Gilpin observer., 1904-09-08
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Elbert county fair will be held
at Elbert September 22d.
The old settlers had grand celebra-
ton at Akron on Labor Day.
]. F. Gardner, former state senator,
died at Castle Rock on the Sd inst. OF
cancer of the face.
watermelons on the Stevens Markle
ranch near Greeley.
\ The new sanitarium of the Jewish
Consumptives' Relief Society was ded-
icated at Denver September 4th.
The county commissioners of Delta
county will appropriate funds to make
an exhibit of fruit at the Worlds Fair
in st. Louis.
At the Methodist conference at Pueb-
10 the delegates presented a beauti-
fully engraved gold loving cup tc
Bishop Moore.
The Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany will put in plant for the manu-
facture of wire fence at their steel
works at Pueblo.
September 18th will be Colorado
Day at the Worlds Fair in St. Louis.
1t is proposed to give away ten car.
loads of melons.
One hundred thousand brook trout
fry from the state hatcheries have
ben placed in South Boulder creek
above Rollinsville.
District No. 25 of the United Mine
Workers of America at Kansas City
has voted to give $1,000 to- the striking
coal miners of Colorado.
In the ten mile bicycle race at Den
yer on Labor Day there were eighteen
starters and large crowd of specta-
tors. The sport seems to be looking
up.
George C. Cobb, Confederate vet,
eran, who has been in Leadville since
'79, and in the county hospital two
symptoms and was ent to the Pueblo
asylum.
Attorney John Hipp Of Denver has
been selected by the national Prohibi-
tion committee to make number of
addresses in Wyoming in the interest
of the party.
BY direction of President Roosevelt.
H. Weiss was appointed receiver of the
land office at Del Norte, vice Percy
Bobkirk, removed on account of physi-
cal disability.
President W. F. Slocum of Colorado
College has received an invitation to
serve as a member of the board of
awards of the educational exhibits at
the Worlds Fair.
The corn roast at Loveland on Labor
Day attracted an unusually large at
tendance. The Grand Army gathering
was also a great success on that and
the following day.
The United Mine Workers have is
n for wi 10 tn q n q
now at work in the Trinidad district,
asking them to come out and join the
miners now on strike.
Charles M. Carter, superintendent OF
drawing for the Denver schools, has
been appointed a member Of the inter-
national jury of awards for the depart
ment of education at the Worlds Fair.
Walker Morris, a boy living in Spring
Valley canon, near Aguilar, in Las An
imas county, was dangerously injured
by stroke Of lightning August 2Sth.
while riding horse. The horse was in
'stantly killed.
The suit instituted by Judge Hallett
to test the legality of the proceedings
in connection with the voting of bonds
for the Denver Auditorium will come up
before Judge Malone in the District
Court at Denver September 18th.
C. B. Monroe of Sterling had leg
broken in the wild horse race at the
Cheyenne Frontier Day celebration his
horse running into fence. Even after
he was hurt he kept the saddle until
the animal stopped bucking.
The arbitrary action of the postoffice
officials at Washington in changing the
Nf Citv m Canvnn (vtv
has occasioned a strong remOnstrance
Of the part of the municipal officers and
civic organizations of Canon City.
DR.. Henry A. Ruger, graduate OF
Beloit University, has been appointed
to the chair of philosophy at Colorado
College. made vacant by the resignation
of Professor E. G. Lancaster, who was
called to the presidency Of Olivet Col
lege, Michigan.
A large number of members of the
Interparliamentary Arbitration league,
a European organization to prevent
future warfare, which will close its ses-
sion at the Worlds Fair September
14th, are expected to visit Colorado,
arriving in Denver on the 18th inst.
At the recent Denver civil service
examination for patrolmen for the po-
lice force sixty-five applied, thirty-six
were found to be physically disquali-
fed, twenty-nine took the examination
and nineteen passed. Thirteen took
the examination for sergeant and
eight OF them passed.
The Rev. Kerr B. Upper OF Phila-
delphia, former pastor of the First
Baptist Church at Denver, who has re-
Gently been visiting in Denver, has be-
come much interested in the success OF
the Y. M. c. A. health farm and will
hold meetings In Philadelphia to raise
money for its support.
George William VeditZ. member OF
l,o IN az ho Cfafo School for ha