Gilpin observer., 1905-01-12
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

The Colorado Telephone Company
has 1000 telephones in use in the
Cripple Creek district.
The oil company organized by Sa-
Ida business men proposes to sink a
well in the oil belt south of town.
The Salida and Chaffee County Pio-
neers' Association has been organized
to preserve the memory of the early
days.
Denver has 226 miles OF regular sew
erage, besides fifty-one miles of storm
sewers. The aggregate cost was nearly
100000.
The annual meeting CT the Colorado
Editorial Association will be held in
Denver January 23rd, which is week
earlier than the date first set for 1t.
A fashionable hotel and club room
will soon be erected in Denver by the
United Commercial Travellers Of Amer
lea. One Of its features will be roof
garden.
Capt. Levy Ethan Allen OF the Weld
County Abstract Company at Greeley,
veteran of the Civil War, died at
Long Beach, California. January Srd.
The President on the 9th inst. nom
mated Frederick G. Perkins as regis
ter of the land Office and Daniel l..
Sheets as receiver of public moneys at
Durango.
Union revival meetings under the d.
rection of Rev. Wilbur Chapman be-
gan in Denver January 4th. Daily
meetings will be held in a large num-
ber of churches.
William Nicholas, foreman Of the
Hawley- y-Gardner mine near Nevada
vile, in Gilpin county, was caught in
the betting at the shaft house and
killed on the 9Th inst.
Superintendent John Dietrich OF the
Colorado Springs schools has received
from the board of directors of the In
ternational Anti-Cigarette League a
certificate of appointment as state
president for Colorado.
The game warden is having trouble
with persons who have been shooting
quail near Florence in violation of the
law, which allows no open season for
quail until 1907. One man was recently
fined $50 and costs for this offense.
The journeymen BARRIERS of Denver
have had bill drafted for licensing
of all BARRIERS working in Colorado and
will ask the Legislature to make 1t a
law. The bill is similar to the one
presented unsuccesfully to the Legis-
lature at its last term.
The entire exhibit of the mining and
horticultural departments at the
Worlds Fair arrived at Denver from
st. Louis on the 9th inst. There were
| three carloads, and the exhibits are
now stored in the west and south en-.
frances of the capitol building.
r. c. Elliott, a pioneer attorney of
Monument, died on the 9th inst. Mr.
Elliott was law partner of Joseph H
Choate in New York before coming to
Colorado and received his certificate
of membership in the New York Bar
Association from President Roosevelt's
| grandfather.
Work has begun on a $4,000 water
and electric light plant at Evans. A
soft water we'll 100 feet deep in the
\ ceDter of the town, supposed to be
supplied directly from an underflow
/ from the mountains, will supply the
water works. A gasoline pumping
plant will be used.
Harry Tarbell of Saguache county
has been appointed coiner of the new
mint by the federal government. He
! is at present clerk of the Colorado
House of Representatives. The new
position pays salary of $4,000 year
and he will assume work July 1st
when the mint begins coinage.
The Denver Detective Department
on the 9th inst. captured c. F. Put
nam, alias John C. French, wanted for
breaking Jail at Trinidad, with John
Mayo. Putnam and Mayo were in jail
| in Las Animas county awaiting trial
on charge Of forgery, and had es-
capped and made their way to Denver.
John Delaney. twenty-five years of
age, committed suicide at George
town January 5th. He left home about
2:30 p. m, telling his mother he was
going hunting. 1t seems he went into
an abandoned machine shop, fastened
the gun in a wise and pulled the trig.
ger, the hall entering his left breast.
Patrick Brennan, who was brought
before justice of the peace at Lead
vile on the 7th inst. on the charge
of murder, waived examination and
was held without bail to the District
Court. Brennan is the man who, on
Christmas night, shot Mrs. Kate Low
ney twice at Stumptown and then fired
a bullet into his own head. Mrs. Low
ney died five days later.
The biennial report of John NJ. Wood
ard. state game and fish commissioner,
states that game in some respects has
increased very materially within the
past twenty months. The deer have in
creased very rapidly; the antelope and
mountain sheep have increased to u
marked degree, as also have the
grouse and sage chickens. while lie in
crease of quail has been remarkably
rapid.
At Fort Morgan, on the 9th inst, at
7 sheriff's sale, all the right, title and in
terest of the Morgan County Independ-
ent Telephone Company, including its
d lines all over the county, with ex-
/ changes at Fort Morgan and Brush.