Gilpin observer., 1903-10-01
COLORADO BRIEFS.

tou will be dedicated October 25th BY,
Bishop Matz.
In an attempt to loop the loop on q
bicycle at Pueblo. few days ago.
Frank Byers, young Bessemer lad,
fell and received some bad bruises.
The Santa Fe has taken of its Colo
RADIO and Missouri rivvr flyers after
closing the most successful season yet
experienced. These trains are run to
accommodate summer travel.
Acting Secretary Ryan of the Interi-
or department has approved the selec-
pany's list No. 81 to 144.41S acres Of
land in the Denver land district.
Allen B. Seaman, prominent attor-
ney of Denver, died Of heart disease
on the night of Sept. Gath. He went
to bed apparently in his usual health
and was found dead in the morning. /,
Miss Alfredo Stebbins, late Of Lin
coin, Nebraska. has been elected IL
brarian at Fort Collins. She is an ex-
perienced librarian, having taken a
regular course in library work in Phil
adelphia.
G. w. Wells. engineer in charge OF
the state wagon road to be built from
Durango to Oro Fino, has established
his camp midway between and has been
exploring the section to determine
upon route.
The postoffices at Hotchkiss and Pa
onia, Colorado, are among those Or
dered to be advanced to the presiden-
tial grade October 1st, the postmas-
ters' salaries being fixed at $1,100 and
81 200 respectively.
By the caving in Of the earthen roof
of house eight miles east of Aguilar.
short time since, Elferino Aguilar,
aged 13, was killed and six grown peo-
pie more or less injured. The boy
died from suffocation.
The march of improvement at Den
ver has driven the Volunteers of Amer
ica out of their headquarters on Lari-
mer street, which the owners wish to
remodel, and the Volunteers are now
searching for new location.
In Justice Ruby's court at Colorado
Springs, William Roberts was fined IS
and costs on each Of three charges OF
teen years of age. Roberts pleaded
guilty to all charges and paid total OF
$33.75.
The Pueblo City Council has voted to
spend each year an additional $1,000
for the maintenance of the new Carne-
gle library. Carnegie having agreed to
increase his donation of $4,000 to $780,
900 il the council would make this in
crease.
The International Onyx and Marble
Company, composed of Denver and
English capitalists, has purchased the
Big Bug onyx fields for $150.0O0. The
beds are extensive and furnish the
translucent sea-green onyx. They are
located near Mayer. Arizona:
In the District Court at Durango. on
September 21st. Judge Russell sem
fenced negro named Pervis to not
less than four nor more than six years
at hard labor, and Ralph Smalley to
fourteen to sixteen months for shoot
ing Ed Lazarus in the ankle.
Rocky Ford is soon to have a new
bank known as the First National
Bank Of Rocky Ford. The charter has
been applied for to the Washington
authorities and the bank will probably
be in operation inside of thirty days.
1t will have capital of $4,000.
General Frank d. Baldwin, COM
mander Of the Department of the Col
orado, has Just returned from attend
ing reunion Of the Nineteenth Mich
igan infantry at Otsego. Michigan.
General Baldwin has been for twenty
years president of the regimental asso-
citation.
The registers and receivers at Lead
vile and Gunnison have been ordered
to withdraw from all forms of entry
the following described lands. ON ac-
count of irrigation projects: Lead
ville-Sections 27. 20, 33 and "a, town
ship IL, range SO; Gunnison-Sections
Z. 8. IT, 1S, 10 and 20. township IA
south, range 80; and sections "a, 2S,
33 and "a, township IL south. range SO.
At Leadville a few days ago, in q
Quarrel over matter involving $7.75,
Joseph Coplin, white, emptied his re-
volver at John Ragland, colored, but
failed to hit him or any of the people
on the street. who ran in all directions
to escape the bullets. Ragland had
Coplin arrested on the charge of as
sault with a deadly weapon, and Cop
lin swore out warrant charging the
negro with robbery.
Patents have recently been granted
to residents of Colorado as follows:
Eugene H. Grubb, Carbondale, as
signor to G. w. Bowen, Pueblo, COM
bined land roller and corrugator; John
G. Leyner. Denver. rock drilling sys-
tenn; Harvey c. Lowrie. Denver, means
for securing circular doors or covers
to castings; Edmund H. Lunken, Den
yer, window; Philip X. Morcom and
w. G. Schaffer. Denver. self-cleanine
oil burner.
On the night OF September goth OIL
yer Creswell, clerk in Barnum & Girls
wold's hardware store at Trinidad, was
awakened by two burglars who had
broken into the store, where he was
sleeping. He shot and killed one OF
them with a shotgun and wounded the
other, who escaped. A file and some
steel saws were found on the person
Of the dead burglar. but he was not
identified