Gilpin observer., 1904-02-25

COTORADO BRIEFS.

-, The Summer school of the sStNte Nor.
NAL school at Greeley will begin June
'14th and continue until July 22d. :, As-
According to, the report of Orchard
Inspector Smith, Larimer county last
year produced $150,000 worth of fruit.
The new. Protestant hospital at Colo.
rado Springs will be called the Deacon.s
hospital. lt.was formerly the Bellevue
sanitarium ~ 80 es~s sNts
George Waybright. deputyscity mar
shal at Hastings, was assaulted and
badly injured by striking Italian mini
ers at Aguilar. February goth. ..s,,l,.S-
An attempt to change the date of
the meeting of the Republican. State
Central Committee did not succeed: 1t
will be April72d, as at first announced.
Two hundred lawyers were present
at the annual banquet of the Denver
Bar Association on the night of Feb
ruary goth at the Brown Palace hotel.
A new hotel, a $35, 900 opera house, q
Carnegie library and possibly new city
hail. are among the buildings that
Trinidad expects to see finished this
year.
The careful enforcement of the game
laws during the last few years is grad
Idlly ludhluS d 6ttdI Qudii
state, whereas formerly there were but
few quail here.
Pueblo is to have an open air ann
phitheater at the corner OF Sixth and
Main streets that will seat 1000 people.
1t is proposed to complete the structure
by June 1st..
The Colorado Springs Y. NJ. c. A.
has received a check for $4,000 from
Rev. d. Stewart Dodge, New York
minister to be applied on the $4,000
Indebtedness of the organization.
DR.. Sol Ringolsky of Denver has ac-
cepted the terms of the Salida City
Council and has agreed to install a rub
ber plant in the Salida creamery build
ing. The plant is to be ready for ope-
ration within thirty days.
Samuel Raugh. one of the principal
ranch and horse owners of the Platte
valley, died at Brush. February 17th..
He was the owner of the NH" brand,
and had been resident of this valley
for. over thirty-five years.
Under the direction of Dr. Wallace
r. Struble of Chicago, international
lecturer of the American Anti-Cigarette
League, a crusade has been inaugurated
in Colorado against the smoking of ci-
garettes by school children.
Mabel Joseph, three-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. l. w. Joseph of
Pueblo, died February 10Th as the re-
suit of burns received a few days be-
fore. Her clothing caught fire while
playing near fire in an alley.
In the District Court at Walsenburg
February 18th Judge Northcutt sem
fenced Henry Crumbley to the peniten-
tiary for from two to five years for
arson. Last October Crumbley set fire
to a barn at La Veta belonging to
Charles Martin.
The Pueblo City Council has added
$500 to the $500 already given by the
county commissioners for the purpose
of defraying the expense of construct
ing relief map of the Arkansas val
ley, which will be shown at the st.
Louis exposition.
Judge Voorhees,, in the District
Court at Pueblo. condemned attaches
of the sheriff's Office and police de.
partment for permitting the increase
of houses of ill repute and saloons of
a questionable character in certain dis
tricts of the city.
W. A. ,Saville, United States mechan-
ical engineer, has come to Denver to
assume charge Of the mechanical equip
ment of the new mint. Under his d.
rection the placing of the machinery
for the electric lighting. heating, etc,
of the building will begin at once.
Tunnel No. 8 on the Moffat line is
about completed. 1t is thirty miles
from Denver and is 722 feet in length,
being one of the first long tunnels on
the road. This will make the eighth
t,rnr ,tCh ho o1- !, 81
ready been laid through seven of them.
An examination of the registration
books at the University of Colorado
shows that there are 130 students from
Denver now attending the state univer-
sity In other words, little more than
twenty per cent. of the students now in
the university come from the capitol
city.
Two Methodist ministers who for
merly lived in Denver and who have
many friends in Colorado, are now in
Korea and some concern is felt as to
their safety. They are Rev. Phillip
Gillette and Rev. w. B. McGill. the lat
ter a graduate of the Iliff School of
Theology.
Cripple Creek, who was credited with
having been the locator of the Last
Dollar mine, was found dead in his
cabin at Independence on Tuesday, the
10th inst. He had not been seen since
Saturday and it is supposed that he
died Sunday.
BY the report of the committee ap-
pointed to audit the Pueblo county
treasurer's books 1t was shown that
William B. Moore, a clerk in the treas
urer's Office. was $1,000 short in his ac-
counts. The committee recommended
that no prosecution be made. as the
friends of Mr.. Moore will make good
the amount.
Jean Mignolet. the Belgium consul in
Denver, has been notified by his gov-
ernment to request the mine owners
and the state of Colorado to make an