Gilpin observer., 1904-09-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

been picking her second crop of straw
berries. and good crop. too.
Adjt. Gen. Sherman Bell rejoices in
the advent of daughter and proposes
to name her after Helen Gould.
State Treasurer Newton and his fam
lily have forsaken Pueblo and intend to
make their permanent home in Dem
yer.
Patrick Mccain. a widely-known
mining man OF Gilpin county, died at
Central City on the 10th inst. of paral-
ysis.
The Pullman Car Company has or
dered its shops In Denver closed. It is
not stated when, II at all, they will be
reopened.
Engineer AL Philliber of the d. &
R. G. lost his left eye at Red Cliff on
the 8th inst. by the bursting of the
water gauge of his engine.
Mayor Speer of Denver has appointed
Mrs. G. ]. Hughes, Jr., and Mrs. VIII
liam G. Fisher as members OF the Dem
yer Public Library Association. There
are six other members.
John Mosley, who came to Colorado
Springs from Lonuon a few months
ago, will tour the mountains with his
family in a ''palatial" camp wagon, fit
ted with electric light, gasoline heat
ers, etc.
The new bridge over the Arkansas
river at La Junta is to cost $1,000. The
sum of $4,000 was appropriated by the
Legislature and the county commits
sioners will furnish an additional
$1,000.
On the ranch Of Wilson Bros, near
Lusk. Anton Miklas and Peter Jensen
quarreled over who should shoot a rab-
bit and struggled for the possession of
gun, which went OF in the fracas and
killed Miklas.
The State School for the Deaf and
Blind at Colorado Springs recently re-
ceived sixteen pupils from Idaho. There
are twenty-four other non-residents in
the institution, mostly from Oklahoma
and Wyoming.
The hearing on the probate of the
will of the late Charles NJ. Stebbins,
who left the bulk of large fortune to
found an orphans home in Denver,
Denver, November 10th.
Mrs. West, wife of X. E. West, organ
izer for the Modern Woodmen of Amer
ia, was 1Ouuu ucdu III ueT TOOul luG
Commercial hotel at Trinidad on the
18th inst. having died of heart fail
ure. She came to Trinidad from Okla
homa City.
President Moffat of the Denver,
Northwestern & Pacific railroad, who
has recently returned from the East,
says that work will soon be COM
menced on the Salt Lake City end OF
10 IN hA do
yer.
The state engineer has let contract
to the Pueblo Bridge Company for the
construction of q Routt county bridge
over the Yampa river at Steamboat
Springs, to cost $4,000. The county
commissioners will furnish the abut-
ments, which will cost $500 extra.
Prof. Samuel l.. Boothroyd, instruc-
tor in physics at the Colorado Agri-
cultural College, has accepted an ap-
pointment as instructor of descriptive
geometry at Cornell University, New
York. He is a native of Colorado and
graduated at the Agricultural College.
A large number of Pueblo sportsmen
took advantage of the opening of the
duck season on Sunday, the 11th, to
visit the lakes and reservoirs south OF
the city, and the result was that many
teal ducks were bagged. The number
of these ducks is said to be the largest
ever known.
On the morning of the 18th inst. the
body OF an unknown man, supposed to
be a tramp, was found near Wigwam,
one the D. G r. c., cut in two pieces
by car wheels. The unfortunate man
was apparently about thirty-five years
of age, medium built, and wore small,
light mustache.
One Of the questions that will come
before the State Supreme Court at its
present session in Denver is the consti-
tutionality of the statute permitting the
Humane Society to take charge OF
starving cattle and other live stock and
care for 1t at the expense of the owner.
Miss Ida E. Michener who has charge
of the Colorado Midland eating station
at Cascade, twelve miles west OF Colo
RADIO Springs, expected to share an es-
tate of $15.0O0,0O0. which her mother.
Mrs. Talitha Jane Michener Of Carmel.
Indiana, is said to have fallen heir to.
Mary F. Lathrop. who sued the
George w. Clayton estate for a $4,000
attorney fee for services alleged to
have been rendered in securing the pro-
bate OF Mr.. Clayton's will, donating
some 100000 for the establishment of
a boys school. has lost her case in the
Court Of Appeals.
Roger Greenough, aged slxty-eight
years, an oiler in the employ of the
Telluride mill at Colorado City, and
one of the pioneers of Colorado, was
caught in the betting of the machinery
at the plant on the night Of the 9Th
inst, and probably almost instantly
killed. His body was not found until
several hours had elapsed.
The hunting season for wild ducks,
geese. snipe, curlews. brants. swans
and other water fowls, opened in all
parts OF Colorado except attitudes over
z 600 feet ahoYe sea level. where Il