Gilpin observer., 1904-01-14
COLORADO BRIEFS.


The students in the State University
at Boulder have formed a large Cross
Country Club and will make some long
runs.
Alderman John Omera of Black
Hawk was injured by an explosion in
the Pet shaft up Silver creek, on the
9th inst, and died the next day.
The officers of the cadet company of
resigned because the school board re-
fused to permit them to hold cadets
ball.
The city council of Boulder has vot-
ed to purchase of James P. Maxwell
reservoirs at the foot of Arapahoe
peak.
The Pentecostal Union, also known
as THE Jumpers" has nearly complet-
ed handsome four-story building in
central part of Denver at a cost of
$4,000.
A hunting party of Salida people
went over to Saguache on the 10th inst.
and together with number of citizens
from Saguache and Moffat, killed 300
rabbits.
George S. Phelps, a prominent attor
ney of Denver and Leadville, died at
his residence in Denver on the 7thi
inst, after an illness of ten days OF
pneumonia.
Representatives of the Russian gov
ernment have contracted with the
Colorado Packing and Provision Com
pany at Denver for 100000 pounds of
mess beef, to be delivered at the op-
tion of the purchaser.
m
clan who was found wandering about
the streets of Julesburg in an uncOn-
scious condition last month, was still
unconscious in st. Joseph's hospital at
Denver on the 11th inst.
Henry Frey a Denver tailor, likes to
be in Jail. Whenever he is discharged
he smashes window somewhere, SO
as to be sent back. His last feat was
to break $3.50 plate glass window in
the Joslin dry goods store.
On the 7th. at Central City, Ernest
Bishop and James Doyle were killed
by the explosion of a missed shot into
which they drilled while at work in
the Cook shaft on Bobtail hill. Doyle
was forty-five years OF age and Bishop
twenty.
Denver newsboys have several times
esSoehukeCu Soh6i C6dtAOAo vi thC ShtO-
costal Union, called Jumpers" The
boys allege that these religionists
prayed for the death OF Policeman AS
kew, who had arrested them, and who
died recently.
In quarrel over a question Of rent,
George A. Morrison, owner of Ell Jebel
farm, shot and killed Harvey White at
the ranch owned by Morrison and
leased by White. near Basalt. on the
11th inst. 1t is reported that White had
threatened to kill Morrison.
Mr. and Mrs. George c. Batchelder.
aged respectively ninety and eighty-six
years, celebrated the sixtythird anni-
versary of their wedding at Boulder
on tn 5th instant. four generations of
the family being present. The aged
couple are still hale and hearty.
Glen F. Carnes, former secretary of
the state Republican central commit
tee and secretary of the State Board
of Arbitration, died at his home in
Denver January Sth of heart disease.
Mr.. Carnes was thirty-one years of age
and came to Colorado from Missouri
five years ago on account OF lung trou-
BILE.
The body of Robert Green, the
twelve-year-old boy who was missed
from his parents home in Cripple
Creek August 18th, was found on the
7th inst. 225 feet underground in the
Bob WOmack tunnel at the Ell Paso
Gold King mine in Poverty gulch. He
had evidently fallen through an old
stope and mill hole.
The Society of Colorado Pioneers at
its meeting in Denver January 18th
elected the following officers: Arthur
E. Pierce. '5S. president; W. H. Ma
comber. SO, first vice president; W. A.
Smith, go, second vice president; Mi
chael Storm, SO. secretary; John l..
Daley, SO, treasurer. and James l..
Boutwell,, SO. marshal.
E. A. Tulian, superintendent OF the
government fish hatchery at Leadville.
has been offered a commission by the
Argentine Republic in South America
to establish a fisheries bureau in that
country. The commission guarantees
n five years contract at a large salary.
Mr.. Tulian has gone to Washington to
confer with his superior about the Of
fer
Joseph Bellew was struck and in
stantly killed by a mass OF falling rock
in the Vindicator mine at Victor on the
11th inst. This is the same mine in
which William Mccormack and Shift
Boss Melvin Beck were killed by an ex-
plosion since the strike troubles be-
gan. Bellew owned ranch near
Rocky Ford and leaves a wife and a
. grown daughter.
An order was issued at Leadvillo
on the Sth inst. by Judge Overs clos
ing all poker games which are conduct,
ed in saloons and cigar stores. This
follows on the heels OF the courts
general crusade against gambling. The
court also ordered the deportation OF
a quartette Of dance hall girls who had
been working in the hall where tenn
perance drinks" are served.
The Lincoln and Elbert County Cat
tla Growara' Assocfa:fou met Mt Hupo