Gilpin observer., 1905-01-05
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Father Thomas H. Malone of Den
yer was given a private audience with
the Pope on Christmas Day.
The Colorado National Life 1nsur-'
nnce Company has been organized at
Denver by a number of local capital
lists.
The sixteenth annual convention tof
the Colorado State Horticultural So
ciety will be held in Denver January
11th to 18th.
There was only one business failure
In Cripple Creek last year, and that
mercantile concern which will pay out
dollar for dollar.
Gen. William j. Palmer has con-
structed public bride path to Crystal
park, ON the southeast slope of Pixies
peak, above Manitou.
The number of sheep now being fed
Iin Larimer county, including those at,
Windsor, is estimated at Ala, 1852, AS
compared with 28S,001 last year.
| Mrs. Carrie Freeman, colored
woman, was burned to death Decem-
ber 31st at Salida by her clothing TAX
Ing fire while she was engaged in cook
ing.
| DIR. Bancroft's plan for a consump-
tives' home at Salida is meeting with
some opposition by physicians and
others, who are afraid it might result
In contagion.
Foul air in the Conundrum shaft on
Gold hill, in the Cripple Creek dis
trict, occasioned the death of William
Phillips, machinist in the mine, on
December goth.
Merrill Green, an employe OF the
Longmont sugar factory, fell into the
washing vat on the night of January
1st and was very dangerously injured
by the revolving paddles.
The Rev. A. N. Danielson died at his
home at Nepesta, Pueblo county, De-
cember 29th, at the age OF GA years.
Mr.. Danielson was Methodist min
lister and well known all over southern
Colorado.
Three hundred new buildings, prin-
cipally dwellings, have been erected
In Fort Collins during the year 1904,
the total cost of buildings and i'm
provements being estimated at over
$500, 900.
The Denver Hotel and Restaurant
Keepers Association has been organ
lied and will include all the principal
hotels and restaurants in the city.
C. H. Morse is president and s. F.
Dutton secretary.
Mrs. John Dreyer, a prominent So
ciety and lodge woman of Silverton,
committed suicide January 1st by,
shooting herself through the heart
with a revolver. The act is attributed
to mental depression and i'll health.
A party of Denver capitalists are
planning to erect a 1000 bath house
In Manitou on the site of the Norris
house, which recently burned. They
have asked Manitou for bonus of $8.-
900, $4,000 of which has already been
raised.
r. L. Sprague, chief clerk of the state
fish and game commissioner, sent no.
tees to game wardens over the state.
asking them to notify hunters that all
hunting licenses expire the last day
of December, without regard to when
they were issued.
Statistics of the University Of Colo
RADIO at Boulder show gain of an
even 100 students for the year 1904-O5
over the year 10000. This is in the
college proper, which includes few
over 600. The attendance at the State
Preparatory School is over 400.
]. H. Inquinton of the reclamation
service has been detailed to act as su-
pervising engineer for Colorado, Ne
braska and the North Platte river
basin. He will take general charge of
all government irrigation work in this
district, and will have headquarters at
Denver.
Reservoirs Nos. 4 and of the Colo
RADIO Springs water system, located in
the Seven Lakes basin, have been
completed, and upon the completion
of the st. John tunnel through Bald
mountain next month will more than
double the present water supply of
the city.
Fire on December 28th destroyed
the big coal tipple and engine house
at the Citizens mine of the Cont
mental Coal Company at Mount Car
bon, eighteen miles north of Gunni-
son. The loss is estimated at $4,000
and 1875 men were thrown out OF en-
ployment.
Governor Peabody informed the
commissioners of Ell Paso county, who
asked him to offer a reward for the
arrest and conviction of the murderer
of the woman recently found on
Mount Cutler that he could not COM
ply with their request because there
is no money in the state reward fund.
County Surveyor H. S. Fuller Of Pu-
eblo county. who has served in that
capacity for eleven years. will retire
from office on January 10th and start
for Honduras, Central America. at
once, where he has accepted the posi-
tion of irrigation engineer Of the Bos-
ton and Canadian Colonization Com
pany Of Toronto and Boston.
Four handsome rocking chairs. lux
uriously cushioned. were the Christ
mas gift of Denver Circle No. 1, La
dies of the Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie, to the Soldiers and Sailors
home at Monte Vista. Besides this