Gilpin observer., 1901-01-10
COLORADO NOTES.

town board for an appropriation.
In Denver, December Goth, George
Hobbick, South Omaha stockman,
first tried to shoot his wife and then
shot himself through the head.
The Denver Post figures that the
gold output for Colorado for the year
1900, something over $40, ,00O,O 600, would
make a brick containing about eighty
nine cubic feet and weighing about
49A tons.
On the 9th inst, Josiah Lee; a lead
ing citizen Of Brush, acting as volun-
tary nurse, dropped dead in the pest
house, where he had been nursing a
patient His death is attributed to
heart disease.
Fleming s. Hover, owner Of the Rio
Vista ranch, near Lamar, died at Den
yer on the 4th inst. He was one Of
the most prominent residents of Prov
ers county, and is credited with having
originated the annual rabbit hunt at
Lamar.
John w. Springer, the stock man, has
been arrested in Denver for bringing
a horse with a docked tail into the
state, an act prohibited by the statute
enacted two years ago. 1t is under
stood that Mr.. Springer will contest
the constitutionality of the law.
The coroner's jury in the case Of
Thomas Steward, who was shot and
killed by Charles Thompson at Dun
can, rendered a verdict of justifiable
homicide. Thompson was afterward
acquitted at his preliminary trial be-
fore Justice Lawrence.
At Colorado Springs, January Bird, at
seven o'clock in the evening, a robber
smashed the plate glass window of ii.
e. Kapelke's jewelry store, 13O East
Pixies Peak avenue, and seized and
carried off two trays of diamond rings
worth about $3.50, escaping with his
plunder.
A movement is on foot to hold auto
mobile races at Overland park, in Den
yer, this year. The Cycling West will
conduct a cycle show there next
spring, and it is expected that the in
terest aroused by the exhibition will
result in races arranged by the makers
of rival machines.
The town board of Loveland has de-
cided to lay a twelve-inch water main
to increase the supply of water made
necessary by the demands of sugar
factory and increasing population. The
main will make the supply about five
times the capacity of the present wa
ter works.
Hon. E. +. Hobart, receiver of the
land office, received a bid from John
w. Harrison of Glorieta for the dead
and matured timber on the PecOs for
est reserve, the bid averaging about 81
per 1000 feet. A check for $4OO ac-
companied the bid. Being the only
bidder the contract will be given him.
Mrs. Celia Osgood Peterson has
been appointed deputy superintendent
of public instruction, taking the place
made vacant by the resignation of
Miss Skinner. Mrs. Peterson held the
position in 1899. She is u Democrat
and has taught seventeen years in the
Denver public schools.
A compromise has been effected in
the Creede will contest at Los Angeles
by which little Edith Dorothy Creede,
the adopted daughter of the late mil
lionaire, will receive large part Of
the inheritance Immediately, without
waiting until she is twenty-five years
of age, as provided in the will.
Samuel j. Slate died at the home Of
George Pendleton, sixteen miles north
west of Carlsbad from injuries receiv-
ed by well-drilling machine toppling
over and striking him. He died the
lOllOWlHS uuy. MI. Slute DeeIl u
resident of Lone Tree, Eddy county,
for n number of years, and leaves q
wife and a number Of children.
Victor Kallman, a miner in the Com
modore mine at Creede, was probably
fatally injured January 1st by fall
of 265 feet from the d level to the
shaft bottom. The miners lamp blew
out, and in stumbling around he took
his awful plunge. Kallman was
brought out of the mine in u dying con-
dition.
At the annual meeting of the Delta
Town and Improvement Company the
following officers were elected: George
Stephin, president; j. Frank Sanders,
vice president, and A. II. King, secre-
tary. The officers were authorized to
grant right of way and donate land to
the proposed electric line which is to be
constructed to Surface creek and the
North Fork country. In Delta county.
Otis B. Spencer, county clerk and re-
corder, has been elected clerk of the
District Court of Arapahoe county,
Division clerks have been appointed
as follows: Judge Carpenter, William
Bishop; Judge johnson, Hal Van Gill
der; Judge Malone, X. C. Hecox;
Judge Mullins, NJ. ]. Moore; Judge
Palmer, Sherman ]. Brown.
After suffering for three months from
chronic stomach trouble, s. Stanley
Stokes, n well known Colorado news
paperman, died Mt his home I'm Denver,
January 3rd. His wife and little boy
were with him when he died. Mr..
Stokes, who was nearly fifty-two years
OF age, was for more than fifteen
years an active reporter on the Dem
yer Times, until three months ago,
when he was compelled to give up his
duties on account OF poor health.
The Rocky Mountain News of Dem
yer announces that 1t has ordered from
the Goss Printing Press Company, of