Gilpin observer., 1899-08-03

seriously i'll ON the 2Sth.
Captain Coghlan of the Raleigh lee
tured at the Boulder Chautauqua on
the battle of Manila last week.
Governor Thomas, in an address be-
fore the Boulder Chautauqua, con-
demned the present policy of the gov
ernment in relation to the Philippines.
The opening session of the Rocky
Mountain Medical Association began
on the 25th at Salt Lake when Presi-
dent Charles Pickney Hough of Salt
Lake called the meeting to order at
Salt Lake.
1t has been given out that August 1st
the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe rail-
road Will operate its trains direct to
Denver, via the Fort Worth & Denver
City roads track. The new deal will
} enable the Santa Fe to get into Den
yer at a saving Of nearly u thousand
miles.
John Doyle, engineer of the Garfield
Grouse mine. Cripple Creek, was car
fled OIL by twenty masked men at an
early hour Tuesday morning. The
victim. who was released after being
severely beaten, cannot or will not
give any reason for the treatment he
received.
The prize recruiting record is be-
lieved to be held by First Lieutenant
Max Luna of the Thirty fourth regi-
ment, who has in two days in Phoenix,
Arizona, enlisted fifty-two recruits for
his regiment. The men We're sent to
Fort Logan and We're given royal
send-off by the town people.
Simon Rodriguez was found at 3
O'Clock in the morning on the Pecos
Valley & Northeastern Railroad, near
Roswell, with three knife wounds in
his side and his two hands cut off
by switching engine running over
him. A Mexican was arrested on
suspicion of having committed the
crime.
The Santa Fe and the Colorado &
Southern have completed the time
schedule of passenger trains between
Denver and Pueblo. The new arrange
ments give the combined roads six
passenger trains n day each way.
Tickets of either Santa Fe or Colo
RADIO & Southern are good on the trains
of either road between Denver and
Pueblo.
County Attorney Putnam of Salt
Lake City has issued complaint,
charging Apostle Heber J. Grant of
the Mormon Church with unlawful CO.
habitation. The affidavit filed against
Grant by c. NJ. Owens. who is working
up these cases, charged Grant with
adultery, but County Attorney Putnam
did not think the evidence sufficient
to warrant prosecution under this
charge.
Leadville sportsmen have taken up
the cudgel against the Twin Lakes
Reservoir Company and will probably
bring a contest in the courts question
,tsr1,t to rnf IN.
on a meandering stream or to raise and
lower the water. The opinions OF sew
eral Denver and Leadville lawyers
have been obtained to the effect that
according to the federal statutes this
right is prohibited.
Colorado is threatened with another
passenger rate war, which may pOssi-
bly, assume the ruinOus proportions of
the famous conflict some five years ago
between the Denver & Rio Grande and
the Colorado Midland roads, when the
fare to all parts of the state was but %
cents. The impending conflict will be
between the same roads, and due to
the threat of the Rio Grande to put on
another fast rrain to Grand Junction.
The movement begun by the Sol
diers' Relatives Union of Denver to
bring the Denver volunteers home
from San Francisco free of cost to the
soldiers themselves is gaining ground
Funds of n similar nature have been
raised in Pueblo. Leadville and other
towns. A similar movement is now
on foot in Cripple Greek, and the city
council of that town has already ap-
proprlated $1,000 for the Relatives
Union of Cripple Creek to carry out its
project.
Canon City citizens now believe that
there is no question but that that town
will be the terminus of the Florence
4 Cripple Creek railroad. Railroad
men say that the Florence & Cripple
, Creek line will unquestiOnably build
the extension and that In reality 1t
is meant as a block to the Santa Fe,
which has contemplated building into
Cripple Greek for some time. The
committee from Canon City say the
line will be built, 1t believes, and in
operation within four months.
A dispatch from New York says:
President Trumbull of the Colorado Il
Southern Is said to have In his pos
session plans and surveys for the
building of short line from Denver
to Cri' pie Creek. Under the plans
the short line would connect with the
Colorado Midland, or in lieu of that
have 4 very close agreement with the
Florence IL Cripple Creek road, and
thus open up prolific country south
of tho Arkansas river. Mr.. Trumbull
is said to be warm advocate of
carrying the original plans to compile
ton now. rs the freight income would
be about 81 u ton for haul OF scarcely
$50 miles OIL an even grade.
st. Louis people have been in Spring
or, New Mexico. looking for u tract OF
land of 2O,0OC acres in one body. 1t Is
understood that they nre negotiating
with the Maxwell Land Grant Com
pany for that amount of land adjoining
tho ctfy IN thn north and nnst South.