Gilpin observer., 1904-01-07
COLORADO BRIEFS.

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sportsmen.
During the past year 2,S96,000 trout
fry were turned loose in Colorado
streams through public appropriation.
1t is estimated that reservoirs now
under construction in Colorado will
add 100000 acres to the irrigable area.
A recruiting office for the United
States navy will be kept open in Dem
yer until January 10th at No. 8 Lewis
block.
The production of crude oil from the
Florence oil fields in 1908 was approx
imately 2O,OOO.0O0 gallons, or 100000
barrels OF forty-two gallons, which
were produced and refined.
Ralph Hammerslough. prominent
Trinidad merchant. dropped dead In a
store on Fifth avenue in Chicago De-
cember 29th. He went to Chicago to
be treated for Bright's disease.
Helen Fisher Bagley, aged seven
tenn, and Lilly Power, ager seventeen,
both residents of Pueblo, were victims
of the Iroquois theater fire in Chicago.
Both girls were attending school in
Chicago.
Niagara w. Hall, prominent citizen
of Greeley, and one of the pioneers
VI thC OAlou COiOuy, ulcu dI hio hOhS
in Greeley December Goth of neural
gia of the heart, in the sixty-ninth year
of his age.
In the Boulder oil field twenty-six
wells are producing about 200 barrels
of crude oil day, and while the pro-
duct is small, the output is said to be
of the highest grade produced in the
world. Other wells will be drilled.
Tho Do,ldor 0RRoo ~ the, CoIorodn in
Telephone Company has been moved
into the company's handsome new
building on Spruce street, opposite the
court house. Boulder now has 916
telephones and the Boulder district
1,400.
The coroner's jury which investigat-
ed the death of little Margaret Aims
worth, who was run over by an cleo
trfc car at Colorado Springs. stated.
in their verdict, that her death might
have been averted by greater care on
the part of the motorman.
1t is stated at Colorado Springs that
! negotiations have been practically
closed by ]. R. McKinnie of Colorado
Springs and N. H. Stewart and II. B.
Coleman, both of Kalamazoo, Michi-
gan, for the erection of a $1,000,000
beet sugar factory at Las Animas, and
to acquire $500 acres for cultivation.
Work is going forward along the
Moffat road. near Denver, on the arte-
sian wells to provide the engines with
water. One well has been finished at
Utah Junction. One is now under way
| at Leyden Junction. Another well will
be constructed farther west as soon as
the one at Leyden Junction is COM
pleted.
A Detroit. Michigan. dispatch of De-
cember 29th says: Jacob Houghton.
well known in Michigan and Colorado
mining and railroad circles. died at his
home here to-day. aged seventy-six
years. In 1878 he became manager of
the Moose mine, in Colorado, and presi-
dent of the Synclinal Mining Company.
In 1890 he returned to Michigan.
The January term of the CoAnty
| Court at Trinidad began on the 4th
| inst. with sixty-five cases on the
docket, consisting of sixty-five Ncrimi-
nal, eleven divorce. one lunacy, thirty
| three civil, four delinquent children
and two deserted or neglected chill
dren. The fees collected by this
court during 1903 amounted to $32,-
, O71.22.
A. C. Glenn. who has been dispatch
er in the Pueblo postoffice, has been
named as superintendent of station A.
| which will be open for business in Bes-
semer about January goth. The force
will consist of an assistant superin-
| tendent and nine mail carriers and will
| handle all the mail in Bessemer and
what is known as the Upper Mesa, in
Guiding Minnequa.
The long-pending wine rooms case
was settled January 4th in Denver by
decision of the United States Su-
| preme Court, which holds that the
| maintenance of wine rooms for women
| in the Denver saloons is unlawful un-
der the ordinances of the city of Den
ver The decisions of both the Dis
| trict Court and the State Supreme
| Court are affirmed.
Colorado State Grange. Patrons of
| Husbandry. will meet in thirtieth an
nual session in G. A. R. hall. Linden
| street, Fort Collins, on Tuesday. jan
uary 18th. The grange will continue
in session Tuesday and Wednesday.
Fifth and sixth degrees will be con-
' ferred Wednesday evening. Thurs
days session will be held at the hall
of Union Grange. McClellano station.
/ Delegates and patrons will be enter
tanned during the sessions.
| At Colorado Springs December 29th.
while here parents were busy packing
their trunks preliminary to departure
| for the East, Marguerite Ainsworth.
nineteen months old. daughter of MIR.
and Mrs. o. o. Ainsworth, while play
I ing in the street in front Of her home.
SIG East Pixies Peak avenue. was run
over and instantly killed by street
car The motorman states that she
ran under the rear trucks of the car
after the front end had passed.
The following patents have been is