Gilpin observer., 1900-12-27
COLORADO NOTES.

1t Is stated that the Great western
Construction Company will build beet
sugar factory at Denver.
A movement is on foot at Glenwood
Springs to organize home company
and run prospecting tunnel into one
OF the mountains near the city.
The Teller County Bar Association
| gave banquet in the National hotel
in Cripple Creek on the night of De-
cember 22nd. Covers were laid for 100.
The state engineers report shows
the Taylor state road will be a great
beneAt to the state when completed.
Already $27 900 has been spent on this
thoroughfare.
The Bazaar dry goods store on Ben
nett avenue, in Cripple Greek, was bur
glarized on the morning of December
18th, and from $7OO to $1,000 worth of
furs were stolen.
The Eaton school has opened again,
after being closed week on account
of scarlet fever. There are no new
cases in the district, and the few cases
were of a mild form.
Teller county paid out during the
past year $1,33O for Kelley cure to
drunkards, making total expenditure
for poor of $S,063.12. Lake county's
The Hoffman Milling Company is
erecting n new 100-sack merchant
Touring mill in Fort Collins. 1t is To-
Gated three-fourths of Il mile south
east of the postotiice and will be driv-
| en- by water power
Florence men have incorporated in
the office of the secretary of state. The
Florence Labor Union Building Asso-
citation. The capital is $4,000, and
the building will be used for headquar-
ters of all labor unions of Florence.
John Upton, living about seven miles
southwest of Elbert, had his right
hand crushed entirely off at the wrist
in a hay baler. He bandaged the
wound and rode to Elbert in lumber
wagon to reach doctor. He is man
of family, aged about fifty years.
John Matthews, the man who at
tempted to rob the Boss saloon on East
Bennett avenue. Cripple Creek. last
fall, and who shot the bartender. has
/ been sentenced by Judge Harris to an
indeterminate term in the Buena Vista
reformatory to not exceed fifteen years.
In the criminal court at Denver yes
terday the case of William w. Ander-
son, who shot Fred Bontils and ii. II.
Tammen, proprietors of the Post. came
up on the 10Th inst. for a second trial.
but on motion of defendants counsel
postponement was taken until the next
term.
The Rev. Thomas A. Uzzell. who
has for years done Il magnificent work
in the slums of Denver, appeals to the
public for funds to complete his new
tabernacle on which S27, 300 has al
ready been expended. The sum of S5,-
900 is needed to complete present con-
tracts.
The contract for building twenty-five
miles of railway from Trinidad up the
Purgatoire river was awarded by the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company to
the nrm of Orman & Crook, of which
the governor-elect is a member. The
road is mainly built for the transport
tation of lumber.
The Supreme Court has sustained the
right of the state to assess the cars of
foreign corporations doing business in
this state, and thus upheld the State
Board of Equalization, which has as
sumed to take the action questioned by
the American Refrigerator Trainsit
Company as a test suit.
j. ]. Lumsden, a Grand Junction
contractor. has been awarded the con-
tract to erect the new school building
at the Teller institute. The building
will be one of the handsomest among
the group when completed. 1t will be
built of brick and stone two stories
high. The contract price is $4,000.
Brighton and Fort Lupton are rivals
in Offering sites for n condensed milk
factory. A meeting was held in
Brighton recently and the company
that proposes to build the factory was
asked to wait until January 10Th for II
final offer from Brighton. A commit
tee of twelve was appointed. each
member of which will try TO raise $3.50.
George NJ. Huskins, for twelve years
associated with Frank c. Goudy in the
conduct of the affairs of the Rio
Grande Valley Land Company and kin
dred companies. and who had served
as treasurer and deputy clerk in Mesa
county and deputy auditor of state,
died in Denver December 18th, of con
sumption. He leaves Il wife and five
children.
At Lake City. on the night of De
cember 18th. Jim Harrison got into an
alteration in saloon with Dick Price.
colored, whom he accused of setaling
provisions from II cabin. Harrison
stabbed Price in the breast and arm.
and when the city marshal. G. w.
Smeltzer, tried to arrest Harrison the
latter stabbed Smeltzer five times in
the abdomen. Harrison was arrested.
The report of State Engineer A. ].
McCune shows that 1,5O0.O00 acres of
land are under ditch in this state and
are now being irrigated and that with
the bitches now in existence 100000
more acres can be irrigated than at
present. A total of 10000 miles of
| bitches Is to be found in Colorado,
which is just double the mileage OF
six years ago. This shows wonder
full advance in the work OF irrigation