Gilpin observer., 1902-12-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Ill loNOl vi a AiualClpdl
Projected improvements in the Rio
Grande system call for an expenditure
of $5,00O0OO.
Epemio Martinez, tried at Trinidad
for the murder of Temigo Martinez,
was acquitted.
Company D of the National Guard
will give an elaborate ball at Colorado
Springs on January 5th.
On December 31st the Daily Live
Stock Record will publish an extensive
review of the live stock business for
1902.
According to his report filed with
the secretary of state it cost Hon.
Alva Adams $2,934.50 to run Tor con-
gressman-at-large.
AFRO B. Pratt, late of company F,
First Colorado cavalry, died at The
Soldiers and Sailors Home at Chey-
enne, December End.
Work on the sanitarium extensiun
of the Boulder street railway system
is now well under way. The company
is obliged to build a mile of road be-
fore January 1st and is pushing things
along to hold it's franchise.
The Boulder Gas Works began sup
plying customers December 5th. The
plant represents an outlay of $50,0OO
and it's two large generators have
daily capacity of 250,000 cubic feet and
the reservoir Of $4,000 cubic feet.
A fire at Durango ON the night of
December 3rd destroyed the plant of
the Durango Soap Company, the loss
being estimated at about $4,000 with
$2,500 insurance. The plant was
erected only few months ago.
Mrs. Helen C. GrenfelIs report of
expenses in her campaign for state
superintendent of public instruction
states that she paid out 1924, of which
$500 went to Democratic committees
and the remainder to incidental eX-
penses.
The executive committee of the
Western Federation of Miners has de-
cided to create woman's auxiliary
branch. 1t is to serve, according to
the explanations of the members, as an
educational feature in unionism and
Socialism.
The first couple to be married in the
city and county of Denver under the
provisions of the Rush bill were John
Clark Wells and Miss Elizabeth Flo
rias Rowe. They were married by DR..
F-ost Craft at the parsonage of Trim
ity NJ. E. Church.
All preliminaries to the construc-
tion of an electric light plant in Ster-
ling were decided at recent meeting
of the city council. Work will be be-
gun as soon as the material arrives.
A half block in the northeastern part
of town has been purchased for site.
The commissioners of the new coun-
ty of Adams, established by the adop-
tion of the Rush amendment, net at
Brighton, the county seat, on Decem-
ber 4th, and effected an organization.
The county commissioners are Messrs.
Wilson II. Smith, Benjamin Benbow
and F. P. Watts.
Manager D. c. Packard of the league
base ball team at Denver has signed
the following players for next season:
Catchers, Parke Wilson, Schlie, Car
rish; pitchers, Whitridge, McCloskey,
Barber, Lemke, Webster and Cristall;
infielders, Delehanty Mohler, Radcliff,
Dundon and Hartzell; outfielders.
Jones, McHale, Preston, Honeyman,
Ramey.
The statement of election expenses
filed with the secretary of state by Mil
ton Smith, chairman of the Democrat
ic state central committee, showed re-
.eipts of $27,9S7.50, of which he paid
out all but $S607. The receipts from
candidates amounted to $S,492.50. c.
j. Hughes gave $2,250, while Senator
T. M. Patterson and c. s. Thomas gave
$3.50 each.
Orman & Crook will begin work in
few days on the 1.6O0 foot tunnel for
the Taylor Park railroad. 1t will be
worked from both sides of the range,
and about 200 men will be employed.
The tunnel will enter the mountain
from the Atlantic side near the Alpine
tunnel on the Colorado & Southern and
come out on the Pacific slope near the
mining camp of Tin Cup.
The grand jury in the District Court
at Telluride was sworn in on Decem-
ber LIST. A part of it's duty will be to
investigate the murder of Mine Man
ager Collins. the disappearance of w.
]. Barney July %, 1901; the disappear
ance of Wesley E. Smith March 3, 1902,
the riot during the strike July. 1901,
and the beating of James Phillips. who
was also shot in the arm.
The students in mechanical engi-
neerlng at the State University at
Boulder have undertaken the construc-
ton of several complete pieces OF ma
chinery. Professor Crouch states that
the students can make them more
cheaply than they can be purchased in
the East, and he proposes to give his
students the benefit of the actual prac-
tice involved in turning out these ma
chimes.
lie Grande Flora de Colorado de
Montana y Llanos. which being inter-
preted is The Grand Flora Of Colorado
from Mountain and Plain, is the title
Frank s. Thayer has given to his mag
nifcent portfolio of paintings of Colo
RADIO wild flowers. The pictures in
clude the columbine, the wild rose, the
sand lily, the fairy torch, the thimble
berry and other faYnrites and are 16x2Q