Gilpin observer., 1902-10-16
COLORADO BRIEFS.


uniforms on its men.
The Brotherhood of st. Andrew will
hold its national convention in Den
yer next year.
President James H. Baker OF the
University of Colorado, returned from
Europe on the 8th instant.
Colorado labor organizations are
sending large sums of money to Penn
sylvania to aid the strikers.
Mrs. George Baldesarri, an Italian
resident Of Silverton, was crushed to
death October 9th by the overturning
of load Of baled hay.
Adjutant General Gardner says the
Colorado troops that attended the
army maneuvers in Kansas will b
benefited by the experience.
The George w. Cook Drum Corps
from the Centennial State were very
much in evidence at the national en-
campment of the G. A. r. in Washing
ton.
The county commissioners of Gum
nison county have submitted the ques-
ton of a county high school to the,
people of the county to vote on next
month.
Mrs. G. H. Stoiber Of Silverton has
taken out nonresident hunters IL
cense in Montana, being the first wom-
an to whom such license has been
granted.
The Baptist convention, which meets
in Denver October goth. will be in ses-
sion for three days. Among the things
to be considered are the plans for the
Woman's College at Denver.
Grand county has its first bank. IT.
is called the Bank of Grand County and
was opened for business October 1st
at Sulphur Springs. County Judge
]. T. Wills is president and Frank N.
Briggs is cashier.
Hazel" cottage, the handsomest
cottage on the Boulder Chautauqua
grounds, was destroyed by fire Octo-
ber 9th. The cottage cost upward OF
$4,000, and was the property of John
Duncan Of Boulder.
The town of Colorado City will pur-
chase for the sum of $4,000 water
right No. 2 of the Findley ranch on
Fountain creek and will construct a,
water system of it's own, il present
plans do not miscarry.
Prominent business men of Colorado
Springs will confer with Chief Hydro ..
grapher F. A. Newell relative to the
construction of a reservoir on site
seven miles south of the city, to store
the flood waters of the Fountain.
The annual state horticultural con-
vention will be held November 10, 20
and 81 at the rooms of the state hor-
ticultural board in the capitol build
ing at Denver Arrangements are be-
ing made for horticultural exhibit.
The University of California, after
careful investigation, will give full
credit to students for diplomas in the
following Colorado schools: North
Side high school, East Denver high
school and West Side high school of
Denver; Pueblo high school. Pueblo.
At its meeting in Fort Collins Octo-
ber Sth, the Northern Colorado Lum-
bermen's Association elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, Senator w.
L. Clayton of Greeley; vice president,
Lambert Sternberg of Boulder. secre-
tary and treasurer, L. r. Haywood OF
Loveland.
Game Commissioner Harris has Sol
far recovered from the wound received
in his late encounter with Utes that
he has left his Office in Denver and
temporarily taken up his quarters at;
his ranch near Golden. 1t may take
some time for the wound to become
entirely healed.
Mrs. Mary E. Barry, sentenced to.
three years in the penitentiary for
stealing a house at Victor and moving
it to Cripple Creek. and who was re-
leased from the penitentiary under a
writ of supersedeas and granted new,
trial, has been acquitted by fury in
the District Court at Cripple Creek. !.
At an election held in Sterling. Oc-l
tober 11th, the taxpayers voted almost
unanimously in favor of waterworks
system, and as a result bonds amount
ing to $63 900 will be issued for that,
purpose. A reservoir of half a mill
lion gallons capacity will be built at
Springdale Springs, five miles from the,
town.
The site for the new postoffice in La
Junta has been selected by the depart
ment in Washington. The property be-
longing 30 ]. H. Simington was select
ed. The owner will erect buildingi
and lease it to the government for a,
term of years at stipulated sum. This
is expected to locate the postoffice per-,
manently for at least ten years.
The annual convention of the United
Mine Workers of America for Colo
RADIO, Wyoming. New Mexico. at its
session in Colorado Springs, elected
the following officers: William How
ellis. Coal Creek, president; William
McAllister. Lafayette. vice president; .
John Simpson. Aguilar, secretary;
William Price. Palisades. executive,
board member.
Charles B. Prior of Loveland, presi-
dent of the Prior Coal. Oil and Gas,
Company. has large quantity of coal
samples from the company's mine inl
Morgan county. He reports shaft
down eighty-five feet where an eleven;
foot vein Of good quality of Ignite coal
was encountered and drill showed
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