Gilpin observer., 1902-10-02
COLORADO BRIEFS.

| Gently.
The sporting features of the Colorado.
| New Mexico fair in Durango were an
Immense success.
]. Fl. Murphy of Denver has been
elected general consul Of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen.
Sugar City is arranging for Beet
| Sugar Day" October 18th. Excursions
will be run from Denver and Pueblo.
| The contract for the erection of the
Fort Collins sugar factory has been let
to the Kilby Manufacturing Company
/ of Cleveland Ohio.
The great Broncho Busting Contest
of the Festival of Mountain and Plain
| Committee will be held in Denver on
October 7th. Sth and 9th.
The automobile of DR.. p. f. Gildea
of Colorado Springs blew up few
days ago and set fire to the barn In
which it was kept, destroying the barn
| and its contents.
| The Fort Collins school board has dis
| posed of $35,0O0 bonds, bearing interest
at AZ per cent, to the First National
Bank of Fort Collins. The money will
be used for school buildings.
The Loveland beet sugar factory
opened this seasons work on Septem-
ber 9th, and is expected to refine
about 900 tons day for the next four
months or thereabouts.
In return for several street franchises
| which it asks, the Denver Tramway
| Company has offered to contribute
| $4,000 for the Improvement of Congress
park, in the Capitol Hill district
The City Council of GoldfiHd has Of
| fered a reward of $1,000 for the arrest
"a mr. canuirtinn af no rtu ~. rnrfiaS
who murdered City Marshal A. Z. Kate
on the morning of September 21st.
William E. Sweet has been chosen by
the Christian Endeavorers of Denver
, to manage the local work in connection
with the International Christian Ell
| deavor convention which meets in 1903.
| Col. Thomas Holland, who is in
charge of all the Salvation Army colo
nies in the United States, has been es-
pecially delegated by Commander
Booth-Tucker to attend the National Ir-
| rigation Congress at Colorado Springs,
October 9th to 9th
| The latest organizations to be formed
| by the students at the State University
are Alpine clubs, for the purpose of
making regular and systematic trips
| into the mountains near Boulder. This
form of exercise is especially popular
| with the young ladies in the university.
Joseph Dalton, hodcarried, fell
nearly eighty feet from the top of the
| new building of the Western Packing
| Company in Elyria, a suburb of Den
| yer, few days ago, and escaped with
out any broken bones. He is expected
to get well in a short time.
Prof. John Dietrich, superintendent
Of the Colorado Springs schools, and
president of the Colorado State Teach
| ers' Association, has succeeded in secur-
ing the guarantee of expenses of the
annual meeting, which will be held in
Colorado Springs December 22nd, 23rd
and oath.
w. S. Coburn of Hotchkiss, president
Of the State Board of Agriculture says
| Colorado is one of the four states re-
corded this year by the United States
| Department of Statistics as having a
full apple crop of 100 per cent The
other three states are Idaho, California
and Oregon
"B. Harcourt. Justice of the peace at
Fort Morgan, tried a man for assault
/ and battery at Brush, twenty miles
away by telephone, received his plea
OF guilty and fined him five dollars.
Harcourt may live to be called the man
who made Fort Morgan famous" says
a Denver paragrapher.
Gilbert McClurg, secretary of the
| Chamber of Commerce at Colorado
| Springs, who is chairman of the local
committee ON arrangements for the Ma
tional Irrigation Congress, to be held
October 9th to 9th, has spared no pains
in advertising the gathering and is as
sIIred Of large attendance.
Attorney John w. Sleeper Of Colo
L..
announced his intention Of going to
Manila to practice law. Attorney Sleep
er is an uncle Of Captain Sleeper, who
went to Manila with the First Colo
RADIO, but for some time has been col
! lector of internal revenue for the insu-
| lar department
II. A. Shipman, former manager of
Stratton's Independence, Limited, will
| go to western Australia to take charge
| of the properties of the Cosmopolitan
Proprietary, Limited. The engagement
| is for three years and carries a salary
of $1,000 for the first year, rising later
10 $4,000, together with all travelling
and other expenses.
There was n very large attendance
at the Emancipation Day celebration in
Colorado Springs on September 22nd.
There was barbecue In the afternoon
and speeches in the evening by Profess
sor w. ii. Jackson, Father Rice and
w. l.. Grant upon Emancipation Day
topics. Mayor Robinson welcomed the
visitors to the city.
The trustees of the Union Printers
Home at Colorado Springs have decided
to expend approximately $4,000 in i'm
| provements to that institution. 1t Is
proposed to build an additional story
to the hospital annex, with additions
to the dining room and kitchen. 1t Is
also announced that the Institution Will
hereafter be known as the Union Print.
ers' Home. the change being authorized
| by the International yrvnoprnnhic