Gilpin observer., 1903-07-09
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Institute met June 29th with an at
| tendance Of over 100. 50
The health commissioner of Denver
| will have the weeds cut on vacant lots
in the city As a. sanitary measure.
Forty-six births were reported in
| Pueblo during the month of June
twenty-five boys and twenty-one girls.
The second annual picnic of the
Fremont County Horticultural Society
was held at Cottonwood Springs, near
! Canon City. July 4th.
The Colorado Bar Association, at its
meeting in Colorado Springs. resolved
| in favor of nOn-partisan nominations
for Supreme and District Court judges.
| Mrs. E. w. Leonard of Loveland,
| who was injured in q street car acci-
dent at Las Vegas, New Mexico. a few
| weeks since. died July I'd at Las Vegas.
A Bible Students convention Of Be
| levers in the Atonement Sacrifice OF
| Christ will be held in the Gettysburg
building in Denver June 10th, 18th and
18th.
At Delta July I'd ]. L. Carlow,
charged with the murder OF M. G. Da-
| Wis at Paonia, was held for trial at
| the September term of the District
| Court.
The National Building Trades Coun-
Gil convention will meet in Denver
| August 10th for a two-weeks session.
They will be lavishly entertained by
the Denver Council.
The Colorado ChautauQua opened at
Boulder July 4th with large attend
ance. Hon. ]. w. Springer of Den
| yer was the orator of the day. A grand
patriotic concert was given at night.
Harvey w. Green, well known as
soldier. printer and newspaper man.
| died at the Old Soldiers Home at Mon
| te Vista June Goth. He was employed
on the Denver News for thirteen years.
Preston H. Hotchkiss died in Mont
rose June 18th, aged seventy years. Mr..
| Hotchkiss was one Of the Oldest resi-
| dents and his son Berry was the first
| white child born in the UncOmpahgre
valley.
One hundred and sixty-nine building
| permits were taken out IN Denver last
month for the erection of buildings that
| will cost in the aggregate 1851 $40. The
| average cost Of eighty-nine dwellings is
| $2,104.21
The officers and employees OF the
Denver City Tramway Company have
incorporated a beneficiary organization.
the object of which is to provide a life
insurance fund for the members and to
| pay benefits in case of sickness or acci-
| dent.
Mrs. Belle Murray died at the Sis
ters' hospital in Cripple Creek July LIST
of peritonitis. Mrs. Murray had been
chief operator of the Cripple Creek tel
ephone system for the past five years,
having previously been resident OF
| Denver.
Colorado capitalists have launched
one of the largest immigration projects
of the Louisiana delta. They have &C.
.quired nearly 100000 acres of choice
timber and cotton lands in Concordia
parish and have organized the Con-
cordia Land Company.
| The Western Slope Veterans Asso-
citation closed a highly successful three
days reunion at Grand Junction July
4th. A resolution was passed making
all soldiers, sailors and marines Of the
| Spanish-American and Philippine wars
| also eligible to membership.
| At Denver June Both Price futile,
who was learning to run an elevator in
the Ernest & Cranmer building in Den
yer, lost control of 1t and was badly
| crushed, falling three stories and re-
| ceiving injuries that resulted in his
death. He was only seventeen years
old.
At the Canon City penitentiary July
4th, in addition to the pardon Of Glib
son, pardon was given to c. A. Yer
non. No. 1887. sent up from Ell Paso
county for fourteen years on the
charge of assault. This pardon was
brought to the prison by Vernon's
sister.
The thirty days OF rife practive re-
| luired of the state troops each year be-
| gan June goth. The troops at Denver
will practice at the rife range near
Golden, which is owned by the state
and rented each year to the govern
ment for the use Of the troops at Fort
Logan.
Albion w. Tourgee, author and lee
turer, who was editor Of the Denver
Times for few months in 1880 under
r. w. Woodbury., and who has been
for several years consul at Bordeaux.
in France, has been promoted to the
position of Consul general at Halifax.
Nova Scotia.
Judge J. H. Voorhees, of division A
Of the District Court at Pueblo has
ruled that Eads shall still remain the
county seat OF Kiowa county. For
number OF months the residents OF
Sheridan Lake have been attempting
to have the county capital removed to
Sheridan Lake.
Mrs. Antoine Kenhan, ali old woman
who has lived by peddling and begging
in Denver for the past fifteen years.
was found lead in her bed few days
ago. She had been robbed. bound and
gagged, and evidently died Of suffoca-
ton. Her body was not found until two
days after her death.
w. w. Ferguson, curator Of the war
| relic room IN the State house at Denver
has sert to W. w. Dennison, assistant