Gilpin observer., 1904-12-15
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

| posters organization Will De nelQ In
Denver next year.
During the year ending November
Both Otero county spent $3,S23.50 In
caring for its poor.
| There is serious egg famine in the
Denver market and eggs have been re-
failing at thirty-five to forty cents a
Dozen.
President Theodore Roosevelt car
ried the state of Colorado by plural
| ity of 34,5S2 votes. Four years ago
Bryan carried the state by 30,694.
Representative Bonynge has intro
duced in Congress a bill granting to
Boulder large tract of land to be
owned and maintained by the city for
park purposes.
The Colorado & Northwestern is al
most into Eldora. and it is officially
announced that the road will be COM
pleted and trains running to Eldora by
Christmas day.
Edward e. Gilman, superintendent
of the Silverton railroad, stated while
in Denver recently that the road
would be built over to Ouray during
the coming year.
The school at Marshall in Boulder
county, has been closed because of the
prevalence of diphtheria. Marshall is
a coal mining camp and is inhabited
mostly by Italians.
John Hipp, state chairman Of the
Prohibition party, was somewhat badly
| injured on the 7th inst. at his home
in Denver by falling through a trap
doorway into the cellar
The supervising architects office at
Washington has caleld for bids which
will be opened December 30th, for in
stalling heating apparatus in the
Leadville public building.
The First National bank of Arvada,
Colorado, has been authorized to begin
business, with $4,000 as capital
George C. Swadley is president, A. H.
Barth vice-president and d. II. Staley
cashier.
Gen. William j. Palmer has offered
site and $3.50 cash for the erection
of home in Colorado Springs for the
detention of juvenile delinquents in
the event that a like amount he raised
elsewhere.
! The following new postmasters have
| been appointed in Colorado: Arlo,
MonteZuma county, Henry Wagner,
vice j. r. Millspaugh. resigned; Mesa,
Mesa county, Lee l.. Prewitt, vice T. T.
Carr, removed.
W. E. Hood, conductor of the Colo
RADIO & Southern switch crew at Love-
land was run over by loaded beet
car at the sugar factory on the Sth
inst. and literally cut to pieces. Death
was instantaneous.
| w. w. Womack, aged fifty-nine
years, was seriously injured in an acci-
dent while at work in the Valley Forge
mine near Salina in Boulder county a
! few days ago. A piece of rock fell and
fractured his skull.
The efforts of the Young Mems
1 Christian Association of Boulder to
secure funds for the erection of a
building are meeting with considerable
success. The subject has been taken
up by the churches and numerous
! pledges secured.
Secretary o. J. Kennedy of the Sa-
Ida board of trade has published a
book entitled "The Colorado Rubber
| Plant" The book describes a series of
I experiments with the plant in Salida
and recites its possibility as future
| Colorado industry.
Major William Cooke Daniels of the
| Daniels & Fisher Stores Company,
!
in the British East Indies after a year
expedition in the work of exploring the
island of Papua, New Guinea.
In a quarrel over the sale Of some
chickens, which took place on the road
near Littleton, December 9th, Simon
Miller was fatally stabbed by Elmer
Cobb. The affray took place just in
the edge OF jefferson county and Cobb
was taken to the jail at Golden.
1t is claimed that one million pieces
of mail matter, each telling about Colo
rado and Denver, will be sent out to
boom the convention of the National
Electric Light Association, which will
be held in Denver in June. Excursions
will be run to different parts of the
state.
Judge Lindsey of Denver has re-
ceived a personal letter from Presi-
dent Roosevelt, commenting the work
of the Denver Juvenile Court and ask
ing him to come to Washington and
deliver an address on the work accom-
plished by the court among the boys o.
Lenver.
The International Typographical Un
ion has raised approximately $4,000 OF
the 100000 required for the erection
of the A. j. Cummings memorial build
ing, which will be built as an annex to
the Union Printers Home in Colorado
Springs. The value of the property
including 100000 for eighty acres OF
improved land, is $237 1873.
A dispatch from Sunrise December
9th says: About ten days ago 1t was
announced that the output Of the Hart
vile iron region would be increased
from 700 to 1000 tons daily, but now
new rush orders have been given by
the Colorado Puel & Iron Company to
Increase the output of the Sunrise iror
mines to 1000 tons per day. which Is