Gilpin observer., 1900-09-06
COLORADO NOTES.

seSu twenty lulleS east Oh OeuNeI.
The pioneers of Washington county
held reunion at Akron on the 3rd.
Albert w. Durkee of the Greeley Ma
tional Bank has been appointed post
master.
The horse show will be held at Den
yer October 3rd and 4th. A great
many entries have been announced al
ready.
There are at least five new creamery
enterprises soon to be started in Colo
rado. The industry continues to grow
slowly but surely.
William Barager, n cook, shot and
killed Alvina Bollen at Denver Mon
day becouse she had refused longer to
receive his attentions.
1t is announced that Florence will
very soon have an automobile factory
A large two-stOry structure will be
commenced in about two weeks for
factory building.
new rural delivery route has been
established at Rocky Ford. to be thirty
-FOUR miles long and cover an area of
1orty-eight square miles. Eugene w.
Shelton has been appointed carrier.
Colorado built 100 miles of the 2,11O
miles of railroad constructed in the
United States in the first six months of
this year. This does not include sew
eral lines now in course of construction
which, when finished, will bring Colo
RADIO well up in the list of states that
are building railroads.
The thirty y-eighth annual session of
the Colorado Methodist Episcopal
Church convened in Salida on the 2Sth,
ana there Is large attendance of min
listers and great interest in several
items of business to come before the
conference. notably the University of
Denver and the deaconness work of the
state.
The second series of fires which has
threatened Leadville within a week oc-
CURED on the 2nd, and came near wip-
ing out the little suburb of Stringtown,
where the smelter people live. 1t was
only through the excellent work of the
Arkansas Valley smelter that the town
was saved. The houses are all frame,
built in n row, and there is no water.
The Arkansas valley people stretched
hose about 500 yards and put their
pumps to work. The damage was $S,-
600 or $4,000.
Spencer Dicks, who murdered Orville
Miner, near Castle Rock on Sunday
night, drove into Rocky Ford Tuesday
night, put his horse in n livery stable
and sent telegram to the officers at
Castle Rock to come and arrest him.
He said he might go to the penitentiary
but could stand no longer the life he
had led since Sunday night. Dicks was
completely exhausted, and after send
ing the telegram he registered at the
st. James hotel under his own name
and fn ha1 Ia carrin1 tIyn ra-
volvers.
The State Board of Health, under the
direction of Secretary Tyler, is prepar-
ing tabulation of deaths and the
causes leading to these deaths. These
figures show that for the first six
months of this year 7S6 more males
than females died. According to the
school census of Arapahoe county the
male children of school age number
1854, while the females number 49,
515, or 661 more than the males. The
other counties of the state establish
the same general proportion, which
gives Colorado many more girls than
boys.
For the fourth time within seven
days another bad blaze occurred at
Leadville on the Bird. The fire occur
red at the X. A. NJ. shaft of the Small
Hopes Mining Company. This is one
of the finest surface plants in the
camp, and the shaft is one of the heav-
lest producers in the district. For n
time 1t appeared as If the entire place
would be wiped out, but after a severe
struggle the miners succeeded in get
ting control of the flames, keeping the
damage down to about $4,000. The X.
A. NJ. shaft is located in Graham park.
1t is owned and operated by the Small
Hopes Mining Company and is one of
the deepest shafts of the district.
A ten-pound hammer slipped from
the hands of Marshall coal miner, n
contestant in n program of field sports
at Boulder lake last Sunday after
noon, and stove in the face and frac-
tured the skull of A. C. Edison, agent
of the Colorado x Southern railway at
Marshall Mr.. Edison died during the
night. Mr.. Edison was n spectator,
and standing at n distance of thirty
feet from the ring when he was struck.
Two feet from him stood William
Thoreau Of Denver. The handle of the
hammer hit Mr.. Thoreau, cutting
deep cash on the forehead and bruis-
ing him severly. In the excitement the
hammer thrower, n coal miner of Mar
shall, left the grounds and cannot be
found.
The Transcontnental Passenger As
ISOLATION Is now an assured fact. The
general passenger agents who have
been in session at Glenwood since last
Thursday morning concluded their Ia
bors Monday, and the results 20 to the
presidents and managers of the re-
spcctive lines, who meet In New York
City September 18th. There appears
to he no doubt in the minds Of the
agents but that their work Will be rat
flied by their superior officers. The
scope of the organization covers all
passenger traffic west of the Missouri
river destined to California points only.
The business to the northern coast