Gilpin observer., 1903-12-31
COLORADO BRIEFS.

at cost OF nearly $5,O 900.
The successful bidder for the 100;
coal cars for the MoEat road was the
Pullman Car company of Chicago.
A dressed turkey weighing forty.
pounds was raffled OF at Greeley
meat market on Christmas.
The Denver lodge OF Elks sent out
500 baskets full of provisions to that
many poor families on Christmas.
A justice of the peace at Colorado
Springs gives away snap shot photo
graph with each marriage certificate.
The date Of the state fair at Pu-
eblo next fall has been fixed upon. It
will begin September Gath and con-
tinue until the close OF the 28th.
William Kammelar, a Denver bi-
cycle thief, has been sentenced by
Judge Malone to q term OF from five
to ten years in the penitentiary.
Recruiting for the United States
Navy will be conducted in Denver dur
ing the two weeks from January 4th.
Lieutenant George Pettingell is in
charge.
Members Of the Pueblo Fire Depart
ment were presented with medals on
Christmas Day by the city government
during the year.
County Assessor De Vault reports the
valuation of property in Teller county
at $11.672,000. The valuation in Grip
pie Creek is $1,665 900 and in the city
of Victor $1064,OO0.
Richard Tremayne, one of the most
prominent citizens of Park. owning
large ranch and stock interests on
10 c,rfro q
severe stroke Of paralysis.
Russell Boles, who is charged with
the murder of Harold Friedborn on the
night of December 81, 1901. was ar
raigned in the District Court at Dem
yer December 10Th and pleaded not
guilty.
Fhe Rev. w. T. Jordan, pastor Of
the Calvary Baptist Church in Denver,
has resigned for the purpose of de-
voting his whole time to the work of
the Colorado Woman's College to be
established at Denver under Baptist
auspices.
L. c. Dubois of Salida, a well-known
mining man and engineer, died at Saltda
of pneumonia December 25th. He was
a member of the American Institute
of Mining Engineers. the Masons. Elks.
Woodmen, Maccabees and the Ameri-
can Yeomen.
John Ryan and Miss Leonora Zor-
mig were drowned in Berkeley lake at
Denver on the night OF Sunday. De-
cember goth. They were skating on
the lake s-d broke through the ice.
Their bodies were not discovered un-
til Tuesday. Ryan was butler for q
private family and Miss Zornig was
employed at a boarding house. :
The Colorado Telephone Company
have greatly improved their service
during the past few months. By the
use of copper wires on their long-dis-
tance ser vice one can talk two hundred
miles as easily as two blocks. Many
of the larger stockmen and farmers are
now using their service, and find it OF
great benefit to their business.
The time for holding the Fremont
County Farmers Institute has been
fixed by the executive committee for
January 18th and 14th. Several MEM
bers of the faculty of the State Agri-
cultural College at Fort Collins will be
present, as well as Hon. ]. w. Crow
ley of Rocky Ford. all Of whom will
address the institute on matters of in
terest.
The Union reservoir, which has just
been completed, adds materially to
northern Colorado's already splendid
system for storing water. Union res
ervoir is located three miles northeast
OF Longmont, has capacity OF $780,
600, 900 cubic feet, covers $50 acres and
will water the land under the Union
and Latham bitches, something over
IL 900 acres. The cost Of building the
reservoir was $4,000.
A Washington dispatch says that
the division of the Southern Ute In
dian reservation has been decided
upon. The dividing line runs north
and south following the course Of the
Animas river. The eastern half re-
mains under control OF Joseph Smith,
superintendent at Ignacio. and the
western half passes to the charge of
Superintendent Peterson Of Fort
Lewis school.
After serving one year of twenty
five-year sentence for the murder OF
Charles j. Withern at Coaldale, two
years ago, Street Mccoy died In the
penitentiary at Canon City, December
22d. About five minutes after his
death a pardon arrived from Governor
Peabody. Mccoy had been sick for
some weeks, and an effort was made
to secure pardon SO that he might
die at his home.
Attorney James H. Teller. Pueblo,
has directed an open letter to the Cit
izens' Alliance. In which he condemns
the action OF both the alliance and the
police department in ordering C. H.
Meyer, president of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners to leave the city.
He asserts that the rights Of 'ndivid-
ual citizenship have been usufped and
that such conditions are fair samples
of the monarchial RUE that prevails In
Russia.