Gilpin observer., 1901-07-18
COLORADO NOTES.

Ing ten-ton ice plant in Canon City.
State Treasurer Chipley of Pueblo
has purchased a residence in Denver.
The new Antlers hotel at Colorado
Springs will be run strictly on the
European plan.
correspondent estimates the proba-
bic value Of the beet sugar crop of
Bent county this year at $4,000.
Thomas Thompson, well-known resi-
dent of Gold Hill in Boulder county,
recently became insane and was taken
to the asylum at Pueblo.
The board of trustees of Eaton have
passed ordinances for the issuance of
bonds to the amount of $4,000 for put
ting in water works and 50 600 for cleo
trie lights.
Colorado is overf,owing with intellect
this month, Chautauqun assemblies,
tenchn:s' institutes and summer schools
being all in full blast in various parts
of the state.
A large working model of Cripple
Greek has been proposed as one of the
chief exhibits of this state at the st.
Louis Worlds Fair in 1903.
The directory publishers who have
just finished new directory for Pueb-
10, estimate the population at 1900.
The census of 1900 gave Pueblo pop
ulation of 2S,157.
The committee on new club build
ing for the Woman's Club of Denver
announce $1,000 on hand in the treas
ury of the club and $1,000 pledged on
subscriptions.
An automatic feeding headlight for
locomotives, invented and patented by
w. L. Waldron of Colorado Springs,
has been successfully tested on the
local street railways.
Superintendent of Fish Hatcheries
Holland recently went to Estes park to
put 25,OO0 young trout in the brooks of
that section. The fish were Matched in
the Denver hatchery.
The county commissioners of Bent
county have appointed committee OF
ten to arrange for county fair TO be
held at Las Animas in September A
liberal appropriation was also made.
The Northern Colorado Produce As
sociation met in Greeley and elected
the following directors for the ensuing
year: John Rankin, A. S. Mumper,
Dan Wallace, A. n. Lester, John Hop
kins.
G. w. James of Denver has been
chosen general secretary of the Y. Nj.
G. a. at Pueblo, after having made a re-
markably successful record as depart
ment secretary of the Denver assOcia-
ton.
Everett Burton, serving a ninety-day
sentence in the county Jail at Trinidad
for adultery, made his escape on the
Sth instant. He feigned illness and
was placed in the sick ward. From
there he made his escape.
The committee in charge of the hor-
ticulture show at the Festival of
Mountain and Plain at Denver has de-
cided to divide the state into the six
horticultural districts for the purpose
Of Offering sweep stake prizes.
Arapahoe county will take few Sc
lect boarders. 1t has agreed with Sher-
iff Adm Putnam of Elbert county to
keep in the Arapahoe county Jail such
prisoners as he cannot care for at home
at cost of 80 cents a day each.
Five new street cars patterned after
the convertible open and closed car.
which recently won n grand prize at
the Paris exposition. have been ordered
for the Colorado Springs railway and
will probably be in operation by Sep
tember LIST.
Two terrible accidents occurred on
the same day mt Pueblo on the 10th in
stant, from attempting to start fires
with kerosene oil. Mrs. Francisco Vid-
Mrs. SavereO Deldondo was taken to
the Pueblo hospital in apparently n dy-
ing condition.
One of the results of the building of
the Short Line from Colorado Springs
has been to bring about large in.
crease in tourist travel to the Cripple
Greek district. Among the visitors
have been n larcg number of Epworth
League delegates on their way to Cali.
fornia.
The Woman's Club OF Boulder has
requested that sewing be introduced
into the sixth. seventh and eighth
grades of the public schools. that tho
girls of these grades be required to
take instruction in this branch for one
hour per week and that some regular
teacher be engaged to give this in
Struction.
Henry Oxnard, vice president of the
American Sugar Beet Company. esti-
mates that the total yield of beet SUI
gar In Colorado for the year 1901 will
be 100000 sacks of 100 pounds each or
within 10000 sacks of sufficient
quantity to meet the entire demand of
Colorado for sugar during twelve
months.
1'he Denver News says that A. Il.
Carleton, president of the First Ma
tional Bank of Cripple Creek, Is the
Youngest sclf-mnde millionaire In the
world. He went to Cripple Creek In
1892 and worked as clerk for $50 n
month. He saved his money, got into
mining. and when thirty-four years of
age. could draw n check for seven fig
ures
Robert Weldon, representative from
Larimer county in the Thirteenth Gen
eral Assembly, was drowned on the ev-
cning of July 18Th In the Big Thomp-