Gilpin observer., 1904-03-24
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

l.: Additional rural Tree delivery SerV-
tce has been ordered established April
18th at Loveland. with one carrier.
The members of the Durango City,
Council has united in requesting Con-
,gressman Hog to support the forest re-
serve bill.
The Denver team OF the Western
Baseball League will be brought to-
,gether in Denver, March 25th to be-
gin practice.
| The shaft house of the Gunnell mine,
near Central City was burned on the
,1Sth inst. The loss is estimated at,
$4,000 or upward.
It is expected that as many as TWEEN
ty-fve Colorado high schools will be-
| represented at the state interscholas-
tic athletic contest this spring.
Roy M. Rose, aged nineteen years.!
who lived with his father, F. M. Rose,i
four miles from La Junta, shot and
killed himself on the evening OF the
18th inst.
| i The State Preparatory School ca
diets at Boulder have been granted per-
mission to use the tents and eQuip1
;ment Of the state militia for spring
,encampment.
| The University of Colorado has fin
ally decided to send a track team OF
twelve men to compete at the inter
collegiate athletic meet at Colorado
Springs May 7th.
1t is reported that the Steamboat,
Springs Town Company has given an
option upon it's interests in the town,
which include all the. hot springs and
much other property.
A company from Kalamazoo, Michi-
gan, has taken a long lease on the
Manhattan Beach summer resort in
Denver and proposes to make exten-
sive improvements. e.s.-
The oldest inhabitant has (been)
turned up at Durango. Workmen In
excavating for a building found what
Is believed to be the fore-crown and
face Of an Aztec skull.
The bucket tram at the Sufield coal
mine, near Bowen, Las Animas coun-
ty, has been completed. 1t is 5000
feet long and has sixteen buckets, 200
feet apart, with capacity of half
ton each. e4..N
Samuel Wade, who for several years
represented the counties of Gunnison,
Pitkin, Montrose, Delta and Mesa in
the Colorado Legislature, died at his
home in Blaine in the state of Wash
ington on the 18th inst. 4lprt.
At wedding celebration in Denver
where liquor was provided for the
guests, two fourteen-year-old boys
stole in and took enough to become
drunk, which led to their arrest and
confinement in the city Jail.
The Loup Reservoir Company has
been incorporated by John E. Law.
Bruce G. Eaton and Ellis Smith, to
build a reservoir covering ninety-two
acres near Greeley, the water being
taken from the Cache la Poudre river.
| There is said to be prospect Of the
early resumption of the Overland Cot
ton Mills at Denver, which went into
the hands of trustee in bankruptcy
| January 21st. When in full operation
the mills can give employment to 500
! people.
The Pueblo City Council grant
ed an extension of the franchise
of the Pueblo and Interurban Railway
Company which secured a franchise
about year ago to build and operate
street railway along Mesa avenue
and other streets.
At a meeting Of the farmers Of
South Boulder and Boulder valley at
Jacksons Resort, two miles east Of
bOulucT, TcSOlutlOA6 WCIc duOptCu 6P-
proving the application for right Of
way for the proposed Denver-Boulder
street car line.
Frank Gill. who is being held to the
July term of the District Court to an
swer to charge of numbering Alfred
Sayles on February 7th, has been re-
moved from Sterling on account of the
weakness Of the Logan county jail and
will be confined in the jail at Denver.
]. +. Harris, convict at the State
Reformatory at Buena Vista, escaped
on the afternoon OF the 18th inst, dur
ing a binding snow storm. He was
working in the carpenter shop and had
asked permission to put on pair of
overalls over his stripes. This done,
he went outside ON some pretext, and
disappeared.
The Henry Electric Equipment Com
pany owner of the Henry patents for
self-lighting railroad and street cars
by electricity, will erect a large fac
tory In Denver for the manufacture of
the electric appliances. The first in
vestment will involve 100000. 1t will
be increased as the needs Of the busi-
ness may require.
The Board of County Commissioners
of Garfield county has requested State
Engineer Carpenter to re-advertise for
bids for state bridge to be built
across Grand river few miles below
Rife. Bids were received some time
ago, but the board Of construction
considered them excessive and refused
to let a contract
Sixteen male students went to the
Colorado Springs High School on st.
PatrieK's Day in very loud" green
costumes and refused to leave when or
dered to do SO by the superintendent.
But they were induced by the police
to take free ride in the patrol wagon
to the city lookup, where they were re-
leased after being warned not to re-