Gilpin observer., 1904-05-12
COLORADO. NEWS ITEMS

at Colorado College.
The May term of the federal court
in Denver opened May Sd, with Judge
Hallett on the bench.
Rural free delivery service is or
dered established June LIST at Dolores.
Montezuma county, with one carrier.
The new electric railway at Trini-
dad is starting out with large busi-
mess, thousands riding for pleasure on
Sunday.
Reports from all over the state
show that large amount of interest
,, was evinced in the school elections Of
May End.
Mack Kuntz, a noted pigeon fancier.
Us preparing to make a carrier test
with sixteen pigeons from the Worlds
Fair to Pueblo.
The track of the new Moffat rail-
road has been laid to a short distance
beyond Rollinsville, and the ballastirg
Is being completed as fast as may be.
When Governor Peabody got home
from the st. Louis Exposition he felt
so good that he at once ordered the
dome of the state house to be illu-
minated.
N. M. Johnson, prominent livery
man of Boulder, dropped dead in his
stable on the mornig of May I'd. He
was apparently as well as usual just
before his death.
Ex-senator Edward o. Wolcott and
Senator Henry M. Teller both arrived
in Denver on the 4th inst. The former
mer came from the East to attend the
Republican state convention on the
9Th.
The ministers of Denver, at recent
melting of the Ministerial Alliance.
passed resolutions deprecating Sun
day funerals and saying that services
at the grave should be omitted in such
cases.
The Colorado Federation of Woman's
clubs will hold it's annual convention
this year in Fort Collins from Octo-
ber 1st to 9Th, and the Fort Collins Ia
dies are already making preparations
for it's reception.
Postmaster l.. G. Dana of Colorado
Springs, the newly elected president of
the Postmasters' Association, has ex-
tended an invitation to the letter car
riers to meet with the postmasters, at
Colorado Springs, on May Both.
The Secretary of the Interior on
the 4th inst. issued permits permitting
the grazing of 1850 cattle and horses
in Pixies Peak forest reserve, and 1,481
cattle and horses in Plum Creek re-
serve during the coming season.
The Fort Collins district made the
banner shipment of lambs for the
Eastern market May 2nd., when sew
enty-four cars were started for Chica-
go and river markets. The shipment
was divided between, eighteen ship
pers.
The Colorado Springs Chamber Of
Commerce asserts that WITHIN the
have located at the Springs. and that
past year about fifty wealthy families
the average amount invested by them
ir residence property has exceeded
$4,000.
Sixteen striking miners. who had
been, arrested by the military, were
placed on a Colorado & Southern
special train at Trinidad May End and
taken south. of the New Mexico line.
where they were put off with orders
not to return.
The annual high school oratorical
contest of Colorado, inaugurated by
the State University, will take place
at Boulder on the night of May
18th. There will be eight speakers. On
the same day eight girls will read es-
says for prize.
The Western Unions new telegraph
line which is being built from Omaha
to Los Angeles reached Denver May
End. 1t follows the Burlington from
Omaha to Denver. and will take the
Santa Fe and the Denver and Rio
Grande to the coast.
The third book issued by the Colo
rado Promotion and Publicity Commit
tee is entitled "Colorado-Its Gil
mate" 1t will be distributed where it
will do the most good. The City Coun-
Gil of Denver has just appropriated
$1,000 for the use Of the committee.
BY the burning of Hotel Turret at
Turret mining camp in Chaffee coun-
ty on the night of May 5th, Raymond
Zook, a miner, was burned to death
and H. ]. Gregory perhaps fatally
burned and suffocated. Six other men
who were in the building barely es-
capped with their lives.
The summer school of the University
| of Colorado at Bouldey will be in ses-
sion from June Goth to July 30th, un-
der direction of Prof. Fred B. r. Hell
lens. Instruction IN all the depart
ments will be given by recognized spe-
ciaiists, brought together from lead
ing institutions of learning. East and
| West.
| While Mrs. Eva Parkinson, who
| lives about six miles east of Fort Col
, .lins, alarmed by a break in the banks
OF the Larimer and Weld canal. was
attempting to go to a neighbor's house
with her three small children ON the
night Of May I'd. the eldest, boy of
nine. slipped into the swift current
and was carried away and drowned.
John Charles. supervising inspector
Indian bureau, now in Oklahoma. has
been ordered to Grand Junction. to