Gilpin observer., 1903-08-20
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Many OF the citizens of Greeley
strongly object to baseball games on
Sunday and are taking steps to have
them suppressed.
Thomas Gordon of Cheyenne has
been appointed engineer at the Grand
Junction Indian School at q salary Of
$S40 per annum.
On the afternoon of August 18th a
cloudburst in the foothills between
Morrison and Golden did considerable
damage to roads and bitches.
The annual corn roast at Loveland
which has been omitted for several
years, will be revived again this year
and celebrated September 3rd. Every
body is invited.
Isaac P. Van Wormer, a well-known
Denver pioneer and prominent cattle
man. died at his home in Denver. Au-
gust 18th, at the age of seventy-three
years.
The Arkansas Valley Fair will be
held at Rocky Ford September End.
3rd and 4th. Watermelon Day will be
celebrated on the second day Of the
fair, September 3rd.
An order issued by General Nelson
A. Miles before his retirement COM
mands the presence in Manila Of Major
Daniel M. Appel, U. s. A., who has
been stationed in Denver on special
duty since June 4th.
The Pueblo Trades Assembly has
completed arrangements for the Labor
Day festival, September 7th. The cele-
bration will be held at the fair grounds
where an extensive program of racing
and athletic events will be given.
The work of the annual convocation
of the colored Masons at Pueblo came
to close August 18th, by an open In
stallation of officers and an elaborate
banquet. More than 100 delegates
present.
Jefferson Fry, a ranchman living
seven miles below Rifle, was drowned
on the 9Th inst. while bathing in the
Grand river He was thirty-four years
Of age and leaves widow and three
small children.
A rural free delivery route has been
ordered established at Brush, Morgan
county, September 18th. There will be
one carrier, who will have a route
twenty-five miles long and serve 450
people.
Congressman Hogg will introduce a
bill at the next session of Congress to
forbid entrance into this country OF
any who cannot show papers signify
ing that he has not been prosecuted Tor
crime for a period of five years.
DR.. Hindman of Trinidad has pur-
chased the Staplin ranch, at the foot
of Spanish peaks, and will erect $25,.
900 summer hotel on the place. The
sale price of the ranch, which contains
800 acres. was $4,000.
In the County Court at Pueblo a
few days ago, before Judge Gibson. a
speedy divorce record was made when
a jury was sworn in, the testimony
taken and a verdict rendered in favor
Of the plaintiff I'm five and one-half
minutes.
The first carload of nails produced
by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany at Pueblo was shipped August
8th, and ]. w. Brooks, superintendent
of the wire mill, made an exhibit of
the first barbed wire manufactured in
the West. Samples of telegraph and
telephone wire are also exhibited.
Werner z. Reed and o. H. Shoup of
Colorado Springs. and A. M. Johnson
of Denver have bought the interest Of
Captain Arthur Hotchkiss in the State
Bank at Fort Morgan, and will reor-
ganize the bank as the First National
Bank Of Fort Morgan as soon as the
necessary proceedings can b. COM
pleted.
DR.. George H. Stover of Denver has
received a small quantity. about fif-
teen grains, in the form of a chloride,
of the new metal, radium. He will
test it in the cure of cancer and other
diseases. The value Of the specimen
is SITS, and an ounce would be worth
S., 900. Pure radium would cost about
ten times as much.
Prof. George H. Rowe, dean of the de-
partment Of electrical engineering in the
University of Colorado, has rendered
his resignation to the board Of regents,
to be effective at once. Professor
Rowe's resignation is due to a call
from Leland Stanford ]. University in
California, to occupy a similar position
in the faculty there.
The Colorado Midland railway has
settled with the different parties who
had secured judgment by stipulation
against them on account of wreck
near Cascade, on June 20. 1902. Miss
Mary O'Rourke of Victor was paid 81
$50, and Miss Estelle Lewis and her
mother, Mrs. Lewis. were handed a
check for $500.
The Mormons of Denver are complet-
ing plans for the erection Of house
of worship at West Sixth avenue and
South Water street. The church will
be a two-story structure. and besides
the hall for religious purposes will
have also arrangements for an office.
Sunday school rooms and housekeep-
ing rooms for the resident elder
Secretary Shireman of the State
Fair at Pueblo announced that two
coupler will be married before the
grand stand during the State Fair.
The ceremony performed last year was
SO popular that the management will
give two at the coming State Fair,