Gilpin observer., 1905-02-23
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A farmers institute will be held at
sterling March Sd.
An effort is being made to inaugu-
rate q flower contest in Denver next
summer.
Rock breaking has been commenced
on the Pennington railroad south of
Durango.
| The Rio Grande railroad paid over
| $4,000 to its employees at Pueblo on
Its last monthly pay day, February
T1th.
The Pixies peak climbing contest for
automobiles next August is attracting
good deal of attention all over the
country.
Isaac Rosskam, who died at Phila-
delphia recently, left $4,000 for the Ma
tional Jewish Hospital for Copsump-
tivesfat Denver.
The annual exhibition of the Colo
rads Kennel Club will be held at
Denver March I'd to 4th. Some IA
nous dogs will be shown.
William F. Jones, auditor of the Moi
fat road, who has recently returned
from the East. states positively that
the road has not been sold.
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throughout the state propose to take
active steps to enforce the law in re-
lation to oleomargarine and butterine.
The name, "San Cristobal," as ap-
piled to a body of water in Hinsdale
county, has received the approval of
the United States Board on Geograph-
ical Names.
Chris Laib of Longmont was badly
frozen while trying to walk from Ned
erland to Caribou on the 18th inst. and
1t may be necessary to amputate some
of his limbs.
A. M. Stevenson, Republican ma
tional committeeman from Colorado.
has been notified that he has been ap-
pointed a member of the presidential
inaugural reception committee.
]. c. Boosinger, the Pueblo engin-
eer who was injured in Denver &
Rio Grande collision near. Portland.
in Fremont county, some months since,
died in the Salida hospital on the 18th
inst.
Engineer Sullivan of the Colorado &
Southern. in charge of engine 425. was
badly scalded at Loveland on the 18th
inst. by the loosening of rivet in the
boiler. He was taken to the Loveland
hospital.
| Numerous robins and meadow larks
made their appearance in many parts
of Colorado previous to the recent ex-
tremely cold weather and it is feared
that some of them may have been
killed by it.
Oscar c. Reitze. former president of
the Reitze Wall Paper and Paint Com
pany at Denver, committed suicide by
shooting himself through the head in
his room at the Baltimore hotel at Vic
tor February 18th.
Mrs. Jennie Peabody, widow of the
late Jesse Peabody. and sister-in-law
of Gov. James H. Peabody. died at her
home in Canon City February 18th,
eight days after having suffered a
stroke Of paralysis.
The late F. A. Falkenburg will be
succeeded as head consul of the Wood
men of the World by John H. Foley.
head adviser Of the order, until meet
ing of the head board of managers
can be held to make a permanent Sc
lection.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sopris. widow of
Richard Sopris. former mayor of Den
yer, celebrated her Goth birthday ami
versary at Denver on the 18th inst.
Richard Sopris. was the first represen-
tative of the pixies Peak country" in
the Kansas Legislature.
Fifty-five carloads of lambs, num-
bering $1,000 head, left the depot at
Greeley for Omaha, st. Joseph and
Chicago February 18th. 1t is estimated
that about ope-half of the sheep being
fattened for market in northern Colo
RADIO have been sold.
The application of Morton Jones OF
Denver, ]. M. Herbert. A. c. Foster,
M. y. Osborn, ]. ]. Meade and E. Z.
Fauver, to organize the First National
Bank of Loveland, Colorado. with $780,
900 ca pital, has been approved by the
romptI oller of the currency.
Miss Margaret Prendergast, first as
sistant in the Department Of Domestic
Art at the Colorado Agricultural Col
lege, has ben elected to the professor
ship of domestic science and art at the
Wyoming Agricultural College and will
begin her duties there next Septem-
ger.
The trial of Charles Wynn, alleged
to be Wellington Llewellyn, for the
murder OF Policemen Thomas Clifford
and William Griffiths. will be held at
Denver during the second week in
March. 1t is claimed that many wit
nesses will swear to the identity OF
Wynn and Llewellyn, which the de-
fense will deny.
The secretary of the treasury to-day
requested Congress to appropriate
$50, 900 to supply the deficiency in the
appropriation for new machinery for
the Denver mint. The cost of ma
chinery has been greater than was
estimated, and that amount is needed
in order to have the mint ready for
coinage June 1st.
| Treasurer Holmberg's deputies have
been engaged the past month hunting
up druggists, saloons, bottling houses
| and others who sell LIQUOR. and collect.