Gilpin observer., 1905-12-14
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

clued TO erect hospital 1Or women
and children.
Fruita prides herself on the fact
that she is to have ballast roads and
mountain water.
Two rival electric railway COM
panies propose to build lines between
Canon City and Florence.
Who says Colorado isn't winter re-
sort? A butterfly was captured at
Florence few days ago.
Frank Zindlc of Greeley, twenty-rour
years of age, accidentally shot himself
and died instantly.
William G. Thomas, assistant cash
! ier of the First National Bank at Den
| yer. died ON the 4th inst, from an at
tack OF pneumonia.
The high school students of Colorado
Springs have been ordered to disband
all their fraternities on pain of expul-
sion from the school.
Customs revenue collected in Colo
RADIO during the past fiscal year
amounted to $139,9SS, while land Office
receipts reached $292.16S.
T. ]. Dugan, president of the Ma
tional Bank of Commerce of Denver,
has decided to drill wells for artesian
water on the Gale ranch in Beaver
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Berthoud National
Bank to begin business with $4,000
capital. T. c. Bunyan, president, John
Bunyan, cashier.
| At special election to vote upon
the refunding of the Lake City water
bonds, the vote was almost unanimous
in favor Of the proposition, two voting
against and 210 for it.
The office building at the mouth of
the Cave of the Winds, near Manitou,
was burned on the night Of the 9th inst.
1t contained q small stock of valuable
curios, which were destroyed.
The State Supreme Court has de-
cided that life insurance companies
are not subject to a money judgment
unless the insured personally makes
q revocation in favor of his creditors.
Albert H. Branch, formerly manager
| OF the Denver Gas Company and one
of the most prominent members Of the
Masonic order in Colorado, died at
Denver on the 9th inst, of disease OF
| the lungs.
Crude oil by the bucketful has been
struck at the Gwillim ranch, twelve
miles northeast of Colorado Springs,
at 920 feet. The second oil stratum
has been penetrated, and rapid prog
ress is expected.
William H. Dixon Of Denver, an old.
time mining man and inventor of the
Dixon ccncentrator and other mining
machinery, was killed by a fall in the
Cash mine at Gold Hill, in Boulder
county. on the Sth inst.
! An election will be called at Fort
Morgan to vote bonds to construct an
electric light plant to be owned and
managed by the city Of Fort Morgan
and run in connection with the water
works plant in the same building.
A New Yorl, dispatch states that the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company has
sold its entire output of steel rails fol
the year 1906 and practically all Of the
| product for the year 1907. The dis
patch estimated the output of rails al
100000 tons.
The handsome new school building
at Alamosa, just erected at a cost OF
5000 and not yet occupied. took fire
on the morning of the 10th inst. from
stoves that were being used to dry
the plastering, and was almost entirely
| ruined.
Five men were badly scalded at the
Fort Collins sugar factory on the 18th
inst. by steam from heating drum
Charles Anderson Of Chino, California
died from his burns and Nesbit Els
more was seriously injured. The Other
three were not dangerously hurt.
The United Association of Plumbers
and Filters OF the United States and
Canada is negotiating for the purchase
of the sanitarium at Fairmount park
in Pueblo, for the purpose of convert
ing the building into a national home
for members of the organization.
Harrison II. Martin, one of the best
known and most highly esteemed col
ored men of Denver, who has been EN-
ployed in the Office of the Board oi
Public Works for the past fifteeI
years December 1st He leaves 9
widow and eleven surviving children
The Durango City Council passed g
resolution commenting Presiden,
Roosevelt for his message and another
resolution to be forwarded to Colorado
senators and representatives, asking
them to aid the President in his eff
forts to secure railway rate legisa
ton.
nr. Harlan A. Trask of Colorado
Springs. who has been in the Ell Pase
county Jail eighteen months awaiting
action upon his application for a writ
Of supersedeas, after having been sen
fenced to the penitentiary for six t.
eight years for larceny of jewels from
a patient, has been granted new
trial.
Clifton Lowe, a Washington attor
ney, Oilers to collect the sum of $13,
$50, due the state of Colorado under
the United States laws as five per cent
| ca mmission on sale of lands taken VI
on land script II he succeeds he will
be allowed twenty-five per cent. com
mission on all the money secured foI