Gilpin observer., 1904-07-21
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS.

for the, opening of the Railway Mems
Cooperative store at Salida-
The-farmers' clubs OF Garfield coun-
ty have fixed the date for the county
fair at September 22d, 23d and oath.
United States Senator Carmack of
Tennessee will deliver an address at
the Boulder ChautauQua on Democrat
ic Day.
A relief fund has been started for
the benefit of the victims of the Inde-
pendence depot explosion in the Grip
pie Creek district.
Peter Bloom, an old prospector liv-
ing at Empire station, committed sui
eide at Idaho Springs on the 18th inst
by taking carbolic acid.
Four white women and fourteen
colored women confined in the county
Jail at Denver are reported to be nurs-
ing race feud.
The Rocky Mountain Chautauqua at
Glen Park began its summer session
July 11th Rev. B. T. Vincent, DID,.
presided and made the principal ad.
dress.
The Denver team of the Western
Baseball League has been playing well
in the lead for some time, VITA Colo
RADIO Springs second. Colorado is in
it this year.
The people of Greeley have started
a crusade against the cotton-bearing
cottonwood trees and are marking. a
great number of them to be cut down
at later date.
Lawrence Federico, one Of the larg-
est maccaroni manufacturers in the
South, talks of estauAsulng branch
factory in Colorado and has been IA
vorably impressed with Pueblo.
Dr. Ellsworth Gage Lancaster. as
sistant professor of philosophy and
pedagogy at Colorado College, has for
mally accepted the presidency of Oil
vet College at Olivet, Michigan.
The body of John Owens, who was
drowned in the Cache la Poudre flood
of May 21st, was found near Fort Col
lins July 18th. Owens, who was sew
enty-three years of age, lived in a. dug
out on the river bank.
Secretary Henry Russell Wray of
the Colorado Springs Chamber of Conn
merce has inaugurated a movement to
celebrate the centennial anniversary!
of the discovery of Pixies Peak in 1906
by Lieutenant Zebulon Pike.
The relief fund for the beneff4 q the
families Of victims of the Independ
ence dynamite outrage, IS increasing
rapidly. Already $685. has been do
mated in cash. The picnic for the re-
lief fund will be held August LIST.
On the evening of the 18th inst. a
fire in the sulphide fiber plant of the
Rocky Mountain Paper Company at
Denver caused damages estimated at
about $4,000. The plant was insured
and will be rebuilt at once.
State Senator Cashmere Barela and
eighty-four other former Democrats of
Las Animas county have issued a
statement telling why they have trans
| ferred their allegiance from the Dem
ocratic to the Republican party.
notable gathering of workers will
meet in Denver September 29th. wnen
the general board of managers Of the
Womans Home Missionary Society OF
the Methodist Episcopal Church opens
in Trinity Church it's twenty-third an
nual convention.
President ]. E. Topping OF the State
Fair Association at Pueblo is making
a tour of the western part of the state
for the purpose of securing live stock
entries for the fair At present the
entries are coming in as rapidly as
they can be cared for.
Prof. C. Juday, who has been acting
biologist of the University of Colorado
during the absence of DR.. Ramaley in
India, has been asked to make a spe-
rial study of the food and feeding hab-
it's of the famous golden trout of
Mount Whitney, California.
Mayor Speer of Denver has appoint
I'D ortr M ice fnr nf civ
who will have control of all public
monuments and decorations. Hereafter
the city cannot become the owner of
any such work of art until 1t has
been approved by the commission.
A small run was begun on the Bank
OF Victor on the 11th inst, it being re.
ported that David H. Moffat, the prin-
cipal stockholder was about to with
draw his support He settled the mat
ter by telegraphing that he was the
sole owner and If necessary would
send money to pay all depositors.
Probably the Oldest book of records
existing in Weld county has been un-
covered from heap of books and rub
bish in the court house at Greeley. The
book records the meeting of the set
tiers of the st. Vrain country at old
Fort st. Vrain, October 6. 1859, for the
purpose of founding claim club.
The jury in the condemnation suit
at Greeley, brought by the Boulder
and Weld Reservoir Company to Sc
cure q right OF way for the outlet
ditch Of the reservoir from John God
ding, banker of Rocky Ford, who
wanted $4,000 damages. returned a ver-
dict giving the defendant $1,000 dam
ages.
One hundred machinists, brick ma
sons and laborers have been put to
work getting the finishing end of the
steel works rail mill at Pueblo ready
for operation. The building for this de.
partment is 500 feet long and has been
erected some time The machinery