Gilpin observer., 1904-08-11
COLO 81 NEWS ITEMS

J watermelon Day VIII be celebrated
lat Rocky Ford September sth.
I The Colorado Chautauqua at Boul-
dAr closed a very successful season
August 7th.
Frank w. Howbert, internal revenue
collector of the district of Colorado,
collected $551,315 during past fiscal
year.
Otto P. Baur, the well-known pioneer
confectioner and caterer OF Denver,
died August Sd from stroke of par
alysis.
Mr.. Lawrence H. Fitzgerald of Den.
yer has been elected president Of the
Journeymen Stonecutters' Association
Of North America.
The automobile clubs OF Denver and
Colorado Springs are discussing the
project of an automobile boulevard be-
tween the two cities. -.
August Srd was Republican Day" at
the Boulder Chautauqua. Speeches
were made by Governor Peabody and
congressman Bonynge and Brooks.
The Farmers Club of Garfield. Eagle
and Pitkin counties has arranged for
the three days fair to be held at Glen
wood Springs September 20, 23 and "a.
It is proposed to build q dam and
form a handsome artificial lake on the
grounds of the state School for the
Deaf and Blind at Colorado Springs.
The Woman's Club of Denver, with
some aid from the city, has raised
money to establish free shower baths
in the Mission chapel on Delganey
street.
The labor organizations OF Denver
have invited other unions throughout
the state to join them in a big demon
stration on Labor Day, Monday, Sep
tember 9Th.
The Socialists Of Otero county have
nominated q ticket which Is headed by
DR.. A. P. Kendig Of Rocky Ford for
state senator and o. M. Barton OF
Grand Valley for representative.
Notices have been posted in the Pu-
eblo Steel Works forbidding the prac-
tice Of bringing liquor into the works
In dinner pals or otherwise, the pen
atty being suspension or discharge.
William o. Anthony, secretary OF
the Anthony Motor and Manufactur-
ing Company at Colorado Springs was
killed in an automobile accident twelve
miles north Of the Springs on the 7th
inst.
Returning from Canon City to Pu-
eblo Governor Peabody passed over
the bridge near Eden, when the terri
BILE railway disaster occurred, only
about fifteen minutes before the
wreck.
The cooperative stores of the West
ern Federation of Miners will not be
reopened by the federation. but instead
have been sold to outsiders for invest
ment and will be taken over by the
new purchasers.
E. e. Edwards, a dairyman living
that had been wasked on the Rio
Grande track at Chandler creek and
tagged No. train with his coat in
time to avert q smash-up.
Over 500 men and 800 teams are
busy at work on the extension OF the
narrow guage road from Sunset to FL
dora in Boulder county. Superintend-
ent Robert Law expects the grading
to be completed within sixty days.
The Colorado-New Mexico Fair asso-
citation has announced its fair and race
meet to begin September 21st, for
three days with $4,000 already in hand
for purses and prizes at Durango fair
Frank Dalra, timberman at the
Camp Bird mine at Ouray, was killed
August Sd by being drawn into an ore
chute and buried with mucl, to
depth o. fifteen feet. He was an
Italian forty-five years of age and un-
married.
It is stated that the Beulah marble
from the Quarries near Pueblo, now on
exhibition at the Worlds Fair in St.
Louis, has attracted the attention Of
German marble dealers, who may
make arrangements to handle the ma
terial extensively.
Rev. ]. N. Sheridan, 1ho was
charged with a criminal assault on 12-
year-old Vida Reese at Pueblo was
discharged by Justice Hart after
preliminary examination, there not be-
ing sufficient evidence to warrant hold
Ing him for trial.
Miss Stella Mcdonald, principal OF
the Central high school at Pueblo, and
DR.. James d. McGregor, who were both
lost in the Eden wreck, would have
been married in a few weeks, their
engagement having been announced
during the last month.
Receiver H. B. Cozad of the defunct
Bi-Metallic Bank of Cripple Creek has
obtained the consent of Judge Seeds.
by whom he was appointed, to declare
a second dividend Of fifteen per cent,
amounting to $4,000. A dividend of
fifteen per cent has already been paid.
Judge w. G. FELTON,, formerly Of the
Canon City Record and later of the
Canon City Clipper, has retired, at
least temporarily, from the newspaper
field, to assume the management OF
the Kountze company orchard, seven
miles north of Denver. in which 1875
acres are already set to fruit, with
275 more to be put into cultivation.
At Leadville Arthur Irvine, aged
nineteen years. who has served term
in the state reformatory, has been held
for trial In the dist rict court ON the