Gilpin observer., 1900-12-20
COLORADO NOTES.

at Hillrose, Morgan county, with Aug
ust Ballot as postmaster.
1t Is stated that the Great Western
Construction Company will build beet
sugar factory at Denver
A Denver firm of undertakers offers
TO bury the paupers of ArapahOe coun-
ty at the rate of 100 for 1 cent.
A movement is on foot at Glenwood
Springs to organize Il home company
and run prospecting tunnel into one
OF the mountains near the city.
The Bazaar dry goods store on Ben
nett avenue, in Cripple Creek, was bur-
glarized on the morning of December
18th, and from 500 to $1,000 worth of
furs We're stolen.
The Baxter shaft house, belonging to
the Utica mine at Ward, was burned
December 18th, together with consid-
cradle valuable machinery, the loss ap-
proximating $1,5OO.
The Eaton school has opened again,
after being closed n week on account
of scarlet fever. There are no new
cases in the district, and the few cases
were of IL mild form.
The tenth annual catalogue of the
State Normal School shows a total en-
rollment of SAG students at the institu-
ton, 234 being in the training depart
ment and 312 in the normal school pro-
per.
The buttermakers have succeeded in
securing their one-way rate to the ma
tional meeting of butter-makers to be
held in st. Paul, February 19th-2Sth.
The rate will be one fare for the
round trip.
The gun that wasn't loaded in the
hands of Frank Cox, ten-year-old boy
living near Glenwood Springs, shot his
little brother in the head, going through
an ear and circling around the base of
the skull and inhicting Il dangerous
wound.
The Board of Health of Fowler is
sued an order on the 11th instant clos
ing the schools on account of scarlet
fever. One case was under quarantine.
All children are also required to bring
certificates of vaccination when they
re-enter school,
Fifteen horses were burned to death
and three more injured beyond recov-
cry in fire that restroyed the stables
of the City Package Delivery Express
Company, in the rear of No. 1874
Champa street. Denver, on the night
of December 18th.
The discovery of nineteen-foot vein
of good coal near the surface is report
ed from Huerfano canon at IL point for
ty miles from any mine now opened in
Huerfano county. 1t is near the line
of railroad proposed by the Denver and
Rio Grande from Walsenburg to Silver
Cliff.
Everything seems to have risen this
year, even the thermometer. Up to
December 18th the weather bureau ut
Denver reports an excess of tempera-
ture amounting to eighty-seven degrees
since the first of the month and SCI
degrees since the beginning of the
year.
John Craig. forty-one years of age,
went to County Physician Harry G.
Brown in Denver for a prescription to
control his thirst. From quart to
two quarts of whisky and thirty glasses
of beer per diem is about Craig's av-
erage capacity, according to his own
account.
Scenery and climate are among the
most valuable assets of Colorado. This
fact is shown by the annual report of
the Western Passenger Association. a
total of PITTS tickets having been en-
changed at Denver, Colorado Springs
and Pueblo from May LIST to October
81, 1900.
A stock company has been organized
at Fort Lupton for the purpose of erect
ing n condensed milk plant to he oper-
ated by o. Il. Frink of the Silver State
Creamery Company. The capitaliza-
tion will be $4,000. This will be the
only condensed milk plant west of the
Mississippi river.
The Supreme Court has sustained the
right of the state to assess the ears 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 test suit.
John Tipton living about seven miles
southwest of Elbert. had his right
hand crushed entirely Off at the wrist
I in n hay balcr. lie bandaged the
wound and rode to Elbert in n lumber
wagon to reach n doctor. He is man
of family, aged about fifty years.
In the State Normal School at Gree
ley, as shown in the report of Presi-
dent Snyder there are 300 pupils in the
normal department and 30 in the
training school department.. a steam
| heating plant Is said to be n necessity
and $4,000 Is asked for this work. In
addition $4,000 Is requested for main
tenance. A new wing is said to be
needed and $4,000 is desired for this.
At Lake City, on the night of De
ccmber 18th. Jim Harrison got into an
alteration in n saloon with Dick Price,
colored, whom he accused of setaling
provisions from a 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.
u. NJ. Henderson. the absconding
assistant cashier of the First National