Gilpin observer., 1901-12-19
COLORADO NOTES.

Admiral Dewey has become the owner
Of a lot in Denver.
Colorado Springs capitalists talk Of
building q summer concert hall at La
Vergne, q new suburb just south Of
Colorado City, =
The Brighton Vegetable Growers
Association has been organized by the
gardeners living in the Platte valley
near Brighton.
Michael Ambro, aged eighty-four,
was struck by freight train and in
stantly killed at Colorado Springs on
the 18th instant.
Holyoke people now ''hello" on q new
telephone line which they hope to have
connected with the long-distance line
before long.
Hosea Townsend of Colorado has
been reappointed judge of the United
States Court (Southern district) Of In
dian Territory.
The City Council of Victor refused
to grant a license for a saloon in the
Richilieu hotel on account of it being
close to church.
The butchers Of Florence have or
ganized to combat an alleged traffic in
horse flesh, which, it is asserted, is be-
Judge ]. L. Semmes, adjutant of the
department of Colorado Patriarchs
Militant, I. o. o. F., died suddenly at
Colorado Springs on the 18th instant
Of heart failure.
The Railway Mems Cooperative
Supply Association will start COOP
erative store in Denver with a cash
capital of $4,000. G. NJ. Hubert is
president of the association.
The enrolment of students at the
State Agricultural College, Fort Col
Inns, has reached 42S. This is the larg-
est number registered at single
term in the history Of the institution.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has just completed an extension of its
lines from Livermore, Larimer county,
to st. Cloud, distance of twenty
miles, where it reaches an important
cattle section.
Thomas Preston Brooke, a Chicago
man, is said to be planning n telescope
that will, he predicts, bring the moon
to an apparent distance of only eight
miles from the earth. He proposes to
build an observatory for it on the top
Of Gray's peak, Colorado.
Lawrence Hex, a negro, ON trial at
Pueblo for the murder of Lizzie Alley
and William White. both colored, was
found guilty by the jury, who also
agreed upon the death penalty. His
was the first murder trial in the Pueblo
courts since the enactment Of the CAPT.
tai punishment law.
Members of the Denver Restaurant
Keepers Association have devised
scheme to buy farm and raise onions
on cooperative plan for use in their
restaurants. The farm, it is said,, will
soon be purchased. Every kind of ta-
BILE delicacy that may come under the
head Of vegetables will be raised.
A. R. Gumaier, purchaser of the Por-
ter stock of thoroughbred horses in
Denver, last week, is preparing to
build a race track on his land south Of
Florence and will also put up fine sta
bles. He has already fenced in several
thousand acres. The animals will ar
rive soon. They were purchased at a
cost Of $4,000.
The recent death of Rev. B. NJ. Ad-
ans at Canon City has attracted con-
siderable attention throughout the
state. Mr.. Adams was eighty-four
years of age and established the Bap-
tist church in Fort Bent, Laveta and
Durango. He travelled all over the
southwestern part of the state in the
early days, before there were any
roads, making his trips in the saddle.
The Colorado State Grange, of the or
der of the Patrons of Husbandry, will
meet in Twenty-eighth annual session
in Lincoln hall, No. 1415 Larimer
street, Denver, on Tuesday, January
14th, at 10 O'Clock a. m., and continue
In session three days or until the busi-
hess Of the meeting shall be concluded.
The fifth and sixth degrees of the Or
der will be conferred Wednesday even.
ing, January 18th.
A party Of distinguished steel mag
mates visited Pueblo on the 18th In
stant, among whom were John w.
Gates Of Chicago, Colonel John Lam.
bert, Chairman ]. @. Osgood of the
board of directors; President J. A.
Kebler, ]. J. Mitchell, president of the
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank,
and ]. =. HutchIns of the Illinois Loan
and Trust Company. They refused to
be interviewed on subjects pertaining
to the @. F. & I. Company.
The Colorado Fur and Feather As
ISOLATION has secured Coliseum hall,
Denver, in which to hold its annual
exhibition, January 1918, 1902. The
exhibit will consist Of all varieties of
poultry, cats, pigeons, canaries, rabbits
and cage birds, and promises to sur
pass even the large display of last
year. Entries are being made from all
portions of the state. The association
pays expressage both ways upon all
state entries amounting to $3.50 or
over.
A telegram has been received Mt
Cripple Creek by Secretary Arthur
Francis Of the Transmississlppi Con-
gress from Governor Prince OF New
Mexico, chairman Of the congressional
committee of the congress, announcing
that headquarters have been opened in
the Ebbitt house, Washington, and re-
questing that copies of the proceed