Gilpin observer., 1899-05-11
BLACK HAWK.

Miss Lena Klein, who has been visit.
ing Golden friends, has returned home.
Miss Mary Schooner of this city, is
/ visiting friends in this city.
Walter E. Scott, of the Black Hawk
bakery, left for Denver on short bust.
ness trip last Monday afternoon.
AL. Chamberlain, of Chamberlain &
Co.'s Sampling works, this city, left for
Denver Tuesday morning. He returned
the same evening.
The chief Of the Black Hawk fire de-
partment has ordered call for the fire.
men to turn out next Saturday at 80 p.
m. for inspection,
Mrs. Phoebus of Barry, Illinois, ar
rived last Thursday and will visit with
her daughter Mrs. Hornbeck on Swede
hill.
There was shipped to the Denver
smelters from this city between May l
and 8th, 81 cars of ore and stamp mill
concentrates.
County Clerk and Recorder ]. s. Up
degraff and County Treasurer Christie.
pher Trezise took Monday afternoons
passenger train here for Denver, called
there on business.
Charley Sheer, OF the firm OF Robins
& Sheer, grocery merchants Of this city,
was summoned to Denver Monday
through the illness of his sister. He left
nm tho afternoop train
Miss Loretta Doran, Of Central, Mrs.
j. v. Kimber and daughter, Miss Vernon,
left Denver last Monday for Santa Bar
bara, California. The two latter ladies
have been visiting the family of Bene-
dict Kimber, this city.
Mrs. B. Kelley Of the Colorado Ho use.
has sold out to Mrs. Anna Kearn of Den
yer. Possession was given last Thurs
day. Mrs. Kelley after closing up her
business matters here will leave for Hot
Springs, Arkansas, to try the properties
of the springs for rheumatism.
Captain W. B. Jenness, superintendent
of the Village Belle mine at Eldora.
Boulder county, came up from Denver
Monday morning. After attending to
business here and in Central City. he re-
turned to the state capital on the after
noon train.
John Keyes, Of the Gilpin Stamp Mill
company, this city, who was summoned
to Kansas Though the illness OF his
aged mother some two weeks ago, re-
turned last Friday. She was greatly i'm
proved and thought to be past the criti-
cal point when he left on his return.
The stamp mills of the city were drop
ping their usual number OF stamps on
Monday, as follows: Hidden Treasure 50,
Meade 40, Polar Star 40, Eagle 30, Bob
tail 80, Gilpin so, New York 70, Ran
dolph SO, Penn 40, Iron City 25; total
400. The Rocky Mountain Concentra-
ton works, State Ore and Chamberlain
Sampling works and the Alsdorf works
were also working. Taking in connec-
tion with the thirty rapid drop stamp
mill at Perigo, the total number Of
stamps dropping last Monday in the
county gives total Of $40 stamps. or
these the Randolph, Polar Star, Meade
and the Hidden Treasure were being run
by water power.
An Omaha press telegram OF May 6
announces the death in that city of Will
lam r. Bowen, one OF the best known
Masons in the west, the morning OF that
day, he having committed suicide by
shooting himself in the head. He was
the father of Masonry in Nebraska, and
was well known throughout the entire
west. He was married in Omaha num-
Der of years ago to Miss Lila Storrs,
whose PARENTS, Mr. and Mrs. Charles p.
Storrs, came to Colorado in 1860 from
Elkhorn, Nebraska, locating at Missouri
City, and in 1862 removed to Black
Hawk, where they resided until June,
1865, when they left for Boston, Mass,
and later on returned to Omaha, where
Mrs. Storrs is still residing.