Gilpin observer., 1905-11-09
COLORADO NEWS ITEMS

A new ditch will be built from Black
Hollow district in Larimer county, u
distance of fourteen miles. The ditcL
will irrigate 100 eighty-acre tracts in
the vicinity of Pierce.
The Las Animas County Medical So
ciety has decided to create a medical
Library in Trinidad for the use of tho
physicians in the various counties o.
southern Colorado.
A drug company has been incorpor-
ated at Des Moines, Iowa, with $780,
600 capital and will conduct chain OF
drug stores along the Moffat road. c.
e. Gray of Denver will handle the west
ern business.
At Salida en- the morning of the
9TH inst, the jewelry store of B. S
Dennisor and the stationery store OF
Charles Grocer were partially de.
stroyed by fire. The losses are heavy,
especially of the stationery stock.
The Teller county tax levy as an
nounced by the county commissioners
is only ten mills, which is the lowest
in the history of the county. 1t is
based on valuation of $13,366,51O, an
increase of $2,000,000 over last year.
Judge Dixon's injunction issued some
tiIlt dSO uSdlnSJ lIe llCkeI DTOkpTS
and restraining them from traflicking
in G. \. r. encampment tickets, has
been sustained by the Supreme Court
in decision rendered by Judge Steele.
BY reason of a defective brake on
wagon loaded with stone, William N
Hodge was thrown under the wheels
and killed in Bear Creek canon near
Colorado Springs on the 2nd inst. He
was fifty-four years old and leaves
widow and two children.
In the District Court at st. Louis
Frank Willis Card, formerly of Como,
Colorado, pleaded guilty to the charge
of numbering Mrs. Beulah Craft, for
whom he had forsaken his wife, and
was sentenced by Judge Reynolds to
ninety-nine years Imprisonment.
A cinnamon bear weighing 17s
pounds was killed by Mr. Ormsby OF
the commission firm of Proudfit &,
Ormsby, Denver, at his ranch near
Sedalia, Douglas county, a few days
ago. This is the first bear that has
been killed in that vicinity for many
years.
Three hundred members of the
Japanese colony of Pueblo celebrated
the 53rd anniversary of the birthday
of the Emperor of Japan on the 3rd
inst. The colony is composed or
Christian Buddhists and Mohamme-
dams, all of whom rejoiced in the ma
tional holiday.
Rolling and crushing machinery to
be used in the construction of mac.
adam roads in Fremont county, has
arrived at Florence from the East
The crusher will be set up Immediately
and n requisition will be made upon
Warden Cleghorn for convict labor in
crushing the shale to be used.
Sheriff w. ]. Thompson of La Plata
county has announced that he is unable
to grant the petition of seventy taxpay-
ers who requested him to allow gam
bling to be resumed in the county.
Many business men OF Durango signed
the petition.
A report of the Colorado Bar Asso-
held on January 2, 1905, and the
eighth annual meeting at Colorado
Springs July 9th and 9TH of this year,
has been issued by the association Be
sides report of the business trans
acted it contains the address delivered
at these meetings.
Boulder December 18th on The APP
proval by the people of the city's CON
tract to purchase Silver lake for s46,-
600, also to authorize the council for
an additional bond issue of $4,000.
supplementing the bond issue author
lied at the general election last
spring for $4,000.
Brig. Gen. Francis Moore. re-
hac vi
General Moore was one of the Colo.
rado volunteers in 1861 and belonged
to the First Colorado cavalry. known
as "Gilpin's Pets He carried the
message relieving Governor Gilpin OF
his Office and announcing the appoint.
ment of Gov. John Evans.
Two accidents happened in the New
house tunnel at Idaho Springs on the
1st inst. BY car jumping the track
A. j. Ventress suffered compound
fracture Of the right leg just below the
knee and John Owen, manager of the
Saratoga Development Company, had
his left leg broken by the collision OF
hand car with a lumber truck.
At Victor on the I'd inst, Sam Nc.
Donald, one of the Oldest and most
prominent mining men in the district.
fell distance of about forty feet in his
lease on the Ajax mine and sustained
very dangerous injuries. Several of
his ribs were fractured and torn from
his breast bone, while he was hurt in
ternally and his head badly lacerated.
Il. e. Rittenhouse, deputy insurance
commissioner, is endeavoring TO
weed out the bogus insurance
companies which are operating
in Colorado without license or
authority, and also other companies
which may be legitimate in other
states, but are not authorized TO op.
crate here. He has sent out circulars
TO authorized agencies asking their
help.