Gilpin observer., 1902-07-03
COLORADO BRIEFS.

fires In different portions Of the state.
Capt. Alonzo l. Coan has turned over
to Judge Junius Henderson 100 British
fossils for the State University mu-
scum at Boulder.
At Leadville ON June 2Sth nearly six
inches Of snow fell between and
p. M, and tourists from the East
greatly enjoyed throwing snow balls.
Curator Ferril OF the State Museum
at Denver declares that cats are re-
sponsible for the killing of thousands
OF song birds. He would like to see
a tax on cats - reduce the number.
1t is reported at Cripple Creek in
connection with the announcement of
settlement of the rate war, that the
passenger traffic will be thrown, as far
as possible TO the Short Line the Mid
land taking the freight.
Col. J. II. Nicholson, cashier of the
National State Bank of Boulder, died
at San Diego, California, on June 23d,
of heart failure brought on by the grip.
He had been in California, with his
family, for about two weeks.
AT the eighth annual banquet of the
alumni of the State School of Mines,
held at the Albany hotel In Denver,
DIR. Regis Chauvenet, retiring presi-
dent of the institution, was presented
with magnificent loving cup.
A company has been organized at
Greeley, known as the Greeley Auto
mobile Company. to manufacture au-
tomobiles, with Il. NJ. Miller as presi-
dent and general manager. The fac
I, tory will be located in East Greeley.
A Madison dispatch says that f. p.
Sandsten, a former Colorado student,
who helped to pay his way through
college by running market gardens,
has been elected assistant professor
of horticulture in the University Of
Wisconsin.
On 1,OOO-acre beet farm five miles
southwest of Alamosa, three seven-inch
artesian wells have been sunk and a
contract let for ten more wells the
same size. An ample flow of water
from each well is obtained and large
yield Of sugar beets is assured.
A recent meeting of Colorado Philip
pine veterans in Denver adopted reso-
lutions denouncing Brigadier General
John G. Chase, N. G. c., In violent Ian
guage because of his alleged character
ization Of the First Colorado volun-
teers as "howling mob"
The Glenwood Springs annual bicycle
road race will take place on Sunday.
July 9th. The race will be over the
twenty-fve-mile course from Basalt to
Glenwood. Last year John Beard Of
Fruita covered the distance in 1:1G:20,
which Is the best record ever made on
tha troad.
A few days ago a mountain sheep
ran into the barbed wire fence at the
homestead of John Jones Mt Mary's
lake, in Estes park, and became so en-
tangled that 1t killed itself in trying 10
get loose. The animal was an old
ram, one Of its horns being thirty-six
inches long.
The cattlemen Of Reutt county have
held meetings and decided to levy
tax of 3 cents per head on all stock on
the range in order to raise a bounty
fund, $50 being the price for each wolf
scalp. Wolves have been numerous
this spring and have killed many
calves.
The Railway Age credits Colorado
with forty-elght and one-half miles of
railroad track laid this year up to
the first Of June. New track was laid
by four different lines. The Denver Il
Northwestern promises to figure large
ly in the railroad building Of the next
twelve months.
The Senate has passed Senator Tel
ler's bill to grant certain lands to the
South Platte Canal and Reservoir Com.
pany for use for the purposes OF wa.
ter storage and supply of itS water
works. The lands granted are all
within the South Platte forest reserve
and aggregate Il, 800 acres.
Sontora Doettla, an Italian, shot and
killed Emil Carmina between Weston
and Torres in Las Anlmas county on
June Goth. Afterward he killed an
other man with knife In order to es.
cape. The crime was on account OF
the recent marriage of Carmina to
woman who had refused Doettla.
Fifty-one homeseekers from Nebras-
ka have been examining the country
around Alamosa. s. Il. Amber, man
ager of the Southern Colorado Land
Company, says that over 300 families
living In Nebraska are anxious to 10.
cate In the San Luis valley II beet
sugar factory can be assured them.
The Pueblo City Council has passed
an ordinance granting the Pueblo Trac.
ton and Lighting Company certain
street franchises which 1t Is expected
will be Immediately followed by the
construction OF an electric line ON
South Santa Fe avenue to the smelters
and steel works and on North Main
street to Mineral Palace park.
At Creede on June 9th Henry s.
Jones, a pioneer miner Of Creede camp,
whose wife and baby reside In Denver,
fell from the top Of the Happy
Thought skip to the eighth level, II dis.
tance OF 800 feet. The fall killed him
instantly, and mangled and bruised his
head beyond recognition. Jones fell
through the bottom Of self-dumplng
skip.
A Fort Collins dispatch of June 18th
to the Denver Republican says: The
rainfall recorded here since 2:3O O'clock
Yesterday afternoon Is one and one.