Gilpin observer., 1903-02-05
/ COLORADO [ IiJ', BRIEFS.

E. L. Meyers Of Antonfto will erect
$4,000 building in Denver, says the
News.
The Brown Palace hotel in Denver
| will hereafter be run on the European
plan only.
The Grand hotel at Pueblo is to be
| greatly improved and large bath
house added.
The new reservoir and site in Colo
RADIO Springs will cost about $500, 900.
| The capacity of the reservoir will be
| 17,5O0,0OO gallons.
Colorado Springs book binders are
making efforts to secure the location
OF the proposed home of the Interna-
| tional Union OF Bookbinders for Colo
rado Springs.
The new buildings authorized by the
Denver building inspection department
during January aggregated in value
| $379,635, which was $94, ,0S0 more than
| for the same month of 1902.
The many friends of Gen. H. G. Mer-
riam in Colorado will be pleased to
know that the United States Senate
has passed bill advancing him to- the
| grade of major general on the retired
| list.
The Postofice Department has as
| sured Representative Bell that two
rural free delivery routes will be es-
tablished at Montrose, April list, with
Charles H. Parrish and Herbert c. Gra-
ham as carriers.
f. M. Prior committed suicide by
hanging himself at the Rocky Noun
tain hotel in Denver, on the End inst,
after losing his last S45 at gambling.
He was a machinist and had worked
in Denver and Cheyenne.
1t is announced that Mrs. Anna B.
Brandt, who was the Republican can
| didate for superintendent of public in
struction at the late election, has de-
cided to withdraw her contest against
Mrs. Helen l.. Grenfell.
The ten Denver lodges of Knights of
Pythias are making preparations for
| great celebration on February 18th,
which is the anniversary of the found
ing of the order. There will be
grand parade and banquet in the Wom-
ans Club building.
The factory and business of the Col
orado Condensed Milk Company at
Fort Lupton have been purchased by
the Mohawk Condensed Milk Company
of Rochester. New York. The business
will be continued under the corporate
|
The Denver News of January 2Sth
says: Another carload of Austrians
from Minneapolis arrived in Denver
yesterday to work on the new Moffat
railroad, and carload is due to arrive
every day this week from Kansas City.
Omaha Minneapolis, parts of Texas
and Missouri.
Contracts pledging 10000 acres of
beetS for the Fort Collins factory have
been signed, and every week increases
this acreage. Several hundred Rus
slams have moved in within the
last month from Sugar City, Colorado.
Nebraska and quite number came d.
rect from Russia.
The Box Elder spur of the Colorado
& Southern has been completed to the
sugar factory site at Fort Collins and
work has now commenced in earnest
in erecting a 1900 ton factory. The
work will be rushed from now on, as
the factory must be in working order
by September 18th.
Charles Zellers. Denver grocer, has
sued the Denver Retail Grocers' and
Butchers Association for 900 dam
ages He alleges that he has been boy
cotted by the association because he
refused to close his grocery at 6 o'clock
in the evening. according to the rules
of that organization.
The Denver Chapter of the Daugh-
ters of the Revolution have raised and
forwarded $1O0 for the Thomas Jeffer-
son monument fund. The money has
been raised in response to an appeal
sent out to the American public by the
Memorial Association, of which Ad-
miral Dewey is president.
Seven persons. five of whom are
girls, were severely injured on the End
inst. by the falling of an elevator used
by the Troy laundry in the Creswell
building on Blake street, in Denver.
The rope sustaining the elevator broke
at the third floor and the elevator and
its human burden came down with
crash.
the End, Alfred Chavez, a Mexican was
found guilty of an attempt to murder
his wife. Last December in a rooming
house, where Mrs. Chaves was lying
i'll, Chaves shot her once in the arm
and once in the side. He denied the
shooting at the time of his arrest,
claiming that the woman shot herself.
A Boer colony may be located in
| Colorado. party of Beers are about
to make tour of the United States In
search of desirable location. New
| Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and South
ern Colorado are to be considered.
Several thousand families will emf
CRATE from South Africa to America.
1t is said that Beers are desirable set
tiers and that Colorado is looked upon
with great favor.
Rev. John II. Cushing, the deposed
priest. is again trying to make trouble
for Bishop Matz in Denver On Sun
day he stationed himself at the door
way of the Cathedral parish chapel
and began to distribute pamphlets con-