Gilpin observer., 1903-01-29

OF the city during the last six months.
Pueblo business men are moving to
raise subscriptions for the purpose of
securing the location of the proposed
new Presbyterian University for Pu-
sblo.
The football team Of the University
OF Colorado is making arrangements
for ten-days trip through Kansas
and Nebraska during the spring vaca-
ton.
Pending the settlement of the Legis-
latfve squabble and the passage of an
appropriation bill, state officials in
Denver are getting short of postage
stamps.
Governor Peabody has announced
the appointment of B. f. Rockefeller
and Eugene A. Grubb members of the
board of control Of the State Agricul-
tural College.
Ground was broken at Sugar City
January goth for the water works sys-
TEN, to cost $4,000 The plant will
supply water for both irrigation and
domestic use.
DR.. H. A. Eemen, for many years one
OF the leading physicians of Denver,
died January 22nd. Owing to i'll health
he had not been in active practice for
several years.
]. w. McCausland, breeder of rae
ing horses and a driver with an inter-
national reputation, died at Denver
January 18th OIL peritonitis after a
sickness of fourteen days.
The Denver Box Company's plant at
Tenth and Wazee street, in Denver.
was burned January 23rd, occasioning
a loss of over $4,000 and throwing for
ty people out of employment.
President Boyle of the Colorado City
Chamber of Commerce is in cores
pondence with Andrew Carnegie in re-
lation to the establishment of a Carne-
gle library in Colorado City.
Miss Cora Fay of Colorado City. now
a government teacher in the Philip
pines. has been given a three months
vacation owing to the prevalence of the
plague in the islands. She Is now in
Japan.
The Colorado Telephone Company
will extend its line from Florence to
the agricultural regions Of Hardscrab-
BILE and Wetmore, distance of fifteen
miles, establishing toll stations at
Wetmore and Greenwood.
Savannah oil we'll No. 4 at Boulder
has come into oil and developed into
a fine producer without shooting. 1t
is between 1900 and 1000 feet deep.
1t is expected 1t will have capacity
of fifty barrels a day for daylight
pumping.
The fine exhibit Of winter apples dis
played at the Fremont County Horti-
cultural Show at Canon City is now in
possession of the State Horticultural
Board and will be preserved in solution
for permanent display In the boards
rooms in the capitol.
The American Bonding Company OF
Baltimore has paid to the city attor-
ney of Goldfield s1,142.60, being pay
ment in full of the shortage of g. j. NJ.
Hambaugh, ex-city treasurer. Ham,
baugh went South. and later. 1t is al
legged, caused his death to be reported.
Official notice has beOp received at
the headquarters of the Department Of
the Colorado at Denver that the sum
OF $4,000 has been appropriated for
gymnasium at Fort Logan in the sub
urbs of Denver. This will build Q
magnificent gymnasium and the ex-
penditure of SO large SUM indicates
that Fort Logan is considered an i'm
portant military center.
Robert l.. Frantz has filed suit in the
District Court at Pueblo against the
Denver G. Rio Grande Railroad Com
pany for $4,000 for damages for an ac-
cident October IL. 1902. Frantz was
mail clerk and the company alleges
| that he was loading mail at the Pueblo
| union depot when an engine struck the
|. train, throwing him to the ground. and.
r he claims, permanently crippling him.
Colorado Springs capitalists. it is
stated will shortly organize company
to construct and operate a narrow
gauge railroad between Central City
and the heart of the Yankee mining
district 1t Is announced that the COM
pany will be incorporated in Colorado
within thirty days as the Central City.
| Yankee Hill & James Peak Railway
Company and that grading will COM
mence May LIST.
There will be an irrigation exhibit at
| the st. Louis Worlds Fair. The Colo
| RADIO Board of Managers has received a
| letter from F. w. Taylor, chief of the
| Department of Agriculture, saying
| that special attention will be given the
exhibit 1t is the intention not only to
show the system OF Colorado irriga-
| ton, but to actually raise small crop
An appropriation of 100000 to $780,
900 will be requested
At meeting OIL the directors of the
F, Berthoud Farmers Milling and Eleva-
tor Company, January 18th. the presi-
dent and secretary were directed to
make deed of general assignment for
the benefit of all creditors. The as
signment was made to J. Y. Munson.
The mill Is a magnificent structure of
stone, with warehouse capacity Of
about 10000 bushels. It was erected
in 1888 at . cost Of $1,000 and ID
owned by farmers in that vicinity.