Gilpin observer., 1904-12-29
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Durango weather bureau once
has Its equipment all in place and the
first observation was telegraphed to
the Denver ONCE December 21st.
On December 21st, the Fort Collins
sugar factory finished slicing $4,000
tons of sugar beets, after a successful
run of sexenty-two days without in
termission.
The prisoners in the city jail at
Pueblo were given an excellent Christ
mas dinner and showed their breeding
by polite letter of thanks to Chief Of
Police Shoup.
Alfred A. Thompson, an old resident
Of Denver and formerly a grocer, cele-
brated Christmas convivially and came
to his death by falling down flight Of
stairs at the Apex saloon.
New postofice appointments in Colo
RADIO are: Fort Garland, Costilla
county. Helen c. Peters. vice Charles
John. resigned; Perigo. Rio Grande
county, D. Cronian, vice ]. Moody, re-
signed.
Otto Mears is said to be preparing
to test a track automobile on the Sill
verton Northern railroad between Sill
verton and Animas Forks, with q view
of using automobiles for all passenger
business.
Judge e. E. Armour, in the hearing
Of the county judgeship contest in
Adams county, decided in favor Of A.
H. Gutheil, and made permanent tho
injunction forbidding Rice w. Means
to act longer as Judge.
A new machine works which will
make a speciality of manufacturing air.
brakes of various patterns is to be es-
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six months. Half a block of ground
has been purchased for the site in
West Denver.
been completed from Mack, Colorado,
into the Uintah reservation in Utah,
has ordered two large track automo-
biles to carry passengers. 1t has had
J one automobile car in service several
months, giving excellent satisfaction.
Owing to stress of private business
Judge ]. C. Helm, co-receiver with
] Richard M. Malone of the Fidelity Saw
| ings Association at Denver, has re-
signed from the receivership and trans
ferred his entire responsibility for the
property Of the association to Mr.. Ma
! lone.
George Walker, alias John Mayo. and
| G. T. Putnam, awaiting trial on a
charge of horse stealing, and John
Adolado, a Greek, awaiting trial on a
charge Of stealing 5000 from persons
with whom he was boarding, escaped
from the county jail at Trinidad on the
evening of December goth by tunneling
under the wall.
The direct and highly compliment
ary reference to the Colorado Juvenile
Court and Judge Lindsey's work made
by President Roosevelt in his last mes
sage to Congress has brought q flood
of inquiries from all parts OF the ma
tion. asking for the Colorado juvenile
laws. the history of the court, its pro-
cedure and results.
Attorney George Morris has filed
suit in Denver against the Colorado
Midland railroad for $4,000, which he
considers the value of his vote. Mr..
Morris was in Glenwood Springs the
day before election and a wreck ON the
Midland road delayed him twelve
hours. so that he arrived in Denver
after the polls had closed.
The Anti-saloon League. Ministerial
Association and Christian Endeavor
Union of Colorado Springs have de-
cided to cooperate in the placing of
| good government ticket in the field at
the spring election. A committee has
been appointed to report January End
upon the records of prominent persons,
with a view to naming them as candi-
dates.
At the end Of a protracted spree Pat
! rick Brennan shot and mortally
wounded Mrs. Lowney at Stockton,
about three miles from Leadville, on
the night of Christmas. Then he shot
himself inflicting a dangerous wound.
/ Brennan, who is twenty-eight years OF
age, had been engaged to Mrs. Low
ney, a widow of thirty-three with three
children.
Secretary E. w. Palmer Of the
Pueblo Business Mems Association has
received a letter from Gov La Fol-
| lette Of Wisconsin to whom he had
written for information on the primary
! election laws Of Wisconsin. With the
/ letter he sent a large quantity Of mat
ter pertaining to the statutes and ex-
pressed the hope that Colorado would
soon enact such a law.
Theodore Anderson was found dead
in the kitchen of the residence Of
| Axel j. Hulquist at Leadville, Decem.
ber 26th. He had been rooming at the
house. Anderson was 27 years old
/ and single. He leaves a sister, Miss
Hilma Anderson. living at Lincoln, Ne
braska, and a brother living in Chi.
cago. Heart disease is supposed to
have caused his death.
Mamie Hendrix, a demented young
woman at Denver. made her thirteenth
unsuccessful attempt at suicide the
day after Christmas. This time 1t was
by drinking C. bottle of red ink. When
Police Surgeon Dulin was called she
attacked him with an iron skillet. She
was taken to the county hospital after
a sharp fight and will probably have to
be removed to the insane asylum.
One.third of the sum necessary for
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