Gilpin observer., 1904-09-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| MT. HutcnlnSon, postmaster at Man.
cos, died suddenly of apoplexy Septem-
ber 21st.
The Colorado Iron Works at Denver
has secured contract to equip a
smelter in Japan.
At Golden, September 21st, Earle
Peck, aged twenty-three years, was in
stantly killed in runaway accident. .
Pumpkin Pie Day will be celebrated
this year at Longmont, October 18th
and 14th. There will also be races by
the Longmont Driving Association.
When the sheriff of Weld county
catches a tramp, he sets him at work
on the county road. Six in one day
were sentenced to seventeen days
work each.
The law school of the University of
Denver has established a department,
or dispensary. where people too poor
to pay attorneys fees can obtain le-
gal advice free.
Pueblo firemen sent a large wreath
OF roses to be placed on the biers of the
Denver firemen who lost their lives by
the explosion of nitric acid in the rooms
of the Denver Post.
Six freshmen of Colorado College at
Colorado Springs, were recently con-
victed in the Police Court of an at
tempt to rush sophomore party and
fined $5 and costs each for assault.
Longmont beekeepers have had a
very successful season this year About
nine cars of honey will be shipped by
the beekeepers' association from Long
mont this year. giving total income
of nearly 100000.
The officers of the American Mining
Congress, which at the recent meeting
in Portland. Oregon, voted to estab-
lish permanent headquarters in Denver,
will be located in the Denver Chamber
of Commerce building.
George Hit and Harvey Beaumont
two of the eight prisoners who escaped
from the county. Jail at Trinidad Sep
tember 18th, were recaptured on the
goth at Clayton, New Mexico by Dep
uty Sheriff Wootton.
apple Day" on October Sth will be
feature of the Douglas county fair,
held at Castle Rock, October 9th. 7th
and Sth. An organization will be
formed to erect buildings and provide
for an annual county fair.
The town of Meeker has voted $780,
600 bond issue for a gravity system of
water works, the water to be taken
from White river at the mouth of the
canon. This will give fall of 264
feet. The vote stood 6S to So.
The championship of the Western
Baseball League was won by the
Omaha team by small percentage,
Denver coming out second and Colo
rado Springs third. The issue was in
doubt up to almost the last day of the
season.
During an electric storm at Denver
September goth bolt of lightning
caused the explosion of a carboy of
nitric acid in the Office of the Denver
Post, starting a fire that brought out
the fire department. but was soon ex-
tinguished.
Mrs. R. A. Curtis. aged sixty years.
was struck by Midland engine at
Victor September oath and almost in
stantly killed. She was walking on
the track in a cut where the road
curved. Mrs. Curtis had a family of
nine children.
At the recent convention of the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners in Milwaukee, a resolution was
passed requesting the executive board
to investigate the matter of establish
lA6 d at DcHstI anu ItpOIl dI tue
next biennial convention.
The coroner's jury summoned to in
vestigate the cause of the death of Mrs
A. Curtis at Victor, who was killed in
the Midland yards at Victor September
oath, by being struck by an engine,
brought in a verdict generating the
railroad company and it's employees.
and finding that the accident resulted
from her own carelessness.
Contracts have been signed for the
construction of the Cragmoor sanitar-
ium at Austin Bluffs, north of Colo
RADIO Springs, and work will commence
on the buildings Immediately. The
sanitarium will cost $250,000 and will
be ready for occupany January 10. 1905.
The treatment of tuberculosis is the
special aim of the institution.
Work was started in the factory of
the American Beet Sugar Company at
Rocky Ford September 26tE, with
force of 500 men. The factory may run
continuously for 200 days, consuming
1000 tons of beets every twenty four
hours. should such be the length OF the
campaign. About $1,000.000 will be dis
tributed among the farmers of the Ar
kansas valley.
Fifteen days which Judge Lewis of
the District Court at Colorado Springs
granted to counsel for Patrick Coyne
in order that a writ of supersedeas
might be secured from the Supreme
Court having elapsed. he was taken
back to Canon City by Sheriff Grimes
under q writ Of mittimus issued by the
court and must serve the life sentence
imposed by Judge Lewis for completely
in the murder Of Policeman 3ish eight
years ago.
Following is the Lake county Demo-
cratic ticket: County Judge. William
H. Harrison; county clerk, Frank Lo-