Gilpin observer., 1903-05-28
COLORADO BRIEFS


an organization to establish and main
tain uniform prices.
Albert E. Fife. aged thirty years. was
killed by lightning at his home, near
Berthoud, on the 18th inst.
Realty Association will be held in Pu-
eblo June 9th. 10th and 18th.
The corporate existence of the First
National bank of Idaho Springs has
been extended for twenty years.
James T. Smith, ex-labor commits
sioner, has accepted the managing edi-
torship of the Durango Trades Jour
nal.
A number of tents have been erected
on the Health farm of the Young
Mems Christian Association, near Den
yer.
The election of delegates to frame
| charter for the city and county OF
Denver will be held on Tuesday, June
End.
James D. Gage, formerly county COM
| missioner of Montrose county, died at
Montrose May 18th, at the age OF sixty
nine.
Nearly FIVE thousand people attended
the formal opening of the new Ell Paso
county court house at Colorado Springs
on the afternoon and night of May 10Th.
The census of the school district
which includes Greeley and the coun-
try districts within a radius Of two and
half miles, shows = school popula-
| tion of 1,420.
The report of the Ell Paso county
| grand jury charges that the police de-
partment of Colorado Springs has
plundered residents and robbed tour
lists. protecting the guilty.
An automobile coach service has
| been inaugurated in Denver for the
purpose Of conveying visitors to points
of interest in the city. after the fash
ion of the Seeing Denver cars.
An anonymous donor has made Of
| gift of $4,000 to the Denver Real Es-
tate Exchange for the erection of an
ornamental gateway at the Eighteenth
avenue entrance to City park in Den
yer.
Frederick Vanderford, formerly Of
| Pueblo, where he belonged to the
| Plumbers Union, committed suicide in
|! the stockyards of the Union Pacific at
Henderson, east of Denver, on May 19.
He took morphine and died in convul-
sions.
The silver bell for the cruiser Den
yer was shipped to Philadelphia May
Goth, and in less than two weeks it will
be hung in place on the vessel. The
silver service will not be sent until
the ship is in commission and ready
to receive the gift.
The annual Strawberry day festival
at Glenwood Springs will be held this
year on June goth. The day will in
clude, besides the usual big free
strawberry feast, the features of free
admission to the big swimming pool
and a free open air dance in the even
ing.
Louis F. Block, the Denver business
man who killed r. H. Jones in a
fight in the formers Office at 1926
Champa street on September 8, 1902,
has been sentenced to one year in
the county Jail by Judge johnson of
the West Side criminal court. This
was the limit of the law.
The board of the Colorado Chautau-
qua at Boulder has received furniture
sufficient to accommodate all guests
of the great summer school. The as
sociation has purchased outright 81, 500
worth of beds, cots and commodes.
Guarantors of the Chautauqua fund
have advanced to the association the
money required to meet this bill.
The largest mountain trout ever
seen in Trinidad was brought to the
city by H. Russell a few days ago.
The fish, which is of the speckled
variety, was caught May 18th in the
Stonewall country. 1t is thirty inches
in length and weighed Tx pounds as
it came from the water, and 14h
pounds dressed. Mr.. Russell refused
several offers of IS for the skin.
General William ]. Palmer has in
creased his original gift of $4,000 for
a library for the State School for the
Deaf and Blind at Colorado Springs, to
approximately 1000, the additional
$11 900 being the means to acquire a
tract Of eight acres Immediately east
of the school, near Willow street The
land will be used as a playground, the
two institutions to be known respect
lively as Palmer field and Palmer IL
brary.
George B. Fravert, one of the larg-
est and most successful fruit growers
on the western slope. in writing to
Secretary Shute of the Horticultural
Society, from Rifle, says: 1.-The fruit
crop in this section is not damaged in
the least. We have prospects of the
largest crop of pears, plums, cherries,
peaches and apricots in the history OF
Garfield county. The apple crop is
light, on account of over-production
last year"
1t is proposed by Colorado College,
at Colorado SpringsI to establish a
pathological and research laboratory,
for which purpose room 2Sx14 feet
has been set aside in the new science
building now under erection. The
room will be equipped with chemical
hood. water gas and storage battery,
with facilities for nearly all lines of
analytical work. A director will be
appointed and will receive $1,000 a
year salary.
The fourth annual debate between