Gilpin observer., 1903-10-08
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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Introduce various social features.
The Yuma County Fair at Wray
closed October 3rd after highly sue
cessful exhibition. Races and base
ball games added to the interest.
The Pueblo drug stores have all put
in nickel-in-the-slot telephones and
the instruments are now devoted more
to business and less to gossip
The official count shows that the ma
Jorfty against the Denver charter was
7.197. There were 35,711 votes cast. A
new charter election is now in order.
A telephone line has been established
from the top of the range on the Moffat
line to the company's Offices in the Ma
Jestic building at Denver. The length
OF the line is sixty miles.
ID. II. Moffat emphatically denies the
rumor that his line is in some way to
be connected with the Western Pacific
railway project. Ee has no thought
OF any extension beyond Salt Lake.
Edwin ]. Eaton of Colorado Springs
has been appointed by Governor Pea
body as trustee of the State Home
for the Deaf and Blind. He takes the
place OF w. G. Rice, recently deceased.
be 1O4 years old, died at the Denver
county poor farm and was buried un-
der the auspices of the G. A. R., Octo-
ber 1st. He was in the service at Mo-
bile
A commission appointed by Mayor
Wright is at work in Denver investi-
eating titles to land along Cherry
creek. 1t is proposed to wall the banks
CT trryn n or1 oil a
least one of the walls.
The Idaho Springs Board of Alder
men has voted to set aside sufficient
ground owned by the city for the new
Carnegie Library building The site
will be directly across the street from
the Colorado & Southern Depot.
After much tribulation the Denver &
Northwestern Suburban Line, which
will be part of the Denver Tramway
system, has secured right of way into
Golden. 1t will be an extension of the
present electric line between Denver
and Arvada.
The handsome new SIT, 900 Standard
Club house, being built by the United
States Reduction and Refining Compa
ny at Colorado City for the benefit
Of it's employees, is rapidly nearing
completion and will be ready for Oc
cupancy December 1st.
Dr. w. H. Spicer. prominent Pueb-
10 dentist, was found dead in his Of
flee at p. m. October 5th. Death re-
suited from an overdose of chloro-
form taken to ease intense pain caused
by neuralgia. The coroner decided
that no inquest was necessary.
The Colorado Springs lodge Of Elks
opened their new $65, 900 club house
October 3rd. A supper was given at
night. The formal dedicatory exercises
will take place November II at II o.
cloc kin the evening, when "a gathering
of all the lodges in the state will be
held.
The agricultural people at Fort Col
, lins are preparing to celebrate the
coming of William L. Carlisle, the new
agriculturist at the Agricultural Col
lege, on the night of October 10Th.
when one of the biggest banquets ever
held in the city will occur at the Ma
sonic hall.
Word was received a few days ago
at the Denver Office of the Santa Fe
line that four new 143-ton engines were
on their way to Denver for service be-
tween Denver and Palmer Lake. The
new engines will pull seven coaches
up the grade there at the rate of fifty
miles an hour.
Ray r. Jackson. employed in the
wire mill of the C. F. & I. company
at Pueblo. died September 29th, on his
nineteenth birthday, of injuries re-
ceived by contact with the machinery.
He was a graduate of the Colorado
Springs high school. his father being J.
M. Jackson, former treasurer Of Ell
Paso county.
The recent quarterly meeting OF the
Saguache Stock Growers Association
was well attended. State Veterinari-
an Lamb and Secretary Fred p. John
son of the state association were pres
ent. Saguache stockmen are in po-
sition to winter their stock In good
condition and can hold them over un-
less the market is satisfactory.
In the District Court at Delta ocio-
ber 3rd. Judge Stevens sentenced John
Whitaker to the penitentiary for a
term of from two to three years. JO-
seph Carlow. convicted of murder in
the second degree. was sentenced to
from twelve to fifteen years, and Geo.
Johnson. convicted of horse stealing.
was sentenced to from two to three
years.
Father j. II. Malone left Denver Oc-
tober I'd on a trip OF investigation in
the different penal and charitable insti-
tutions of the state. Father Malone is
a member of the State Board of Char
tiles and Correction, and 1t is in con-
nection with this that he makes the
trip. He arranged to visit the state
penitentiary. the state reformatories
and the insane asylum before return
ing
The following well-known men OF
Colorado Springs have been appointed
appraisers by Judge ]. A. Elstun to
determine valuations In the Stratton
estate. Il. l.. Della Vergne and Ed
ward Samuel johnson, for the mines: