Gilpin observer., 1900-05-17
DOINGS AT DENVER.
Items Of Interest From tho City and ths
State Capitol.

Hill with down town. will be an es-
tablished fact in q short time. j. ID.
Whitmore, president of the company,
has announced that the vehicles had
been ordered and were expected to be
sent soon. The route Of the line is out
Sixteenth street to Broadway, up Six
teenth avenue to Logan avenue. on Lo-
gan avenue to Eighth avenue, and up
the asphalt thoroughfare to Humboldt
street A fiye-cent fare will be
charged.
MIR. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond
left Wednesday afternoon for the
Mancos canon, where they will go into
camp for the purpose of giving the cliff
dwellings thorough exploration.
They will stay just rs long rs they find
1t interesting. Mrs. Hammond it deep
ly interested in the question of the
origin of the ancient pottery makers
or the canon, and spent the last two
afternoons of her stay in Denver dis
cussing the subject with Professor
Matteson, who lectured on the subject
at the High school Monday night
Two annual conventions of labor men
/ went into session mt Odd Fellows hall
on the 18th One is the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners, of which Edward
Boyce is president, and the other the
Western Labor Union, the head of
which is Daniel Mcdonald of Butte,
Montana. The delegates to the two
gatherings met in joint session during
the morning and to this the public was
admitted, but in the afternoon both got
/ down to active business in separate
halls in the same building, only the del
egateS being given entrance to the pro-
ceedings.
1t will be at least n week before the
South Park line of the Colorado &
Southern is in operation through Platte
canon, Superintendent Dyer estimating
that 1t will require that time to COM
plete repairs of the damages caused by
the flood of the Goose creek dam over
flow. Five thousand additional sacks
of sand We're shipped to the canon,
making 22,OO0 used to make an en-
bankment TO divert the course of the
river from the new path that it selected
for itself after the flood. and send 1t
back to where it formerly flowed. A
pile driver was also sent up, to drive
piles for n temporary bridge that will
span the worst part of the washout.
Officials of the railroads interested
express no doubt that the sale of the
Colorado Midland will be completed be-
tween May 18th and June 18th. The
transfer books for voting trust certifi-
rates will close next Friday and will
remain closed for one month. Already
majority of the stockholders has sig.
nified approval and there remains only
some stock held in England to be heard
from. The trustees are empowered to
make the sale. The stock will pass in.
to the control of the Colorado & South
crn and the Rio Grande Western rail-
roads The nrpfprrpl Stacl, will soil
for $50 share and the common stock
for $3.50. There is no probability now
that the Denver x Rio Grande will ac-
qure any interest in, much less a con
trol, of the Midland stock. but it will
pass to the owners of the two railroads
named.
The Court of Appeals rendered sever.
al decisions on the 18th. rehearing
of the test cast against Dolph Dome
dian, accused of violating the wine
room ordinance, was refused. The ju-
dicial finding was that if the ordinance
WIS construed as the city of Denver
claimed it should he even the hotels
would have hard task in keeping
from violating it. The building of IA
county court house in Alamo square or
Acacia park, in Colorado Springs, will
not be permitted. The county commits
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on public square, and several citizens
brought suit to restrain them from so
doing on the ground that these squares
had been dedicated for use as public
parks and after twenty-nine years ser
vice as such could not be diverted from
the original use to which they had been
put The decision of the FL PasO court
is reversed.
IN
role of peacemakcr in the Colorado Ma.
tonal Guards quarrel, and with the
cooperation of Colonel Edward Yer.
deckberg is endeavoring to put an end
TO the petty pickering in the guard
with this end in view he has disposed
OF the Hobson court martial by making
n compromise between Charles s. Hob
son. the lieutenant who was tried, and
the members of the court martial
board. This court martial board, Col.
onel Nerdeckberg being the only one to
vote against the finding. voted that
Lieutenant IIobson. for cheating at his
examinations and for using unbecOm.
Ing language concerning his superior
officers, should be dismissed from the
service. Governor Thomas has ordered
that because of mitigating circum.
stances, Lieutenant HObsOn should not
he dismissed from the service, but
should be suspended from duty as lieu.
tenant for six months from date, nj
the end of which time he will agnin
assume his post as the third officer In
command of Company G.
A special to the Republican from
Cripple Creek says: A new batch of
sales of mining claims in the Poverty
Gulch section has become public
through the recording of deeds. -Four
groups that will fit into the big combi-
nation hav just changed owners, and
the supposed purchasers are easily
traced TO w. s. Strntton. These com.