Gilpin observer., 1904-01-28
COLORADO BRIEFS.


The Colorado Hardware Dealers As
sociation will hold its annual conven-
ton at Denver February 18th.
Edwin S. Bruce, a brother OF the wife
of Senator Henry M. Teller. died at
Pueblo January 23d at the age of eighty
years.
1t is expected that the Moffat road
will be completed to Boulder Park,
forty-five miles from Denver, some
time in February.
Colorado railroads will do an extra
amount OF eastern advertising this
year. The new Moffat road will issue
several publications.
The county commissioners Of Pueblo
county have voted $1,000 for the pur-
pose of preparing marble exhibit to
represent the county at the St Louis
Fair.
The Colorado College OF Osteopathy
at Denver has consolidated with the
American School OF Osteopathy at
Kirkville, Missouri. and will be moved
to that place. 4.
The Denver Choral Society, under the
direction of Professors Houseley and
Thomas, is arranging two choruses OF
$50 voices to sing At the Worlds Fair
at st. Louis.
Joseph Pearce, city street supervi-
sor OF Leadville, died January Goth of
pneumonia. Mr.. Pearce was one of the
earliest pioneers and built the first
hotel at Oro city.
The fifth annual exhibition of the
Colorado Poultry Fanciers' Association
was opened in Denver on the 18th inst.
with n rnvo1o L h an nf "a
the leading varieties.
The State Board OF Health. after
visiting Leadyille. reported that an cpl
demic of typhoid fever existed in the
city. There are several hundred caDes.
but the mortality has been low.
Colorados death-rate per 1000, for
month of December. on the basis OF an
estimated population of .136, was
1888. excluding still-births. There
were 800 deaths during the month.
The Colorado & Southern railroad
has secured 10000 trout, averaging
six inches in length. and will place
them in the streams tributary to the
Platte near the headwaters Of that
river.
A number of Russians formerly en-
ployed at the Pueblo steel works have
formed military organization and be-
gun to drill. They intend to go into
the Russian army in case of war with
Japan.
d. ]. Pridham, who was Denver
agent for the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad from 1878 to 1892.
died in Chicago January 22d at the age
of seventy-three. The cause of his death
was pleurisy.
1t is suspected that radium exists in
several of the large springs at Glen
wood Springs, and portions of the dried
sediment have been sent TO prominent
chemists and photographers for the
purpose of having them tested.
H. S. Vaughn, commander of the de-
partment of Colorado and Wyoming,
G. A. R., who has been i'll at ST. Luke's
hospital in Denver as q result of an
attack of appendicitis. is improving
rapidly. A successful operation was
performed.
Ex-Lieut. Gov. David c. Coates has
left Denver to take charge Of the Amer
lean Labor Union Journal. the official
paper of the American Labor union.
The paper is printed in Butte. Mont,
and Mr.. Coates will make his head
quarters in that city.
A company has been incorporated at
Pueblo with capital stock of 100000
to establish railroad cooperative
store. The store will be under the
control OF the railroad brotherhood of
Pueblo and the ownership Of stock is
limited to labor unions.
Homer H. Hayes, thirty-six years OF
age. swallowed a pin while in Kansas
City. several months ago. and died from
the effect of it at his home in Colorado
Springs on the 18th Inst. The pin was
removed by an operation. but it had
torn the lining Of his stomach.
George A. Toof, one OF the Oldest
settlers in Fremont county, died at his
home on lower Beaver creek January
I'D at the age Of sixty-seven years. Mr..
Toof settled on Beaver creek very early
and had one of the best-developed
farms and orchards in the county.
A few days ago B. C. Boyd, wool
contractor at Bailey in the Plate
canon. took seventeen shots at
mountain lion that has been stealing
his beef. which he hangs in a tree.
Boyd saw 1t standing under the tree
and opened fire. but the lion got away.
Compared with November. 1909. ac-
cording to the report of the State
Board of Health, December shows an
increase of twenty-one cases of diph-
iberia, forty-nine cases of scarlet fe-
yer and forty cases Of smallpox. and
decrease of 244 cases Of typhoid fever.
Bids have been called for for the
construction of the new court house at
Walsenburg to be opened February Is.
Inc bonds were voted last fall. Every
thing is to be modern and the building
will cost $4,000. 1t is to be built of
white sandstone from quarries near
town.
After spending twenty years in
dug-out in the mountains few miles
south of Buena Vista, w. +. Arfiund. n