Gilpin observer., 1904-03-17
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A fine pair of mountain lions have
been shipped to the Worlds Fair at
st. Louis from New Castle.
| Rural free delivery service has been
ordered at Manzanola, Otero county.
April 18th with one carrier.
The Ministerial Alliance of Denver
has arranged to take a religious CEN
| sus Of the city next month.
The baseball season is beginning
early this year. Already many match
| games have been played in different
parts of the state.
extensive improvements in its refinery
at Florence and is also building a ma
chine shop for its own work.
At Durango On the 5th inst, Ben
Beatty, a foLrteen-year-old boy, fell
over cliff on the mountain above the
smelter and was instantly killed.
District Attorney Trowbridge at
Cripple Creek has nolled the remain
ing cases against Sherman Parker and
Thomas Foster for train wrecking.
The two Grand Army posts at Pueb-
10 have been consolidated under the
name of Pueblo Post No. 8, Depart
ment of Colorado and Wyoming, G. A.
R.
The Pueblo Fire Department is in
stalling new switchboard in its fire
alarm telegraph system at cost of
about $4,000. 1t will be thoroughly up
to-date.
| The county assessors with the state
board of equalization will hold meet
ing in the state houhe on March q to
discuss the assessment on state proper
ty for the year.
The corner stone of the church
building of the United Brethren
Church at Berthoud was laid March
18th. The new edifice is to be con-
structed of red pressed brick and is to
cost about $4,000.
John c. Reagan of Merino, Colorado,
has sold his ranch of 10000 acres in Lo-
gan. Morgan and Washington countiee
to the Coe & Steadman Realty Com
pany and S. d. Hanna of Denver, the
price being 100000.
The pipe line which supplies Primero.
in Las Animas county, with water was
dynamite0 on the night Of the 18th
inst. just outside of Segundo. There
was water enough on hand to supply
the place while the pipe was being re-
paired.
The new gymnasium of the Colorado
Agricultural College at Fort Collins
was formally opened on the Sth inst.
The gymnasium has a floor space of
54xS3 feet, with ceiling twenty-one
feet high, and is excellently equipped
throughout.
The sum of $4,000 is bequeathed to
the home for consumptives at Denver
by the will of Sarah Schermerhorn.
daughter of w. c. Schermerhorn OF
Newport and New York, in her will re-
Gently filed for probate at Newport.
Rhode Island.
Jasper Hartley, fifty years of age and
unmarried, committed suicide near
Brighton on the 9th inst by shooting
himself through the heart with shot
gun. The act is attributed to des-
pondency occasioned by incurable
heart disease.
The confessions of six boys arrested
in Pueblo for petty larceny indicate
that gang numbering as many as thir
ty-five boys has been engaged for some
time in plundering vacant houses Of
lead pipe, gas fixtures, etc. which they
sold to junk dealers.
A movement is on foot to organize
a Young Mems Christian Association in
Boulder and erect a building. State
Secretary Bilheimer advises that no de-
cisive action shall be taken until the
money is in sight for $4,000 building
and $1,000 year for expenses.
The application of NJ. B. 10y of Flor
ence, R. ]. Morse, Charles E. Cast, w.
Z. Mitchell and M. ID. Thatcher to Or
ganize the San Luis National bank
Of Alamosa. Colorado with $4,000 cap
ital, has been approved by the comp
troller of the currency.
The annual tournament of the Dem
yer Trap Club will be held on July 5,
6 and Z, Immediately following the
close of the races at Overland park.
The main event of the tournament will
be the grand western handicap at
inanimate birds, to be shot over ex-
pert traps.
Complaints are being filed in the Of
flee of the state engineer with Division
Engineer l.. R. Hope by Water District
No. /, located in Morgan county, to the
effect that companies along the Big
Thompson and Poudre rivers are stor-
ing water in reservoirs when it is need
ed at the present time for irrigation
purposes.
Joe Martin, steward or the vallejo
Gun Club. was drowned on the after
noon of March 18th In Vallejo lake,
four miles east of La Sale in Weld
county. Mr.. Martin went out in a can
vas boat, which was upset by a heavy
wind. He was thirty years old and
leaves a widow. who resided with him
at the club house.
The Board OF County Commissioners
of Fremont county have awarded a con-
tract to U. S. Oakley for the erection
Of an infirmary ward at the county poor
farm. to cost $4,000. The building will
be of brick with stone trimmings. At
present infirm patients Of the county
| are taken care Of at a private sanitar-
inm and thu cost To thu county Ia