Gilpin observer., 1904-12-22
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The State Legislature will meet ON
Wednesday, January 4th.
The machinery is being set up for
the new rubber extraction plant at Sa.
lida.
The Boulder-C Colorado sanitarium at
Boulder will take no consumptive pa
tients after January 1st.
A company has been Incorporated in
Denver to manufacture ornamental ar
ticles from cactus fiber.
The Colorado Telephone Company
has increased its capital stock from
$5,O00.0O0 to $10,000,000, in view of ex-
tensive improvements.
An alarm was sent in over the new
fire alarm system at Greeley a few
days ago for the first time. 1t worked
perfectly and called out the depart
ment-just twelve hours later.
The following rural carriers have
been appointed for Colorado routes:
Dolores, regular, George s. Gardner;
substitute, Mamie Gardner. Mont
clair. regular, Felix 2. Jones; substi-
tute. James A. Jones.
One hundred and fifty or more of the
business and professional men of
Denver will make a trade expansion
trip into Texas and New Mexico next
month, leaving Denver January 18th,
and being gone six days.
DR.. T. d. Bancroft, who built the
Bancroft free home for the poor in
Kansas City, has started a movement
to establish home for poor consump-
tives at Salida. The plan is to sur
round it with farms and gardens.
The application of s. G. Hurst, ]. c.
Twombly, B. F. Twombly, D. W.
Strong and G. B. Kinsey to organize
the First National Bank of Brighton.
with $4,000 capital, has been approved
by the comptroller of the currency.
1t became necessary a few days ago
for the Moffat road to borrow a snow
pillow from the Colorado Midland to
clear the track between Mammoth and
Arrowhead. An immense rotary. on its
way from the East, had not yet ar
rived.
There has been considerable sympa-
thy manifested at Greeley for the
starving people of Ireland, whose po-
tato crop was failure. Mayor Wat
son says that the Greeley farmers will
donate 100 carloads to help relieve their
distress.
Colorado Springs were closed from
inst, on account of a great revival
meeting at the Temple theater under
the direction of the Rev. J. Wilbur
Chapman.
The Colorado State Grange will
convene in Denver January 10th, 11th
and 18th, at Britannia hall, third floor,
A~o 60o CIV n
programme has been arranged, includ-
ing speakers from the State Agricul-
tural College.
The mandamus proceedings brought
by the newly-elected officers of Arapa-
hoe county to compel the officials ap-
pointed by Governor Orman to vacate,
France and a verdict rendered in fa-
vor Of the petitioners.
Three prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at Montrose on the night
of the 18th inst. v. A. Laughlin, be.
ing held for obtaining money under
false pretenses; Alex Moore for forg-
cry, and Paul Gregerson for burglary.
broke the locks and got safely away.
While burning of pasture land on
his ranch near Parlin few days ago
Wilson Moore, a pioneer of Gunnison
county, was overcome by the exertto1
and fell into the flames. An italian
with him quickly beat out the fire
around his body, but Moore was dead.
The Colorado State Forestry Asso-
citation has elected the following dele
gates to the American Forestry Con-
gress, which meets in Washington, d.
c., January I'd to 9Th: l.. G. Carpen-
ter, Denver; William T. Kirkpatrick,
Durango; Dal Deweese, Canon City;
Gen. U. s. Hollister, Denver; James P.
Maxwell, Boulder.
A branch office of the United States
Census Bureau will be established in
Denver, January list. The first work
to be done will be the compilation Of
statistics relative to the manufactur-
ing industries, and the territory to be
covered includes the states of Colo
RADIO, Utah, New Mexico. Arizona, Wy
oming and Montana.
Rev. Franklin Spencer Spalding, rec
tor Of st. Pauls Episcopal Church Of
Erie, Pennsylvania, for the past nine
years, was consecrated bishop OF Salt
Lake, at Erie, on the 14th inst. Bishop
Spalding's father, now deceased, was
cOnsecrated bishop of Colorado In the
same church as the son, almost ex-
actly thirty-one years ago.
Lost in a blizzard on Sugar Loaf
mountain near Leadville, Joseph Sier
bent, miner, wandered for four days.
He was found by trackwalkers. within
a few feet of the Rio Grande railroad
tracks in an unconscious condition,
placed upon train and taken to the
, Denver county hospital, where 1t was
found that his ears and fest were ter
ribly frozen.
| The last of the twenty-four bridges
built to replace those washed out by
the food In Weld county has been COM
pleted. OF these bridges three were