Gilpin observer., 1905-04-20
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

Dora NJ. Christopher has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Cope, Washing
ton county, vice E. E. Brown, re-
signed.
The trial of Mrs. Matte vidler at
Cripple Creek, on the charge of muir
dering Mrs. H. c. Douglas, has been
set for April 25th.
Colorado Springs vegetarians are
anxious to secure the establishment
of a branch of the Battle Creek sana-
torium at the Springs.
An elaborate system of brilliant
street lights is being arranged for in
Denver, to be ready by the beginning
of the tourist season.
The meeting of the Anti Cigarette
league at Stratton Park. Colorado
Springs, May 9Th, will be addressed by
Judge B. B. Lindsey Of Denver.
The Ish Reservoir company has been
organized at Berthoud. 1t is proposed
to raise the capacity of Ish lake from
111,000,000 gallons to 290,000,000.
| Senator Robert La Toilette Of Wis
| consin has been invited by the Repub-
| licans of Denver to deliver several ad-
dresses on the railroad problem in Den
yer next month.
Charles johnson, foreman of Rio
Grande wrecking crew at Denver, COM
mitted suicide April 18th by taking cy-
| anide Of potassium. The act is attrib-
uted to alcoholic insanity.
| DIR. Rodney H. True of the Bureau
of Plant Industry of the Department of
Agriculture at Washington is visiting
Colorado to make an examination of
the rubber plant in this state.
One of the few Austrian theaters in
the United States is to be established
at Pueblo this spring. 1t will be
erected under the auspices of the Aus
trian colony ut Bessemer, suburb of
Pueblo.
The Longmont Farmers Mill and
Elevator Company has decided to build
a large mill in Denver near the Bur
lington tracks on the north side. The
enterprise calls for the investment of
about 100000.
The chime of nine bells presented
to the Episcopal Church at Boulder
by H. N. Bradley has been temporar-
lily placed in a wooden tower in front
of the fine stone church now in course
of construction.
The people of Trinidad turned out
almost en- masse to attend the funeral
| VI JOuu II. II oA, WIZ was hlllSu ny ~
seph johnson on the Sth inst. There
was large representation of the Ma
sons, Elks, Woodmen and Red Men.
A fire at Minturn, on the Denver &
Rio Grande railroad in Eagle county
on the morning of the 18th inst. burned
the American hotel, three residences.
a saloon and barber shop, the dam
age being estimated at about 100000
A stage line is being organized in
Middle park to connect with the Mof-
fat road at Arrowhead and from there
penetrate. to Hot Sulphur Springs.
Steamboat Springs, Hahn's peak and
other important points in Grand and
Routt counties.
Adjutant General Wells has reap
pointed the Office force which served
under the former adjutant general,
Sherman M. Bell. Lieutenant ]. b.
Goodman is retained as the chief clerk
. and Otto Leise as stenographer and
Sergeant H. w. Deane as orderly.
The board of trustees OF the Colo
RADIO School of Mines has placed the
ban on hazing by adopting resolu-
tion that the practice is dangerous to
life and limb and that offenses of this
kind hereafter will be severely dealt
with, even to the expulsion of students
who participate in such sport.
Judge Peter NJ. Housed died at Boul-
der on the 18th inst. at the age of
eighty-one years. He came to Boulder
county in 1859 and was elected county
, Judge in 1862 and again in 1864. He
was one of the trustees of the Boulder
Valley road during its construction
and was prominent in many ways.
The county commissioners of Phil
lips county have sold the tax deeds of
ia quarter sections of land to r. N.
White for $1,000, the same to be taken
, within ninety days. They comprise all
the land in the two townships which
the county now holds. The county still
owns 300 quarters of land subject to
tax deeds.
The county commissioners Of Arapa-
hoe county have granted a franchise to
, the Colorado Monorail Company to build
one-track railway between Engle-
wood, the end of the Denver street car
line. and Littleton. 1t is stipulated
that work on the road shall commence
July 1st. Fort Logan is included in the
franchise.
Henry Rustin, the expert who had
charge Of the electric lighting at the
st. Louis exposition. has devised a
plan for lighting the streets of Denver
by means of incandescent lights to be
! placed on bronze arches. He pro-
poses. If his plans are carried out, to
make 1t the best lighted city in the
United States
On May 9Th in Denver the State
Board of Pardons will consider the ap-
plication for clemency OF the three
, young men sentenced to death for the
murder of Mrs Amanda Ynunghlnnd