Gilpin observer., 1901-04-04
COLORADO NOTES.
Colorado will have n team Of deaf
mute baseball players this summer.


A big apartment house to be built in
Denver will have n telephone to each Of
the apartments, of which there will be
twenty-four.
Nearly 400 acres of sugar beets have
been contracted for in the vicinity Of
Fowler, being large increase over the
acreage of last year.
The Rio Grande saloon at Cripple
Creek was held up at 1:30 a. IN. on
March 25th and robbed of $37. Five
men were in the place at the time.
President Packard of the Denver
Baseball Club is gathering in the men,
bers of the team and expects to have
them all together before April 10th, the
day set for them to meet.
The loss of stock by the recent
storms in eastern Colorado is estimat-
ed in different sections at from one to
three per cent. 1t is generally reported
to be mostly young calves.
The agricultural department Of the
State Agricultural College has received
a very fine microscope for bacteriolog
cal work. and also two and half
horse power gasoline engine.
A cane made from the historic Char
ter Oak at Hartford, Connecticut, has
been placed in the state museum Of
war relics in the capitol building at
Denver by William A. Fuller.
The valuation attached to Denver
building permits for the month of
March, 1901, was the sum of $4S4, ,SS2.-
81, great increase over the year 1900,
when the valuation was only $265, 40.
A short time ago it was announced
that the macaroni factory at Coal
Creek, near Florence, would be moved
to Pueblo, but the operators decided
that the plant should remain where it
is.
The Lamar Building and Loan As
sociation has been Incorporated with
capital stock of 100000 by G. ].
Garvin. Morton Strain, G. c. Huddles-
ton, l. l.. Maxwell. A. L. Bent, l. II.
Myers and w. ]. Johnston.
Benajah S. Phelps of Colorado
Springs celebrated his 1O1st birthday
March 24th. He is in very good health
and is believed to be the only person
in the state who has lived in the
eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth
centuries.
Mayor johnson of Denver has signed
an ordinance passed by the City Coun-
ell prohibiting storekeepers from ex-
changing candy, cigarettes, etc, for
milk. bread, yeast and ear tickets, post
age stamps and other articles offered
as barter by children.
After being out twenty-four hours
the jury in the Vanolia VS.. Thompson
attempted murder case at Montrose
was dismissed and the prisoner bound
over to the next term of court The
jury could not agree, standing ten for
conviction and two for acquittal.
In rear-end collision between two
freight trains on the Rio Grande near
Apache, forty-five miles south of Pueb-
10, March Both, at 9:05 p. m, in n fierce
snow storm. Head Brakeman Edward
Miller was killed outright and Conduc-
tor Goodlow of train No. ADJ, was in
| jured.
| The receipts mt the United States GUS
| tom house in Denver from duties on
| imported goods We're twice as much
for the month just closed as for March,
1900. The greater part of the revenues
come from taxes on whisky and tobac-
co, and the rest mainly on silks and
other articles Of luxury.
A division of the Salvation Army,
consisting mostly of young women, in
vaded number of the saloons and
gambling houses at Victor n few nights
since, where they sang songs and ex-
hortcd the keepers and others present
to turn from the error of their ways.
The army lassies were treated with
much respect.
The Florence field seems to be going
right ahead with its production with
out any fear of losing its position at
the head of the list of oil producing
sections in Colorado. The field is grad
ually extending. A few days ago n
new well was struck about three miles
southeast of Florence and on the ex-
treme limit of the developed field. 1t
produces $50 barrels day and was
struck at Il depth of 2.1OO feet.
A large cheese factory is being erect
ed at II point ten miles north of Pey-
ton In the center of one of the richest
agricultural sections of El Paso coun-
ty. 1t will be known ms the Bijou Ba-
sin Cheese Factory and will cost from
$1,000 to $4,000. The plant will have
II capacity of handling 1,20O gallons
Of milk and will turn out 600 pounds
of cheese each day. Francis Capell OF
Colorado Springs Is the proprietor.
Curator Ferril of the State Historical
Society and Museum, mt the capitol
building In Denver. Is receiving some
distinction at. the hands OF the st.
Louis papers, which give him the credit
for the first suggestion OF not only the
centennial celebration of the Louisiana
purchase In the Mound city. but of the
first suggestion Of the coming centen-
NAL Of the Lewis and Clark expedition
to the northwest. which will be held
in Portland, Oregon. In 1905.
The Crystal Springs Brewing and Ice
Company's plant OF Boulder has been
purchased by $. Pells and /. NJ. Loben-
stein OF Rock Island. Illinois. The con-
sldcraton stated is $1,000 The brew
cry and Ice plant were taken under
mortgage by the First National Bank
of Boulder several years ago, and have
been conducted under Its ownership
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