Gilpin observer., 1900-12-13
COLORADO NOTES.

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Regular trains are now running to
Pagosa Springs over the Rio Grande,
| Pagosa u Northern new line.
The dairy stables of d. J. Horkan at
Leadville were burned ON the 9th inst.
and thirty-seven cows burned to death.
The receipts of the Pueblo Demo-
| cratic county committee We're $6,201. 80,
of which amount the candidates con-
tributed $3,69S.25.
The Lincoln county report to the sec
retary of state shows that only three
people received assistance from the
county in the past twelve months, cost
ing the commissioners $249.39.
Judge Charles Wright, formerly at
torney general of Colorado, died at
Tuscon, Arizona, of appendicitis, after
short illness. Mr.. Wright was at
torney general of Colorado in 1879 and
1850.
Il. A. Falkenburg, head consul of the
western jurisdiction of the Woodmen
of the World, has taken $1,000 to Gal
weston, Texas, donated by jurisdiction
for distribution among the storm suf-
ferers.
In the District Court at Telluride
Angelo Silver, convicted of assault
with intent to kill. was sentenced by
Judge Stevens to the penitentiary for
a term of not less than three nor more
than five years.
Engineer John R. McCune of Denver
was knocked off the cab of the Colo
RADIO Special, fast Union Pacific train,
near Atwood, December 4th, by mail
crane. His injuries are considered
likely to prove fatal.
The Democratic state central COM
mittee reports that its receipts during
the last campaign were S16,265 and its
expenditures SIG, 1915, leaving IA bal,
ance in the treasury of SI3.15. Cover
nor-Elect Orman contributed $1,000.
The Colorado & Canadian Valley
railroad is proposed new Cripple
Creek road. The line may be built
from Cripple Creek to a point on the
Red river, near the mouth of the Wa
shita river. The headquarters of the
| company are in El Reno, Oklahoma.
Governor C. s. Thomas is one of the
owners of a coal mine in southern Col
orado. The property is near the sta
ton of Pryor, on the line of the Colo
RADIO Il Southern, between Walsenburg
and Trinidad. Coal men predict Il good
shipper when the mine is fully opened.
| The corner stone of the new First
Presbyterian church at Canon City
| was laid December 9th. The building
will be of white stone and will cost
about $4,000. 1t will have Sunday
| school rooms, reception room. dining
room and kitchen of the most modern
and commodious style.
The contract for the new Carnegie
library at Grand Junction has been let
to ]. L. Stull for $4,696. 1t will be
erected on Il lot belonging to the Wo-
mans club, on Seventh street, and will
be of brick and stone and fireproof The
building will be started at once and is
! to be completed April 1st.
Calvin Mortimer of Walsenburg,
Colorado, was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for two years by Judge Mills at
Las Vegas, for taking $3.50 from Il
gambling table and sticking it in his
own pockets. He was also sentenced
to one year in the county Jail for con-
tempt of court. Mortimer had just
served term in the pen.
/. II. Robeson, manager of the Peli-
can. Dives, 7:30 and Bismarck mines,
as has been his custom for several
years past, gave to each employe on
the mine a turkey for Thanksgiving
Two hundred and twenty turkeys
were distributed, amounting in the ag-
gregate to over 5000 pounds.
The Denver & Rio Grande railroad
will send stockmen's special train to
the National Cattlemen's convention in
Salt Lake. The train will leave Den
yer at 9:30 the morning of January
18th, and will arrive in Salt Lake at
l 30 o'clock the next afternoon. The
fare will be SIS for the round trip.
The epidemic of typhoid fever in
Fort Collins as appreciably abating.
But few new cases have been report
ed during the last week and many of
those attacked with the disease at the
I outbreak have passed the critical stage
and are cOnvalescing. Up to this time
there have been but four fatal cases,
two of them being nonresident college
students. The other two were resident
school children.
Dr. Coltman, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of La Junta, re-
ceived message from his son, Robert
Coltman, Jr, at San Francisco, stat
ing that he and his wife and six chill
dren had just arrived from Pekin, Chi
ma, and that they would leave there
December 11th for La Junta. The doc
tor and his wife are overjoyed at the
thought that their children are safe in
n Christian land.
At its meeting In Santa Fe, Decem-
ber 9th, the Court of Private Land
Claims approved the corrected survey
of the Arroyo Hondo grant in Taos
county. 1t was claimed for $1,000
acres by Julian Martinez ct al. and is
confirmed for 20G29.3S acres. 1t is To-
Gated near Amizett. An order of the
court was entered amending the decree
of the confirmation af the Mesllla col
ony grant so as to define the bounda-
ries.
The Oldest man in the state died Mt
| Denver, December 9th, Mt the age of
1lp ynnrc and Y nnpthG His name