Gilpin observer., 1902-07-10
COLORADO BRIEFS.

.Meeker wants lodge of Elks, SO as
not to feel lonesome when all the wild
ones are gone.
The postoffices at Barr, Gladstone,
Ilif, Roggen, San Pablo and Thatcher
have been made domestic money order
offices.
/ The Fourth Of July celebra ton at
Z iLeadville wound up in lively snow
storm, the ground ut midnight being as
white as in winter.
The Colorado Automobile Club has
recently been organized at Denver and
is expected to take in most of the 135
owners of automobiles in Colorado.
-About $50 members from all portions
of the state attended the fifth annual
meeting of the Colorado Bar Associa-
tion ut Colorado Springs, July 1st and
2nd.
The first midsummer meeting of the
Colorado Horticultural Society will be
held at Boulder on July 23rd and oath.
Premiums will be given on the best
displays.
A carload of registered shOrthorn
bulls, twenty-five in number, were re-
Gently driven into Rio BlancO county
by Foreman Il. Ii. lines Of the Bar
Triangle ranch.
The number of pieces handled in the
baggage room of the Union depot at
Denver during the month Of June was
Al SOB as compared with "a .323 for the
same month last year, a gain of 1O,-
22S.
Five separate surveying parties for
the Denver * Northwestern, the new
Moffat railroad, are at work on the
east side of the main range, and anoth-
er party is making preliminary sur
veys on the west side.
A great army of caterpillars has been
devastating the aspen trees south and
east of Victor and has reached nearly
all the mountains in the vicinity. On
several instances they have impeded
and stopped the progress of trains.
Special rates will be made by the
Western Passenger Association for the
meeting of the National Irrigation Con-
gress at Colorado Springs October 9th
to 9th. The National Forestry Asso-
citation will meet Mt the same time.
The Denver union stock yards last
month broke all records for cattle re-
ceipts. The total number received
during June was 75,491 head of cattle.
5,3O9 hogs and 5.029 sheep. This beats
any month in the history of the yards.
Mrs. Hooper, the mother of Maj. s.
X. Hooper, general passenger agent of
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
died at New Albany, Indiana. June
Both, at the age of eighty-nine years.
Major Hooper had been in attendance
on her for two weeks before her death.
Charles f. Lacombe, president and
chief promoter of the Lacombe Elec-
trio Company of Denver attempted sui
eide on the morning of July Sd during
an attack of nervous prostratiOn
brought on by business perplexities.
He cut his arm with a razor, but failed
to reach an artery.
Gen. william ]. Palmer has written
n letter from Athens, Greece, to Cap
tain Watson of Colorado Springs, ex-
pressing his aversion to becoming a
candidate for governor of Colorado. as
1T would be ITO much like getting into
business harness again." General Pal
mer recently retired from active busi-
ness.
Miss Pauline L. Davidson. aged
twenty, beautiful and accomplished.
committed suicide in Denver ON the
I'd inst because of unrequitted love
and poverty. She left letters to sew
pers, along with a photograph which
they all used in their account of the
tragedy.
The coroner's jury in the inquest
held over the remains of +. Il. Allen
at Big Elk Park returned verdict
as follows: THAT +. t. Allen. de-
ceased. came to his death ON June 30.
1902, by a gunshot wound in the head
made by gun held in the hand OF
Gustave Plum, and that said killing
was not felonious."
The new First Methodist Church
building at Colorado Springs was ded-
icated by Bishop Henry W. Warren
ON Sunday, July 9th, in the presence
of an immense audience. The occasion
will long be memorable in the annals
of the church from the fact that $685.
657 was raised to pay of the entire
Indebtedness on the building.
The board OF trustees of the Denver
and Gross College of Medicine, medi-
cal department of the University OF
Denver, has selected the following
teaching force: Or. +. C. Rivers. presi-
dent OF the board, and Drs. Thomas ii.
Hawkins, Il. J. 4. Rogers, s. q. Bon
ney, @. X. Fleming. w. A. Jayne, Rob-
'ert Levy, Leonard Freeman and Henry
Sewall.
The large two-story building at No.
31S Harrison avenue In Leadville.
owned by NJ. Hyman Of Denver and
occupied by Sands Bros, clothiers. was
wrecked by gasoline explosion on the
night Of July Sd. The explosion was
followed Immediately by fire. The
two together completely wrecked the
building and destroyed almost the en-
tire stock. There were four men In
the store, three OF whom were injured,
one seriously and the other slightly.
One man wns badly injured and n