Gilpin observer., 1902-10-09
COLORADO BRIEFS.


laying the opening of the Greeley beet
sugar refinery.
Montclair, suburb of Denver, will
raise $4,000 and construct a water
plant Of its own.
-Four new letter carriers and six
clerks were added to the Denver post
office force October LIST.
The City Council of Boulder has
adopted resolution providing for the
purchase of 160 acres Of ground to be
added to the Chautauqua tract.
Mrs. Helen l.. Grenfell, state super
1ntendent of public instruction, who
has been seriously i'll for some time
in Denver, is reported to be on the
way to recovery.
There are giants in these days. The
lightest man in the University of Me-
braska eleven, who defeated the Uni
versity OF Colorado in the football
game at Boulder. weighed 1S5 pounds.
The All-American and All-Nauonal
baseball teams will play series of
exhibition games in Denver October
25th and Goth. Many of the stars Of
the two great leagues will take part.
Manager Packard of the Denver
baseball team of the Western league
says that he will retain the Denver
franchise and put the strongest team
he can secure in the field next year.
The colleges and high schools of Col
orado are going in for football this sea-
son as never before and the crop or
broken limbs from this most strenuous
of sports promises to be large one.
Tourists arriving in sight Of the Col
orado mountain ranges during the past
week have been surprised to find then
as white as II the season were midwin-
ter. An immense amount of snow has
fallen.
H. e. Mulnix, Of the Worlds Fair
board, is making tour OF the state to
visit the county commissioners and
urge them to make adequate appropria-
tions for a creditable display at St
Louis in 1904.
On October 1st another oil producer
in, the Boulder field was announced.
being that owned by the Anderson Oil
Company on the Gooding ranch. half
mile east of the Arnold. A good flow
was struck at 1900 feet.
John NJ. Houk. Denver grocer, COM
mitted suicide on the 4th inst, by swal-
lowing carbolic acid. The act was due
to i'll health and dependency. Houk
is said to have been a member of the
A. " u. w. anu 4. ". .. VI n.
At the special election October 1st.
the people of Fort Morgan voted to
erect water works and bond the town
for $4,000. Great interest was taken
in the election and the proposition car
ried by a vote Of over two to one.
Denver is in no further danger Of q
water famine. The recent rains have
filled the Platte river from the noun
fainc nd Urnfnn Watar
Company has ordered that no more
storage water be drawn from the reser-
voirs.
In trying to shoot rattlesnake. Will
liam Charwood of Lafayette hit his leg
near the thigh, infiicting a dangerous
wound. from which the surgeons at the
State University extracted forty shot.
two 10-cent pieces and a part OF a
penny.
1t seems as II the Denver divorce
mill must be run by steam or electrici-
ty. In Judge Mullins division OF the
District Court a few days ago. seven
divorce cases were heard and DEGREES
Next!
DIR. F. c. Nichols has purchased lots
and let the contract for the construc-
ton of hospital in Craig. The build
ing will contain rooms and accommo-
dations for twenty patients. 1t will be
the first institution of Its kind in
northwestern Colorado.
r. r. Taylor, tried at Colorado
Springs for the murder Of Frank H.
Shader last August. was acquitted.
Taylor's plea was self-defense. and EVIL
dence was submitted to show that Sha-
l4, 1nl =. raI IN, lrfI htvv, aud
in the act of reaching for a revolver
when Taylor shot.
President Aaron Sonnebor of the
State Fair Association thinks that the
last fair just closed at Pueblo dem
onstrates that successful state fair
can be held In Colorado" and that
1.-The fair has shown that Colorado's
resources are more varied than most
OF its citizens believed"
The Colorado Springs Street Car
Company has just inaugurated its
transfer system. the privilege being al
lowed on all intersecting lines whose
general trend is not parallel. w. s.
Stratton was responsible for the
change. which he decided upon after
purchasing control and merging the
two companies.
Ed O'Kelly. the slayer Of Bob Ford
at Creede ten years ago. Ford being the
man who killed Jesse James. was re-
leased from the penitentiary at Canon
City October 2. He at once started for
Pueblo. his former home. O'Kelly was
sent up from Creede for life. but his
sentence was commuted early this year
to twenty-five years imprisonment.
With good time. the sentence has just
now expired.
At Cripple Creek on the 4th inst. a
warrant was sworn out by County
Treasurer Duncan Mcneil against the
Pullman Palace Car Company. 1t is al
1auoI IN, tho rnvv, NJ 1ot tnt that Tho D,,Ir-