Gilpin observer., 1900-11-29
COLORADO NOTES.

Congressman Shafroth has filed his
statement Of election expenses, which
shows that his reelection cost him
81, ,14O.
The new Odd Fellows building at
Ward was destroyed by fire November
24th. 1t was q fine building and cost
about $4,000.
Former State Treasurer Harry L.
MulniN is Seriously i'll with typhoid
fever In Denver. He was removed from
his residence to st. Lukes hospital.
A reward of 800 is offered by the
Modern Woodmen for the recovery of
the remains of John G. Riley, who fell
into Wersenham's lake, near Boulder.
The first snow plows called into use
IN Colorado this year We're sent to AL
pine pass on the Goth inst. by the Colo
RADIO Il Southern road Four feet of
snow was reported in places.
John ii. Bennett, deputy clerk of
vember 25th. Mr.. Bennett had been
sick for but a short time and was in
Denver for treatment.
The first issue of the Pueblo Even
ing Journal made its appearance. 1t
takes the place of the former Pueblo
Press, which plant was purchased by
the stock company issuing the Journal
Thomas f. Walsh, owner of the Camp
Bird mine, made but short stay in
Colorado and may not return again till
next spring. Mr.. Walsh and his wife
left Denver for Chicago n few days
ago.
In the case of Mrs. John Andrews,
who sued the city of Golden for $10,-
600 damages for injuries alleged to
have been received by falling off a
bridge in 1896, the jury brought in
verdict in favor of the city.
1t is positively asserted in Denver
that w. $. Stratton proposes to build
an immense business block next spring
on the corner of Seventeenth and Wei
ton streets at Il cost approXimating 81,
100000.
An alteration about wages led to n
shooting affray at Eldora on the 18th
inst, in which Manager Bailey of the
Enterprise mine was shot in the arm
by one of the miners who had come in
body to demand their pay.
The Boulder Fruit Growers Associ-
alton has ordered IL carload of berry
boxes for next years use, to be deliV-
cred in December. Two and perhaps
three additional carloads will be deliv-
cred later ou.
Herbert Kempton, Socialist Labor
candidate for regent of the State Uni
versity, has filed Il statement showing
that his entire campaign expenses
amounted to only 80 cents, and adds:
And deponent saith, not one cent
more"
While with group of children
around bonfire of dead leaves at the
corner of Eighth and Platte streets,
few days ago, the dress of four-year-
old Mary Bauer took fire and the little
one was burned so that she died of her
injuries.
The secretary of the interior has de-
MED the motion for ii review of the de-
partmental decision cancelling Walter
:. Cheeseman's entry of the Miller
placer claim. in the Denver land dis
trict. This claim is from thirty to fifty
feet wide and three miles long.
Alonzo Welty, the pioneer liveryman
of Cripple Creek, died November 26th
from the effects of injuries received by
him in a runaway on October Ith His
wife suffered mortal injuries at the
same time and expired on the same
day that the accident occurred.
A stranger by the name of Smith,
who had arrived only the night before,
fell into the big hot spring at Pagosa
Springs on the Dight of November
23rd and was foul , dead in the spring
the next morning. 1t is thought possi-
BILE that 1t was case of suicide.
Thomas +. Walsh of Colorado was
elected president of the National Irriga-
tion Congress at Chicago. Two meet
ings will be held next year, the first mt
Colorado Springs, Coloitdo, either just
before or just after the Transmissis
e.fy tlt..g .,t R,tf
falo in October, during the Pan Amer
lean Exposition in that city.
The Denver News says: Boulder
people are wondering what is the prop
er basis for calculating population
since equal suffrage came into the
state. Is half the population of such
Il county as Boulder entitled to vote
or was the recent federal census u hol-
low moCkery? The registration of the
county was 1920, and of this number
o,1G6 voted November 9Th. The pop
ulation of the county is given ut 21,-
544."
In his report on the public building
operations in the West the supervising
architect of the treasury says: THE
site of the Leadville postoflice has been
selected but further progress looking
to the erection of the building Is held
up awaiting an opinion from the attor-
ney general as to the validity of title.
Twelve thousand dollars is now COW
cred by contract liabilities, leaving
S12,919 actually available for interior
finish. There has been n total expendi-
ture on the Pueblo postoflice of $292,-
2SG and the available balance now ON
hand is $3.50.
Employment agents for the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Company are trying
new experiment in the matter of EN-
ployes at the steel works, says the Pu-
eblo Cheftain. They have recently
put twenty eight Greeks to work there,
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