Gilpin observer., 1904-02-11
COLORADO BRIEFS.

be in operation within few weeks.
The State Normal School is prepar-
Ing large exhibit for the Worlds Fair.
Work will soon be commenced on a
five-story addition to st. Josephs hos
pital in Denver.
Allen F. Alexander, an old resident
of Fremont county and an ex-Confed-
crate soldier, died at Canon City Feb
ruary 5th.
Denver's second charter convention
finished its work February 9Th, having
completed and adopted charter. and
adjourned sine die.
The business men of Fowler, Otero
county, met few days ago and organ
lied board of trade. The sum Of $500
was subscribed to give it start.
William Hendricks, bricklayer, was
killed at Denver February 9Th, by fall
, OF ninety feet down the elevator shaft
Of the Llttleton Creamery building.
Arthur Casady, aged ten, son of
Harry Casady, treasurer of the Colo
RADIO Commission to the Worlds Fair.
died at Boulder, February 1st, OF
diphtheria.
The appointment of Paul ]. Sours al
postmaster of Denver was confirmed by
the Senate without delay or debate,
the motion for confirmation being made
by Senator Teller.
Two hundred box car loads Of pota-
toes shipped from the Greeley district
during the past few weeks for points in
Texas, Kansas and Missouri, went
through safely without a potato being
frozen.
Mrs. Lena Corwin of Glenwood
Springs, whose husband died year
ago, committed suicide February 9Th
by jumping into the Roaring Fork
river. She had for some time shown
! evidence Of mental arrangement.
Judge Lindsey. who conducts tho ju-
venile Court in Denver, says that the
practice Of selling cigars, cigarettes and
liquor to minors must be broken up.
even II he has to put every dealer in
the city in Jail to enforce the law.
Joseph L. Bailey. a prominent Den
yer pioneer. for a long time well known
throughout the state as proprietor OF
the Bailey corral on Sixteenth street.
died at his home in Denver February
1st. in the sixty-ninth year Of his age.
Upon the advice of Attorney D. NJ.
Campbell, the members of Company g
cided to make one more plea to Gov
ernor Peabody for settlement OF their
claims before instituting a suit against
the state.
| Eight hundred students have been
enrolled in the State Normal School at
Greeley this year, Of whom 300 are in
the normal department proper, COM
posed Of high school and college grad
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teaching.
I The grass and grain exhibit of Colo
RADIO, collected for the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition at st. Louis. was on
exhibition at Denver on the Sd inst.
and was highly praised by all who
saw 1t. Colorado will shine as an agri-
cultural state at the big fair.
A special feature of the new press
service of the Colorado Promotion and
Publicity Committee will be the local
and state news service. Every weekly
and daily newspaper in the state. under
the plan, will be given a chance to pub
lish something about Colorado interests
and prospects.
An electric light wire whlsA was
blown down by the wind storm in
Denver February 1st occasioned the
death Of two young men, Charles
Ormsby and William Daniel, who sim
ultaneously took hold of 1t to remove it.
Ormsby lived with his father and
mother IN Denver and Daniel had re-
Gently came from Butler. Missouri.
The will of Horace NJ. Warner. a
philanthropic real estate man who died
at Denver a short time since, leaves a
portion of his estate of $50 900 to be di-
vided equally between Colorado College
and Harvard College for the purpose of
establishing scholarships 'for deserv-
ing young men and women. regardless
Of race. religion. nationality or color"
William NJ. Frey of Arvada commit
ted suicide February Sd in a grove
near the Moffat railroad track, by TAX
ing cyanide of potassium. being driven
to desperation by pain caused by blood
poisoning from defective teeth. Mr..
Frey was Grand Army man and a
member Of the A. o. U. w. and was
widely known as an expert millwright.
Joseph J. c. Woolcot. who died at
Denver January 31st, vas probably the
lagest man in the state, his weight be-
ing nearly 400 pounds. He was vet
eran OF the Civil war and at the time
Of his death had charge Of the Or
landO natS. Mr.. WOOlcOt was nve
feet ten inches in height and uf enor-
nous girth. He weighed about 400
pounds.
Pansy Lee Grant. the 15-year-old
colored girl who shot and killed her
stepfather, Rufus Lee, at the coal mines
north Of Colorado Springs, and who was
found guilty of assault, was sentenced
by County Judge Orr to remain in the
state home for girls until her 21st year.
This is the first murder trial ever held
in any county court in Colorado under
the new Juvenile law.
Another offer has been made for the
water system Of Colorado Springs, Bos-
ton capitalists proposing to pay $780,
00O It Is not thought that the offer
will be considered. and 1t is also stated
f, that neither city council nor the resi-
! dents of Colorado Springs has authori-