Gilpin observer., 1902-01-02
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some Sly or eight weeks.
Rural free delivery will be estab-
lished ut Brlghtonso on the first of Feb
~ruary. The area covered is thirty
eight square miles and 500 people will
be served.
The postofsce at Bolton, Arapahoe
county, has been moved to the state
line at Clugh Cheyenne county, Kan
sas. Charles e. Cotterell is named as
postmaster.
E. F.-Dyer, superintendent of the city
schools of Gunnison, was severely in.
jured by a bicycle accident December
29th, but will probably not be inca
paciated for work.
All the ice in the Grand river at
Fruita went out December 27th-some-
thing very unusual. 1t was frozen to
a depth of about six inches, but owing
to the continued warm weather broke
and went out.
The Boulder Fruit Growers Associa-
ton is preparing to have big state
convention in Boulder on January 2Sth
and Doth. A fine program is being ar
ranged and well-posted speakers and
lecturers will be present.
The following agents of the Colorado
Humane Society have recently been APP
pointed: e. G. How and Il. N. Laven-
der of Telluride, Thomas L. Bell of
Denver, John w. Hill of Yampa and L.
*. Caldwell of Pagosa Junction.
There have been an unusual number
of deaths from pneumonia in Denver
recently. People seem to have gone
out without overcoats and wraps on
account of the bright weather, which
was much colder than it seemed.
Telephone poles are being received at
-Alamosa for the new line to connect
AlamOsa and Walsenburg. This line
will put Alamosa in telephone. connec-
ton with Pueblo, Colorado Springs,
Denver and other eastern and northern
points.
"A large new furnace at the Philadel-
phia smelter, in Pueblo, is practically
completed, making the twelfth of the
new model 1t is planned to replace all
the small furnaces, one of the new
ones having capacity equal to two of
the old.
Robert Haight. seventy-fve years
old, Colorado pioneer, dropped dead
at the headquarters of the Pioneer So
ciety in the Charles block, Denver on
the night of Christmas. He had been
playing whist with old friends during
the evening.
The Colorado Kennel Club has de-
cided to test the city ordinance in Den
yer which directs that license shall be
collected from dogs kept in kennels in
the city limits. The club holds that
license should be collected only on dogs
allowed to run at large.
On the pay roll of the steel works at
Pueblo, December 2Sth. when count
was made were the names of $500 men
who worked on one or the other shift
during the twenty-four hours. More
than 5000 of these were engaged in the
production of iron and steel. The 9th.
ers were clerks and other office en-
tployes.
Y The custom house business of Den.
Yer is increasing materially. The re-
eeipts for the last six months of this
!ear, December estimated. were $685..
22S.S1, an increase of $685. 5,26S.32 over
the same period for last year. The
number of entries We're 523, an in.
crease of 146.
The Board of Directors of the Festi.
val Of Mountain and Plain met in Den.
yer December 2Sth and President
Monash appointed the following com.
mittees for 1902: Finance. Jacob FIJI
Illus, w. ]. Parkinson. C. II. Reynolds,
o. p. Baur, G.: Schirmer. Property, s.
NJ. Allen, T. C. Smutzer, G. NJ. Day,
Railway transportation, Charles II.
Reynolds. chairman; other members to
be chosen later. -"''
The Denver Real Estate Exchange
and the directors of the Festival of
Mountain and Plain are planning an
excursion in January to FL Paso, Tex
as, to attend the winter carnival which
is held there from the 14th to the 18th.
The Santa Fe road has made special
rate of $50 for the round trip, and
enough persons will go, 1t is expected,
to enable the committee on arrange
ments to provide a special train.
Flora E. Mcdonald. formerly of
Georgetown, but who had been in Dem
yer for some time, disappeared on
Monday, December 23d, and was found
dead in the lake at the City park on
Christmas day. Her father, brother
and sisters live in Georgetown and she
had been living with her brother-ln-law
and sister. Mr.. and Mrs. George DaI-
gleish, in Denver. 1t is supposed to be
a case of suicide occasioned by de-
spondency.
AT 2:15 o'clock on the morning of De-
cember Both the floor OF the press room
of the Evening Post on Curtis street in
Denver, caved In. preclpitatlng n lot
OF machinery into the cellar. A small
blaze followed the collapse and, the
fire department was summoned. The
damage, except to the machinery, is
nominal. No one was injured. In ad-
dition to the machinery, about 10000
supplements Of the New Years edition,
stored In the room, were damaged.
A romantic ending to case pending
in the County Court OF Pueblo county
was announced December Goth by the
granting of marriage license to Hen
ry w. Snider Of Burlington. Iowa. and