Gilpin observer., 1899-08-17

| Inc union men of Durango held a
big picnic the other day.
| Trinidad is to have city park ad-
Joining the Santa Fe depot.
The Flower Carnival at Colorado
Springs will be held August 31st.
The Pueblo smeltermen decided Mon
day to follow the example of the Den
| yer men and declared the strike off.
The Cryptic Masons have been hold
| Ing initiation ceremonies on the top Oh
| Pixies peak.
+. J. Burke of Denver was killed on
the Pixies peak trail the other day,
| through falling over a precipice near
Lake Moraine.
The Santa Fe shops at Albuquerque
are to be increased in size so as to
| give employment to several hundred
additional men.
A voluntary petition in bankruptcy
has been filed at New York by Donald
Fletcher. general broker, with S217,-
AS liabilities, all but S51, 900 contract
ed in Denver, Colorado, in 1S92-93; no
assets.
The closing day of the Texas-Colo-
RADIO Chautauqua comprised the bril-
liant sermon by the Rev. j: Il. Nugent,
of Des Moines, Iowa, on the afternoon
of the 18th. and the grand miscellan-
eouS concert under the direction of
John Baer in the evening.
Mrs. Sylvanus Budd, wife of
wealthy farmer and stock raiser, COM
-mitted suicide by ineinerating herself
at her home near Nj Wot, Colorado, on
the 18th. 1t is supposed that her mind
had become unbalanced by protract-
ed Illness from which she had suffered.
An enterprising landholder in Du-
range county offers 160 acres Of land
to the man who raises this season the
best display of beets, showing the
largest per cent of sugar; and Dave
Day throws up his hat and hurrahs
because he started the sugar beet boom
over there. ..
Active steps are being taken in Wyo-
ming looking to the returning home of
the volunteers in a special train fur
nished by the citizens of the state. En-
tertainments are being given in all of
the larger towns and private subscrip-
tions are being added to they money
thus raised toward deiraying the ex-
penses of the returning soldiers.
The Thirty-f6urth regiment is filed.
No more recruits will be taken and the
enlistment has ceased. The recruiting
officers have been called in. The sub
stations are closed and the regiment is
filed and there are nearly fifty men to
spare. Lieutenant Howe, who COM
mands the regiment pending the COM
ing of Colonel Kennon, will begin ut
once to fill each company and the next
move will be to weed out undesirable
men. The men who are discharged
| will be replaced.
A bold jail delivery occurred at the
Albuquerque Jail ON the 18th. Jailer
Schaffer ordered his assistant to put
the prisoners in the cells and lock them
up for the night. He had just entered
the corridor of the cells when he was
overpowered by n number of prisoners.
-Four of the worst criminals escaped
through the building and out of the
front gate, among the lot being Joso
Ruiz, who shot and killed a little boy in
this city last year. and another muir
derer. Ruiz was wounded and captured.
w. Il. kirkpatrick of Durango has
started out with 100000 young trout
to distribute in the public streams of
Colorado free of cost to the state and
the people. He propagated the fish at
his own hatchery at an outlay of about
$4,000 His outfie consists of half II
dozen men and pack train and he Is
now planting the public lakes and
streams of the Durango section. The
fish are carried in cans strapped across
| the horseS's backs.
Word has been received of the break
| ing of the tie boom across the Platte
river at Fort Steele and the loss of
1000 railroad cross ties. The boom
and ties are the property of ]. C. Tel
| Ter, who has been cutting thousands
| of ties on Brush creek and floating
them down the Platte river to Fort
| Steele. 1t is possible that some of the
ties will be recovered further down
stream, but the loss will be consider
able, amounting to upwards of $1,000
| Big floods visited western Grant
county. in the Sacton section, New
| Mexico, last week. A man named
Piper was drowned. Much loss was
sustained by Fred Goldng. who has
n sawmill at the head of Sacton river.
Six cows were killed by lightning. The
cattle We're ranging near the ID. g. Nc
MILAN ranch. and during the storm
drifted in bunch to wire fence.
| The lightning struck the fence close
by and the shock killed six out OF the
lot.
| An official of the UniCn Pacific states
that when the new cut-offs. now build
Ing between Laramie and Dana sta.
tions, on what Is known as the Sixth.
or Laramie-R -Rawlins district. are com
| pleted, the old track, instead of being
torn up or abandoned, will be used In
connection with the new cut-offs. This
will give the Union Pacifc double
track for distance of about fifty
miles and will greatly expedite the
work of handling trains over this part
| of the Wyoming division
| The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Vindstrum, Norwegians. while out on