Gilpin observer., 1901-10-24
COLORADO NOTES.

| laDOr organizations are arranging TO
unionize the laborers in the beet sugar
| factories.
Thirty-three building permits have
been issued since April list by the city
! clerk of Longmont, and the estimated
cost of their construction was placed
at $4,000.
| Nearly n quarter of a million dollars
was distributed on the 10Th instant at
the Minnequa steel works in Pueblo
among the employees of the institution
and the men angaged in doing contract
work there.
Carl Wulsten, field director at Silver
Cliff, Is to prepare, among other exhib-
It's for the st. Louis exposition, plas-
ter of paris model of the volcanic re-
gion of Custer county, as an adjunct to
the mineral display.
The secretary of the interior has af-
firmed the action of the general land
office dismissing the protest Of James
@. Weller against the homestead entry
of James s. Clark Of a tract in the
Montrose land district.
| The First National Bank of Victor
has opened a subscription list in aid of
the memorial fund for the late Presi-
dent of the United States, William Nc
Kinley. Seven hundred and seventy
dollars in cash has been subscribed.
| The county commissioners of Pueblo
county have disposed of sixty tons of
alfalfa. the product of the poor farm,
at $6.25 n ton. The hay crop has been
good and is in large measure helping
to defray the expenses of the poor
farm.
] A new shipping station has been es-
abolished two and half miles north
| of LOngmont on the Colorado & South
! ern. 1t is called Boettcher, in honor of
the president of tne Loveland sugar
/ factory, and was put in for the accom-
mediation of the beet raisers.
Lafayette Durkee. Denver man, is
introducing his mining machinery into
the far-away mines of South Africa.
| He has made application at Bloemfon-
tein for a patent for motor-operated
! rock drilling engine. 1t is called the
Durkee Lightning drill.
! A contract has been awarded by the
I county commissioners of Teller coun-
ty for a hospital and poor house, to be
built at Broadway and Moynahan ave-
nue., in Cripple Creek. The contract
was let to Edwin Barrett. The build
4. ing will be two stories high and will
cost about $1,000.
John d. Howland's latest painting.
entitled THE Coming Storm" which
has been ON exhibition at Denver, has
been purchased by Edward Williams
| of Central City. The painting repre-
sents herd of buffalo milling on
the prairie for mutual protection
against an approaching storm.
! The Woodmen of the World. who are
e-ft. IN 81. i'm
the project of raising among them
selves sum of money sufficient to
purchase land and erect handsome
Woodman building for the use of the
various camps. The project will re-
Quire between $4,000 and $4,000.
DIR. A. l.. Hazlett of Colorado City
sailed from San Francisco October 10th
for the Philippine islands, being one of
the committee appointed by General
Macarthur to investigate the moral
conditions prevailing there. On his re-
! turn the committee will submit its re-
! port to the government.
Curator VIII. C. Ferril of the State
Historical and Natural History Society
has laid claim to the Lost Park buffalo.
He wants ii for the state collection of
which he is curator. The animal, he
says, property belongs to the state, as
it is valuable both from historical
and scientific standpoint.
The recent purchase for $4,000 of
200 acres of land southwest of Ivywild
by the International Realty Company,
which has assumed ownership of prac-
tically all of Strattons real estate, re-
wives interest i'll the report that Mr..
Stratton and other Colorado Springs
people intend to build big athletic
park in that vicinity.
Secretary Whitney of the Rocky
Mountain Smelter Company at Flor
ence has unearthed relic in the shape
of a bulletin of the New York Mirror,
issued June II, 1912, containing the
news that war had been declared
against England. The paper was found
between the leaves of an old Bible and
is very well preserved.
In. the District Court at Pueblo on
the 18th instant Mike Ryan was SEN
fenced to not less than ten nor more
than twelve years in the penitentiary.
, Ryan was found guilty of committing
an assault on Herman Kujath with
pick August 2ith. He drove pick
through Kujath's face while the lat
ter was sleeping at his home.
Hereafter the Colorado Springs High
School Cadets will drill with Winches-
ter rifles loaned the school by Adjutant
General Gardner. George S. Elstun
and Superintendent of Schools John
Dietrich called upon the adjutant gen.
eral and put in a formal request for the
rifles. 1t was granted, as the state had
u number which We're not in use.
The contract for the work ON the
new Longmont water system has been
let to Il. l.. Mcdonald of Denver. The
contract includes only the work to be
done. the city having purchased the
pipe for the twelve miles of the main
line. The price for the work was S1S-
600. BY agreement Longmont labor
will be used us far as possible in the