Gilpin observer., 1903-09-10
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Charles H. Eagan. for many years
a prominent labor leader of Denver,
died Sept. 4th OF hemorrhage of the
brain.
The Colorado Springs base ball club
is still playing a close second TO the
Milwaukee club, which leads in the
Western league
The Colorado Federation OF Women's
Clubs will hold its ninth annual con-
vention at Colorado Springs September
28th to October 1st.
The ten days conference meeting of
Seventh-Day Adventists Of Colorado
and New Mexico at Salida, which closed
August 30th, was largely attended.
The Agricultural college football
team will be coached this fall by w.
H. Galley, who was for many years q
leading member of the Michigan team.
Rev. Daniel H. Fleming of Leadville
has been appointed q chaplain in the
army. He was chaplain of the First
Colorado Volunteers in the Philip
pines. Mr.. Fleming il an Episco-
palian.
The public library nc Denver has
been opened at its new quarters in La
Veta Place. The new Carnegie library
cannot be commenced for several
months.
Edward B. Clayton died at Denver
Sept. 4th at the age of IS; leaving it is
said, a considerable fortune. He was
the brother of George w. Clayton, who
lett some two million dollars to found
a boys school in Denver.
Denver brick manufacturers have
raised the price of hard brick, deliv-
cred, to IS per thousand. 1t was for
merly $3.50. The manufacturers stand
in with the bricklayers and there is no
appeal from their decision.
William c. Whitney Of New York,
formerly secretary of the navy, passed
through Denver Sept. 4th with a party
Of friends on their way to Rifle, Colo.
where they had arranged to take the
stage for sojourn in the White River
country hunting big game.
The Postoffice Department has adver-
tised for bids for carrying the mail
from Loveland to Moraine park and Es-
tes park six times week, over the new
road to Estes park. Bids will be re-
ceived until September 18th and service
will begin October LIST.
Mr.. Jacob Shmitt, the instructor of
physical culture in the public schools
of Denver has received an invitation
from James E. Sullivan, the chief of
the physical culture department of the
Olympian games next year, to act as
a member of the honorary committee
of the Turner's in connection with the
games.
A dispatch from San Diego, Calf,
says that DIR. G. e. Cowell of Grand
Junction, Colo, suddenly became in
sane on the morning Of Sept 1st, and
was taken in charge by the authorities
on request of his wife. On examina-
ton before the superior court he was
ordered committed TO the asplum at
Highlands.
One hundred and sixty-two building
permits were issued in Denver during
the month of August, providing for the
erection of buildings to the aggregate
value of $685. The permits include
seventy-six dwellings, eight terraces
and six business blocks. There is one
factory and one hotel, each of which is
to cost $4,000.
The pay roll for the C. F. & l. for
August beats the record of previous
amounts paid out for one months
work, by more than $4,000, the total
being 1890, 0,039.30. OF this amount $24,-
900 was paid to the Colorado & Wyom-
ing railway employees, the rest being
paid to the wage earners in the c. F.
& I. plant at Pueblo.
The comptroller of the currency at
Washington has approved the applica-
ton for permission to organize the
Citizens National Bank at Glenwood
Springs, with a capital of $4,000, by
the following named incorporators: B.
T. Napier, H. G. Hammerick, Frank
Walter. George Edipger. George Yule
and E. E. Drach.
The Victor Fuel Company. which
owns and operates the coal mines at
Chandler, six miles south OF Canon
City. and which has been employing
negro coal miners, has changed its sys-
TEN and within the past few days has
discharged all of the colored miners,
furnishing them transportation to their
former homes in Missouri and Tennes-
see. The company has secured miners
from among the people in the vicinity.
A Louisville, Kentucky, dispatch
says that Father John H. Cushing de-
nies the story emanating from Denver
that he had been ordered to Gethse-'
name, there to remain practically a
prisoner for life. because OF his long
fight upon Bishop Matz. Father Cush-
ing says he has been sent In retreat at
the Trappist monastery for a month or
less by Archbishop Falconio, and i'm
mediately thereafter will return to his
diocese In Denver.
Joseph Scott, the smelterman who
was sentenced to sixty days In the Dem
yer county jail by Judge Dixon for
contempt of court in violating an in
junction issued against the union, has
been remanded to the county jail by
Judge Mullins, who decided that he had
no Jurisdiction on q writ of habeas co.
pus in case where the prisoner was