Gilpin observer., 1903-03-19
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Monday, April 9Th.
A committee has been appointed by
the business men of Manitou to endea-
.vor to secure library donation from
Mr.. Carnegie.
Pueblo, ladies will endeavor to secure
cleanup of some of the dirty and
disreputable streets that now do dis
credit to the city.
Negotiations for rights of way in
Grand county have been commenced
preparatory to letting grading con-
tracts for the Moffat road.
The President has made the follow
ing nominations Of postmasters in Col
orado: G. N. Raymond, Durango; G.
H. Shone, Alamosa; G. T. Martinez.
Pagosa Springs.
The date of the launching of the
cruiser Denver at the Cramp ship
yards has been postponed from April
9th to April 25th to accommodate Gov
ernor Peabody.
William Garrison, who was recently
convicted of highway robbery and was
held in the county Jail at Cripple
Creek awaiting sentence, made his es-
cape on the morning Of the 9th inst.
DR.. William P. Mum, president of
the Colorado State Medical Society and
former health commissioner of Den
yer, died at Denver March 18th Of con-
S, Sumption contracted before he came to
Colorado
Arrangements have been completed
with the United States fish hatchery at
Leadville for the placing of l 900 900 fry
trout in the Platte river through the
canon section by the Colorado & South
ern railroad.
1t is expected that over 100 families
will settle this spring on the tract of
land controlled by the Denver Sugar
Land and Irrigation Company below
the big Castlewood dam on Cherry
creek between Denver and the divide.
The Pueblo Business Mems Associa-
ton has pledged itself to raise the
$4,000 bonus asked by the United
States Packing Company of Chicago, in
consideration of the location of large
packing plant in Pueblo.
A nitro-glycerine factory, three
miles north of Boulder, was blown up
on the morning of March 9th. but no.
body was hurt and the damage is
small. 1t is conjectured that too hot
fire was left in the furnace.
A large number of Swede immigrants
from the famine section Of Sweden
have been passing through Denver
lately for different parts of the Rocky
Mountain and coast regions. con-
siderable proportion of them will set
tie in Colorado.
Winfield S. Grove of Denver has re-
Gently been made captain of the Philip
pine constabulary. Mr.. Grove left Den
yer in 1898 and since he has been in the
army has been rapidly advanced. Cap
tain Grove is in command of the prov
ince Of Laguna.
Another roundup of wild horses was
recently made in the vicinity of Ala
mosa and La Jara and on the 18th in
slant 800 of them were auctioned off at
the Alamosa stock yards, mostly to
eastern buyers, the average price be-
ting about 81 head.
Samuel H. Benton, prominent law
yer of Colorado Springs. died at Byha-
liza. Mississippi. on the 18th instant.
His dead body was found in ditch.
There were knife cuts on his arms and
body, leading to the supposition that
he had committed suicide.
A. D. Moorhead, member of the
Gentlemen's Driving and Riding Club
Of Denver, and Denver agent for the
Longmont flour mills, died suddenly
Of heart disease March 14th while driv-
ing home in a carriage from the City
park in company with w. ]. Briggs.
The City Council Of Colorado Springs
has accepted the offer of Gen. William
]. Palmer to furnish city forester to
superintend the work Of trimming the
trees of the Springs. and an immediate
stop will be put to the present reckless
methods employed by some Of the cit
liens.
The story of the adventures of Miss
Ellen Stone. the missionary who was
captured by Bulgarian brigands and
ransomed by the American people, will
be told in Denver by Miss Stone. She
will lecture March 23rd under the aus
pices of the First Congregational
Church.
The John A. Clough Memorial
Methodist Episcopal Church building
at Denver was dedicated March 8th,
in honor OF public-spirited member
Of the church who gave a large amount
of money and effort to the cause of
Methodism In Colorado, and who died
In 1895.
Agents of the Humane Society are
busy looking up owners of stock who
have allowed their beasts to suffer
during the last month of almost con-
tinuous storm. Reports received at
Denver from all sections of the state
are that cattle not cared for in corrals
are In very bad condition.
President Roosevelt has replied
through Secret&ry Loeb to the invita-
tion of the Colorado Springs Y. M. c.
A. and the Real Estate Exchange to
visit the Springs upon his trip to Colo
RADIO. The President stated that as yet
no definite schedule had been arranged
but that the matter would be given full
consideration.
Bridgemen employed at the Bessemer
Steel Works have been notified that
they will be called out in sympathy