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

Charles H. Springer has been ap
pointed engineer in the Pueblo public
building.
Senator Teller has taken his seat on
the Democratic side of the Senate
chamber.
Work on the new beet sugar factory
at Greeley is being prosecuted with
great rapidity. The smokestack will
be 100 feet high.
George Winston and L. A. Williams,
of Muskogee, Indian Territory, have
purchased controlling interest in the
stock of the Mercantile National Bank
Of Pueblo.
Chancellor e. Benjamin Andrews of
the University of Nebraska, will pre-
side at the laying of the cornerstone
of the new science building at Colo
RADIO College, Colorado Springs.
Many of the Cripple Creek gamblers
have left for other points throughout
the state and country, as they are said
to believe that gambling has been
closed for good in Teller county.
For the month of October the Colo
| RADIO & Southern Railway Company
earned $497, PA, an increase of 500, ,727,
and net $149,622, an increase of 3d.
S76; surplus $132 ,066, an increase of
$S,723.
| The postoffice order establishing a
| free delivery service at Grand juno
| tion has been postponed to the 10th
inst. The occasion for the delay Is the
| failure of supplies to reach the office
| in season.
| The ladies of the Norton Art Club OF
Pueblo opened Il four-days' art exhi.
bition and sale of pictures on the 3rd
inst. The proceeds will be devoted tc
fund for founding an art gallery in
| Pueblo.
G. Campbell Morgan, the English
evangelist who has charge of the
| North field extension work and is
| therefore in n measure the successor
of Mr.. Moody, conducts a series OF
meetings in Denver, beginning Decem.
Der 9th.
Yee Chow Jung, Chinaman, died in
Denver on the 7th inst. of leprosy. The
doctors call it anaesthetic leprosy and
say there is no danger of cOntagion.
! Yee was starting for China and faint
ed at the depot as he was about to
| take the car
An Albuquerque. New Mexico, dis
| patch says that Charles II. Anderson,
young man in the employ of the
Santa Fe Pacific, who was killed by
dynamite explosion near Williams on
the 7th inst, has n mother and sister
living at New Castle, Colorado.
At Leadville few days since, half
dozen gamblers We're given the full
extent of the law by District Judge
Overs. The judge read the gamblers
a severe lecture, informing them that
he was thoroughly in earnest in his ef
fort to suppress gambling in Leadville.
1t is said that the recently elected
county officers of Pueblo county have
stated that there will be no changes in
| the present force of clerks and depu-
| ties at the court house. All the pres
ent incumbents were reelected. and
give it out that they will make no
changes.
At Ward on the 5th inst Justice of
the Peace Gibbons fined John Field, a
farmer living near IIongmont, the sum
of $500 and sentenced him to the
county Jail for ninety days sstuffing
twenty-six turkeys with stones while
| the birds were still living, and selling
them, dead but undressed to butcher,
at Ward.
w. s. Stratton has accepted the invi-
tation Of the Colorado Springs Mining
| Stock Exchange to be the guest Of hon.
or at a banquet at the Antlers hotel,
! January 18th, to commemorate the en-
trance of the association into the STRAIT
ton Mining Exchange building, and as
an expression Of the public spirit
shown by the millionaire.
The baggage handled in Pueblo dur.
| ing November showed an increase over
the corresponding month of last year
! of 1888 pieces. The total number Of
| pieces handled last month was 21,342,
of which IL, ,131 were received, and 1O,-
211 were forwarded, leaving 921 pieces
! in Pueblo The ticket sales for No
/ vember show an increase of twenty
five per cent. over the corresponding
period of last year.
Beet pulp from the Loveland sugar
factory is being tested as to it's value
for fattening cattle and sheep. w. FL.
Turner is hauling to Berthoud and
feeding cattle. Bartholf & Kelim have
n large number of lambs on the John
stone farm southeast of town, and
about mile from the factory, to
which they are feeding about forty
tons a day.
| A new club of horsemen, to be called
the Country Club, will be organized in
Denver to replace the Overland Park
Club. Henry Wolcott Is the principal
| owner Of the stock of the Overland
Park Association, which for the last
five years, 1t Is claimed, has been
maintained Mt loss. Mr.. Wolcott, II
is said, is preparing to make his resi-
dence in the East, and has offered to
make two years lease to the new
club.
w. s. Stratton will donate to El Pase
county the new park Mt the end of the
Cheyenne canon street cor line recently
improved by him. County Assessor
Layden was notified by Mr.. Stratton,
1t is said, to strike the tax levy from
the rolls, as the owner intended to give
| the tract To the county Tho acnuisI