Gilpin observer., 1902-07-31
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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held at Denver on Tuesday and We'd
nesday, October 7th and Sth.
The ninth annual convention of the
Philatelic Sons of America will meet
in Denver August 7th and Sth to dis
cuss the subject of postage stamp col.
lections.
The robbery of, two powder houses
near Denver Is thought to Indicate the
presence Of a gang of train robbers,
who are laying in supplies of dynamite
and caps.
The water shortage in Denver prom--
ises to be serious until the water CON-
pany can finish and fill its new reser-
voir, which Is not likely to be before
next spring.
The Garden of the Gods Chautauqua
Summer School at Colorado Springs.
opened on June 23d with an attend
ance of fifty students, which will be
considerably increased.
Lieut.. Gov. d. G. Coates has started
on tour of several weeks through
Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska in the.
interest Of the Western Federation Of
Miners and the socalistic movement
According to the reading of bicy.
clers cyclometer, the distance from
Aspen to Meeker, via the New Castle
road, Is no miles-fifty-nine to New
Castle and fifty-one from New Castle
to Meeker.
Bob Reigan of Piceance creek, in Rio
Blanco county, is accumulatlng wealth
by laSSOOing wolves and presenting the
pelts at the county treasurers office
for the bounty. His lariat never
misses fire.
City Engineer Case of Colorado
Springs has recently returned from
Los Angeles, where he Investigated the
method OF sprinkling streets with oil to
keep down dust. He will recommend
its use in Colorado Springs.
Emile Berne, n striking machinist at
Denver, was fined So and costs by
Magistrate Thomas for applying the
word "scab' derisively to John Farm
berg, a non-union boilermaker working
in the Union Pacific shops.
The Catholics of Victor have decided
to begin the construction of new $12,-
600 church. The edifice will be forty
three by ninety feet, built of pressed
brick, trimmed with cut stone, and will
have seating capacity of about 500.
The date of the laying of the city
hall corner stone at Colorado Springs
has been changed from August 18th to
10th, owing to the fact that the Elks,
who have charge Of the ceremonies,
will be busy on the 18th with their
street fete.
The Colorado Terminal Lines Asso-
citation has agreed to grant round trip
rates of one fare plus 81 for the annual
state meetings of the Masons in Dem
yer. the Woodmen In Colorado Springs
and the Odd Fellows and Red Men in
Denver.
John Pallister. ranchman living on
Lake creek, in Eagle county, WAS shot
and killed a few days ago by Bert
Siddell, living on an adjoining ranch.
The quarrel was about some money
and Siddell Immediately surrendered
himself to a deputy sheriff.
Cheyenne park, Stratton's new public
villa at the mouth of Cheyenne canon
at Colorado Springs, was lighted by .
network of electricc lamps for the first
time on the night Of July 22d. in the
presence of several hundred people.
Band concerts will be inaugurated
three times a week.
At Monument. July 23d, David C.
Guire was killed by a Denver & Rio
Grande passenger train while crossing
the tracks. His body was badly man.
gled. Both his horses were killed and
the wagon smashed to pieces. Mr..
Guire was sixty-six years OF age and
one Of the old settlers.
Alta mass meeting of colored citizens
in st. Johns Baptist Church. under the
auspices Of the Young Mems Christian
Union (colored), resolutions were adopt
ed condemning recent cakewalk shows
and buck-and-wing dances, together
with all other "nigger" performances
that tend to degrade the race and hold
1t up to ridicule.
A dam Is at once to be built across
the outlet of Lawn lake near Estes
Park. In order to hasten the work
and speed supplies several miles of a
road has just been completed to the
lake from Estes Park. The lake lies
at timber line on Hague's Peak. not
far from Hallet glacier and for the fu-
ture will be a storage reservoir.
On July oath three children, the old
est being only twelve years old. made
the round trip to the summit OF Pixies
Peak and return OIL foot In the record
breaking time of ten hours. The chill
dren are Mary and Gudella Hurt. aged
respectively twelve and ten years. chill
dren of tourists from Missouri, and ten
year-old Earl Keeler Of Colorado
Springs.
The Denver park commissioners have
accepted three months-old mountain
lion cub captured recently by ID. +.
Howard Of New York and L. w.
Hampson Of Salt Lake while ON n
hunting expedition near Steamboat
Springs, and who made n present OF
the animal to the city. The mother OF
the cub was killed while trying TO pro-
tect 1t from the hunters.
The Pueblo City Council has passed
an ordinance granting n franchise to
the Rapid Transit Electric Railway
Company to build and operate an cleo
fric linz ys,lilliu tho aits. li..,It.-