Gilpin observer., 1900-02-22
DOlNGS AT DENY ER.
Items of Interest From the city and the
state Capitol.

The western railway olnclaiS H''' =
decided that unlocked baggage shan
not he checked. This means that teie-
scopes and bundles must he sealed, or
secured in some manner to conform 70
checking regulations. Claims for heavy
losses are the causes of this decision.
The State Supreme Court will be ask
ed to decide whether students in the
State School of Mines are entitled To
vote in Golden. The question comes to
the court through the contest in JET
ferson county between William IL. Bar
rick and John Nichols for the office of
sheriff
The county commissioners intend fol-
lowing the suggestions made by the
grand jury. Plans are already being
laid for the construction of a building
for the accommodation of the insane ut
the county hospital. The board will
soon award the contract to the lowest
bidder. The structure will accommo-
date about 100 patients.
The annual oratorical contest be-
tween representatives of the University
of Colorado. the University of Denver
and Colorado College. was held Friday
night. The awards were as follows:
First place-Omar T.. Garwood, Uni
versity of Colorado, Boulder: second
place-Wayne c. Williams. University
of Denver; third place-.I. Vaughan
Sickman, University Gt Colorado. Boul-
der.
Adjutant General Overmeyer and
the whole force of his Office have been
mailing to all parts of the world
bronze medals and certificates of SER
vice to soldiers that served in the First
Colorado regiment and other organiza-
tions enlisted in this state for the Span
ish-American war. Nearly 1000 of
each We're mailed. and as many more
remain to be sent out as soon as the en-
gravers have completed their work.
One of the most disastrous fires in
| the history of Denver occurred in the
Boettcher block, Nos. 1888 543 WaZee,
street early Saturday morning, causing
damage estimated at from S14O,O0O to
S1SO,OOO. The greater part of this loss
is covered by insurance. Six firemen
who We're on a ladder sixty or seventy
feet from the ground had II narrow es-
cape from instant death when a huge
piece of galvanized iron cornice with
about three feet of brick wall fell up
on the ladder. smashing it in two
places. The men escaped by springing
into windows. from which smoke and
fiames were pouring.
4 special dispatch from Grand juno
tion to the Republican says: Kidnapped
by four desperadoes who forced her
husband to keep quiet by forcing a gun
in his face and drove her two children
into their wagon at the point of a re-
volver. Rescued after hard ride of
sixty miles over rough roads, with the
stolen horses most of the time on the
run. This is. in brief. the experience
or Mrs. John Cooper, wife of n ranch
man living near Bovine. Mesa county.
Not shot was fired, either at the kid
naping or in the capture of the four
desperadoes who tried to break up the
Cooper family. They are believed to
be members of the gang Of robbers who
nave been operating in the La Sal
mountains.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
grand jury declared last week that the
gambling and saloon laws are not vio-
lated. the district attorney has filed in
formations against a large number of
men for breaking the law, and says
that he has ample evidence to convict
Gamblers are charged with operating
in some Of the big office blocks and
largest hotels. Evidence against them
was secured by Rev. II. A. Chase and
other officers of the Anti-Saloon
League. 1t is now charged that one or
more of the grand jurymen are inter
ested in saloons or own buildings Oc-
that some of the jurymen violated their
oaths in voting against indictments
was evidently shared by Judge Butler,
who made some sarcastic remarks to
the jury when it reported. Nearly ev-
cry minister in the city preached upon
the subject last Sunday.
A petition to Congress asking that n
tract of public land be set aside sufii-
cient to reimburse the state for Beech
Isl H.
required by the Beecher Island Me
mortal Association will be sent to Wash
ington this week. The State Land
Board has agreed to deed the land re-
quired by the association. provided Con
grcss will give IA like tract of public
land to the state. Representative
Shafroth will introduce the bill in
congress 1t is the purpose to create
II park and erect on the little sand is
land in the Arickaree river in the east
end of Arapahoe county Il monument
In memory of General George A. For
syth and his fifty followers, who. in
September. 1869, withstood for eight
days the siege of Chief Roman Nose
and nearly one thousand braves.
From September 18th to 26th
the white men held in check
the army of savage warriors. There
was inccssnnt lighting during which
only five of the besieged white men
We're killed. although they inflicted
heavy LOSSES upon the Indians. The
indians had been gathering in the
country for several weeks. Their de-
predntlons were directed against the
settlers on the plains aud General For
syth learned that lO3 settlers had
been masSncrcd, when he set out with
II company of fifty scouts to drive the
Indians out of the country. He had
undcrcsiimatod the strength of CHIEF
Roman Nose. and before he could re
treat To Fort Wallace was surrounded,
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