Gilpin observer., 1904-12-01
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

in Pueblo county.
In the State School of Mines are fifty
seniors, fifty-eight juniors. eighty-six
SophomOres and ninety-six freshmen, a
total of 290 students.
DR.. John P. Wills, county judge OF
Grand county and prominent busi-
ness man of Sulphur Springs, died No
vember 25th of consumption.
The commission that is taking testi-
mony in the Kansas-Colorado water
suit will hold session in Colorado
Springs about December 18th.
The project of constructing a speed
way between Glenwood Springs and
Carbondale has been revived and the
Legislature may be asked to assist.
Sir Wilfred Laurier. premier of Can
ada. spent three hours in Colorado
the Worlds Fair to the Pacific coast.
Twenty-one marriage licenses were
issued in Denver on the day before
Thanksgiving and it is hoped that for
ty-two people had cause for giving
thanks.
The rubber factory at Buena Vista
has been paying 11a cents pound for
the roots of the rubber weed, and col
lectors have been able to gather 200
pounds day.
The surveyor general of Colorado re-
ports 111,915 acres of agricultural land
surveyed and accepted during the last
fiscal year. The number of miles of
line established is 459.
The furnishing contracts have been
let for the new $60,00O Carnegie Ii
brary at Colorado Springs. the formal
opening of which will occur between
january 18th and February 1st.
The Pueblo Ministerial Association
thinks that the city is in need of a
children's home. If one is established
it will probably be in charge of the
deaconesses of the Methodist church.
At Cripple Creek November 23rd the
jury in the case of ]. r. Lewis. charged
with the murder of Al Droddy in the
Joplin saloon in Victor, September
18th, brought in a verdict OF acquit-
tai.
Isaac Dyer, who died at Gypsum a
few days since, was ninety-three years
old and was a veteran of the Seminole
Indian War, the Mexican War and the
Civil War. He was born in Benning-
ton, Vermont.
The fall meeting of the Clear Creek
Valley Teachers Association is to be
held at Central City December 9th and
10th. The association comprises the
teachers of Clear Creek. Jefferson and
Gilpin counties.
S. c. Gallup of the S. c. Gallup Sad
dlery Company Of Pueblo, died at his
home in Pueblo, November 25th. Mr..
Gallup drove an OK team to California
in 1853 and was later a pioneer in Wy
oming, New Mexico and Colorado.
The Santa Fe railway is opening ex-
tensive coal mines about eight miles
southwest of Florence and building
spurs and branches to make them cas-
lily accessible. From these mines the
road can obtain all the coal 1t uses.
File maps Of the new town of Min
turn, in Eagle county, have been filed
with the secretary of state. The filing
was made by the commissioners, who
are Frank Steacy. II. G. Keck. NJ. ].
Henry, d. ]. Maynard and A. II. Laub.
According to the figures received by
Major Hooper. general passenger
agent of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, there were 6.695,000 young
trout placed in the streams along the
Rio Grande system during the past
year.
After the st. Louis Exposition is over
the Colorado agricultural exhibit.
which consists of 100 or more cases OF
grains and other products of the state.
will be placed on permanent exhibition
at the Chamber of Commerce rooms in
Denver
The statement that the owners of
the Fort Collins sugar factory are con-
templating the purchase of large
tract of land On which to raise their
own beets. SO as to be independent OF
the neighboring farmers, Is denied by
the company.
OF the 27O voters registered In the
Estes Park precinct, only seventy-eight
cast their ballots. Some voters live
twenty miles from the polling place.
OF those who voted fifty were Republi-
cans, twenty-five Democrats, five Pro
hibitionists and one Socialist.
William Toney, who was carrying
$225 in money on his person, was at
tackled by a footpad on the night of
November 9th at Florence and re-
ceived very bad cut in his left hand
from a knife. Toney saved his money,
but the would-be robber escaped.
The museum of Stuttgart has asked
General Passenger Agent Hooper of
the Rio Grande for a series of Colo
RADIO pictures for display in the mu-
scum. The Rio Grande recently sent
fifty OF their pictures to Europe for
various converts, per special request
from Rome.
Miss Nellie Montgomery. wife OF
Thomas J. Montgomery, a well-known
real estate and insurance man OF Fort
Collins. committed suicide November
23rd by drowning herself In Terry lake.
n small body Of water near Fort Col
lins. She left an incoherent note, indi-
eating temporary insanity.
The state officials at Denver are now
busily engaged in preparing their BIZ
ennial reports. The printers have al.
ready received portions OF the reports