Gilpin observer., 1904-03-03
COLORADO BRIEFS.


Springs baseball team of the West
ern League will report for practice on
March S1st.
A company has been formed to pros
pect for mineral in Yuma county and
work will be carried on with dia-
mond drill.
The annual golf tournament of Colo
rado clubs will be held at Overland
park, in Denver, beginning May 18th
and continuing four days.
David De Graft of Colorado Springs
has just celebrated his eighteenth
birthday anniversary, yet he is eighty
years old. He was born February 29,
1924.
Less than an inch of snow fell at
Colorado Springs during the month of
February. Last year the fall for the
same period was ten and one-half
inches. The weather was unusually
warm.
Romeyne Chase, Boulder letter car
rier, who was born on the twenty-ninth
of February had a birthday annivers-
ary last month for the first time in
eight years. His friends could afford
to do something handsome for him.
The plan adopted last fall by an or
ganization of Denver wholesale dealers
of giving free transportation to all
merchants purchasing certain
amount of goods from members of the
organization, will be tried again this
spring.
According to an agent OF the United
States secret service who recently re-
turned from foreign service, yelling
ton c. Llewellyn, the soldier who
killed Policemen William Griffiths and
Thomas Clifford at Denver, is now in
the Philippines.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Chaffee county are making a strong
effort to place big collection Of min
erals on exhibition at the Worlds Fair
Thomas France of Salida has been ap-
pointed to visit all parts of the county
in interest of the work.
Herbert E. Salee, operator and agent
for the Colorado G. Southern at l>oko-
mo, was caught in a cut between a
on the night Of February 23rd and had
ing other serious injuries.
c. E. Wood, proprietor and manag-
ing editor Of the Evening Star at Grip
pie Greek for the last year, will as
sumo the management of the Evening
Telegraph of Colorado Springs. His in
terest in the Star has been acquired by
w. Robert Karr of Idaho.
R. w. Cline, one of the best known
and most popular Grand Army men of
Denver and past commander of Wash
ington post, died few days ago at the
Boulder sanitarium and was buried
from his home in Denver February
28th. He had been sick for five or six
weeks.
District registration will open on
March 9Th and continue until March
18th. Those who are not registered.
and the number is very large in the res
ident parts Of the state. will have an
opportunity to do so before the rush to
register for the presidential election
begins.
Edward Irwin, aged thirty years.
committed suicide at Leadville Febru-
ary 22d, by shooting himself through
the head while alone in his cabin. His
brother, Charles Irwin. committed sui
eide several years ago by shooting him
self. Irwin was the son Of a former
Leadville mayor.
Charles Kresham, proprietor of the
Southern hotel at Pueblo, died Febru-
ary 25th at the age of sixty-eight years.
Mr.. Kresham formerly conducted a ho-
tel at Alamosa and NAl been a stage
driver on the old Santa Fe trail. also
a pony express rider for the Wells
Fargo Express Company.
The Union Colony Association OF
Pioneers held its annual meeting at
Greeley. February 23rd, and reelected
the present officers. These are: Henry
T. West, president: Mrs. Calvin Thorn
as. secretary; ]. A. Woodbury., treas
urer The association will hold its an
nual banquet in -.ovember.
George Bernard has purchased a
3,750-acre ranch northeast of Colorado
Springs which he will stock with fine
herd of thoroughbred Galloway cattle
blooded horses and Berkshire hogs
In addition he will erect $4,000
dwelling for his amily. He will sell
his fine residence in Colorado Springs
Miss Jennie L. Potter and Miss Eva
Potter, twin daughters OF DR.. J. H
Potter of Longmont. although twenty
years of age have had butSfour birth
day anniversaries. They were born
February 29. 1884. At their last birth.
day celebration they received several
gifts appropriate to four-year-old chill
dren.
Dallas M. Gurney. sixty-one years
old, killed himself at station twelve
miles east OF Durango. February goth
When last seen, at $3.50 in the morn
ing. he had one OF his children in his
lap in the barn door. At 10 O'Clock
his wife found him dead. Coroner
Hood said he was shot with 3S-Colts
his own gun. He leaves six children
aged from two to twenty-five years.
A corps of Colorado & Southern en-
gineers has completed preliminary
survey Of spur leading from Bell
view, seven miles west Of Fort Collins
on the south branch of the road, to the
limestone quarries in Owl canon. eigh
teen miles northwest of Fort Collins