Gilpin observer., 1905-03-30
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

bore for oil and artesian water at Col
orado City.
There is more than ten million dol
lars on deposit in the banks Of Colo
do Springs.
The American De Forrest Wireless
Telegraph Company is arranging to
establish a station at Pueblo.
The Colorado railroads are doing
large amount Of advertising to attract
tourist travel next summer.
It is estimated that about 1900 peo-
pie will be entitled to vote at the
coming city election in Pueblo.
President c. P. Dodge of the Colo
RADIO Springs Y. M. c. A. has received
a donation of $500 from Helen Gould.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Federation of Musical Clubs will
be held in Denver the week beginning
June 5th.
Adjt. Gen. Sherman NJ. Bell has in
formed the governor that he will re-
tire April 1st, after a service of ex-
actly two years.
A suit has been appealed to the state
Supreme Court which will test the
right of county judge to grant ali
uOuy III cACcSS VI pS,OOU.
Mrs. Helen Grenfell addressed six
ty teachers present at the meeting Of
the Weld County Teachers Associa-
ton at La Sale March 18th.
Active preparations are being made
for the annual convention of the
American Stockgrowers' Association,
which meets at Denver May 9th.
According to the report Of the horti-
cultural inspector cold weather has
destroyed nearly all of the peach and
apricot buds in Garfield county.
A civil service reform association
has been organized at Boulder with
DR.. Walter H. Nichols as president
and DR.. John B. Phillips as secretary.
l. w. Larimore, physical instructor
of the Y. M. C. A. at Denver, will have
charge of the physical culture depart
ment of the Boulder ChautauQua this
summer.
Herman Lesche, barber, commit
ted suicide at Cripple Creek a few
days ago by shooting himself through
the body. He had barber shop in the
Masonic building.
A company has been organized with
$4,000 capital to build new bath
house at Manitou Springs. 1t will be
built on the site of the Norris hotel,
which burned last fall.
The annual state championships at
golf will be decided in Colorado
Springs on June 21st, 22d and 23d,
the dates having been accepted by the
golf players of the state.
Forged tickets over the Colorado &
Southern for points between Denver
and Fort Worth, Texas, are reported
to have been discovered and to have
been taken up by conductors.
Hugh Stewart, charged with assault
with intent to kill Editor G. A. Walker
at Salida. has been held for trial at
the July term of the District Court
his bond being fixed at $1,000.
On March oath William Wood, a
miner, was precipitated 800 feet down
shaft in the Ajax mine at Victor by
the breaking of one Of the rounds of
a ladder. Death was instantaneous.
James Ward. Colorado. pioneer.
who died at Golden March 22d at the
age of seventy-five years, was a stage
driver between Denver and the Mis-
souri, river before the advent of rail-
roads.
The Intercollegiate Association OF
Colorado has changed it's title to he
Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Ath-
letic Association, designed eventually
to cover Utah and Wyoming, as well
as Colorado.
The coroner's jury in the case OF
Gus. Neufeld, who was shot by Will
lam G. Smith March 18th in Denver.
brought in verdict discriminating
Smith. who has been held on the
charge of murder.
The Douglas County Ditch and Res
ervoir Company, capitalized at $780,
900, has been formed to construct two
large reservoirs, one being in Stone
canon and one just south Of the Santa
Fe bridge at Larkspur.
After the hearing in Denver March
22d Commissioner Richardson of the
United States Supreme Court commits
sion in the Kansas Colorado water suit
adjourned the sessions to April 10, to
reconvene again in Denver.
Barney McQueeney, who was crush
ed between the cage and the station
roof in the Reindeer mine on the 18th
inst. and died the next day, was the
seventh victim of mine accidents in
Leadville since February 18th.
Complaint having been made to
State Engineer Carpenter that the
dam at Lake Jackson. near Fort Nor
gan, appeared to be in danger. orders
were issued for its repair and work
was Immediately commenced on a re-
lieving bank.
Little three-year.old Earl Francis
Purcell, son of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Francis Purcell of Denver awoke
March 23rd, after a sleep that had
lasted seven days and nights. When
the sleep began he had been exhausted
by epileptic commissions.
A donation of $500 has been made
to the Colorado Springs Carnegie
library by the Board of County Com