Gilpin observer., 1904-02-18
COLORADO BRIEFS.

Judge Ben B. Lindsey has gone to the
Pacific coast to lecture on the Juvenile
Court Of Denver and its workings. 9.
E. H. Kellogg OF Denver has been
appointed chief engineer of the Great
Arrowhead Reservoir Company in Call
fornia.
So far as has been reported no in
| surance companies doing business In
Colorado have been crippled by the
| Baltimore fire.
Tho loss Of many valuable dogs In
Grand Junction by poisoning has In
duced the mayor and the Humane So
ciety to offer rewards for the detection
Of the poisoner.
1t Is estimated that Japanese to the
number OF 200 or more have been re-
called from different points in Colorado
to join the army Of Japan in its cam
paign against Russia.
City Physician c. F. Taylor Of Pu-
eblo has discovered typhoid fever
germs in the water of the Arkansas
river and advises consumers to boil the
water before drinking it.
John H. Howry of Logan has pre-
sented to the Denver Park Commission
for City Park, pair of prairie hawks.
rare type of bird. the nearest to the
falcon family to be found in the West.
Erskine Mcclellan, one of the Oldest
pioneers of Clear Creek county, died
| at Georgetown on the 10th inst, at the
age OF eighty-four years. He was for
merly proprietor of Mcclellan Opera
house. 4A. r
The Colorado promotion and pub
licity committee is now installed in its
new headquarters at 813 Seventeenth
street. Denver. where Secretary Thom-
as d. Parker is already beginning to
send out advertising literature.
The Longmont sugar factory sliced
the last beet of the season on the morn
ing Of the 18th inst. Work began De-
comber 18th and $1,000 tons OF beets
were made into about $4,000 sacks of
sugar.
M. Goldberg, an orthodox Jew, died
at Denver February 18th at the age of
ninety years. He was the father of
six sons and three daughters, having
eighty grandchildren, 250 great-grand-
children and one great-great-grand-
child,
DR.. Charles O. Rice Of Pueblo, who
was acquitted Of the murder of Police
| man Marts on the plea of insanity and
afterward confined at the Woodcraft
Sanitarium, has been given into the
| custody of his wife to be removed to
lower altitude.
The effort to incorporate a saloon
town between Fort Collins and the
, sugar factory has failed, not enough
names having been signed to the petit
ton. The proposed town was to have
been. called Buckingham. $50 much
for Buckingham"
Jesse H. Hall. well known Boulder
valley farmer and veteran OF the Civil
War, died at Boulder on the 10th inst.
| at the age of sixty-six, leaving a wild
ow. He was the father Of Professor
Horace Hall Of Boulder and Mrs. F. Y.
Mo3eley Of Loveland.
John Near, one of the pioneer resi-
dents of Buena Vista and Chaffee coun-
ty. died at Buena Vista on the 10th inst
at the age Of sixty-four.' Mr.. Near
served as deputy sheriff for several
years and was prominently connected
with the county seat war in 1880.
A post mortem examination held ON
the body of Walter s. Noltie, the Den
yer boy who died in Hamilton, Ohio,
February Sd, gives the cause of the
| death as heart failure brought on by
the excessive use Of cigarettes. 1t was
! first reported as case Of suicide by
. carbolic acid. .s-
State Superintendent of instruction
/ Mrs. Helen M. Grenfell has accepted an
| invitation to attend the convention Of
| the National Association at Atlanta,
| Georgia, which convenes in that city
| in March. She will deliver an address
on Increasing the Efficiency Of the
Rural Schools"
Dale Cleaves, eleven years old, who
! is semi-imbecile and has been confined
| in the insane ward of the county hos
pital at Denver since September 4, 1902.
will be sent to the private asylum Of
DR.. Work at Pueblo and a special
teacher provided for him at the expense
of the state under the provisions Of the
law of 1901.
| Harry Davies, the Denver snake deal
er, says that the snake crop in Colo
| RADIO last year was far below the aver
age, owing to theta spring and early
fall, which kept the ground cold and
prevented many Of the snakes from
coming out Ct their holes at all. He
expects to see them all out this year II
the season is hot.
The city engineer Of Colorado
Springs estimates the amount of water
taken from reservoir No. s by the city
of Victor some weeks ago at 234. .050, ,00(
gallons. 1t is understood that damages
1ill be demanded at the rate Of seven
cents per thousand gallons. Thii
amount, added to the damages to the
dam and values. will bring the Springs
demand to approximately 100000.
A verdict Of not guilty in the Sec
ond charge Of assault with intent to
kill preferred against John M. Glover
was ordered by Judge Lewis at Grip.
plc Creek without the jury leaving
their seats. The plea Of Glover's at
torney, Mr.. Hangs. that the two cases
were Identical and that he would thus
be placed in jeopardy twice for the
/ anuaa offausa contrary tn tho OF a Int ar