Gilpin observer., 1901-08-08
COLORADO NOTES.

AAty neIuDerS III turee weeks SLICE tuc
accession of the new secretary, Alr, g.
w. James.
The fiftieth annual meeting Of the
American Association for the Advance
ment of Science will convene in Den
yer August 26th.
Contracts are to be let soon for the
construction of a new steel bridge
across Clear creek on the Middle Park
road at Idaho Springs.
In Denver on August Sd Carl Meng
shot and probably fatally wounded his
next-door neighbor, w. d. Hogan, us
the result of a family quarrel.
The death penalty law went into ef
feet at midnight August list, according
to an opinion rendered by Assistant
Attorney General George Post.
The total precipitation at Denver
hundredth of an inch. Hardly equiva-
lent to a moderate fall of dew.
The Denver Eye, the principal sub
urban weekly paper of Denver, has
been purchased from the estate of j.
G. Garrison of L. N. Zalinger.
Delays in the construction Of equip
ment for the new telephone exchange
at Colorado City will postpone the
will be expended.
Fred Jeffries was killed at Black
Hawk on the night of the Sd instant
by taking hold of a live electric wire.
He was the only son of a widow on
whom she was largely dependent for
support.
Ticket sales last month at the union
depot in Denver were $4,000 greater
than for July of the year before and
there was an increase of 9,T03 in the
number of pieces of baggage handled.
Colorado has been full of tourists.
The Reed Investment Company of
Colorado Springs has decided to demol-
ish the old Brunswick hotel building
at Grand Junction and erect on the
site a first-class modern hotel to be
called "The Reed" 1t will cost $25,0OO
and will contain fifty rooms.
In the Telluride Journals voting
contest for the most popular young
lady in San Miguel county, Miss Min
ME Tosh, assistant postmaster, won
first prize, n trip to the Buffalo Expo
sition, and Miss Genevieve Mcleod of
the telephone station. second, trip to
the Mountain and Plain Festival.
The Grand Junction city council has
voted to give the Peach Day committee
the benefit of the license that may be
assessed against shows, ETC., during
the three days celebration, August
2Sth, Doth and Both. The committee
hope in this way to raise several hun
dred dollars more toward the big cele-
bration.
Orville Wilson, who was brought
from Durango to Salida by Sheriff An
kle on a charge of being implicated in
the death of Eta Fowler, was taken
before the coroner's jury and made his
statement to that body. He was taken
to the county Jail at Buena Vista and
the preliminary trial was set for Au-
gust Goth.
Thomas Conway, recently returned
from the Philippines, was instantly
killed at Anaconda on the night of the
4th instant by taking hold Of live
wire. Conway was about twenty-five
years of age and his father at one time
was superintendent of bridges on the
Florence & Cripple Creek railway.
He has two brothers who reside at Du-
range.
Lightning struck the dome Of the
federal postoffice building in Denver
on the afternoon of August 4th, tear
ing a patch of plaster off the wall,
breaking an electric light globe and set
ting fire to a pile of rubbish. The fire
was quickly quenched and no real
harm was done. Weather Forecaster
Brandenburg and Guard Virgins felt
the shock but were not hurt.
The strike of the Denver hod car
riers is declared off. This ends one of
the longest and most fiercely waged
building strikes that Denver has ever
seen. On June list over 500 hod car
riers went out for an increase in
wages. After n protracted discussion
on the night of August 1st, the hod
carriers voted unanimously to declare
the strike off. This action was taken
because the State Board of Arbitrn.
ton decided against the strikers.
Leopold Batres, Mexico's greatest
archaeologist, may visit Mancos canon,
Colorado, it is reported, for the pur-
pose of making researches among the
cliff dwellers' ruins, recently brought
into prominence by Mrs. Virginia Nc
Clurg Of Colorado Springs. Mr.. Batres
hopes to prove by his investigations
that Mancos valley may have been the
ancient Huetlapalla of the Toltecs,
from which they started on their
southern pilgrimage to populate the
land of Anahuac.
George Fravert of Rifle recently
brought down to Game Commissioner
Harris Mt Denver five mountain sheep
heads, taken from the store of Cross
Il Baker Mt Glenwood Springs. They
belonged to John Morine of Capitol
creek, near Aspen, and were placed
where Mr.. Frayert found them by Al
bert Morine. He was arrested and
fined S1O1.5O. The heads are now at
1416 Fifteenth St, Denver and will be
sold to the highest bidder August 18th.
Sealed bids will be received by Com
missioner Harris.
The agricultural school Mt Fort Col
| Inns boasts of the highest ilagpole In
| Colorado. 1t now stands on the col
| lego cnmpus. 40 feet In the mir, and Is